Open Hardware/Modding: Firmware, Raspberry Pi, Fairphone, and More
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X1Plus: Open Source Bambu Lab X1 Firmware
Recently [Michael] over at the [Teaching Tech] YouTube channel got access to the X1Plus firmware, and takes us through what it may mean for Bambu Lab X1 owners. X1Plus is alternative firmware for the Bambu Lab X1 FDM 3D printer that was developed by X1 owners who felt that there were some features that they were missing, such as a detailed report on automatic bed leveling, input shaping calibration response graphs and more.
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How To Build A Fully Offline Smart Home, Or Why You Should Not
So-called ‘smart home’ appliances and gadgets have become an ever-more present thing the past years, with nary a coffeemaker, AC unit or light bulb for sale today that doesn’t have an associated smartphone app, cloud service and/or subscription to enable you to control it from the beach during your vacation, or just set up automation routines to take tedium out of your busy schedule. Yet as much as [Calvin Wankhede] loves home automation, he’d very much like for it to not stop working the moment his internet connection goes down, or the company running the service goes bankrupt. This is where his journey to create an off-line alternative smart home based around Home Assistant and other (open) software began.
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23 Best Operating Systems You Can Run on Raspberry Pi in 2024
Today, we bring you a list of the best GNU/Linux distributions you can run on the Raspberry Pi perfectly. But before we delve into that list,
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Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #456 - Welcome to 2024 kids
We’re back! Welcome to the first Raspberry Pi Weekly of 2024. We missed you. Howdy, We went away for Christmas fun and now we return to share Raspberry Pi fun with you. Our first week back at work brought a Pico-powered robot, the neatest wiring we've ever seen, and a hospital in Togo streamlining its record keeping with Raspberry Pi 400. How are you? We missed you. Peace, Ashley New year, new goals?
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10 Lessons We Learned in 2023
Another year goes by, another January rolls in. But 2023 wasn’t like any other year for us. It marked a decade of change, a decade of our unique revolution against the status quo within the electronics industry. When Fairphone sprang into existence, we knew it was going to be a steep learning curve.
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