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Open Hardware/Modding: Sprout Pi, Arduino, and More
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Sprout Pi lets old iPods run GNU/Linux apps and stream Spotify
Sprout is an open source replacement motherboard for iPods that keeps the original screen and click wheel, but adds Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and streaming apps.
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CNX Software ☛ Arduino Nano XL board features Microchip PIC32CK Cortex-M33 MCU for industrial, home, and building automation
Arduino Nano XL Link is an evolution of the popular Arduino Nano board, with the same dimensions, but featuring a more powerful Microchip PIC32CK Arm Cortex-M33 running at 120 MHz with 2 MB of flash and 512 kB of RAM. It also adds CAN FD, RS485, and 10/100 Mbps Ethernet field bus transceivers for industrial, home, and building automation applications such as industrial networks, motor drives, building automation buses, smart sensors, and touch panels. The company also unveiled the Nano XL Link Connector Carrier to go along with the new board.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ OSM dev board supports NXP i.MX and Qualcomm IQ615 SoCs
Tria Technologies has unveiled its OSM-SB-EP5, a 146 × 102mm development platform supporting Open Standard Module (OSM) Size-S, Size-M, and Size-L modules. The carrier board combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, MIPI camera and display interfaces ti intended for industrial IoT, edge AI, robotics, and embedded vision development.
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Torrent Freak ☛ Nintendo Targets Picofly Switch Modchip Firmware in GitHub DMCA Takedown
After taking down Switch emulators and hacking tools on GitHub for years, Nintendo is now going after modchip firmware. The gaming company sent a DMCA notice targeting firmware for modchips such as Picofly, SX Core and HWFLY, after which GitHub disabled 144 repositories. To back its claim, Nintendo cites the criminal case against alleged Team-Xecuter members, which led to a guilty plea from one of its three defendants.
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Hackaday ☛ Modular, 3D Printed Train Whistles For Everyone
The great part of this design– aside from requiring less air than his earlier, larger-diameter iterations–is the modularity. With adjustable bell caps, you can alter the size of the resonant chamber and thus the notes the whistle plays on the fly. That’s the key difference between a train whistle, as used in the steam era, and a train horn as you find on a modern diesel or electric– whistles use a resonant chamber, while a horn uses a diaphragm to create the vibrations we call sound. By using the movable chamber caps to change the resonance, you can go from a Santa Fe 5 chime to a B&O 3 chime whistle by matching the measurements in the handy-dandy spreadsheet [TrainArtisan] provided– and doubling up on a couple of chimes.
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Hannah Robertson ☛ Personal public transit display on an Adafruit MagTag
When the Big Button™—or any of the on-board buttons—is pushed, the board wakes up, connects to WiFi, requests the next per-route departures from the MBTA’s API, and displays them. Every 30 seconds thereafter it refreshes those times; and after several minutes displays a “sleeping” screen and hibernates. If a button is re-pressed any time during the wake period, additional refreshes are added pre-hibernation.