A quiet design change to the #RaspberryPi 4 next, as the company tries to battle ongoing RAM component price rises caused by the #AI bubble: it can now take either one full-capacity or two half-capacity DRAM chips, just like Sinclair's classic ZX81!
For the #sustainability crowd, a work-in-progress open-source solar micro-inverter - designed to be easily understand and reproduced locally for deployment in 230/240VAC regions.
#Technology #News #Hackster #Solar #Electronics #OpenHardware
A quiet design change to the #RaspberryPi 4 next, as the company tries to battle ongoing RAM component price rises caused by the #AI bubble: it can now take either one full-capacity or two half-capacity DRAM chips, just like Sinclair's classic ZX81!
Developing a #Python application for a #RaspberryPi. Need to write to an #EEPROM to update some state information without human intervention.
Unless there's some way I've missed to make the files for all 1-wire devices (dynamically added at runtime) more open than root:root / rw-r--r--, I'm going to need root access just so I can write this data.
It's made me think about writing some C for the first time in 30 years, just a short #program that only accepts two parameters: the EEPROM id and the data I want to write. That way I can limit additional #root access to suid on a very restricted tool.
Is this just stupid? Obviously, I can add myself with NOPASSWORD to /etc/sudoers and go about my life. The device has nothing insecure on it, so I can't see any harm from doing the sloppy thing. But it still feels wrong.
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.
Raspberry Pi prices are rising again by up to $60 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/raspberry-pi-prices-are-rising-again-by-up-to-60/
Raspberry Pi prices are rising again by up to $60 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/raspberry-pi-prices-are-rising-again-by-up-to-60/
Virtually 200 bloody quid for a 16GB #raspberrypi now. Tell ya what, if someone wanted to price RP out of business, they couldn't do a better job! Sad times 😞
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
Virtually 200 bloody quid for a 16GB #raspberrypi now. Tell ya what, if someone wanted to price RP out of business, they couldn't do a better job! Sad times 😞
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
More memory-driven price rises https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/ #RaspberryPi (via Raspberry Pi)
Here’s my Education column in the latest AMSAT Journal. Student membership is now free at AMSAT - sign up here https://launch.amsat.org
#CubeSatSim Kits are available right now https://www.amsat.org/product/cubesatsim-kit/
I finally released the v2.2 software for CubeSatSim, the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator. This release was way too much work. It had too many bug fixes and new features. I need to push releases more frequently, as testing took forever and I kept finding bugs.
I’m very happy with the release. Combined with having more CubeSatSim Lites available, it is an important step for the project!
#CubeSatSim #AMSAT #HamRadio #CubeSat #STEM #RaspberryPi #OpenSource
https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/releases/tag/v2.2
I finally released the v2.2 software for CubeSatSim, the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator. This release was way too much work. It had too many bug fixes and new features. I need to push releases more frequently, as testing took forever and I kept finding bugs.
I’m very happy with the release. Combined with having more CubeSatSim Lites available, it is an important step for the project!
#CubeSatSim #AMSAT #HamRadio #CubeSat #STEM #RaspberryPi #OpenSource
https://github.com/alanbjohnston/CubeSatSim/releases/tag/v2.2
Ouch! I have neglected my Paperless for a long time and just pushed a huge stack of several letters step by step into my scanner (or multi-function printer, whatever).
The small Raspberry Pi 4 is still processing them causing a high CPU load...
Er ved at prøve at sætte #Nextcloud op på en #RaspberryPi i forbindelse med at komme væk fra US tech og jeg må nok indrømme at jeg muligvis ikke er så tech snu (læs "god til at finde svar på søgemaskiner") som jeg troede. Hold kæft det trækker tænder.
Today's #raspberrypi news post is another retro computing project that uses the Raspberry Pi RP2350 to emulate IDE hard drives and ATAPI CD ROMs, all in one injection molded package! Just the thing for #retrocomputing fans.
https://bigl.es/pi-news-picoide-destroys-crowdfunding-goal/
Today's #raspberrypi news post is another retro computing project that uses the Raspberry Pi RP2350 to emulate IDE hard drives and ATAPI CD ROMs, all in one injection molded package! Just the thing for #retrocomputing fans.
https://bigl.es/pi-news-picoide-destroys-crowdfunding-goal/
yeah, you can link a single account to multiple devices, and they will sync with each other
CC: @Jami@mstdn.io
@lxo
Seems to work quite well. In fact if the desktop is always on it should help improve connectivity for all your chats. Else you can run the #jamiDaemon on e.g. a #RaspberryPi
One thing that does not work for me is having a chat with myself, it always shows as 'chat ended'. I really like those self chats for notes or getting files from phone to PC.. Still easier than the otherwise pretty cool #packet https://github.com/nozwock/packet
@klu9 @Jami
