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Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck Inspired by Rare MSX

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When we see these cyberdeck builds, the goal is usually to just make something retro-futuristic enough to do William Gibson proud. There’s really no set formula, but offset screens coupled with large keyboards and a vague adherence to 1980s design language seem to be the most important tenets.

Granted the recent build by [lewisb42] still leans heavily on those common tropes, but at least there’s a clear lineage: his Raspberry Pi retro all-in-one is styled after a particularly rare bright red variant of the MSXthat Sony released in Japan. Known as the HIT-BIT HB-101, some aficionados consider the circa-1984 machine to be the peak of MSX styling. Since getting his hands on a real one to retrofit wasn’t really an option, he had no choice but to attempt recreating some of the computer’s unique design elements from scratch.

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Nvidia 2080 ‘Super’ Has The Fastest Memory on the Market

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With the release of the Nvidia 2060 and 2070 graphics card, we have seen a notable improvement on the base releases from the 20XX range. There is, however, the small matter of the upcoming release of the 2080 Super to look forward to.

Based on the naming alone, it would be safe to assume that this would represent the most powerful card in the range, it seems, however, that we can expect something particularly special from it. In a report via TechPowerUp, the graphics card will feature the fastest memory speed (VRAM) currently available on the market.

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The Best Raspberry Pi 4 Cooler! The Ice Tower Also works on the Pi 3 & Pi 3B+

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This is the Best cooler I’ve ever tested for the Raspberry Pi 4 3 or 3b+ its called the Ice Tower and it lives up to its name! An insane Tower cooler for the Raspberry Pi 4 is something we really didn’t need but always wanted. In this video, I test out the thermal performance on the Ice Tower cooler for the Raspberry Pi 4 Raspberry 3 and The Raspberry Pi 3 plus. Sorry for the quick re-upload, The last chart was a little messed up in the original.

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Smaller than an Oreo, Faster than a Raspberry Pi

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The NanoPI-NEO2 is a newly released super tiny ARM board by Friendly Elec. It uses Allwinner’s 64-bit H5 quad-core SoC (ARM Cortex-A53). It has internal hexa-core Mail450 GPU, 512M DDR3 RAM. A Ubuntu Core and Armbian image files are ready for it.

The NanoPi NEO2 inherits NEO’s form factor and has compatible interfaces and ports with NEO. In addition in such a small dimension it has Gbps Ethernet and one USB host port. These features make it especially suitable for applications that require high data throughput, speedy data transmission and high performance. Hobbyists and makers will just love it.

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Star Wars Fans Direct Traffic With Lightsabers During New York Blackout

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On Saturday night, a power failure in New York City left the West Side of Manhattan in the dark. Some of the city’s denizens became trapped in subway cars. Others had to navigate the roads of the city without the aid of streetlights or stoplights. Some good Samaritans took to the streets, using what light sources they could find to help direct traffic through the city. These included cell phones as well as lightsaber blades.

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