Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
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Explore the Raspberry Pi factory floor in Wales, UK
The boxing-up robot is my personal favourite. I also reckon we need to name the pick-and-place robots you see at the 18 second mark. There are four of them, so we’ll need a theme that ties them together. Drop your ideas in the comments and I will declare a winner who will receive my gratitude as a prize; along with my solemn promise to pester our friends at Sony until they make plaques of the inappropriate names I liked best.
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ESP32-SBC-FabGL How to work with the expander module GPIOs from FabGL library and apps
In this post I will show you how you can work with the GPIO from the PC Emulator application and drive the GPIOs with QBASIC and TURBO PASCAL 7.0
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Vintage Apple-1 computer signed by Wozniak heads to auction
The Steves originally thought of the Apple-1 as a bare circuit board they’d sell as a kit for electronics hobbyists to assemble. But then Jobs brought the idea to The Byte Shop in Mountain View, Calif., one of the world’s first personal computer stores. Seeking to make the magic machines accessible beyond the purview of hobbyists, owner Paul Terrell said he’d buy 50 of them if they came fully assembled, RR Auction said.
Over 10 months, from 1976-1977, Jobs and Wozniak made about 200 of the Apple-1 computers and sold 175 of them. In June 1977 they brought out the Apple II, one of the first mass-produced microcomputer products ever launched, which revolutionized the nascent industry.
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Amiga 3000: Major Upgrades
There is one more upgrade I want to do to this machine, and that is Ethernet. There is a lot to cover with that, and it is going to warrant a separate blog post. I’ll be writing more about this soon.
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Amiga 3000: I Was Wrong
I recently posted about how the BFG9060 was causing my Amiga 3000’s SCSI port to become unstable. It turns out I was incorrect, here is the story.
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Custom vacuum controller facilitates the construction of vacuum tubes
Vacuum tubes used to be the building blocks of computation and the drivers of screaming guitar amplifiers, but they’re rare today — so rare that there are virtually no manufacturers producing new units. If you shop for vacuum tubes, most of what you’ll find is either used or NOS (new old stock). That has led to boutique vacuum tube manufacturing, but that is a substantial undertaking. To make the process just a little bit easier, Nick Poole created this custom vacuum controller.
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DEBIX dev board runs on Linux and Windows IoT Enterprise
DEBIX introduced yesterday a development board based on the NXP i.MX 8M Plus quad-core processor with a 2.3 TOPS NPU. The DEBIX SOM A I/O Board is presented as a solution for industrial control, IoT connectivity and multimedia applications.
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Reducing latency in industrial systems with Real-time Ubuntu on Intel SoCs
Delivering a comprehensive real-time solution for industrial systems requires careful work at every layer of the stack. Since standalone hardware or software components are not sufficient, Canonical and Intel have joined forces to deliver an out-of-the-box real-time solution. This solution is now generally available on Intel Core processors.
In this blog, we will delve deeper into how this combined Intel and Canonical stack delivers enterprise-grade performance for the time-bound workloads of industrial systems. The technologies we integrate with are Intel Time Coordinated Computing (Intel TCC) and IEEE 802.1 Time Sensitive Networking (TSN).