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Rising component costs drive price increases for 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Module 5, but not Raspberry Pi 500+. The post Price rises for some 16GB Raspberry Pi products appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
John Alexander built a DIY air purifier for Popular Science and wrote up how it went. The design is a Corsi-Rosenthal box, or CR box: four square furnace filters taped into a cube, a cardboard bottom cut from the fan’s…
Gerry at Behind The Code has a look at the Partner-N64PC, a Nintendo 64 development kit built for Nintendo by Kyoto Microcomputer. It’s a large cartridge that connects to a PC through a ribbon cable and an ISA or PCI…
rh1tech (Mikhail Matveev) has published the first release of frank-xt8086 on GitHub. It’s firmware for the xt8086 board, where a Raspberry Pi RP2350B microcontroller acts as the whole chipset around a real Intel 8086 or…
Major Hack’s Analog Redial project on Hackaday.io turns one or two old telephones, rotary or touch-tone, into a working phone system. The board supplies real dial tone and ringing, lets the phones call each other, and…
Abhishek Prakash writes at It’s FOSS that Linux Mint is bringing hibernation back. The Mint team previewed a new Sleep Modes page in its System Administration tool, planned for Mint 27 in December. It turns hibernation…
Developer jetpax has released version 0.6.0 of CutScape, an Inkscape extension that sends drawings out to 2D plotters, vinyl cutters, engravers and CNC machines. The release is posted on GitHub. This version adds…
Zo Ahmed, writing for TechSpot, reports on an icy object beyond Pluto that could become the solar system’s sixth dwarf planet. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory team in Chile announced it this week under the provisional…
Julian Horsey writing for Geeky Gadgets rounds up six ESP32 builds from Hacktuber, starting with a pulse oximeter. It pairs a pulse oximeter sensor with the ESP32 to read heart rate and blood oxygen saturation, then…
A project posted on chrisfenton.com describes a 1/10-scale, binary-compatible, cycle-accurate Cray-1A built over about a year and a half. The logic runs on a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 FPGA board, filling roughly 75% of the…
Nick Indge, writing for Ars Technica, built out a $48 DIY e-paper kit from Seeed Studio made in partnership with TRMNL. It’s a 7.5-inch e-paper panel and a control board that pings an API, pulls down a bitmap, and shows…
Julian Imhof, writing on andystechlab.dev, turned a 2018 Echo Dot 3 into a local Home Assistant voice satellite. Amazon cloud isn’t used in handling the voice commands. The work needs a Linux computer, an open-source…
Zach Winn writes in MIT News about a team at MIT and the U.S. Department of Agriculture that built a new way to vaccinate farmed fish. Today the most effective method uses metal needles. Fish have to be sedated, lifted…
Michael Larabel, writing at Phoronix, reports that the Linux 7.4 merge window is the biggest one the kernel has ever had. The merge window is the two week stretch at the start of each kernel cycle when maintainers send…
A project from electroniclovers on Hackster walks through how a DC motor turns current into rotation, using magnets, a copper loop and a 3D simulation to show the steps. It starts with two permanent magnets and the…
For excellent accuracy time-keeping – when your everyday RTC (Real Time Clock) won’t do – the Adafruit RV-8803 Precision Real Time Clock Breakout Board is a tick-tock above the rest with excellent ±1.5 ppm (at 0~50°C)…
Marcin Wichary, writing on his blog Unsung, tells the story of the bug he shipped to Google’s homepage in 2010. He wrote the playable Pac-Man doodle for the game’s 30th anniversary, building the whole thing in HTML and…
rh1tech (Mikhail Matveev) has released frank-dino v1.00 on GitHub, the first firmware for the dino_z80 board. An RP2350B microcontroller acts as the whole machine around a real Zilog Z84C00 CPU, so the Z80 does the work…
Sometimes the naming of parts in electronics can contribute to confusion about what they are good for, with the topic of Zener diodes in the context of fast surges like …read more
Open Electronics covered the Pocket Pico, a terminal node controller for amateur packet radio built by btech. A terminal node controller is the box that sits between a ham radio and a computer and turns data into tones.…
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