Open Hardware and Linux on Devices
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Olimex Launches the ESP32-S3-DevKit-LiPo, a Compact Dev Board with MicroPython and Linux Powers
Bulgarian open hardware specialist Olimex has announced a low-cost development board built around the Espressif ESP32-S3 microcontroller — and offering the ability to run either MicroPython or a full Linux 6.3 environment, depending on your needs.
"ESP32-S3-DevKit-LiPo is small €12 [around $13.30] open source hardware board which is [able] to run Linux Kernel 6.x and MicroPython," Olimex founder Tsvetan Usunov writes of his latest board design, which as the name implies is a follow-up to the ESP32-S2-DevKit-LiPo launched back in February 2021 — replacing the Espressif ESP32-S2 with an ESP32-S3 while adding a few new features besides.
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Amiga 3000: Major Upgrades
Now that my Amiga 3000 has been fully restored, I decided to make it the best Amiga I could. Here is the journey I took. Acceleration One of the first upgrades, I decided on, was to make my Amiga one of the fastest possible for the era.
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Lilbits: Linux on (some) Amazon tablets, and is Lenovo making a Legion Go handheld gaming PC?
Amazon sells cheap tablets with decent screens and reasonably adequate specs because the company wants you to spend money on Amazon products and services.
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But folks have been hacking Amazon tablets for as long as the company’s been offering them. These days if you buy a brand new Amazon tablet you can probably install the Google Play Store, maybe load an alternate home screen and launcher app, and make some other changes. But Amazon doesn’t make it easy to completely replace the operating system. If you have some older Amazon tablets though, it is possible to unlock the bootloader and load a custom Android ROM, or even a completely different operating system like postmarketOS.
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DASUNG to launch the world’s first color E-ink monitor
Just a couple of years ago, we would have laughed at the idea of getting an E-ink monitor, because most displays were still in black and white only, larger displays were prohibitively expensive, and nobody wants to wait for several seconds to get a full display refresh.