Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pis, OlinuXino, and More
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Optical Media Durability Update
Three years ago I repeated the mind-numbing process of feeding 45 disks through the reader and verifying their checksums. Two years ago I did it again, and then again a year ago.
It is time again for this annual chore, and yet again this year every single MD5 was successfully verified. Below the fold, the details.
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6 Raspberry Pis, 6 SSDs on a Mini ITX Motherboard
The Turing Pi 2 offers some unique features, like Jetson Nano compatibility, remote management, a fully managed Ethernet switch (capable of VLAN support and link aggregation). But if you just want to slap a bunch of Raspberry Pis inside a tiny form factor, the Super6c is about as trim as you can get—and it's available today!
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CrowPi L laptop review
As with the CrowPi 2, the Crowtail Starter Kit elevates this laptop. The electronics kit comes with 22 modules: LCD, micro-speed motor, 9 g servo, battery pack, and a button, buzzer, and sensors, plus an infrared remote control. There’s everything you need here to create a vast range of different builds, and a manual walks you through 21 builds, from Hello World to a remote-control door.
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Raspberry Pi Zero Personal Digital Assistant
With Kian Ryan’s latest project, a Psion 5MX personal digital assistant, popular in the late 1990s, has been turned into a portable Linux terminal, thanks to the addition of a Raspberry Pi Zero computer. The idea grew off the back of another project.
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OpenBSD 7.1 on the Olimex A20-OlinuXino-LIME2 - box.matto.nl
The Olimex A20-OlinuXino-LIME2 is an older board with a 32-bits Allwinner A20 dual core Cortex-A7 processor running at 1 GHz and 1 Gb DDR3 RAM.
This board comes with a SATA connector, which was a distinctive feature at the time it was introduced.
It also has a HDMI connector, 1 Gb ethernet, and a LCD connector.
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