Mastodawn

It's the 1st of April and the US is now waking up, which means I'll be ignoring all press releases for the next 24 hours or so.

My #Hackster round-up, you'll be pleased to hear, contains only the truth - starting with, yes, the sad news that #RaspberryPi has hiked prices *again*, for the third time in five months. The big 'uns, with 16GB RAM, are now $100-150 more than yesterday. Ouch.

https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-hikes-prices-by-up-to-150-as-the-ai-bubble-hits-hard-confirms-raspberry-pi-6-plans-711d4384a4dd

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Raspberry Pi Hikes Prices By Up to $150 as the AI Bubble Hits Hard, Confirms Raspberry Pi 6 Plans

Component shortages driven by large language model (LLM) developers means a Raspberry Pi 5 16GB has nearly tripled in price since November.

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Gareth Halfacree 6h ago

A great project next: Space Drums, which combine IMU motion tracking and "AI" (don't worry, it's just traditional computer vision - a pose estimation algorithm - not LLM slop) to make a couple of bulky drumsticks into a full virtual drumkit.

https://www.hackster.io/news/arpan-mondal-s-space-drums-combine-espressif-s-esp32-with-imu-sensors-and-computer-vision-5a88426a49af

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Arpan Mondal's Space Drums Combine Espressif's ESP32 with IMU Sensors and Computer Vision

This invisible drumkit takes up about as little space as possible — but expands into a full kit thanks to a pose estimation model.

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Gareth Halfacree 6h ago

Less welcome is the news that Bambu Lab is discontinuing the whole X1 family of fused filament fabrication 3D printers - but at least you can get software updates for a few years yet, and spare parts under a best-effort promise out to 2031.

https://www.hackster.io/news/bambu-lab-retires-the-x1-series-of-fff-3d-printers-but-promises-spares-out-to-2031-ccce61958d08

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Bambu Lab Retires the X1 Series of FFF 3D Printers — But Promises Spares Out to 2031

The product that put Bambu Lab on the map, the X1 FFF printer range has entered retirement — with buyers pushed towards the P2S instead.

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Gareth Halfacree 6h ago

Back to great projects: a "laptop" (not a laptop, more like a weirdly thin desktop) which uses a custom graphics card (built around a VGA chip from 1995!) to drive a lovely glowing electroluminescent display panel.

https://www.hackster.io/news/lcl-li-s-cold-light-laptop-uses-a-custom-graphics-card-with-a-beautiful-electroluminescent-display-2e995187f72a

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LCL Li's "Cold Light Laptop" Uses a Custom Graphics Card with a Beautiful Electroluminescent Display

A VGA controller chip from the mid-90s is repurposed to drive a beautiful glowing EL panel in this luggable project.

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Gareth Halfacree

And to finish, some #science: a paper detailing a new approach to previewing 3D prints, which uses "AI" (again, stay with me, it's not LLM slop, I promise) to combine a 3D model with a photo of the material it's to be printed in - giving you a more accurate idea of what the finished thing will look like before you print.

https://www.hackster.io/news/visiprint-combines-material-and-model-photos-to-offer-better-preview-of-your-fff-3d-print-plans-ab59093efc0d

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