Linux- and Hacking-Friendly Devices and Hardware

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 19, 2023

• FPGA-based camera supports 10G Ethernet port

  AMD in partnership with Optomotive presented yesterday an industrial smart camera featuring the Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC-based Kria K26 System-on-Module (SoM). The SMILODON 10G EVO features a 25MP image sensor from Gpixel in addition to up to 48x LVDS interfaces and support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

• Weatherproof Raspberry Pi Camera Enclosure, In A Pinch

  The Raspberry Pi is the foundation of many IoT camera projects, but enclosures are often something left up to the user. [Mare] found that a serviceable outdoor enclosure could be made with a trip to the hardware store and inexpensive microscopy supplies.

• XCY-X66 is a tiny Intel Celeron N5105 Mini PC with four 2.5GbE ports

  XCY-X66 is a tiny (75 x 75 x 52mm) mini PC based on Intel Celeron N5105 Jasper Lake and equipped with four 2.5GbE ports using Intel i225V controllers that should make it suitable for a range of networking applications.

• CHIPSEA CST85F01 480 MHz Cortex-M4 MCU supports dual-band WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 LE - CNX Software

  The microcontroller is supported in FreeRTOS real-time operating system and is designed for IoT devices, wireless devices, and TV/STB dongles. I’m not quite sure what the latter means in this context, or they just mean some advanced WiFi or Bluetooth remote controls.

• Solbournes in space

  The machine had 32MB of RAM, a 15" colour LCD and a dedicated "Rotational Hand Controller." The software was NASA's own Shuttle Engineering Simulator (SES), ported to SPARC from the Control Data Corporation Cyber 180 Model 962 (an upgraded version of the RISC Cyber 180-960) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and ran on OS/MP 4.1A, Solbourne's equivalent of SunOS 4.1.1. Its motherboard was most likely a Solbourne "pizzabox" IDT logic board, the same one used in the S3000, S4000 and S4100 which directly competed with O.G. SPARCstations, making the reported speed of 40MHz suspect since the Panasonic MN10501 KAP (short for "Kick-Ass Processor" — yes, really) was notoriously unstable above 36MHz. A suspiciously similar laptop called the Matsushita P2100 was announced in 1992 but by then Sun was making moves to freeze SPARC clone makers out of the market, particularly Solbourne who had cornerned the more profitable upper tiers, and refused to license Solaris to anyone like they did SunOS. (Apple later pulled this same stunt with the Mac clones and Mac OS 8.) The P2100 doesn't seem to have been ever released, and while a few PILOT examples were likely fabricated, no one so far has found one. PILOT was eventually replaced by various IBM ThinkPads which went on to have a well-known and illustrious career in space.

• DIY focus stacking device aids in macro photography | Arduino Blog

  If you’re ever tried to capture some macro photographs (very close-up pictures), you’ve probably noticed that it is difficult to get proper focus. Because the depth-of-field (DoF) for macro lenses is so small, you can only keep a narrow range of distance in focus at any given time — everything else is blurry. One solution is “focus stacking,” in which you take many photos and then mash them together in software. Curious Scientist designed a macro photography focus stacking device that makes this technique easier.

  The focus stacking technique requires several photos, each with a slightly different area of the subject in focus, until you’ve covered the entire subject. Then you can use photo editing software, like Photoshop, to blend the pictures together. The result is a macro photo where the entire subject is in focus. You can perform that process without any special equipment, but it is tedious and difficult to achieve consistent focus changes. Curious Scientist’s device speeds up the process and has perfect consistency.

• The Best ADB/Fastboot Commands List For 2023 (Windows, Mac, Linux) - DekiSoft

  We all know the wonders of rooting and what magic it can bring to our boring phone device, it is used to enlarge the number of options one can get to customize and utilize the device at the admin level. Smartphone device becomes smarter with rooting it. Now you might wonder how this happens. It can all be done easily with Android Debug Bridge otherwise known as ADB. The page provides you with all of the ADB and Fastboot commands in a list format along with a PDF file that is the Cheat Sheet.