Amine Ben Hariz

Razer BlackWidow 2013: from dustbin to desktop

I found this keyboard in the flea market. To my surprise, it was a very expensive mechanical keyboard: the Razer BlackWidow 2013. Unfortunately, it was in a very bad shape. Some buttons were missing, and others were damaged. It looks like that this keyboard was exposed to heat source. The

Tetris Cube Part 1: Fixing

This will be the first post of a multi-part article. The reason for this is that I want to include all the steps I went through: fixing, working the theory, writing scripts, optimizing. If you want to have an idea of what I'm talking about, here is a very similar

Weather Station : Adding Outdoor Temperature

This is the second article in the "Weather Station Project" series. If you want to know more, please check the previous article [https://aminebenhariz.com/weather-station-indoor-temperature/], in which I explained how built the device. It has been running since then, and I'm satisfied with the result. Weather Station : Indoor TemperatureHaving

Benchmark: NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 -vs- SATA SSD

When I switched to Ryzen [https://aminebenhariz.com/ryzen-1600/] last month, I made sure to pick a motherboard with a PCIe M.2 slot. I wanted to replace my SATA SSD with the newest player in town: NVMe. In this article, we will be comparing: * TEAMGROUP MP34 M.2 NVMe

Switching to Ryzen

I sit in front of computers 12 hours a day: work, games, photo and video editing, internet browsing, etc.. My desktop PC was equipped with an Intel i7-2600 processor (2nd generation), released on 2011. During those 9 years, I had not felt the need to upgrade the CPU: Intel has

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