Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More
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Hackaday ☛ Belfry OpenSCAD Library (BOSL2) Brings Useful Parts And Tools Aplenty
OpenSCAD has a lot of fans around these parts — if you’re unaware, it’s essentially a code-based way of designing 3D models. Instead of drawing them up in a CAD program, one writes a script that defines the required geometry. All that is made a little easier with the Belfry OpenSCAD Library (BOSL2).
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Raspberry Pi ☛ RP2350 now available at JLCPCB
RP2350 is our latest high-performance, secure microcontroller, offering unparalleled levels of processing and flexibility at its very affordable price point. Now that rapid assembly of RP2350-based boards is available from JLCPCB, prototyping and initial production of your designs is straightforward and speedy.
Before users submit a design to JLC, we’re asking that they do the following: [...]
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Ruben Schade ☛ The 1988 Kenwood KX-47C was a great budget deck
Case in point, Clara and I bought this beautiful 1988 Kenwood KX-47C tape deck from eBay last year for less than a grocery bill, and it’s not complex… at all! You might even say it’s a minimum-viable deck. And we absolutely love it.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Multiple Raspberry Pi create 'wigglegram' 3D photos using this AI enhanced camera
Low-Junket9298's Fiewfly camera uses separate Raspberry Pi Zero 2 Ws with camera modules to capture images instead of multiple cameras connected to one Pi. These images are stitched together by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 ( we wonder if a Compute Module 5 could be used?) which fills in the gaps using AI to smooth out the wigglegrams.
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Chris Aldrich ☛ Typewriter Market: It may be better if you didn’t get an Olympia SM3 typewriter today | Chris Aldrich
Sadly, the high price on this machine earlier in the day may have suckered others into thinking these machines are significantly more valuable as it seems two other Olympia SM3s right after it both went for: [...]
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Arduino ☛ This mod simplifies single-point threading on mini lathes
“Single-point threading” on a lathe is the process of cutting threads, such as for a bolt, into the material through turning. The spindle/workpiece spin and the carriage moves linearly at a precise amount per turn of the spindle. That linear movement is the thread pitch. But this process usually requires several passes to reach the final depth, which presents a problem: how do you start each thread at the exact same point each time? Daniel Engel’s Arduino-based mod solves that problem on mini lathes.