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View In: Tindie BlogRemember folks, this weekend (Oct 10th/11th) is the 24 hour livestream for the Open Source Hardware Association celebrating Open Hardware Month! This is also a drive to raise money for the awesome work they do. So, Saturday morning at 8AM EST (12PM UTC) the stream starts, and will run for 24 hours unti...

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View In: Tindie BlogSeeing as how it’s Open Hardware Month, I wanted to help promote some of the awesome certified open-source hardware for sale on Tindie! If you’re interested in the ESP32, it’s worth noting that there are many variations with different features, and the lesser-known ESP32-C5 is a really interesting chip...

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View In: Tindie BlogTindie and the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) have been friends for a long time! Every year, we like to support them during Open Hardware Month. We encourage our sellers to get their projects/products certified as open hardware. The process is not difficult, and the application on their websit...

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View In: Tindie BlogI’ve played around with designing my own microprocessor-based single-board computers over the years. I was inspired originally by a Z80 project done by a rather unknown YouTuber, and then was very inspired after seeing Matt Sarnoff’s Ultim809 project. I always wanted a computer with a front panel ful...

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View In: Tindie BlogA recent road trip gave me a new product idea. Before the trip, I bought an Insta360 camera because road trips are full of moments you cannot plan for: a mountain suddenly appearing around a bend, a lake opening up beside the highway, a sunset over the coast, or a deer crossing the road for...

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View In: Tindie BlogOne of the things that surprised me most about the newly released GPT-6 Astra is how capable it has become at working with KiCad. I happened to be planning a new hardware project at the same time: a small controller board based on Espressif’s new ESP32-S31 module, intended to become the “head” of a small...