Open Hardware: Arduino, Retro, Raspberry Pi, and More
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SparkFun Electronics ☛ Build Your Own Breadboard Phone!
In this post, I'll walk you through how to build a Breadboard Phone of your own! Though a quick head up before we dive in - this is by no means a complete project! This was really just intended to be a fun demo of the LTE Stick, so not everything has been thought through completely, and the software has some rough edges and missing features. So you'll need to do some work if you really want this to function well.
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The Register UK ☛ How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds
The QL remains a much-misunderstood computer. For its time, it was just as radical as the closely related machine that launched days later. Although it wasn't a smash hit, it wasn't the failure it's often deemed. A multinational licensed Sinclair's hardware, and several big-name companies sold versions of it around the world. The QL also inspired a dozen software-compatible successors, at least one of which is still manufactured today ... and not one but two versions of its unique operating system are still around as open source.
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Arduino ☛ This classic weather station prioritizes the essentials
Inspired by older devices that displayed information like temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity on analog gauges, Pavleski chose a design with three screens in a vertical stack. Each screen can display whatever data the user can access through a sensor. In this case, his station utilizes the popular BME280 module that monitors the same three parameters as the vintage inspiration: temperature, pressure, and humidity.
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Raspberry Pi
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Raspberry Pi RP2040 Macropad supports magnetic modules for expansion
The Ocreeb MK2 project is an upgrade to another macropad Benbouziyane put together last year called the Ocreeb. According to Benbouziyane, the idea behind the MK2 was to make a macropad with a selection of optional add-on modules that would be easy to attach in multiple configurations using magnets.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Working with UK youth and community organisations to tackle the digital divide
We have been training staff from UK youth organisations to help them give young people from underserved communities access to digital skills.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is in Development, CEO Eben Upton Confirms
Raspberry Pi YouTuber Jeff Geerling had the chance to interview Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton at CES. During the interview we hear Upton confirming that Raspberry Pi 5 production is ramping up, and inadvertently we also get first confirmation that the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is an upcoming product.
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