Devices and Open Hardware/Modding (Raspberry Pi and Similar)
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Nikita Lapkov ☛ What's that touchscreen in my room?
I held a hidden button with a wire for a few seconds and was greeted by…an Android bootup logo! Yes, this turned out to be in fact an Android tablet, and a pretty old one at that. It has Google Talk, Flash and all kinds of other interesting stuff pre-installed: [...]
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SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2024-01-18 [Older] DIY RTK Surveying
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Hackaday ☛ Arduino Provides No Fuss SNES-To-USB Conversion
Even for those of us who are fans of retrocomputing, it’s fair to say that not everyone plays their old-school games on real old-school hardware. The originals are now fragile and expensive, and emulators are good enough that if the gaming experience is all you’re after there’s little point in spending all that cash.
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Old VCR ☛ Reversing the Web-@nywhere Watch: browse fragments of the Web on your wrist
In the halcyon days of analogue modems and POTS dialup Internet, when the only wireless connection in your house was between the cordless phone and the wall, anything having to do with the Web was best consumed in small bites (pun intended). If you wanted to take data with you, you downloaded it first.
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XDA ☛ Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is official and expected to launch sometime in 2024
Raspberry Pi 5 debuted to much fanfare, and with good reason. The single-board computer has several hardware improvements compared to its predecessors, including a quad-core CPU that clocks around 2.4GHz. It also has a GPU that can reach a clock speed of 800MHz, making it fully capable of handling newer displays. Despite its initial success, it seems that the Raspberry Pi Foundation isn’t done just yet — the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) is all but confirmed, and it could come as soon as this year.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ We saw a Pi running underwater at CES in Las Vegas!
How is it running underwater, you ask? Well, HZO is a company that specialises in thin-film and nanocoating solutions. To prove the durability of their products, they coated a Raspberry Pi in one of them and chucked it in a tank full of water, where it stayed alive for the duration of the conference. Keeping one of our tiny computers going in very wet conditions for just a few days is impressive enough, but our jaws hit the floor when we learnt that there is a Raspberry Pi that has been running underwater in the lobby of HZO’s building for 525 days and counting. I definitely could not hold my breath for a year and a half.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Raspberry Pi 5 delidded and topped with Peltier element for the ultimate cooling test
Delidding any CPU is not for the faint of heart. One wrong move, and you have a paperweight, so don't try this unless you know your stuff. Delidding exposed the BCM2712 SoC, comprising an Arm Cortex-A76 64-bit CPU running at 2.4 GHz and a VideoCore VII GPU running at 800 MHz. We can see that Kuleshov has employed plenty of Kapton tape around the board, isolating the components from touching any conductive materials. In our review we noted that the Raspberry Pi 5 is known to get hot, that's why for a few dollars more you can (and you really should) pick up an active cooler.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Custom Raspberry Pi Pico project supports Ethernet over USB-C
When it comes to versatility, there’s no chip out there quite like the Raspberry Pi RP2040. With it, makers have been able to construct some seriously unique boards. Today, we have another cool example to share of a custom RP2040 board, this one put together by maker and developer Alan. Using our favorite microprocessor, he built a Pico replica that supports USB and Ethernet using a USB type-C port.