Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi and Hacking BLE
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Retro-style homebrew computer (with VERY neat wiring)
Anyway, maker Shane Mason wanted to create a retro-looking computer using modern microcontrollers to better understand how his work as a software engineer translates in the real world of computing. Shane has no experience in hardware and hadn’t even successfully soldered anything before embarking on this impressive project.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Maker is building a Raspberry Pi ‘ProPico’ with upgraded features
According to Dmytro, it was important for the new ProPico board to remain true to its original form factor and support the same software. Each deviation required careful planning to ensure not just consistent compatibility, but also affordability. To make things easier, Dmytro put together a list of areas that the new design would address with an improvement.
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Hackaday ☛ Hacking BLE To Liberate Your Exercise Equipment
It’s a story we’ve heard many times before: if you want to get your data from the Domyos EL500 elliptical trainer, you need to use a proprietary smartphone application that talks to the device over Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE). To add insult to injury, the only way to the software will export your workout information is by producing a JPG image of a graph. This just won’t do, so [Juan Carlos Jiménez] gives us yet another extensive write-up, which provides an excellent introduction to practical BLE hacking.