Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Fujitsu celebrates 50 million laptops produced with one-off exquisite kumiko wooden lid model
The woodcraft here was undertaken by Japan's Funaki Woodworks. According to the linked report (machine translation), the work took two to three months to complete. This is an example of kumiko craftsmanship, an art established in Japan about 1,500 years ago, during the Asuka period. In the work you see, the pattern is made from 5,800 wooden pieces using four select wood species. The work was all the more difficult as the laptop lid couldn't be too thick, meaning artisan Funaki Kiyoshi had to work with wood pieces just 4mm thick.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Raspberry Pi powers miniature 'Severance' MDR computer
This custom PC both imitates the MDR computer from the show and works as a PC on its own. It's small enough to sit on your desk as a decoration piece and resembles the design and function of the MDR computers in the series. Everything for the build was constructed from the ground up just for the project by Chilicki including the housing and software.
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The DIY Life ☛ Ultimate Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Server with UPS, NVMe Drive & Stats Display
Today I’m taking my Raspberry Pi 5 to the next level by building the ultimate desktop server. This build will feature an NVMe drive for fast storage, a UPS to keep it running during power cuts, and a real-time OLED display to show system stats.
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peppe8o ☛ Personal MediaWiki with Raspberry PI and Docker
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install MediaWiki on a Raspberry PI computer. Sharing knowledge was the very first scope of the Internet when it was born.
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It's FOSS ☛ CrowView Note: Turning Raspberry Pi into a Laptop, Sort of
A highly crowdfunded device to add a portable workstation to your Raspberry Pi and other SBCs.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Modder crams LLM onto Pi Zero-powered USB stick, but it isn't fast enough to be practical
A Raspberry Pi Zero can run a local LLM using llama.cpp. But, while functional, slow token speeds make it impractical for real-world use.
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Arduino ☛ This robotic piano has solenoids for all 88 keys
Pianos famously have a lot of keys. A standard full-size piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys, for a total of 88. Therefore, people need to get clever when they build self-playing pianos. However, the brute force approach works, too. Paul Junkin’s brute force strategy was to add a solenoid for every one of those 88 keys on his piano-playing robot.