Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, ARM, ESP32, and Retro
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Raspberry Pi Mood Light Changes Color by Detecting Your Emotions
Mohammad Reza Sharifi is using a Raspberry Pi to detect emotions and change the color of an RGB light based on the detected emotion.
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3D-Printed Woven Coasters Save Tabletops In Style
When regular people think of 3D printing, they likely imagine semi-newfangled objects like twisty vases and useless trinkets. But there is so much more to 3D printing, as [andrei.erdei]’s printed, woven coasters demonstrate.
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Raspberry Pi Revitalizes Broken Vintage TV With OSMC
Raspberry Pis makes great media players, and we love seeing the creative ways the Pi community at large houses them. Whether you put one inside a tiny Simpson’s TV or build one just for Twitch streams, it’s hard to beat the fun versatility of this classic SBC. Today, we’re sharing another Pi-based TV project. This one was created by maker and developer Joe_vs_the_Jalapeno, who’s brought a broken Sony TV back to life using a Pi 4.
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E-ink is so Retropunk
The e-ink devices I favor are low powered ARM devices running linux without a display server or gigabytes of RAM. Let’s break down why that’s so awesome: [...]
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Reviving the centuries-old craft of bookbinding, one page at a time
She was part of a two-person team tasked with fixing broken books after performances; she enjoyed the bookbinding process enough to pursue it as a hobby.
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An Open Source Mobile Phone Based On The ESP32
The hardware is surprisingly straightforward, with a resistive touch screen and a PCB featuring power management, an ESP32 main processor, and a GSM module. The 2G connectivity may not be the fastest, or even available in your country, but otherwise the feature set looks more than reasonable for a basic mobile phone.
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Alan Pope: Goodbye ZX Spectrum Next
Rainbow love I’ve previously written about how the Sinclair line of computers kickstarted a life-long love of computing. I still sometimes go back and play classic Spectrum games on my Nintendo DS.