Open Hardware, Mobile Systems With Linux, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 13, 2026

• Open Hardware/Modding

  • CNX Software ☛ Facebook releases Muse Gadgets SDK for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi/Linux-based devices

    Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has released the open-source Muse Gadgets SDK, designed to work with ESP32 boards or Linux-based SBCs like a Raspberry Pi. This requires some explanation… I’ve been on holiday for a while, so I’m not up to date on everything, but apparently Meta released Muse on September 6, yet another personal Hey Hi (AI) agent… Earlier this month, Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, shared an X post about the Muse Gadgets “side project” that aims to make ESP32 and GNU/Linux devices work with Muse, basically enabling hardware Hey Hi (AI) monitors and Physical Hey Hi (AI) with Muse.

  • CNX Software ☛ PlugMate and PlugClaw Review – Thumb-sized Android-based private computers with optional Ubuntu/OpenClaw support

    We received two unusual little devices for review this month: the PlugMate and the PlugClaw, both built by TrustKernel, a security company better known for the trusted-execution tech inside other people’s phones than for consumer gadgets. Each is a complete, self-contained computer the size of a USB stick (its own processor, memory, and encrypted storage) that runs a private, hardened Android system called PlugOS. You plug one into your phone, tablet, or computer, and that host lends it a screen, a keyboard, and a network connection. Nothing of yours crosses over. The easiest way to picture it: it’s a little computer (or more accurately, the hardware of a small phone) that borrows your screen, mouse, keyboard, and other peripherals to interact with you.

  • Linux Gizmos ☛ (Updated) 32-channel logic analyzer supports 1.4GS/s sampling and USB 3.2 Gen2 streaming

    Sipeed’s SLogic32U3 is a 32-channel logic analyzer designed for high-speed digital capture over USB 3.2 Gen2. The device supports configurable sample rates based on the number of active channels, direct streaming to a host system, optional analog acquisition modules, and software support across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

  • Hackaday ☛ The Prusa Core One+ INDX, A Troubled Multi-Extruder Upgrade?

    Although the premise is solid, with a claimed 0.013 grams of purge waste per color or material change along with pretty nice dual-gear Bondtech extruders, the first major hurdle that [Thomas] encountered was that the mandatory calibration sequence on starting a print is designed to only work with Prusa’s own filament and its specific material properties. This resulted in an inability to print with Voxel PLA until [Thomas] removed this sequence manually from the g-code.

  • Old VCR ☛ Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends

    Six years ago I fixed the power supply and case fan in my 68EC030-based Alpha Microsystems Eagle 300, a more modernized and substantially faster Alpha Micro running AMOS, their unique DEC-inspired multiuser operating system. These blue-collar boxes were very common in many vertical markets due to their tightly integrated business-specific software packages, and are especially unusual for running their big-endian 68000-series processors little-endian (for data file backwards compatibility with their WD-16 ancestors). The 1990s-era Alpha Micro Eagle family improves on the originals with later 68K and even ColdFire CPUs, plus Ethernet and faster SCSI.

  • Connected Car News: Geotab, Applied Intuition, Honda, Linux Foundation, Trio-Tech, Chiplytics & LG

    The Linux Foundation has announced the release of the OpenChain Automotive Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Framework 1.0 at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague. Developed by the OpenChain Automotive Working Group, the open framework sets standardized guidelines for describing, structuring and exchanging software component and dependency data between automakers and their Tier suppliers. It is aimed at the compliance, cybersecurity verification and transparency demands that come with software-defined vehicle architectures.

• Education

  • Raspberry Pi ☛ Bringing computing to rural schools in Argentina

    The Raspberry Jams in Santiago del Estero grew out of a shared passion. In 2019, I began promoting Raspberry Pi among my professional circle and colleagues as an educational tool, while also looking for new ways to bring technology closer to students and teachers.

• Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

  • LWN ☛ LineageOS 24 released

    The LineageOS project, which produces an Android-based distribution for mobile devices, has announced the release of LineageOS 24.0.

    We're a bit sentimental about this release, as it precedes a really fun upcoming milestone.

    On December 24, 2026, LineageOS will celebrate 10 years. It's a remarkable milestone for a project built by a passionate community of developers, maintainers, contributors, and users who have kept so many devices alive along

    [...] We've been hard at work rebasing all of our changes and features since Android 17's release in June. Android 17's first release mainly contained iterative improvements and some UI/UX refinements, but due to our previous efforts adapting to Google's heavy refactoring over the last several versions, we were able to rebase onto Android 17's code-base faster than anticipated. Yes you read that right: We're early this year!

  • Android Police ☛ Can a Samsung phone replace my laptop for coding? Termux and DeX say yes

    I've always been a big fan of Watch Dogs 2, and the idea of running around with a fully-fledged cyberdeck on my phone has always been a dream.

    We're still a long way from that, but I was curious if it was possible to run Linux on a mobile device.

    My new Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is beefy enough for what I had in mind, but I don't want to root it or replace the OS entirely. Then, I remembered Linux on DeX but found out that Samsung shut it down in 2019, so that was a bust.