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Open Hardware/Modding: Polaroid Instant Camera, ESP32, and Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update
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Hackaday ☛ Repairing A Polaroid 630 SL Lightmixer Instant Camera
Unlike the 1970s instant cameras that still used plenty of metal and such for the housing and mechanisms, this 600-series camera is pretty much an all-plastic affair. Produced much like the practically identical Lightmixer 630 between 1986 and 1992 it’s clearly designed for easy assembly, with plastic clips holding the whole affair together.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Home Assistant-compatible board pairs ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4
Crowd Supply has introduced a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for connectivity and audio processing while retaining the original microphones, speaker, buttons, and LEDs.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ ESP32-P4 development boards combine RISC-V with Wi-Fi 6 or PoE
SparkFun today launched two ESP32-P4-based IoT RedBoards, offering either dual-band Wi-Fi 6 through an ESP32-C5 companion or wired Ethernet with Power over Ethernet. Both boards feature dual-core RISC-V processing, 32MB PSRAM, 16MB flash, MIPI camera and display connectors, and Arduino-style expansion headers for embedded and HMI applications.
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Linux On Mobile ☛ 2026-11-01 [Older] Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43, 44/2026): Releases, Releases, Releases
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Devices/Embedded
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Hackaday ☛ Proper Linux, On An ESP32
The ESP32 series of microcontrollers feature a lot on these pages, offering as they do a significantly powerful processor and in most cases, wireless connectivity. One recent member of the bewilderingly large family is the ESP32-S31, It’s a dual-core RISC-V unit with WiFi 6, and if that’s not interesting enough there’s the news that it runs Linux. Not -nommu Linux, but the full-fat version, as it has a memory management unit.
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