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Open Hardware/Modding: PCBs, RISC-V, and More
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Hackaday ☛ A PCB Can Be A Hydrofoil, If It Really Wants To
You know those old cliche that the younger generations have begun to cynically despise: “follow your dreams!” “You can be anything you put your mind to!” — well, perhaps they are true on occasion. For instance when [rctestflight] had PCBs that dreamed of becoming a hydrofoil, he found a way to make that dream come true.
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Celso Martinho ☛ Poor man's soldering fumes extractor
My electronics lab is inside my office at home. It’s very convenient for the occasional hacking electronics project. Still, I do a lot of soldering, and breathing those solder fumes in a closed space isn’t very healthy, especially during winter when the windows are all closed.
Home labs are so prevalent now that brands are paying attention; fume extractors are no longer expensive. But what’s the fun in buying when I can build my own?
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Svalboard ☛ Svalboard - Datahand forever!
All mechanical parts can be produced on a hobby-grade 3D printer, from SLA, or CNC'd from any material you like.
All pinouts are available if you want to hack your own electrical modifications, too.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Upstreams Patches to Bring Flutter Apps to RISC-V
Canonical's engineers have submitted pull requests to add RISC-V support to Google's Flutter toolkit, which Ubuntu uses to built many of its desktop apps.
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CNX Software ☛ 2.8-inch round IPS display features mini HDMI input, CNC aluminum housing
We have written about various types of rounded IPS displays in the past, like the Elecrow CrowPanel 1.28-inch and 2.1-inch rotary displays, the Waveshare ESP32-P4-WIFI6-Touch rounded touchscreen displays, and the MaTouch ESP32-S3 2.1-inch touch display, but this is the first time we have seen a rounded display with a (mini) HDMI port built into it. The 2.8-inch Round IPS Display from Elecrow is a compact circular 480×480 display housed in a CNC-machined aluminum shell.