Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, LattePanda, ESP32, and More
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Move-X Cicerone LoRa/GNSS board is compatible with Arduino MKR form factor
The Move-X Cicerone is a new low-power board that puts together the Move-X MAMWLE LoRa module and the u-blox MAX-M10S GNSS module. The Move-X Cicerone also integrates a Li-Po charging circuit for portability.
The Move-X MAMWLE is a low power radio module based on the STM32WL which is an ARM M4 32-bit RISC core with an operating frequency of 48MHz, 128K of Flash memory and 64K RAM. This module can operate in the band of 868 MHz and 915MHz. There is also a LoRaWAN radio (Semtech SX1261/2) integrated in the same chip.
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LattePanda 3 Delta SBC combines 11th Gen Celeron and ATmega32U4 MCU
DFRobot launched the LattePanda 3 Delta SBC a couple days ago. This latest version comes with a 11th Gen N5105 quad-core processor and Microchip’s ATMEGA32U4 as a coprocessor. The device offers 8GB of RAM, triple displays, one GbE LAN port, Wi-Fi/BLE support and access to many other peripherals.
The LattePanda 3 Delta features Intel’s 11th generation N5105 processor (4C/4T) which has a base frequency of 2.0GHz and a maximum frequency of 2.9GHz. The SBC also accommodates an Arduino compatible ATmega32U4-MU with access to GPIOs via pin headers.
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Hackaday Prize 2022: Solar-Harvesting ESP32 Camera Is Waterproof, Repeatable
[alberto nunez] shows off his sleek build of a solar-harvesting ESP32 camera – waterproof, somewhat energy-efficient, and able to be built by more-or-less anyone. For that, he’s chosen fairly jellybean components – an ESP32-CAM module with a matching protoboard, a small solar cell, a LiFePO4 battery, and a waterproofed GoPro shell that all of these parts neatly fit into.
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Starlink Ground Stations Successfully Hacked
Belgian security researcher [Lennert Wouters] has gotten his own code running on the Starlink “Dishy McFlatface” satellite terminals, and you can too! The hack in question is a “modchip” with an RP2040 and a MOSFET that crowbars the power rails, browning out the main CPU exactly when it’s verifying the firmware’s validity and bypassing that protection entirely. [Lennert] had previously figured out how to dump the Starlink firmware straight from the eMMC, and with the ability to upload it back, the circle of pwnership is closed. This was a talk at DEFCON, and you can check out the slides here. (PDF)
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GNSS Functionality for MicroMod
Hello and welcome, everyone! We are back, yet again, with new products that expand our exciting MicroMod, Qwiic, and Artemis ecosystems. We start the week off with two new GNSS/GPS Function Boards for MicroMod! These boards feature a ZED-F9P and NEO-M9N, respectively, offering two levels of accuracy at respectable price expectations.