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Hackaday ☛ Nostalgic Camera Is A Mashup Of Analog Video Gear
These days, you get a fantastic camera with the purchase of just about any modern smartphone. [Abe] missed some of the charm of earlier, lower-quality digital cameras, though, and wanted to recreate that experience. The way forward was obvious. He built a nostalgic digital video camera from scratch!
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CNX Software ☛ REETLE SmartInk I – An AI-powered E-Ink phone case with voice recording (Crowdfunding)
The REETLE SmartInk I is a phone case with a touch-enabled E-Ink display and built-in Hey Hi (AI) features. It features a secondary screen on the back for reading text, viewing notes, recording voice, and displaying to-do items, allowing basic tasks to be completed without using the phone’s main display. In the back, you have a 3.97-inch E-Ink touchscreen with one-press voice recording, AI-based transcription, summarization, and smart to-do display, all synced to a companion mobile app via Bluetooth 5.0.
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Hackaday ☛ Chip Swap Fixes A Dead Amiga 600
The Amiga 600 was in its day the machine nobody really wanted — a final attempt to flog the almost original spec 68000 platform from 1985, in 1992. Sure it had a PCMCIA slot nobody used, and an IDE interface for a laptop hard drive, but it served only to really annoy anyone who’d bought one when a few months later the higher-spec 1200 appeared. It’s had a rehabilitation in recent years though as a retrocomputer, and [LinuxJedi] has a 600 motherboard in need of some attention.
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Adafruit ☛ Safely shutting down Linux on your single board computer
On the AUDIODiWHY blog, looks to answer the question You have a Linux single board computer or “SBC” (or any Linux host) as the basis of a cool DiWHY audio project; what is the best way to shut it down?