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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Pimoroni, and NetBSD
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Journey to Raspberry Pi — from CoderDojo volunteer to software engineer
Two summer internships and a university degree later, I began working at Raspberry Pi — the very organisation that introduced me to computing — as an engineer in the chip design team. Though spare time is hard to find as an adult, I make it a priority to continue my earlier engineering access work. I now organise university visits with institutions like CentraleSupélec and Cambridge’s Department of Engineering; I also represent Raspberry Pi at engineering outreach events and mentor our yearly interns. It’s important to me to keep existing pathways open for budding engineers and to play an active role in training the next generation.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ E-ink shipping monitor
The display comprises a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, a Pimoroni Inky Impression 7.3-inch display, and a Wegmatt dAISy Mini AIS receiver. AIS stands for ‘Automatic Identification System’, and it’s this device that picks up the signals coming from the ships themselves, which goes to the display via the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. There’s probably a website somewhere that displays the location of ships, and you could build a similar system using an API to extract data from that website, but this uses real-time data collected via VHF radio frequencies direct from the ships themselves, which makes it far, far cooler.
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Ruben Schade ☛ Building a new NetBSD machine
This lead me to think… what would a new NetBSD machine look like? Well, new by my standards means “second hand, and released within the last few years”, but you get my point.
I’m thinking something like this: [...]