Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Commodore 64, Beth Deck, and More
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Tom's Hardware ☛ This Raspberry Pi Nerf blaster is insanely over-engineered
If you've ever wanted to create the Nerf blaster of your dreams, no one understands you better than maker and developer JustFPV1, as he's known as over at Reddit. Using one of our favorite microcontrollers, the Raspberry Pi RP2040, he's engineered an insanely cool Nerf gun that shoots darts with crazy accuracy and more features than you can shake a dart at. He's dubbed the creation Stinger and considers it the “world’s most advanced Nerf blaster.” It's required months and months of work to get it where it is today and we're beyond impressed.
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Hackaday ☛ All You Need For Artificial Intelligence Is A Commodore 64
Artificial intelligence has always been around us, with [Timothy J. O’Malley]’s 1985 book on AI projects for the Commodore 64 being one example of this. With AI defined as being the theory and development of systems that can perform tasks that normally requiring human intelligence (e.g. visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making), this book is a good introduction to the many ways that computer systems for decades now have been able to learn, make decisions and in general become more human-like. Even if there’s no electronic personality behind the actions.
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Hackaday ☛ Beth Deck Is A Framework-Powered Gaming Handheld
DIY gaming handhelds have long been the purview of the advanced hacker, with custom enclosures and fiddly soldering making it a project not for the faint of heart. [Beth Le] now brings us a custom handheld for the beginner that can be assembled in 15 minutes and doesn’t require any soldering.
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Hackaday ☛ GNSS Reception With Clone SDR Board
We love seeing the incredible work many RF enthusiasts manage to pull off — they make it look so easy! Though RF can be tricky, it’s not quite the voodoo black art that it’s often made out to be. Many radio protocols are relatively simple and with tools like gnuradio and PocketSDR you can quickly put together a small system to receive and decode just about anything.
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Hackaday ☛ M.2 Makes An Unusual Microcontroller Form Factor
When we think of an m.2 slot in our laptop or similar, it’s usually in the context of its PCI connectivity for high-speed applications such as solid state disks. It’s a connector that offers much more than that interface though, making it suitable for some unexpected add-ons. As an example [MagicWolfi] has produced an m.2 card which contains the equivalent of a Raspberry Pi Pico.
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CNX Software ☛ Murata unveils stretchable PCB technology for medical and bio-sensing applications
Many PCB vendors now provide flexible PCB manufacturing services, but Murata goes further with stretchable PCB technology that’s not only bendable but can be twisted and stretched to better fit on the body for bio-sensing and medical applications even on parts such as an elbow. Traditional bio-monitoring sensors have some limitations.