Open Hardware/Modding: C720, BeaglePlay, and Raspberry Pi
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C720 Linux Update
The three Acer C720 Chromebooks I wrote about in:
2014's A Note of Thanks,
2017's Travels with a Chromebook,
and 2021's Chromebook Linux Updateare all still running Linux just fine despite the one I'm typing on being more than 8 years old. Below the fold I have some good news and some no-so-good news.
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BeagleBoard.org launches new embedded products
BeagleBoard recently presented the BeaglePlay Single Board Computer based on the TI AM6254 Multi-core processor and the BeagleConnect Freedom equipped with the TI CC1352P7 microcontroller supporting 2.4GHz/Sub 1GHz wireless protocols.
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Testing Raspberry Pi's new Global Shutter Camera
Outwardly it is almost identical to the 12 Megapixel High Quality Camera, and like that camera it accepts C and CS mount lenses, or most anything else with the appropriate adapter.
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Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera Review: High-Speed Captures
If you need to capture high speed subjects, then the Global Shutter Camera is for you. Mainstream users are best sticking with the High Quality Camera.
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New Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera for machine vision and more
Despite the challenges associated with rolling shutter artefacts, our existing cameras are widely used in hobbyist and industrial machine vision applications. And we’ve seen some real ingenuity: to compensate for artefacts when imaging products on a high-speed conveyor belt, one of our industrial customers ended up training their models using pre-sheared input data.