Retro and Open hardware: Amiga, RISC-V, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More
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Amiga 3000: Restoration Part 4
In my last post, I had started a new retrobrighting process on the keyboard. Let’s see how it went. Keyboard Part 2 Of course, the day I started the vapour retrobrighting technique, the dark clouds rolled over, and we had rain for most of the day.
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RISC-V Finds Its Foothold in a Rapidly Evolving Processor Ecosystem
Developers have grown up hearing ARM or x86 being the guts of PCs and servers, but an alternative architecture [...]
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New backscatter technology promises cost-effective reliability
Traditional bi-directional wireless communication requires both a receiver and a transmitter at either end. Your laptop, for example, needs to receive a signal from your Wi-Fi router, but it also needs to transmit a signal back to that router.
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Raspberry Pi Pico Paper Piano Uses Pencil Drawn Keys
Cytron has published a tutorial on how to create a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered piano using a piece of paper and pencil-drawn keys for input.
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Web Browsers You Can Install on Raspberry Pi: 7 Options
Planning to buy a computer that can balance functionality and budget? Go for Raspberry Pi.
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Armbian Ubuntu 23.04 can now run on Lenovo X13S Arm laptop
The Lenovo X13S Windows 11 Arm laptop based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor can now run Armbian-built Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar images with GNOME or XFCE desktop environment. But before getting too excited note that this is a work-in-progress (WiP) port, so while it’s a nice development, there may be some issues. Let’s have a look at the available information. When laptop manufacturers started to sell Windows Arm laptops with Qualcomm processors, people wondered whether it would be possible to run Linux on the device, and a community formed around the idea of porting Linux to the Windows Arm laptops, and that gave rise to projects such as Aarch64 laptop.
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Turing RK1 RK3588 system-on-module for cluster boards is now available (for pre-order)
Turing Pi has been making mini-ITX cluster boards for Raspberry Pi CM4 and NVIDIA Jetson modules for over four years, but last year, the company teased their own Turing RK1 system-on-module based on a powerful Rockchip RK3588 Arm processor with 6 TOPS NPU while launching the Turing Pi 2 cluster board on Kickstarter and raising over 2 million dollars in the process.