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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Compact Released with 2230 NVMe Support
The HAT connects directly to the PCIe 2.0 interface on Raspberry Pi 5 through a flex-rigid PCB, eliminating the need for a separate ribbon cable.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Olimex RP2350-PICO2-BB48 Open Source Development Board
The hardware configuration is based on the RP2350B processor, which integrates dual Cortex-M33 or dual RISC-V cores operating at 150MHz. It includes 520KB of on-chip SRAM, while the external flash and optional PSRAM expand resources for more demanding applications. The BB48R variant adds a microSD slot that enables additional data handling capabilities.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ M.2 HAT+ Compact on sale now at $15
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of a new, smaller variant of our low-cost M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5: M.2 HAT+ Compact allows you to squeeze a 2230-format (30mm long) M.2 PCI Express card inside our official case, nestled neatly between the fan and the USB connectors. Bring your own PCI Express device or pair it with one of our 2230-format Raspberry Pi NVMe SSDs.
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Interesting Engineering ☛ Chinese humanoid robot performs cartwheel, 360 jump in demo video
The company released a 30-second clip featuring the N1 performing a cartwheel and a 360-degree jump. The video opens with the caption “N1 kung fu show” before the robot executes a sequence of movements that underline its balance, coordination, and actuator power. The cartwheel is performed without fingers, relying solely on the robot’s limbs and body control to complete the maneuver.
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Rui Carmo ☛ Two Trees SK1
It is a CoreXY machine with a 256×256×256mm print volume, direct drive extrusion and shipping with Klipper firmware on a Makerbase board running Armbian 22.05.
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Olimex ☛ New RP2350 PICO2 Open Source Hardware development board with all 48 GPIOs exposed in Breadboard friendly layout
RP2350-PICO2-BB48 is improved version of Raspberry PI PICO2 with the following features: [...]
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Arduino ☛ Gathering weather telemetry with a Nano 33 BLE Sense payload
This payload package is called LIFT for “LoRa Integrated Flight Telemetry,” which tells you the other big feature of the system: it transmits data from the rocket to a ground station via LoRa. The rocket, which has a D12-5 Estes motor for propulsion, is pretty conventional aside from the electronic payload. But that payload is able to capture quite a lot of interesting data.