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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More
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Hackaday ☛ Give ATMega88 The Boot With This Retro Front Panel
It’s a truism that a computer must boot before it begins to operate. Nowadays that bootstrapping process is automatic, but in the case of the very first home computers, it was very much a hands-on affair. That’s what all those switches and blinkenlights are for on the front panel of the Altair 8800 — laboriously flicking each bit into memory as required to get your program going.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ The new home for Blockly
The Blockly open source library, assets, and key members of the Blockly team transition from Google to the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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Hackaday ☛ 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: A Bistable Flip-Flop With A Fuse
The flip-flop, in whichever of its several forms you encounter it, is a staple of logic design. Any time that you need to hold onto something, count, or shift bits, out it comes. We expect a flip-flop to be an integrated circuit if we use one, but most of us could knock one together with a couple of transistors.
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Hackster ☛ A Distraction-Free Handheld Linux Computer for Coders
There are a million ways to use a tiny single-board computer in a hobbyist project, but one of the most obvious might be to turn that little board into a full-fledged, pint-sized computer. Redditor stopdesign has done just that, and the result is a simple, yet beautiful handheld computer that I absolutely don’t need, yet cannot imagine living another day without. The goal of the project was to create a distraction-free coding computer that can be used anywhere and everywhere. But since it runs Linux, it could just as easily be repurposed for other tasks.
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Free Electrons opens applications for embedded Linux developers
The 2026 Free Electrons Programme is dedicated to supporting developers working on open-source embedded Linux projects. It provides essential training, mentorship and resources to help developers advance their work and strengthen innovation within the global embedded Linux community.