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Linux on an iPhone 11.
José Angel Torres of @SourceParts / PartsHacker showed their bootloader, X11, touch and Doom. Next on their roadmap: Omarchy Mobile.
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Yes, we can run Doom on the iPhone 11 running Linux! We use the volume up & down for left & right movement and the power button to move forward with double table to fire.
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Psst, we just got Linux booting on the iPhone 11!
patreon.com/partshacker/post…
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PocketPC, a portable Linux-based computer. Six years in development and refinement. Everything we ever dreamed of and more. Major project update in the works! We can not wait to share what we have been building in silence.
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On every Raspberry Pi ever made, the GPU boots the CPU, not the other way around. The ARM is a guest. Pi 4's only concession was letting USB rent its own apartment (PCIe) instead of crashing on the GPU's couch.
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Fantastic work! s3.eurecom.fr/docs/ccs18_cam…
The RF world is insane.
Researchers recovered AES-128 keys from a Bluetooth chip by listening to its own antenna from 10 meters away.
Crypto-engine switching noise couples into the RF chain, rides the 2.4 GHz carrier, and leaks out as radio.
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SUPPLY CHAIN ALERT 🚨
Qatar helium facility: offline, no restart timeline
Strait of Hormuz: blocked, sea mines deployed
30% of global helium supply gone. Memory prices up 15–25%. Semiconductor fabs need helium to run.
You have 14 days. Track prices → source.parts
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hardware sourcing before and after
20 browser tabs. 3 hours comparing prices. a datasheet with circular references. shipping that costs more than the boards.
then one CLI.
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Mass production of the enclosure for Pocket P.C. is underway! We spent this week in the factory monitoring production. Everything is going well! A YouTube video showing the process, machines and factory to be released soon.
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This is pretty interesting. The Apple A7 chip is a Package on Package (PoP) chip with the top part being the DRAM and the bottom being the CPU. It looks like this cellphone board reused the DRAM from a PoP chip and connected it to a MediaTek SoC. CC: @hackaday
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Production has begun for the Popcorn Computer Pocket PC, a handheld Linux computer with a 5 inch 1080p display and a thumb keyboard that was first announced three years ago, and which is up for pre-order for $299. blog.origin.popcorncomputer.…
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Introducing the innovative PopStick™, a new computer in a USB stick form-factor.
Running Linux, our PopStick™ gives you a computing device you can take anywhere and whose applications are limited only by your imagination!
usbcomputer.com
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Our initial supply is limited and will go fast.
Begins shipping August 1st, 2022.
If you think this is cool, please give PopStick™ your upvote on Product Hunt.
producthunt.com/posts/popsti…
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Special shoutout and thanks to @Icenowy for her amazing reverse engineering efforts done in order to bring SPI NAND Flash boot support to the processor used in Popstick™ and others like it.
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Visualizing a physical product before you manufacture it is critical to ensure that it will work as expected the first time. In this render, we found a clearance issue that we were able to quickly correct before production of initial Micropop prototypes.
ALT Top and bottom view of a 3D render of Blue Micropop.
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.@SourceParts has been working on POP32 and POP64 system-in-packages with respectively @AllwinnerTech A33 and 128MB DDR3, and Allwinner A133 and 1GB LPDDR4. #linux #android
cnx-software.com/2022/04/21/…
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In November, we hand assembled twenty Pocket PCs to verify all the parts that are used to make a Pocket P.C. are suitable for manufacturing. Here we are resharing the pictures of the process which originally appeared on our Discord in November…..🧵👇
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To secure the battery, we put the back cover on by snapping it into place. The back cover is easy to remove without tools should you ever need to replace the battery. With this last step, the assembly is complete!
ALT Pocket PC placed on a table face down with the keyboard backlight glowing out from the bottom. The back cover has the Source Parts picker logo embossed in it.
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With one last power-on test, this unit is ready to put in a box and ship. Thank you for following all through the journey of assembling a Pocket PC by hand. While we have halted pre-orders of Pocket PC, once all orders have shipped, we will have inventory available for order.
ALT Fully booted Pocket PC showing Neofetch application with RGB backlight keyboard lit.
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