Open Hardware/Modding: GNU-like Mobile Linux and More
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Linux On Mobile ☛ 2025-01-20 [Older] Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (3/2025): Find mobile-friendly apps on Flathub
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Renode Enables Simulation of Ultra-Low-Power MSP430 Microcontrollers
Antmicro recently highlighted the MSP430 microcontroller family, renowned for its ultra-low-power design and versatility in applications such as IoT, automation, and space. Their article explores how the Renode simulation platform facilitates efficient testing and development of MSP430-based systems.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ FRDM-IMX93 with Arm Ethos U-65 MicroNPU Runs on Debian Linux
The NXP Semiconductors FRDM-IMX93 Development Board is a development platform designed for industrial and IoT applications. Key features include dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, multiple display and camera interfaces, and support for CAN bus communication.
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Hackaday ☛ The ESP32-C5, Finally Espressif Goes Dual-Band
The ESP32 series of microcontrollers have been with us for quite a few years now, providing a powerful processor and wireless connectivity for not a huge outlay. We’ve seen a bunch of versions over the years with both Tensilica and RISC-V cores, but so far the ones with radios have all only serviced 2.4 GHz WiFi. That’s about to change to include 5GHz with the new C5 variant though, and [Andreas Speiss] has been lucky enough to get his hands on a prototype dev kit
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Celso Martinho ☛ The first perfect computer
This is a story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000, the first model of the Amiga series.
Many of you might be familiar with the popular Amiga 500 or later models, but the Commodore Amiga 1000 was actually the first model of the Amiga series produced.
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Harvard University ☛ Century-Scale Storage
In the present day, our records, our artifacts, our publications, and our art no longer only inhabit the physical world. The intellectual and cultural output that we rely on and consume predominantly lives on screens, electromagnetically stored in bits and transmitted through packets and wires. Over the past two decades museums and archives have raised and spent billions of dollars to digitize their holdings, to say nothing of the countless individual citizen archivists painstakingly assembling digital collections on their own. Our hardware and software infrastructure is not built for this reality. It is tailored to the short term, without any concern for its long-term durability.
This piece looks at a single question. If you, right now, had the goal of digitally storing something for 100 years, how should you even begin to think about making that happen? How should the bits in your stewardship be stored with such a target in mind? How do our methods and platforms look when considered under the harsh unknowns of a century? There are plenty of worthy related subjects and discourses that this piece does not touch at all. This is not a piece about the sheer volume of data we are creating each day, and how we might store all of it. Nor is it a piece about the extremely tough curatorial process of deciding what is and isn’t worth preserving and storing. It is about longevity, about the potential methods of preserving what we make for future generations, about how we make bits endure. If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it? That’s it.