Mastodawn

It's #Hackster round-up time again, and I'm starting with another #crowdfunding campaign - this time for the modular Brax open_slate, which can run de-Googled Android or a mainstream Linux.

I covered the unveiling back in January, but the campaign is now live - complete with a price hike, thanks, of course, to the AI bubble.

https://www.hackster.io/news/brax-s-open-slate-smashes-its-crowdfunding-goal-but-launches-with-a-price-hike-3c81761340d6

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Brax's Open_Slate Smashes Its Crowdfunding Goal — But Launches with a Price Hike

Plans to offer the modular privacy-centric device at $399/$529, specs-dependent, dropped as the AI bubble continues to hit RAM pricing.

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Gareth Halfacree

Then something for the #Verilog and #Factorio crowd to bond over: a tool for taking a Verilog chip design and putting into the game... as a functional factory.

Demos of its capabilities go all the way up to a 32-bit #RISCV CPU...

https://www.hackster.io/news/ben-c-s-clever-compiler-imports-verilog-designs-including-a-working-risc-v-cpu-into-factorio-87ba54aa2c51

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Ben C.'s Clever Compiler Imports Verilog Designs, Including a Working RISC-V CPU, Into Factorio

Factory automation sim gets the ability to run arbitrary code on an internal CPU, thanks to a Verilog-to-Factorio toolchain.

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Gareth Halfacree 3h ago

And today ends on a little bit of #science, as researchers show off a wrist-based wearable which uses ultrasound to monitor the movement of tendons and muscles to deliver high-accuracy gesture detection for VR, AR, and robotics use-cases.

https://www.hackster.io/news/engineers-turn-to-ultrasound-to-build-a-wrist-worn-high-precision-gesture-tracking-sensor-cdf499e11c29

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