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FPGAs, Raspberry Pi, and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 27, 2023

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Programming Leftovers

Acorn Archimedes: Running PC Software

↺ Acorn Archimedes: Running PC Software

> It is the early to mid 90s and you just forked out for an Acorn Archimedes or RiscPC machine, which was arguably a superior choice over PCs at the time. But you have some old DOS software you want to run. What do you do? It turns out that there were a few ways of solving this.

Hacking The IKEA OBEGRÄNSAD LED Wall Lamp

↺ Hacking The IKEA OBEGRÄNSAD LED Wall Lamp

> The IKEA OBEGRÄNSAD is a pixel-style LED wall lamp that comes with a few baked-in animations, and [ph1p] improved it immensely with an ESP32 board and new firmware. The new controller provides all kinds of great new abilities, including new modes and animations, WiFi control, and the ability to send your own images or drawings to the panel. All it takes is desoldering the original controller and swapping in a programmed ESP32.

Raspberry Pi SSH Guide for Beginners

↺ Raspberry Pi SSH Guide for Beginners

> SSH is an awesome protocol for any network. It's secure, easy, and cheap. Any Raspberry Pi SSH network can be made to include almost any I/O peripheral. In fact, you'd be amazed at how you can control most things wirelessly with an OpenHABian server running SSH.

Pico-ITX board comes with i.MX8M Plus processor, dual MIPI CSI and PoE support

↺ Pico-ITX board comes with i.MX8M Plus processor, dual MIPI CSI and PoE support

> Estone Technology just launched an embedded board based on the NXP i.MX8M Plus processor along with a 2.3 TOPS Neural Processing Unit. Some of the features found include a RJ45 port and an onboard voice DSP.

Video: M92 MiSTer FPGA core and IREM hardware architecture

↺ Video: M92 MiSTer FPGA core and IREM hardware architecture

A Mobile Phone From 1985

↺ A Mobile Phone From 1985

> It might seem quaint through the lends of history we have the luxury of looking through, but in the mid 1980s it was a major symbol of status to be able to communicate on-the-go. Car phones and pagers were cutting-edge devices of the time, and even though there were some mobile cellular telephones, they were behemoths compared to anything we would recognize as a cell phone today. It wasn’t until 1985 that a cell phone was able to fit in a pocket, and that first device wasn’t just revolutionary because of its size. It made a number of technological advancements that were extremely impressive for its time, and [Janus Cycle] takes us through some of those in this teardown video.

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