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Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More
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CNX Software ☛ Geekworm UPS Scap 5V5A – A supercapacitor UPS HAT for Raspberry Pi 5
Geekworm, in collaboration with Mcuzone, has launched the UPS Scap 5V5A, a new supercapacitor UPS HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5 designed to keep the Raspberry Pi running long enough (a few seconds to a few minutes) to save data and shut down safely, rather than provide hours of backup power. Available in 100F, 60F, and 22F versions, the HAT has a built-in PD chip that negotiates a true 5V/5A output. This gives the Raspberry Pi 5 enough power to run properly without triggering the low-voltage warnings that can happen with some power supplies.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Open-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces
Carlos Antelo's open-source ldraw-nova lets GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 design LEGO models as LDraw CAD files.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Google Japan shows off wild conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to your fingers
This keyboard is designed so that you don't have to move your hands or arms to press its keys. It's not going to be put on sale, but you can build one yourself.
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Hackaday ☛ Tearing Down A Heavy Oscilloscope
Not only did old scopes have plugins so you could reconfigure them, but there were also handy plugins and racks that could power them so you could build different test setups easily. This scope was an early version of that idea, but it only accepted a vertical section plugin. The mainframe part of the scope has 75 tubes, and the plugin, a type D, has six tubes, too. The power consumption was about 500 watts!
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Ruben Schade ☛ I think I’m done with the Raspberry Pi
If there’s a silver lining, I might end up being able to sell ours for more than I bought them for, given the current world of RAM prices in which we live. That’s nuts.
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Nemin ☛ Repairing a Baofeng Programming Cable
I've been recently increasingly interested in amateur radio and (since I'm yet to receive my license) I wanted to engage in the hobby in a way I actually could, that is to say, snoop in on other people's conversations in the aether.