Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Laptops, and More
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CNX Software ☛ DeepSeek shown to run on Rockchip RK3588 with Hey Hi (AI) acceleration at about 15 tokens/s
DeepSeek R1 model was released a few weeks ago and Brian Roemmele claimed to run it locally on a Raspberry Pi at 200 tokens per second promising to release a Raspberry Pi image “as soon as all tests are complete”. He further explains the Raspberry Pi 5 had a few HATs including a Hailo Hey Hi (AI) accelerator, but that’s about all the information we have so far, and I assume he used the distilled model with 1.5 billion parameters. Jeff Geerling did his own tests with DeepSeek-R1 (Qwen 14B), but that was only on the CPU at 1.4 token/s, and he later installed an AMD W7700 graphics card on it for better performance.
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HowTo Geek ☛ System76’s New Meerkat Mini PC Is Still Built for Linux
System76's computers are great and built specifically for Linux, though they can be a bit expensive at times. Now, the company's excellent Meerkat Mini tiny PC is getting a refresh with new Intel CPUs.
System76 has just announced a refresh of its Meerkat Mini PC, and it looks pretty good. The new Meerkat is configurable with up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor, a significant leap from the previous generation. System76 indicates that this translates to a jump from 12 to 16 cores compared to what the last generation (powered by 13th gen Intel Core chips) topped out at, so in terms of pure raw power, it's a lot better. System76 also says that we have a 62% increase in RAM speed—the press release doesn't give us specifics, but the previous model came with DDR4-3200 RAM, and we have DDR5-5600 here, so that's the reason why.
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HowTo Geek ☛ The Best Linux Laptops of 2025
Love Linux? You'll want to get a laptop built with the open-source operating system in mind, instead of settling for a Windows laptop and having to do the installation yourself. These five picks work with Linux right out of the box.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Argon One V5 Review: Not so sci-fi any more
Argon 40’s latest case does away with the sci-fi aesthetic but still delivers an out of this world performance.
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CNX Software ☛ STMicro’s STEVAL-MKI109D evaluation board supports all ST MEMS sensors with a DIL24 socket
STMicroelectronics has introduced the STEVAL-MKI109D a MEMS sensor evaluation board, designed to test and optimize STMicro’s MEMS sensors for various applications, including industrial automation, smart agriculture, and consumer electronics. Built around the STM32H563ZI Arm Cortex-M33 MCU this development board features I²C, I3C, and SPI interfaces, along with a TDM interface for high-speed sensor data communication. The board is also compatible with STMicro MEMS DIL24 adapter boards, which makes it easy for engineers to test different sensors.