Open Hardware: Right-to-Repair, Pi5, and More
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Right-to-Repair Wins!
For years, Apple, the overlord of so many, has faced a persistent, nagging complaint: people want to fix their phones. These ungrateful people, clearly lacking the refined aesthetic sensibilities required to appreciate Apple's hermetically sealed, unibody masterpieces, have clamored for the right to repair, poke, and violate the pristine innards of their iDevices. Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has long resisted, knowing that such barbaric practices would inevitably lead to chaos, shattered screens, and the unspeakable horror of... non-OEM parts. From Apple's view, the idea of people daring to tinker with their Fashion Company Apple devices was as preposterous as a penguin trying to fly a jumbo jet.
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Europe 2025: Streaming Live
Hackaday Europe 2025 is in full swing, and whether you’re experiencing it live in Berlin or following along from home, here’s where you’ll find all the info you need to get the most out of it.
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Adafruit ☛ Fixing the Performance of the Raspberry Pi 5 on Ubuntu 24.04
PiMyLifeUp‘s guide to work around performance issues when running Ubuntu 24.04 on a Raspberry Pi 5.
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Adafruit ☛ Building a Mini Pi5 Cyberdeck Running Kali Linux #piday
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Huawei MateBook D 16 Linux is on sale, cheaper than Windows edition
Huawei has unveiled a new MateBook D 16 Linux Edition and kept it on the sale shelf. The device comes with a major change over the previous model. It has dropped the support for Windows and runs on the Linux operating system.
The company’s senior official, Richard Yu, said earlier that the next-gen PCs won’t run on Microsoft Windows. But before switching to the self-developed OS, the company is trying to adapt to the Linux operating system for its top-end notebooks.
While Huawei smartphones and tablets run on HarmonyOS, the company’s notebook line relies on foreign technologies (Windows OS and Intel chips). However, Microsoft’s license to supply Windows to Huawei will expire this month and won’t be renewed due to strict U.S. trade export regulations.
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Hackster ☛ Turning a Raspberry Pi Into a CNC Controller with Linux CNC — and a GPIO-Connected Parallel HAT
Pseudonymous maker "audioartillery" has penned a guide to running a computer numeric control (CNC) mill or other device from a Raspberry Pi single-board computer — directly, using its general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins rather than an external controller board.
"This article is about using LinuxCNC on Raspberry Pi microcomputers for control of a CNC machine," audioartillery writes by way of introduction. "It will specifically focus on direct control of CNC machine stepper motors with the Raspberry Pi I/O [Input/Output] pins (as opposed to with an Ethernet based control board such as Mesa)."