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Open Hardware/Modding: OrangePi, Raspberry Pi, and More
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Boiling Steam ☛ OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: an ARM64 SBC Powerhouse
Following our review of their recent RV2 RISC-V board, OrangePi has offered us to review one of their latest ARM64 based hardware, the OrangePi 5 Ultra. This is currently their highest specs ARM64 SBC. So what can we expect from the OrangePi Pi 5 Ultra board ? Let’s go through the specs first.
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Hackaday ☛ Using Moondream AI To Make Your Pi “See” Like A Human
[Jaryd] from Core Electronics shows us human-like computer vision with Moondream on the Pi 5.
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PC World ☛ Raspberry Pi's newest HAT holds an itty-bitty M.2 SSD
Raspberry Pi sells little add-on boards that fit on top of the tiny computer. This kind of board is called a hat. Pardon me, it’s HAT for “hardware on top.” C’mon, that’s freakin’ adorable. Anyway, the newest one is an add-on M.2 slot just big enough for the smallest standard drive (a 2230, 30mm long). That’s the same one that goes in a Steam Deck.
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SparkFun Electronics ☛ Build a Visual Ambient Light Sensor
Sure, you could open up a serial monitor and watch the lux values scroll by. But sometimes it is nice to see your sensor data right in front of you. A glowing button that reacts in real time is: [...]
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Olimex ☛ Microchip PIC programmers in stock
MPLAB-PICKIT3 is low cost entry level programmer/debugger for PIC microcontrollers which do not need introduction as it’s quite mature solution.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Rare wooden-cased Apple-1 computer blasts past auctioneer estimate — sells for almost half a million dollars
A very rare Apple-1 computer sold for a significant amount more than the auctioneer's estimate in Boston this weekend. Last week, we reported on the rare Byte Shop wooden case Apple-1’s impending auction. At the time, it had scaled to $144,311 in pre-live bidding, with an estimate of $300,000. On Saturday, RR Auctions achieved a sale of $475,000 (w/BP) for its client. That’s nearly 60% better than expected.
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Purism ☛ Purism Approach vs. Google Model
Purism was founded as a Social Purpose Corporation (SPC), a legal framework that locks social good into its charter, above the pursuit of profit. Its mission is to uphold users’ privacy, freedom, and security, guided by the Free Software movement. Purism rejects the ad surveillance economy at its root. Unlike Google and other Big Tech firms that rely on behavioral profiling, opaque algorithms, and monetized attention flows, Purism builds its platform on transparency and user respect. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is never used for analytics or monetization. The only PII collected is the bare minimum required to ship products to customers—nothing more.
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Hackaday ☛ 2025 Hackaday Superconference: Announcing Our Workshops And Tickets
Can you feel the nip of fall in the air? That can only mean one thing: Supercon is just around the corner. The next few weeks are going to bring a blitz of Supercon-related reveals, and we’re starting off with a big one: the workshops.