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Devices: Librem 5, Raspberry Pi, Arduino and More Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org) Home > content > Devices: Librem 5, Raspberry Pi, Arduino and More Devices: Librem 5, Raspberry Pi, Arduino and More By Roy Schestowitz Created 16/12/2020 - 12:34am Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 16th of December 2020 12:34:49 AM Filed under Hardware [1] Gadgets [2] I Love You For Your Personality [3] If you are as excited about the Librem 5 as I am, you will want to show it to all your non- techie friends and family. ?Look, it?s a Linux phone!?, you?ll say. They may be briefly impressed with the terminal, which evokes The Matrix to the uninitiated, but after brief fiddling, they will fail to share your joy. ?Why,? you may ask, ?why don?t they get it?? That?s because there?s a chasm of understanding between you. I was on its other side once. A long, long time ago, I met an owner of a Jolla phone at a conference. I had never seen it before, and I was excited to try it. But after I swiped around, tried out a few apps, and when the novelty of the user interface wore off, I ended up unimpressed. Yes, it was a phone. Yes, it had apps, just like mine. But I didn?t come across anything exceptional. What went wrong? On the way back home, I realized that nothing went wrong: on the surface, the Jolla phone was just a phone. That?s what I saw then, and that?s what your family will initially see in the Librem 5. But the amazing thing about it takes longer to discover: its personality as a Linux phone. Four new products: IQaudio is now Raspberry Pi [4] Raspberry PI Portable Hotspot with Android USB tethering [5] Connecting devices from Android WiFi Hotspot fastly drains smartphones battery and can consume in a few days your mobile subscription traffic. Raspberry PI, connected to smartphones USB tethering, works greatly as WiFi hotspot and adds advanced features ASRock announces Tiger Lake based NUC, Mini-STX, and Mini-ITX boards[6] ASRock typically preloads Win 10 on its embedded computers, including industrial focused models, but it usually sells its motherboards as barebones, without an OS. Ubuntu Linux on the GMK NucBox 2.4 inch mini PC [7] The GMK NucBox is a tiny computer that fits in the palm of your hand, but which is a full- fledged desktop computer with a 10-watt Intel Celeron J4125 quad-core processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD. It ships with Windows 10, and when I reviewed a pre-release version of the NucBox this summer, I focused on Windows performance? because I couldn?t get the demo unit GMK sent me to boot into Ubuntu or any other GNU/Linux distribution. Arduino Blog » Living Pixels is a light frame that comes alive when you leave[8] As smart devices become more ingrained in our everyday lives, it?s perhaps only natural that we start to think of them as living things. What if such gadgets actually did have personalities and emotions that we as humans don?t ever see? Zekun Yang?s ?Living Pixels? project illustrates this idea in luminescent style, as a picture frame that shows a static pattern of lights when anyone is around. When people aren?t present, it displays a range of emotions on its 16×16 LED matrix, from sleepy, to relaxed, and even angry. Hardware Gadgets Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145512 Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/39 [2] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/139 [3] https://puri.sm/posts/i-love-you-for-your-personality/ [4] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/iqaudio-is-now-raspberry-pi/ [5] https://peppe8o.com/raspberry-pi-portable-hotspot-with-android-usb-tethering/ [6] http://linuxgizmos.com/asrock-announces-tiger-lake-based-nuc-mini-stx-and-mini-itx-boards/ [7] https://liliputing.com/2020/12/linux-on-the-gmk-nucbox-2-4-inch-mini-pc.html [8] https://blog.arduino.cc/2020/12/15/living-pixels-is-a-light-frame-that-comes-alive-when-you-leave/.
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