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Ubiquitous disposable computing

Ubiquitous disposable computing

Azeem Azhar
Sep 05, 2020
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A hardware hacker pulled apart a $5 digital pregnancy test and found something remarkable in the disposable device. Deep inside it was an 8-bit microcontroller and tiny chunk of ram which has about the same processing power as the original IBM PC from 1981. You know, the PC which gave the PC revolution its name.

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