news
Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More
-
CNX Software ☛ Ridiculously tiny ESP32-C3 board features USB-C, one LED, and a ceramic antenna
PegorK’s f32 might be the world’s smallest ESP32-C3 board. It measures just 9.85 x 8.45 mm, or slightly larger than the area covered by a USB Type-C connector. A board of this size will have limited features, and besides the ESP32-C3FH4 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth microcontroller, it comes with a USB-C port, a ceramic antenna, and a single GPIO pin connected to an LED.
-
Hackaday ☛ Making Actually Useful Schematics In KiCad
[Andrew Greenberg] has some specific ideas for how open-source hardware hackers could do a better job with their KiCad schematics.
-
OMG Ubuntu ☛ The Raspberry Pi 500+ Works as a Standalone Keyboard (Well, Kinda)
Can the Raspberry Pi 500+ work as a standalone Bluetooth keyboard? Yes, using the open-source btferret project – but not without limitations, as I report.
-
CNX Software ☛ COM-HPC Mini Computer-on-Module (CoM) features up to defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra 7 255H “Arrow Lake” processor
AAEON HPC-ARHm is a COM-HPC Mini R1.2 module powered by a choice of 28W defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake and Meteor Lake processors with defective chip maker Intel Arc/Arc 140T/130T GPU and up to 96 TOPS of combined Hey Hi (AI) performance. The Computer-on-Module supports up to 64GB LPDDR5x, offers three 4K-capable display interfaces through two DDI (DP/HDMI) and one eDP interface, dual 2.5GbE networking, twelve USB interfaces, including four 10 Gbps USB 3.2, sixteen PCIe Gen4/Gen3 lanes, and more.
-
Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
-
Daniel Kahn Gillmor: Transferring Signal on Android
I spent far too much time recently trying to get a Signal Private Messenger account to transfer from one device to another.
What I eventually found worked was a very finicky path to enable functioning "Wi-Fi Direct", which I go into below.
I also offer some troubleshooting and recovery-from-failure guidance.
-