Retro and Linux Hardware
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Hackaday ☛ Reviving A Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From The 1970s
A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a DIY kit, and [LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER] got his hands on an original Maplin 4600 that he refurbishes and puts through its paces.
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Hackaday ☛ This M5Stack Game Is Surprisingly Addictive
For those of us lucky enough to have been at Hackaday Europe in Berlin, there was a feast of hacks at our disposal. Among them was [Vladimir Divic]’s gradients game, software for an M5Stack module which was definitely a lot of fun to play. The idea of the game is simple enough, a procedurally generated contour map is displayed on the screen, and the player must navigate a red ball around and collect as many green ones as possible. It’s navigated using the M5Stack’s accelerometer, which is what makes for the engaging gameplay. In particular it takes a moment to discover that the ball can be given momentum, making it something more than a simple case of ball-rolling.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ RDK X5 Development Kit Featuring HDMI, MIPI CSI, and Gigabit Ethernet
The RDK X5 is a development kit designed for intelligent computing and robotics. It features a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi single board computer but is powered by the 10 TOPS Sunrise 5 processor.
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CNX Software ☛ NVIDIA DGX Spark – A desktop Hey Hi (AI) supercomputer powered by NVIDIA GB10 20-core Armv9 SoC with 1,000 TOPS of Hey Hi (AI) performance
NVIDIA DGX Spark may look like a mini PC, but under the hood, it’s a powerful Hey Hi (AI) supercomputer based on the NVIDIA GB10 20-core Armv9 SoC with Blackwell architecture delivering up to 1,000 TOPS (FP4) of Hey Hi (AI) performance, and high memory bandwidth (273 GB/s) with 128 GB 256-bit LPDDR5x.