Open Source Hardware and Linux Devices
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Raspberry Pi ☛ 10 side quests for the rookie adventurer | #MagPiMonday
If you’re completely new to Raspberry Pi, it’s important to spend time learning the desktop environment. Raspberry Pi OS comes with some great software. Not only the usual office-type apps but programming environments, media players, and much more. You can add all of these from the Recommended Software app.
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Olimex ☛ Neo6502 Open Source Hardware Retro Computer NeoBasic gets in shape for Game development and more!
Neo6502 the EUR 30 W65C02 based Open Source Hardware modern Retro Computer with HDMI, USB Keyboard interface got it’s own BASIC language made by Paul Robson – the man behind a lot of 6502 projects on the net!
For a long time Neo6502 users could only play Apple ][ and Oric-Atoms games running in emulation mode, but the original NeoBasic written by Paul Robson specially for Neo6502 becomes more and more useful with every day.
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Arduino ☛ This escape room-in-a-box looks like a blast
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a fun party game for iOS and Android that presents players with the challenge of cooperatively defusing a virtual bomb. It is a bit like those “no, cut the blue wire!” scenes in movies, because only one player can see the bomb.
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J Pieper ☛ max_velocity_slip with moteus
The moteus brushless motor controller supports several concepts of operation from within its primary “position” mode, including a velocity mode. As documented in the reference, you can run in that scenario using commands equivalent to the diagnostic mode command: [...]
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Linux Gizmos ☛ TBS-h574TX NASbook Features M.2/E1.S SSD Support and High-Speed 2.5GbE + 10GbE Ports
QNAP recently unveiled a compact NASbook TBS-h574TX engineered for on-site video shooting, post-production environments, small studios, and small office/home office users. This device is built around the 13th Gen Intel Core hybrid-architecture and feature high-speed I/Os and extensive storage interfaces.
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It's FOSS ☛ CP/M: An Unsung Architect of Micro-Computing [Ed: It's not FOSS]
You may have not used CP/M ever but you should definitely know about it if you take interest in the history of computing.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ TBS-h574TX NASbook Features M.2/E1.S SSD Support and High-Speed 2.5GbE + 10GbE Ports
QNAP recently unveiled a compact NASbook TBS-h574TX engineered for on-site video shooting, post-production environments, small studios, and small office/home office users. This device is built around the 13th Gen defective chip maker Intel Core hybrid-architecture and feature high-speed I/Os and extensive storage interfaces.
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CNX Software ☛ Zigbee Home is an ESPHome-like firmware project for Zigbee devices
Zigbee Home firmware project aims to provide similar functionality to ESPHome open-source firmware, but for Zigbee devices based on Nordic Semi nRF52 wireless microcontrollers, and later on the newer nRF53 MCUs.
The firmware relies on Nordic Semi ZBOSS for Zigbee 3.0 stack and should eventually enable a range of Zigbee devices to be flashed with open-source firmware and facilitate integration with Home Assistant open-source home automation framework through ZHA integration, and support for Zigbee2MQTT is also being worked on.
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CNX Software ☛ Cologne Chip releases an open-source integrated logic analyser (ILA) for GateMate FPGA chips
Cologne Chip’s “Integrated logic analyzer” (ILA) project is an open-source Verilog implementation of a logic analyzer running on the company’s GameMate A1 FPGA and designed to capture internal signals. When we first covered the GameMate A1 FPGA we noted Cologne relies on the open-source Yosys framework coupled with a proprietary, but free-of-charge, place & route tool contrary to most other FPGA vendors that only offer closed-source proprietary development tools. The German company has now released the GateMate integrated logic analyzer project to help customers debug their FPGA designs.
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CNX Software ☛ LILYGO T-Panel – A 4-inch HMI display and WiFi, BLE, and 802.15.4 gateway based on ESP32-S3 and ESP32-H2
LILYGO T-Panel is both a 4-inch HMI display and IoT gateway based on ESP32-S3 WiFi 4 and Bluetooth LE 5 microcontroller and an ESP32-H2 module with Bluetooth LE 5 and an 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee, Thread, and Matter connectivity. Last year, Espressif introduced the ESP-Thread Board Router/Zigbee gateway board with ESP32-S3 and ESP32-H2 to show how both chips could be combined to create IoT gateways. But I don’t think I had seen a company design a product based on both ESP32-S3 and ESP32-H2 until I saw the T-Panel which also includes an RS485 interface and Qwiic expansion connectors for good measure.