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Open Hardware/Modding: Adafruit, Raspberry Pi, and More
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Adafruit ☛ ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Python: The Documentary, Linux is 34, New CircuitPython Beta and More!
If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version (a day late due to the US holiday).
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CNX Software ☛ SONOFF Dongle Plus MG24 – A Zigbee/Thread USB Dongle based on SiLabs EFR32MG24 SoC
SONOFF Dongle Plus MG24, also called Dongle-PMG24, is a Zigbee/Thread USB dongle based on Silicon Labs’ EFR32MG24 wireless SoC, which offers the same features as the SONOFF ZBDongle-E with an EFR32MG21 SoC, but with “better performance”.
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CNX Software ☛ Rockchip RV1126B-P quad-core Cortex-A53 SoC shows up in Hey Hi (AI) Vision system-on-module
Boardcon MINI1126B-P is a system-on-module (SoM) powered by a Rockchip RV1126B-P 64-bit Arm SoC with a 3 TOPS NPU and a 4K H.264/H.265 encoder and decoder designed for Hey Hi (AI) vision applications. Rockchip RV1126 quad-core Arm Cortex-A7 camera SoC with a 2 TOPS Hey Hi (AI) accelerator has been around since 2021, but the RV1126B(-P) is a new chip with four Cortex-A53 cores and a 3 TOPS NPU.
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HowTo Geek ☛ This Home Assistant Dongle Is So Good You’ll Want Two
Home Assistant is a free and open-source smart home platform that runs on almost anything. With it, you can bring together devices across a range of platforms and protocols, all with the privacy and reliability of a local offline setup.
Though you can use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to connect smart home devices, many rely on low-power wireless protocols like Zigbee and Thread. You can easily add support for these protocols to your Home Assistant setup with the ZBT-1.
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Undeadly ☛ Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5
This is still marked as work in progress, but progress this definitely is. A lot of work by kettenis@ and others went into this early-stage support, and more improvements are in the pipeline. Perhaps we can hope for full-ish support for this hardware in the upcoming release?