Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, RISC-V, GNU-like Mobile Linux, and Raspberry Pi
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CNX Software ☛ ESP32-C2 v2.0 wireless SoC adds 20 KB of additional SRAM, 100 KB of extra flash
Espressif ESP32-C2 (ESP8684) has been updated to v2.0 with 20 KB of additional SRAM, 100 KB of extra flash, with some improvements in terms of erase and program performance.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Alibaba launches RISC-V-based XuanTie C930 server CPU — AI/HPC chip ships this month, more designs to follow
Alibaba announces its new XuanTie C930 HPC CPU, built on RISC-V to boost China's domestic CPU market.
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Linux On Mobile ☛ 2025-02-23 [Older] Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (08/2025): Cameras and Project Updates
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Hackaday ☛ Here’s A Spy Movie-Grade Access Card Sniffing Implant
Some of our devices look like they’re straight out of hacker movies. For instance, how about a small board you plant behind an RFID reader, collecting access card data and then replaying it when you next walk up the door? [Jakub Kramarz] brings us perhaps the best design on the DIY market, called The Tick – simple, flexible, cheap, tiny, and fully open-source.
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CNX Software ☛ Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 adds industrial/extended temperature range from -40°C to +85°C
Some Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 are now available in the industrial/extended temperature operating from -40°C to +85°C, suitable for outdoor applications in cold climates and (some) cold storage solutions that require sub -20°C temperature. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 was launched in 2020, Raspberry Pi did not provide an operating temperature range.
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CNX Software ☛ Giada DN25 fanless 4K digital signage player features Raspberry Pi CM5 Lite module and eMMC flash
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Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #493 - Magazine makeovers, sustainable packaging, and archiving floppy disks
Howdy, The end of the month is quite literally upon us, which means it’s our 13th birthday! Since our last birthday, we listed on the London Stock Exchange, and this Thursday we were delighted to receive the New Company of the Year Award at the plc awards for 2024. Let’s recap the rest of the week just gone before we march on to the next.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Cozy cats live in a Raspberry Pi-powered luxury automated smart house
Visible_Turnover3952 has created a Raspberry Pi-powered cat house with luxurious smart home features and automated systems to keep them cozy.
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CNX Software ☛ Software progress and source code release for CIX P1 Armv9 SoC and Orion O6 motherboard
When the Orion O6 mini-ITX motherboard with a CIX P1 12-core Armv9 SoC was announced in December 2024, we were told binary releases would start on January 15, 2025, and the source code would be released later in Q1 2025. Tom Cubie further explained that upstreaming of the CIX kernel would start in Q2 of 2025, and GNU/Linux 6.1 with Device Tree plus GNU/Linux 6.6 with ACPI would be supported in the meantime.