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Olimex posts about TuxCon 2026 being a great experience filled with good conversations, interesting sessions, and plenty of fun. Saturday was packed with meetings and conversations with colleagues and friends throughout the conference. The lecture sessions sparked many discussion
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Ken Shirriff provides another excellent post, this time on the computer used on Spacelab back from 1980. Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments. Spacelab was controlled by
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Norbert Landsteiner does a deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for download. The C64 “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge Rev. 718220 (Co
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Sylwester (DatanoiseTV on GitHub) is pulling forgotten hardware out of the parts bin and getting it running on current software. He is bringing the Next Thing Co. PocketCHIP back from the drawer of dead electronics with a current mainline Linux kernel, current U-Boot, and a prope
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With Sales & Dungeons, you can create highly customizable handouts, quick reference and much more for your Dungeons and Dragons (or other PnP) sessions. Most thermal printers are small in size and can be taken with you and kept right at the gaming table. Use-cases range from prin
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A couple of weeks ago, Veronica decided to convert an old laptop into a writerdeck, a dedicated writing device free from the distractions of the modern internet. Lots of folks build really elaborate offline devices for this, and I’d love to do that… someday. Right now I have no s
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The WCH BLE Analyzer Pro is an inexpensive (~$20) USB Bluetooth LE sniffer and analyzer, useful and a good value for reverse engineering and debugging. The BLE Analyzer Pro features three CH582F Bluetooth LE RISC-V microcontrollers and a CH334 USB hub, supports Bluetooth Low Ener
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White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization for large distributed systems. It also allows for deterministic and reliable data delivery. White Rabbit allows you to precision time-tag measured data and lets you trigger data taking in l
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ShadowCat is a fully offline, single-file HTML page for moving data between two devices via QR codes — intended for old phones whose radios (BLE, NFC, etc.) are dead but whose cameras and browsers still work. Generate — encode text into a single QR code. Scan — decode a single QR
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LUNA is a toolkit by Great Scott Gadgets for working with USB using FPGA technology, providing gateware and software to enable USB applications. Some things you can use LUNA for, currently: Protocol analysis for Low-, Full-, or High- speed USB. LUNA provides gateware that allow p