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Open-Source, RISC-V Laptop Will Be Easy to Make and Upgrade
A new RISC-V laptop concept is in the works, that is built entirely on open standards and will be cheap to purchase.
DIY Headphone Kit Will Test Your 3D Printing, Soldering Skills
Ploopy's 'audiophile' 3D printed headphones are now up for pre-order from CAD$150, but you can also make them with your own parts as all source code and docs are free.
HandBrake 1.6.0 Debuts AV1 Transcoding Support for the Masses
The free and open source HandBrake transcoding utility gains AV1 encoding support in its 1.6.0 update. Users with Intel QSV or Arc hardware can benefit from HW accelerated encoding.
Mesa 3D Gets Support for RDNA3 Graphics Cards In Linux
The open-source Linux graphics library Mesa3D has released a new update featuring support for AMD's new RDNA3 graphics architecture, allowing RX 7000 GPUs to run Vulkan games on Linux.
Petoi Bittle Robot Dog: It’s More Than a Pet Toy, It’s a Robotics Primer for Young Enthusiasts
Petoi’s Bittle is not just a cool pet toy robot dog — it is also a great STEM learning tool for anyone who wants to learn the basics of robotics, programming, and AI.
SiFive Reveals New RISC-V Chips, the P670 and P470
Californian RISC-V specialist SiFive has unveiled the P670 and P470, two new chips that use the open-source architecture.
PicoBerry is a Tiny Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Carrier Board
A tiny Compute Module 4 carrier board has emerged, in the form of the open-source PicoBerry by Mirko Electronics
World's First Laptop with RISC-V Processor Now Available
Alibaba's Roma RISC-V laptop can now be purchased, marking the first time the open-source CPU architecture has appeared in an ultraportable.