Open Hardware, Raspberry Pi, and Retro
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Pi My Life Up ☛ Best Operating Systems for the Raspberry Pi
In this guide, we covered some of the best operating systems you can run on your Raspberry Pi. Each of those operating systems has its advantages, with some introducing much-needed functionality.
If you feel we are missing an operating system that should be mentioned, please feel free to comment below.
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It's FOSS ☛ I Ran the Famed SmolLM on Raspberry Pi
Everyone is talking about SmolLM. Is it really buzzworthy? Let me share my Raspberry Pi tests.
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Doug Jones ☛ The Dreamcast is back after 25 years
However, this console has been modded in several important ways. First, it has a HDMI port added. This taps directly into the GPU’s output allowing for 1080p display. Second, the disk drive has been swapped with a SD card reader. This allows you to play backups and should be much more reliable going forward than a spinning disk drive.
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Hackaday ☛ Tracking Hydrogen In Space With A Home Radio Telescope For 21 Cm Emissions
What do you get when you put a one-meter parabolic dish, an SDR, a Raspberry Pi, and an H1-LNA for 21 cm emissions together? The answer is: a radio telescope that can track hydrogen in the Milky Way as well as the velocities of hydrogen clouds via their Doppler shifts, according to a paper by [Jack Phelps] titled “Galactic Neutral Hydrogen Structures Spectroscopy and Kinematics: Designing a Home Radio Telescope for 21 cm Emission“.