What time is it? Well, about five to four by my clock, but more importantly it's #Hackster round-up time!
First, for those who've got a shiny new #Arduino UNO Q on their desks, a new Arduino App Lab which adds some nice quality-of-life features including easy project import and export.
Also, it apparently takes 10GB of temporary storage to update your Arduino UNO Q(!)
The Serial Wombat 8B ecosystem - cheap WCH RISC-V microcontrollers loaded with an open-source firmware and installed on boards that act as smart dev-board expanders over I2C - grows four boards larger now, as Jonathan Broadwell launches a new #crowdfunding campaign.
#Technology #News #Electronics #Microcontroller #OpenHardware #OpenSource #Hackster
And last but not least, a project from Max Reble which makes it possible to develop with the .NET framework on* the #Arduino UNO Q - adding support to the Arduino Router that lets the single-board computer side talk to the microcontroller side.
* Where "on" is expanded to mean "when tethered to a desktop running the full-fat .NET software development kit," anyway.
#Technology #News #DotNet #Software #Microcontroller #SingleBoardComputer #Hackster
Rather more welcome news from the world of #science next, as engineers develop a chip capable of turning waste heat into useful computation - which could mean more efficient computers.
Maybe. If it scales: they haven't proven it can be used for more than a single operation yet...
The Serial Wombat 8B ecosystem - cheap WCH RISC-V microcontrollers loaded with an open-source firmware and installed on boards that act as smart dev-board expanders over I2C - grows four boards larger now, as Jonathan Broadwell launches a new #crowdfunding campaign.
#Technology #News #Electronics #Microcontroller #OpenHardware #OpenSource #Hackster
First #Hackster round-up of February. Let's see what's keeping me busy today!
First up, something I mentioned this morning: the second price hike from #RaspberryPi in the last two months. This time the $25 added to top-end SKUs is joined by another $60(!). Why? Well, the AI bubble: RAM is expensive now, everything has RAM, so everything is expensive.
It won't be the last price hike of the year, either, I'll tell you that now.
Rather more welcome news from the world of #science next, as engineers develop a chip capable of turning waste heat into useful computation - which could mean more efficient computers.
Maybe. If it scales: they haven't proven it can be used for more than a single operation yet...
First #Hackster round-up of February. Let's see what's keeping me busy today!
First up, something I mentioned this morning: the second price hike from #RaspberryPi in the last two months. This time the $25 added to top-end SKUs is joined by another $60(!). Why? Well, the AI bubble: RAM is expensive now, everything has RAM, so everything is expensive.
It won't be the last price hike of the year, either, I'll tell you that now.
A work-in-progress project next: an effort to recreate the Intel 4004 (first commercially-successful VLSI chip, and the ancestor of the x86 architecture) as an open-source Verilog project... then actually have it manufactured in silicon.
The twist: two more cores, one of which is a what-if pipelined 4004 with binary compatibility but a big performance boost(!)
#Technology #News #Hackster #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory
It's #Hackster round-up time, and here's my four for today - starting with a fantastic adaptive gamepad which borrows the flip-it-over lefty-righty switch of the Atari Lynx (remember that?) while also making it so you can move the joysticks and buttons around... without taking it apart, or even stopping your game.
A work-in-progress project next: an effort to recreate the Intel 4004 (first commercially-successful VLSI chip, and the ancestor of the x86 architecture) as an open-source Verilog project... then actually have it manufactured in silicon.
The twist: two more cores, one of which is a what-if pipelined 4004 with binary compatibility but a big performance boost(!)
#Technology #News #Hackster #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory
It's #Hackster round-up time, and here's my four for today - starting with a fantastic adaptive gamepad which borrows the flip-it-over lefty-righty switch of the Atari Lynx (remember that?) while also making it so you can move the joysticks and buttons around... without taking it apart, or even stopping your game.
Right, that last one's gone live so it's time to round up today's #Hackster articles. First up, a rare volte-face from #Bose - well, kinda: instead of bricking its SoundTouch app entirely in February, it's now releasing a final update to allow some functionality when the cloud servers are turned off *and* opening up the API so others can write compatible software.
No, nothing's been "open-sourced," despite what you may have read elsewhere.
Right, that last one's gone live so it's time to round up today's #Hackster articles. First up, a rare volte-face from #Bose - well, kinda: instead of bricking its SoundTouch app entirely in February, it's now releasing a final update to allow some functionality when the cloud servers are turned off *and* opening up the API so others can write compatible software.
No, nothing's been "open-sourced," despite what you may have read elsewhere.
Speaking of the #RaspberryPi CM5, there's a new carrier board coming out - an open-hardware design which adapts it into a mini-ITX form factor complete with x16 (mechanical, it's still one-lane) PCI Express slot.
NVIDIA, meanwhile, has announced CUDA Tiles, a new programming paradigm which it says will make writing portable yet performant (NVIDIA) GPU-accelerated programs easier - and the first language to benefit is Python, via cuTile Python.
My full review will be going up on #Hackster later in the day, and it's a big 'un - written, because as I've said before I will always commit to the bit, on the Commodore 64 Ultimate itself, in Mini Office II. Got to admit, I haven't used that in a few years. Or, err... decades.
Finally, the ridiculously talented @gloriouscow has decided making one of the, if not *the*, most accurate IBM PC emulators around isn't enough - and is now working on CC0-licensed reference book going into component-by-component detail of exactly how the IBM PC and later PC XT work.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #Emulation #News #Technology #Hackster
Speaking of the #RaspberryPi CM5, there's a new carrier board coming out - an open-hardware design which adapts it into a mini-ITX form factor complete with x16 (mechanical, it's still one-lane) PCI Express slot.
Finally, the ridiculously talented @gloriouscow has decided making one of the, if not *the*, most accurate IBM PC emulators around isn't enough - and is now working on CC0-licensed reference book going into component-by-component detail of exactly how the IBM PC and later PC XT work.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #ComputerScience #Emulation #News #Technology #Hackster
NVIDIA, meanwhile, has announced CUDA Tiles, a new programming paradigm which it says will make writing portable yet performant (NVIDIA) GPU-accelerated programs easier - and the first language to benefit is Python, via cuTile Python.
Now, a little personal background for this next one so you can appreciate how boggled my mind is: my first personal computer had an eight-bit processor running at 3.5MHz. My first IBM compatible had an eight-bit chip running at a whopping 9.54MHz.
#STMicroelectronics has just announced an 800MHz *microcontroller*, the STM32V8 - its most powerful STM32 yet. And, yes, way faster than my old PCs' CPUs. Huh.
Lovely project from @violenceworks next: a GPU-accelerated autorouter plugin for @kicad, which did in a couple of days what it would have taken a CPU-driven autorouter literal months to complete. Available for experimentation now!
For the edge-AI crowd, Kneron's expanding its efforts with the KNEO Pi - a #RaspberryPi style (naturally) single-board computer powered by a quartet of Arm cores and its in-house neural coprocessor. Claims it can handle YOLOv5 at over 30 frames per second in a 2W power envelope, which is pretty good.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SingleBoardComputers #Technology #News #Hackster
Now, a little personal background for this next one so you can appreciate how boggled my mind is: my first personal computer had an eight-bit processor running at 3.5MHz. My first IBM compatible had an eight-bit chip running at a whopping 9.54MHz.
#STMicroelectronics has just announced an 800MHz *microcontroller*, the STM32V8 - its most powerful STM32 yet. And, yes, way faster than my old PCs' CPUs. Huh.
