Open Hardware/Modding: Fairphone, Altera, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 03, 2026

• Open Hardware/Modding

  • OMG Ubuntu ☛ A 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs 50% more than it did at launch

    Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 5 jumps by $12.50 (£12) from 1 October, 2026: Model Launch price Old price New price Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB) $45 $55 $67.50 (£64.80) Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB) $50 $65 $77.50 (£74.40) For context, the Raspberry Pi 4 2GB model launched at $45 in 2019.

  • Hackaday ☛ 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: A Homebrew Computer In Only Three ICs

    Homebrew computers don’t have to be retrocomputers, but [Just4Fun]’s all-through-hole, 68008-based “68k-MBC” certainly qualifies, so it is a worthy entry in our ongoing contest. While there are both “full” and “lite” hardware configurations, the three-IC “lite” configuration is what first caught our eye. Yes, three: the 68008, an SRAM chip, and a PIC microcontroller that acts as the ROM.

  • Hackaday ☛ Is This The Smallest Internet Radio?

    The hardware recipe is straightforward enough; take a microcontroller, connect it to the internet, and have your internet radio software squirt its output to a DAC. In this case the microcontroller is an ESP32-C£ on a very small dev board, and clipped to that is a custom PCB with a PCM5102A I2S DAC and an amplifier. The whole thing is tiny, small enough in fact that the two connectors are significant in size compared to it.

  • Doug Brown ☛ Altera Quartus Linux jtagd bug fixes

    I went kind of overboard looking into issues with Altera USB Blaster clones a couple of years ago. While writing that post, I ran into some really frustrating intermittent problems in Linux with jtagd that I was never able to figure out: [...]

• Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

  • Can we outrace the e-waste problem? Yes, we can.

    Increasing electronic waste is a global crisis that's growing exponentially. E-waste races are an innovative way to tackle the problem.

  • What it costs to build AOSP 16 on a 2010 I.C.B.M. x3650 M3

    I needed to build /e/OS for a feature prototype and restarted a 2010 dual-Xeon rack server, wondering if it would cope. With 32 GB of extra RAM and a new disk, it built AOSP 16 for the Fairphone 6 in 8 h 54 min: time, disk, power, and everything that broke along the way.