Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Purism, and More
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Arduino ☛ A terrifying FNAF-style Mickey Mouse animatronic
The copyright for Steamboat Willie famously expired at the beginning of this year. Steamboat Willie was the first appearance Mickey Mouse, so this copyright expiration is a big deal for Disney. Anyone will be able to use the character for the first time in history, as Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Jaimie and Jay of the Wicked Makers YouTube channel built this terrifying FNAF-style Mickey Mouse animatronic.
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The Register UK ☛ Failed USB sticks found to contain 'defective' memory chips
A German data recovery specialist has confirmed what many Reg readers will have suspected: USB memory sticks are getting less reliable. The cause, as you might have guessed, is inferior memory chips, while the move to storing multiple bits per flash cell also plays a part.
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Arduino ☛ IDE 2.3 is out, and you’ll love the new debugging features in it
True to our belief in open standards and interoperability, the debug feature is now based on a standard framework documented in the new specifications and guidelines. As a result, maintainers of Arduino cores can now add debugging for any board and leverage the UI and debugging engine provided by the Arduino IDE.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Raspberry Pi Pico feeds Píkíta the chihuahua twice a day
The stepper motor rotates a large internal worm screw. This receives the food from the hopper above it and transports it to the feeder’s outlet, which is above the pet’s bowl.
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J Pieper ☛ recapturing position and velocity with moteus
As of firmware release 2024-01-06, there is now a new command, “recapture position and velocity”, which can be used in these circumstances. It forces the control position and control velocity to match the measured values without exiting position mode. It can be sent using all the normal methods, i.e. through the diagnostic protocol with tview, or the register protocol with raw CAN frames, the python library or C++ library. A typical operation might look like: [...]
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Purism ☛ Purism Differentiator Series, Part 1: Summary
The summary of differentiators we will be writing about (and linking to as they get published) are: [...]
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Purism ☛ Purism Differentiator Series, Part 2: Formation
Big Tech—corporations whose business model exploits humanity for profit—they all suffer from a systemic toxin, that discourages personal freedoms and removes any digital rights we as society demand. Big Tech corporations are already starting the marketing to try to differentiate themselves from it. But marketing alone will not remove the poison within their business model.
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Purism ☛ $99/mo Librem 5 + Librem AweSIM
There are three options based on the Librem AweSIM Cellular service you would like bundled with your Librem 5 phone: [...]
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Purism ☛ Missing from Privacy Legislation- The Abolishment of Surveillance Capitalism (Predatory & Harmful Surveillance Business Practices)!
The Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal was based on a data broker, Aleksandr Kogan, who launched surveillance/data mining capabilities within the Facebook ecosystem.