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Devices, Open Hardware, and Linux on Phones
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Devices/Embedded
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Futurism ☛ Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body
It sounds like a short story cooked up by Kurt Vonnegut, but it really happened to Zi Teng Wang, a magician and molecular biologist in Missouri — who posted about his predicament in his Facebook account this month, complete with an x-ray picture of his hand showing the white outline of the offending microchip embedded in the meat between his thumb and index finger.
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Hackaday ☛ An Online Repository For KiCad Schematics
In the desktop 3D printing world, we’re fortunate to have multiple online repositories of models that anyone can load up on their machine. Looking to create a similar experience but for electronic projects, [Mike Ayles] created CircuitSnips — a searchable database of ready-to-use KiCad schematics available under open source licenses.
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Arduino ☛ You ask, we answer! Let’s talk about Arduino UNO Q, App Lab, and the future of accessible AI
On November 19th, we held a 60-minute Ask Me Anything session to address your questions about the new Arduino UNO Q, Arduino App Lab, accessible AI, and Arduino’s path forward. Thank you to everyone who joined us live and submitted questions!
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Open Hardware/Modding
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CNX Software ☛ Easily create an ESP32-C5 dual-band Wi-Fi analyzer
Chen Liang (陳亮) has found an interesting use case for the Espressif ESP32-C5: a dual-band Wi-Fi analyzer showing the signal strength of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi access points in your area. It works like one of the Wi-Fi analyzer apps on your phone, except it relies on an ESP32-C5 board and a display support for the Arduino_GFX libraries, for example, based on the ILI9341 driver, as it’s easier for beginners since the code does not need to be changed. Here’s what it looks like. You can follow the instructions provided by Chen to reproduce the setup.
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 347: Breaking Kindles, Baby’s First Synth, And Barcodes!
This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over coffee to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so.
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Kev Quirk ☛ How I Replaced My Son’s PC With an £88 iMac
I recently replaced my son's broken PC with a 2015 iMac from eBay. Here's how it went...
A year or so ago, my wife and I gave our oldest son a spare computer we had lying around. This was mainly for homework, but also for some light gaming, like Minecraft and Super Tux Cart. The machine was actually the little home server I built a few years ago.
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Hackaday ☛ 3D Printing For The Hospital Setting
Surgery is hard, there is a reason why school is so long for the profession. Making the job easier and smoother for both patients and surgeons is valuable for all parties, which is why [Mayo Clinic] is now working on including 3D printing into its more regular medicine pipeline.
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CNX Software ☛ SMHUB Nano Mg24 compact Linux-based Zigbee/Thread Smart Hub combines SG2000 RISC-V SoC with MG24 wireless MCU
SMLight’s SMHUB Nano Mg24 may look like the company’s earlier SLZB-06p Zigbee to Ethernet/WiFi/USB coordinators, but it’s a more powerful Linux-based Zigbee/Thread Smart Hub that pairs SOPHGO SG2000 RISC-V SoC with Silicon Labs MG24 multi-protocol wireless MCU.
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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The Register UK ☛ GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
"France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects," the group explained. "They expect backdoors in encryption and for device access too. Secure devices and services are not going to be allowed.
"We don't feel safe using OVH for even a static website with servers in Canada/US via their Canada/US subsidiaries."
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Qt ☛ Qt for Android Automotive 6.10 is released
The latest Qt for Android Automotive 6.10 was just released and is based on Qt 6.10. The Qt release itself brings a lot of new features across the board while Qt for Android Automotive brings two new highlights specific to Android Automotive. Let's dive into all the new and exiting features!
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