Open Hardware: RP2040, Raspberry Pi for Teaching, and Ham Radio
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RP2040 Feather âbonesâ for a few different varieties
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As it shifts focus from DIY computer kits, Kano spins out its creative software suite as a standalone business • TechCrunch
Founded out of London in 2013, Kano has brought various products to market through the years designed to teach the building blocks of computing to children. This includes its flagship Raspberry Pi-based modular PCs, as well as accessories such as the Harry Potter Coding Kit, replete with a physical magic wand that works across most platforms.
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Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption | lander's posts
Ham radios are a fun way of learning how the radio spectrum works, and more importantly: they're embedded devices that may run weird chips/firmware! I got curious how easy it'd be to hack my Yaesu FT-70D, so I started doing some research. The only existing resource I could find for Yaesu radios was someone who posted about custom firmware for their Yaesu FT1DR.
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The Ham Radio all-in-one cable
The Ham Radio All-in-one-Cable (AIOC) is a small adapter with a USB-C connector that enumerates itself as a sound-card (e.g. for APRS purposes) and a virtual tty (âCOM Portâ) for programming and asserting the PTT (Push-To-Talk).