Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ESP32, and More
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Raspberry Pi Adds 100,000 Units to Supply Chain, Back to Pre-pandemic Levels in 2023
For Raspberry Pi enthusiasts it must seem that Christmas has come a few weeks early this year. Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton announced via the official blog that a 100,000 units had been secured for single-unit sales (one unit per customer) and that by the second half of 2023 it is expected that will return to pre-pandemic levels. This is good news for those who have felt the bite of the supply shortage that has dogged the Raspberry Pi for well over a year. The bad news? Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero W see a $5 price increase, but the Raspberry Pi Zero will be available for bulk purchase in 2023.
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ESP32 Projects From Northwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class
Northwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class delivered a bumper crop of ESP-32 projects this year. The student teams recorded their progress on hackaday.io with project descriptions, logs, BOMs, diagrams, photos, and videos to share with other makers. While all utilized the web connection that the ESP32 offers some teams chose to use ESP32 Cams to incorporate photos, video, and computer vision. We love the variety of projects the teams created, some customized versions of consumer products and others new types of smart-devices.
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Raspberry Pi Shows How Not To Mastodon
In the light of the continuing mayhem on Twitter under Elon Musk, lovingly chronicled by Mike in ever-longer posts, it’s no surprise that many people are looking at alternatives. One of the main options is Mastodon. Although offering similar micro-blogging functionality to Twitter, one of its chief attractions is that it nonetheless does certain things differently.
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Coolest Projects Global will be back in 2023
Young tech creators, get ready: Coolest Projects Global will be back in 2023 and we want to make this the year of your big idea!
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Computational thinking all year round with UK Bebras
This November, teachers across the UK helped 367,023 learners participate in the annual free UK Bebras Challenge of computational thinking.