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Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers
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CNX Software ☛ 7.3-inch full color e-paper wooden photo frame is designed for the Raspberry Pi Zero
Waveshare RPi-Zero-PhotoPainter-ACCE is a 7.3-inch color e-paper photo frame designed for the Raspberry Pi Zero family. It’s an 800×480 resolution display based on E-Ink Spectra 6 (E6), and housed in a wooden frame. The display also features an RTC with backup battery support, a LiPo battery connector with “UPS circuitry”, a USB-C port for power, a 3-pin debug/serial header, a power button, and a charging LED.
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CNX Software ☛ FlashESP is an all-in-one web-based tool for ESP32/ESP8266 Arduino development and firmware flashing
FlashESP is a web-based tool allowing the development of Arduino sketches and firmware flashing for ESP32 and ESP8266 hardware platforms. I initially thought it was similar to ESP Web Tools for flashing firmware from the web and used by projects like ESPHome, but it goes further than that, and it looks like an Arduino Cloud Editor for ESP32/ESP8266 instead, since users can select boards, write code, load libraries, and flash the resulting firmware from a compatible web browser without installing anything else on their computer.
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Hackaday ☛ Super Simple Deadbuggable Bluetooth Chip
We’re all used to Bluetooth chips coming in QFN and BGA formats, at a minimum of 30-40 pins, sometimes even a hundred. What about ten pins, with 1.27 mm pitch? [deqing] from Hackaday.io shows us a chip from WCH, CH571K, in what’s essentially a SO-10 package (ESSOP10). This chip has a RISC-V core, requires only three components to run, and can work Bluetooth through a simple wire antenna.
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ROS Industrial ☛ One Attendees Observations from ROSCon 2025
ROSCon 2025 took place from October 27–29 in Singapore, drawing approximately 1,000 attendees from 52 countries. It was followed by the ROS-I Asia-Pacific Annual Summit on October 30, which featured speakers, panels, lab tours, and a networking dinner with about 150 participants. This year’s ROSCon showcased an array of sessions, workshops, and discussions designed to share advancements and inspire innovation in the ROS ecosystem.