December 22, 2020
After buying three wireless cards, a new WiFi router, optimizing my process for cross-compiling the Linux kernel for the Raspberry Pi, installing Intel s WiFi firmware, and patching Intel s wireless driver to make it work on the Raspberry Pi, I benchmarked the EDUP Intel AX200 WiFi 6 PCIe card and got
1.34 Gbps of bandwidth between the Raspberry Pi and a new ASUS WiFi 6 router.
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The never-ending budget-busting project
Have you ever started a project that should take a couple hours with a fifty dollar budget, and realized at the end you spent a whole month on it and spent close to a thousand bucks?
The best gadgets and robots of 2020
This has been one heck of a year, that s for sure. Just look at this robot dog.
In the midst of all the crazy things that have happened in our pandemic year, it’s easy to lose track of other developments. But despite the hardship of the lockdowns and the pandemic itself, the world isn’t sitting still. We’ve seen some stunning advancements not related to the pandemic, including some very nifty gadgets. Here are just some of them.
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The robot dog by the name of Spot
Remember those unsettling robot dog videos trying to go down stairs and open doors? Spot is their leader. The robot by Boston Dynamics has been in development for a few years now, but it’s gone on sale in 2020, for the hefty sum of $74,500 and this was also the year that Spot was really put to good use.
Raspberry Pi to anoint ‘Design Partners’ it will recommend for industrial applications
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has decided to offer more support for industrial customers by creating a program that offers them help to build Pis into products.
The new “Design Partners program” is open to companies “with specialist knowledge and proven expertise in designing with Raspberry Pi.” By appointing such partners, and offering to connect them with organisations contemplating Pi-based products, the Foundation hopes to create more roles for its computers.