Free Stuff - April 2022

The April recipient for the Great Scott Gadgets Free Stuff Program is Anmol, a high school student in India! Anmol learned about Great Scott Gadgets after watching Michael Ossmann’s video on complex numbers, which is part of his Software Defined Radio with HackRF training video series. Anmol is the IT president of their school and is excited to use the HackRF we will be sending them to share the world of Software Defined Radio with other students.

April update: no more unicorns

This month’s update is packed to the brink with news: the product team is negotiating restarting Pinebook Pro production, QuartzPro64 will be heavily subsidized and developer sign-ups are now open, we’re introducing the PineSound project, and PinePower power supplies will be making a return to the Pine Store soon. I cannot recall the last time I had so many positive things to report on, so let’s get to it. 

Free Stuff - March 2022

The March recipient for the Great Scott Gadgets Free Stuff Program is Katerina Autumnrain! Katerina had such an enthusiastic and detailed application to the Free Stuff Program that we just had to send her the HackRF One she requested. In her application she had this to say:

“I believe that the HackRF could enable me to open up the oft more confusing aspects of radio, particularly modulation modes like QAM and digital systems like satellites and P25/DMR. I’d also like to try and promote the higher frequencies (33cm and beyond). Once the bandwidth and frequency limitation is lifted I can more...

Мой маленький триод: Ламповая ЭВМ — это магия

Экспериментальная 3U декатронная ячейка. Модуль декатрона А103 со схемой шифратора и переноса
Пришло время возобновить славную традицию ежегодного первоапрельского дайджеста по моим безумным вычислительным проектам. В прошлой трилогии [1], [2], [3] я рассказывал про создание де-факто самого быстрого в мире релейного компьютера BrainfuckPC. После трёх лет раздумий я наконец-то готов начать активную фазу строительства уникальной ламповой ЭВМ с кодовым названием DekatronPC. Читать дальше →

Introducing the PineBuds and PinePod. Seriously.

People are frequently asking us to create more mainstream devices such as an inkjet printer or a microwave, and for a good reason. Complex open devices such as the PinePhone are both exciting and fun, but they also aren’t for everyone. Or putting it inversely, they are for a very particular group of people. In contrast, simpler devices in our lineup such as the PineTime, PinePower, and Pinecil have all garnered a broader user base. Heck, I’d go as far as to say that the Pinecil is now a downright mainstream device with Amazon USA officially recommending it to those...

Efabless’ CLEAR, a Fully-Open RISC-V ASIC Built on chipIgnite, Nears its Goal with Days to Go

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=S0pV1gltm-Q

CLEAR, a fully-open development board built around a RISC-V embedded-FPGA application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed by Efabless as a showcase of what its chipIgnite platform can offer, is entering the last days of its crowdfunding campaign with just a handful of boards left to reach its goal.

“CLEAR is an open source FPGA ASIC delivered to you on its development board and its open source software development tools and all the ASIC design tools used to create it,” Efabless explained of the project at its launch earlier this year. “That’s for you to create your own – yes that’s right –...

Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip

You can get cheap Chinese ARM microcontrollers in a tiny 1.6x1.4mm package now. Let's see how usable they are.

Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip

You can get cheap Chinese ARM microcontrollers in a tiny 1.6x1.4mm package now. Let's see how usable they are.

Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip

You can get cheap Chinese ARM microcontrollers in a tiny 1.6x1.4mm package now. Let's see how usable they are.

March Update: Introducing the QuartzPro64

This month we’re announcing the QuartzPro64 - a new single-board computer based on Rockchip’s powerful RK3588 SoC. This is our first Pro-grade SBC since the introduction of the ROCKPRo64, and I believe it to be a worthy successor to the much revered Pro lineup. I am also happy to let you know that the Quartz64 model-B will be arriving at the Pine Store in the coming weeks, with all of its features supported in the most recent Manjaro OS image.