Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Framework, and RISC-V
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Hackaday ☛ The Bus Pirate 5 Sure Can Glitch
Own a Bus Pirate 5? Now, it can do power glitching, thanks to [Matt Brugman’s] demo and contributions to the stock code. This is also a great demo of Bus Pirate’s capabilities and programmability! All you need is the Bus Pirate and a generic Arduino – load a glitch-vulnerable code example into the Arduino, get yourself a generic FET-based glitching setup, and you too can play.
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Boiling Steam ☛ POLL: Framework Desktop: Is it for You?
Framework, the American company known for its line of user-serviceable laptops, has announced a few days ago the upcoming availability of a new desktop, in a very small format. We covered it in a longer article, too. It should hit the market in Q3 2025. It will be powered by a AMD Ryzen™ Hey Hi (AI) Max 385 (or 390) and feature from 32 to 128GB of soldered RAM. It will also possess a NPU to accelerate (smaller) Hey Hi (AI) models, and in terms of gaming capabilities, it will be powerful enough to make demanding games run at 1080p high settings at around 60FPS most of the game, according go their (promotional) benchmarks. Since the high-end version will feature 128GB of RAM, this makes this Framework Desktop also a good candidate to run Hey Hi (AI) workloads with fairly large models. It won’t replace a discrete GPU, but it may be one of the cheapest options out there to run such models (like 70b models for example). In this context, we were interested to know if our audience was interested in such a machine after the reveal. Here’s the results below.
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CNX Software ☛ Tropic Square TROPIC01 is an auditable, open architecture, tamper-proof RISC-V secure element (SE) for IoT and microcontrollers
Tropic Square TROPIC01 is an auditable, open architecture, tamper-proof RISC-V based secure element (SE) designed to interface with microcontrollers in products such as hardware wallets, authentication solutions, biometric wallets, medical devices, and other IoT solutions. There are plenty of secure elements on the market, but their design is usually closed-source, so the design can’t be easily verified by third parties and flaws may remain hidden even when discovered.