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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Buildroot 2026.08, and More
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Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #541 - Making a splash and Raspberry Pi in the sky
Have you checked out Raspberry Pi Official Magazine’s retro gaming special yet? Howdy, Welcome to the start of a new school year. I trust you selected a satisfyingly fresh pencil case and are ready to get stuck into the first Raspberry Pi Weekly of term. We learnt how to build an internet radio, courtesy of Simple electronics with GPIO Zero, the most recent edition of which has been updated for the latest Raspberry Pi devices.
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CNX Software ☛ Arm CSS for Mobile 2 “AI-Native” platform: Arm C2-Ultra and C2-Pro CPU cores, Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU
Arm has introduced the CSS for Mobile 2 platform as an AI-native compute foundation comprised of the Arm C2-Ultra and C2-Pro CPUs with SME2 (Scalable Matrix Extension 2) units and the Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU with dedicated neural accelerators that enable neural graphics to run natively on the GPU.
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CNX Software ☛ XIAO SAMD21 Plus and RP2040 Plus USB-C boards get additional GPIO pins, integrated Li-ion battery management
Seeed Studio has expanded its XIAO Plus Series introduced in 2025, with the XIAO SAMD21 Plus and XIAO RP2040 Plus USB-C boards adding several GPIOs and integrated Li-ion battery management to the XIAO (SAMD21) and XIAO RP2040, launched in 2020 and 2021, respectively, while keeping the same form factor.
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Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization
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LWN ☛ Buildroot 2026.08 released
Version 2026.08 of the Buildroot embedded Linux system builder has been released. Buildroot 2026.08 includes nearly 1,000 changes from 100 contributors; some of the notable changes include support for Linux 7.1.x, Binutils 2.46.1, GCC 16.2.0, glibc 2.44, as well as adding the M68K and I.C.B.M. Power 10/11 architectures.
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