We’ve covered a lot of hardware projects here on “The Powerbase”, from completely open source creations such as the OsciPrime, to 2012′s incredible influx of Kickstarter campaigns. But none of them have kept our attention as closely as Jason Kotzin’s FLIRC. Jason has managed to achieve a delicate balance between the obsessive attention to detail that comes [...]
Integreen Brings Open Source Traffic Monitoring To Italy
The best way to fight an enemy is to start by learning everything you can about it, which is exactly what the team at Integreen are looking to do in the Italian city of Bolzano. By using the latest technology and banking on open source software, Integreen hopes to provide the city management with enough traffic [...]
ODROID Boards Offer High-End Raspberry Pi Alternatives
There’s no question that the Raspberry Pi is everyone’s favorite ARM development board right now: it’s cheap, silent, and exceptionally power efficient. The Raspberry Pi makes an excellent choice for low-energy applications like personal servers, routers, firewalls, environmental monitoring setups, etc, etc. But the Raspberry Pi has one big downside, it’s a fairly slow machine. [...]
Cubieboard Sets Sights On Raspberry Pi With Indiegogo
It’s only been a year or so since the world first started salivating over the Raspberry Pi. Not only over the potential of the Pi, but the value as well. We have seen plenty of clones since, but this device is the first one to really outshine the Pi is every way conceivable. The Cubieboard [...]
Raspberry Pi Hits 512MB RAM, Doubles Usefulness
Double the memory or half the Alzheimers? The Raspberry Pi Model B, Raspberry’s flagship $25 computer, was updated to 512MB of RAM today. Computers in the $25-$35 range with low power consumption can be an important and economical solution for many projects. The Raspberry Pi can wear many hats, but the low memory ceiling of [...]
Pwnie Express Releases “Raspberry Pwn” Pentesting Suite
Pwnie Express, always looking to upset the status quo, has just announced the immediate release of “Raspberry Pwn”: an open source penetration testing suite built for everyone’s favorite impossible to purchase ARM Linux computer. From the Pwnie Express blog: Pwnie Express is happy to announce the initial release of Raspberry Pwn! Security enthusiasts can now [...]
Raspberry Pi Shown Running XBMC
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced via their website that the much anticipated “Raspberry Pi Model B” $35 single board computer is successfully running the open source media player XBMC. [youtube id="4NR57ELY28s" width="600" height="350"] Not much else is known at this point, but we can see from the video that performance is pretty good for being such [...]