HealthyPi 6 provides open-source biosignal acquisition for research and education

The HealthyPi 6 is an open-source biosignal acquisition platform available through Crowd Supply, targeting academic research, education, and digital health prototyping. The system supports standalone acquisition and visualization of physiological data without relying on a PC or cloud service. The platform is built around a tri-core processing architecture. The main controller is STMicroelectronics’ STM32H757, combining […]

Jetson Thor industrial PC pairs 25GbE networking with optional GMSL2 camera support

FORECR has introduced the DSBOX-THRMAX, an industrial box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor (T5000) module, targeting robotics, autonomous machines, and edge deployments that require high compute density, real-time processing, and multi-sensor support. The platform is based on the NVIDIA Jetson T5000 module, which is specified to deliver up to 2070 TFLOPS of AI performance […]

CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

This little postage stamp is actually a full Raspberry Pi Zero 2, complete with eMMC storage and WiFi.

But you can't get one. Well, not unless you buy the CM0NANO development board from EDAtec, or you live in China.

This little guy doesn't have an HDMI port, Ethernet, or even USB. It's a special version of the 'Compute Module' line of boards. Little Raspberry Pi 'System on Modules' (SoMs), they're called.

Compute Modules are entire Linux computers about the size of a regular...

Иногда компьютеры ошибаются. Воспроизводим тот самый баг на $475 000 000

Приветствую всех!

Знаю: тема багов, которые изменили мир, избита уже настолько, что на ней не осталось живого места. Но сейчас мы не будем просто говорить о самых выдающихся таких случаях. Сейчас мы затронем лишь один из них: ту самую ошибку в процессоре Pentium. И не просто поговорим обо всём этом, а ещё и продемонстрируем её на реальной машине.

Итак, сегодня мы разберёмся, что же это был за баг в данном теперь уже ретро-процессоре. Узнаем, как он проявлялся, как его воспроизвести и, конечно же, увидим вживую, как всё это работало.

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

Now that Nvidia GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi, I've been putting all the ones I own through their paces.

Many people have an older Nvidia card (like a 3060) laying around from an upgrade. So could a Pi be suitable for GPU-accelerated video transcoding, either standalone for conversion, or running something like Jellyfin for video library management and streaming?

That's what I set out to do, and the first step, besides getting the drivers and CUDA going (see blog post linked above), was...

Мой самый упрямый экран. Figma была свидетелем

Неделю назад я написал нашему программисту: «Знаешь, наверное, к концу следующей недели я сделаю дизайн всего приложения». Да, отличное начало для истории о том, как один экран может выбесить.

Делюсь ссылкой на свой проект в Figma

How we run CI for our open source silicon projects

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We will run Soldering workshop for RVPC – the Retro Style RISC-V computer on FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM 2026 will take place in Brussels on 31 January and 1 February 2026. It is the largest European event dedicated to Open Source Hardware and Free/Libre Open Source Software, bringing together thousands of developers from around the world each year. Our proposal for a Soldering Workshop at FOSDEM has been approved. On Saturday, from […]

The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered

Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor, performing floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. This was a huge benefit for IBM PC applications such as AutoCAD, spreadsheets, and flight simulators. The 8087 was so effective that today's computers still use a floating-point system based on the 8087.1

The 8087 was an extremely complex chip for its time, containing somewhere between 40,000 and 75,000 transistors, depending on the source.2 To explore how the 8087 works, I opened up a chip and took numerous photos of the silicon die with a microscope. Around the edges of the die, you...

The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd

The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd

Inside this Framework 13 laptop is a special mainboard developed by DeepComputing in collaboration with Framework. It has an 8-core RISC-V processor, the ESWIN 7702X—not your typical AMD, Intel, or even Arm SoC. The full laptop version I tested costs $1119 and gets you about the performance of a Raspberry Pi.

A Pi 4—the one that came out in 2019.