Devices: Linux, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Android
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There is life after Linux, just not a sustainable one - Rethink
The extinction of pay TV set tops has been forecast every year since streaming alternatives arrived on the scene. While cord cutting has again terrorized developed pay TV territories the world over throughout 2022, there remains persistent pockets of opportunity for pay TV operators and the vendor community – across hardware, software, and even in setting a bar for sustainability. When exploring the topic of life after Linux and looking ahead to next-gen set top options in 2023, some might be disappointed to hear that there are still only two viable technologies on the table – Android TV and RDK. We have been having the exact same conversations for the past five or six years, so what’s new in life…
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Raspberry Pi History
Raspberry Pi is a series of single board computers designed by Raspberry Pi foundation in the United Kingdom with the association of Broadcom. Eben Upton is the founder of the Raspberry Pi device, which released the first model in February 2012. The name “Raspberry” is a homage to famous computer companies like Apple, Blueberry and Tangerine Computer Systems. The “Pi” name was suggested keeping its importance in running the Python programming language. The main goal behind developing Raspberry Pi board was to make access to computing cheap and learning computer programming.
This single-board computer is capable of performing different tasks, such as web server, home automation, robots, database management and more. This article discusses a brief history of Raspberry Pi models.
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Grimmboy is an RFID music player designed for kids | Arduino Blog
Kids, like full-sized humans, love music. But most music players are designed for adult dexterity and user interface familiarity, which makes them difficult for young children to operate. For many parents, Amazon’s Alexa and similar services are the answer, as kids can simply ask a device to play the song they want. But to give them a less noisy way to play music and retain some control over what they can listen to, consider building the Grimmboy Arduino-based RFID music player for kids.
Because Grimmboy is for kids, the controls are as simple as possible. There is a pause/unpause button, a volume dial, and a status LED — that’s it. To select a song, album, playlist, recorded story, or any other audio file, the child simply taps one of the RFID cards to the device. The cards, which are laminated with nice cassette tape graphics, contain MiFare Ultralight C RFID tags that the parent can program with lists of four-digit track IDs. Grimmboy reads the card’s track ID list and starts playing the files with those IDs.
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7 Best Digital Scale Apps for Android Devices
Many of us never believe that a digital scale can provide accurate answers when a smartphone uses it. Thing is not entirely right or wrong. Indeed, some digital scale apps for Android genuinely work, while most others are only simulators. The apps use many different technical functions to give you an estimated unit of measurement.
However, a digital scale app can be of different types and won’t be used for specific measuring systems. While some are good for kitchen measurement, some calculate weight and length. In today’s discussion, we will try to learn some of the apps that give more or less accurate results in scaling.
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Russell Coker: Pixel 6A
I have just bought a Pixel 6A [1] for my wife. It’s one of the latest Google phones that was released almost at the same time as the Pixel 7 series, so if you want to spend a lot of money on a phone that’s the latest and greatest then the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are the options, but if you want to save some money and don’t need something really high end then the Pixel 6A is a good option.
The one I bought cost $550 when I bought it from Google which seemed like a good deal when it was advertised as being discounted from $750. Later I discovered that other retailers were selling it for $500 or for $550 when bundled with a Chromecast. Also one of the other retailers was a company that I could get discount gift cards for. So this is the type of item you should really shop around for. It doesn’t come with a charger so you don’t have the gray-market disadvantage of getting yet another charger that doesn’t fit the sockets in your country.
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Running PostmarketOS on my phone
Couple of weeks back I installed PostmarketOS on my idle phone Leeco Le 1s , which was paper weight for some time now.
It all started with a roadtrip to Pondicherry (I will soon write about this trip). As I was sitting on the front seat where Praveen’s Librem 5 kept charing on the car dashboard. And we had a small discussion about PostmarketOS and how much new ports are available now.
My idle phone came to my mind. After reaching home I started setting up porting pmOS to this device. Going through pmOS website, to my surprise there is already a port for this device.
The OEM unlock is quite easy even though a little hiccup at begin (I suspect it is solely of my cable). The Xiaomi users knows the pain of unlocking bootloader.
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Business card-sized SBC ships with Intel Core Tiger Lake or AMD Ryzen V2000 processor [Ed: Well, no, the proper SBCs are a lot cheaper, take less energy, and don't have back doors like this one]
We’ve recently reviewed the UP 4000 SBC as a more powerful x86 alternative to Raspberry Pi 4, but if it still does not cut it, AAEON de next-TGU8 or de next-V2K8 should, as the business card-sized single board computers (SBC) are equipped with respectively an Intel Tiger Lake processor up to a Core i7-1185G7E, and an AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 SoC up to Ryzen Embedded V2516.
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AAEON does not directly list supported operating systems but provides drivers for Windows 10 64-bit for both platforms as well as Ubuntu 22.04 drivers for the AMD board, and Ubuntu 20.04 drivers for the Intel Tiger Lake SBC.