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Open Hardware/Modding: PCBs, Raspberry Pi 5, and More
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CNX Software ☛ Fusion HAT+ Raspberry Pi expansion board targets motor and servo control with Hey Hi (AI) and LLMs
SunFounder Fusion HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5/4/3B+ and Zero single board computers is a motor control and GPIO expansion board designed to work with LLMs such as Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot or Gemini using the board’s built-in speaker and microphone for voice interaction. It features four DC motor drivers, twelve PWM servo channels, four ADC inputs, I2C, SPI, and UART interface for sensors, and ships with two 18650 rechargeable batteries with smart power management & safe shutdown.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Engineer turns E-ink tablet into computer monitor in GNU/Linux — perfect secondary reading screen to reduce eye strain over the network
A software engineer and E-ink enthusiast recently set up a remote E-ink secondary display, upcycling an old E-ink tablet and setting up an awesome GNU/Linux DIY project for all those with the need to read on bespoke screen hardware.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ AI-designed GNU/Linux computer with 843 components boots on first attempt — dual-PCB Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work
LA-based startup Quilter has outlined Project Speedrun, which marks a milestone in computer design by AI.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Intel Alder Lake-N N100 powers modular x86 embedded platform with optional NFC interface
Youyeetoo has unveiled the K1, a compact x86 embedded platform based on Intel’s 12th-generation Alder Lake-N N100 processor. The system pairs an 82 × 71 mm core board with an optional 134 × 92 mm carrier board, targeting edge computing, industrial HMI, digital signage, and network appliance applications running backdoored Windows or Linux.
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Collabora ☛ Driving a seamless Chromium experience on MediaTek SoCs
As Chromium becomes the default UI runtime on embedded GNU/Linux devices, we’re closing long-standing V4L2 gaps and enabling efficient hardware video encoding and decoding on MediaTek platforms for both downstream and upstream.
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Hackaday ☛ Designing A CPU For Native BASIC
Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common approach being to build a physical manifestation of a portable code virtual machine. An example might be the experimental Java processors which implemented the JVM. Similarly, in 1976 Itty Bitty Computers released an implementation of Tiny BASIC which used a simple virtual machine, and to celebrate 50 years of Tiny BASIC, [Zoltan Pekic] designed a CPU that mirrors that VM.
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CNX Software ☛ Toradex Luna SL1680 – A “Pro Consumer” Raspberry Pi lookalike based on Synaptics SL1680 Edge Hey Hi (AI) SoC
Toradex Luna SL1680 is a credit card-sized single board computer heavily inspired by the Raspberry Pi 5 design, but powered by a Synaptics SL1680 quad-core Cortex-A73 SoC suitable for Edge Hey Hi (AI) applications thanks to a built-in 7.9 TOPS NPU.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Astro Pi is 10: A decade of your code in space
Marking 10 years of the European Astro Pi Challenge, inspiring young people to send Python code to run on the ISS.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Sustainable solutions: A year in review
As we round out the year at Raspberry Pi, we’re reflecting on the work we’ve done to become more sustainable. Guided by our principles for sustainability, this year has seen us try new solutions and even gain some industry recognition, bolstering our commitment to making high-performance, low-cost computing products in an environmentally responsible way.
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Arduino ☛ Humanoid robot becomes a bartender
For it to perform its new bartending job, Vitor rebuilt the robot. It now has a Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer controlling the motors through an Arduino Mega 2560 and drivers. The SBC listens through a microphone and Vosk speech recognition software, then replies to commands using eSpeak speech synthesis software and a speaker.