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Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, DongshanPi, Raspberry Pi, and Lots More
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Purism ☛ Introducing the Librem PQC Comms Server
“Offering a complete PQC communications solution whereby a customer or agency can control the devices, user contacts list, that is quantum-safe for all traffic in a self-hosted on-premise or in-domain may sound too good to be true, but we are announcing it and we have it today!” says Todd Weaver, Purism Founder & CEO.
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Framework Computer BV ☛ Framework | Introducing the new Framework Laptop 16 with NVIDIA®
To support all of this combined GPU, CPU, and system performance, we’re excited to announce our new default power adapter for Framework Laptop 16: an ultra-high-power-density compact 240W USB-C adapter supporting the USB-PD 3.1 spec. We were the first laptop maker to ship a USB-C 180W adapter with the original Framework Laptop 16, and somehow nearly two years later, we may be the first to ship with 240W too! This added power means you can run the system at sustained full load without draining the battery.
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PC World ☛ Framework Laptop 16 gets new RTX 5070 GPU option
The 16-inch design's first major revision includes new motherboards and its first Nvidia graphics card, all modular and backwards compatible with existing models.
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Arduino ☛ MIT’s Octopus is a delightful environmental sensor for urban deployment
Depending on the use case, Octopus can contain an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense or an Arduino Nicla Vision board. The Nicla Vision handles the image collection and an SPS30 particulate matter evaluation kit monitors air quality. There is also a GPS module for gathering location data for logging and those logs go on an SD card. There is a lithium battery with associated charging circuitry to make Octopus entirely wireless.
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Hackaday ☛ Pascal? On My Arduino? It’s More Likely Than You Think
The Arduino ecosystem is an amazing learning tool, but even those of us who love it admit that even the simplified C Arduino uses isn’t the ideal teaching language. Those of us who remember learning Pascal as our first “real” programming language in schools (first aside from BASIC, at least) might look fondly on the AVRPascal project by [Andrzej Karwowski].
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Olimex ☛ Once upon a time, there was Hackafe in Plovdiv — a place to share ideas and learn new things about the IT industry
Here we go — on September 3rd, from 18:00 to 19:00, we will hold our first meeting with a Meshtastic workshop.
Meshtastic is an open-source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network designed to run on affordable, low-power devices. It uses LoRa to exchange messages in places with little or no infrastructure.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Olimex Showcases ESP32-C5-EVB Development Board
Olimex has announced the ESP32-C5-EVB, an open-source hardware evaluation board based on the ESP32-C5-WROOM-N8R4 module from Espressif. The board integrates dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee/Thread, relays, opto-isolated inputs, and LiPo UPS support, and is designed as a flexible platform for IoT development and prototyping.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ DongshanPi Previews RK3576-Based SBC Targeted at Computer Vision
DongshanPi has shared early details about an upcoming SBC designed for Hey Hi (AI) and computer vision education. Based on the Rockchip RK3576, the DshanPi-A1 supports OpenCV and multimedia workloads through a software stack built around ArmbianOS (community-supported) and Rockchip’s media and inference libraries.
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CNX Software ☛ Xerxes Pi – A Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5 carrier board with a rack-friendly design (Crowdfunding)
Designed by Rapid Analysis in Australia, the Xerxes Pi is a cross-vendor compute module carrier board that fits into a 1U rack and supports Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5, Radxa CM5, Banana Pi CM4/CM5, and Orange Pi CM4/CM5 compute modules. Designed at just one-third the size of a Nano-ITX board (120 × 40 mm), it’s ideal for home lab and small business servers looking for a low-cost way to run Docker containers and other open-source software. For storage, the carrier board includes a microSD card, and an M.2 E-Key slot enables support for accelerators or peripherals. Additionally, it features an I²C/SPI header and optional PoE via add-on boards or splitters.
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CNX Software ☛ Adafruit Fruit Jam – A RP2350 mini computer running classic Macintosh
The Adafruit Fruit Jam is a credit card-sized RP2350-powered mini computer that is designed to run classic Macintosh through the uMac emulator. It supports System 2.0 up to System 7.5.5, 720p video via DVI, audio, and USB keyboard and mouse. Built around the Raspberry Pi RP2350 MCU, the Fruit Jam board also features an ESP32-C6 wireless module and offers DVI output via the RP2350’s HSTX interface, USB-C for bootloading, a microSD card slot for storage, and an onboard TLV320DAC3100 I2S audio DAC for stereo headphones and a mono speaker.
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CNX Software ☛ Prophesee Starter Kit GenX320 camera for Raspberry Pi 5 enables low-latency event detection
The Starter Kit GenX320 is a power-efficient, event-based camera designed for the Raspberry Pi 5 that detects events with a latency of less than 150 μs, or the equivalent of about 10,000 FPS. The Prophesee GenX320 sensor offers a 320×320 resolution and a >140 dB dynamic range. The kit connects to the Raspberry Pi 5 like the official camera modules, through the MIPI CSI-2 connector.
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Hackaday ☛ Homebrew Tire Pressure Monitoring System
When [upir] saw that you could buy tire valve stem caps that read pressure electronically, he decided to roll his own Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) like the one found on modern cars. An ESP32 and an OLED display read the pressure values. He didn’t have a car tire on his workbench though, so he had to improvise there.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Someone made a 3D printer out of Lego — maker puts together specialist project using bricks, motors, and Python
An enthusiast has created a 3D printer out of Lego bricks that actually works and even printed a Benchy when testing.