OqtaDrive, a hobby project started on 9 May 2021 by an Arduino-based emulator of Sinclair Microdrives for the ZX Spectrum and QL, has reached its fifth anniversary and 34th release. Over that time it added a web UI, CP/M support, snapshot loading via Z80onMDR, ZXDB search integration, and in April 2024 gained the ability to act as an internet gateway for the Sinclair Network, letting users transfer files with friends remotely using standard SAVE and LOAD commands.
oqtadrive.org
· 2026-10-30
Device tree files for an unannounced Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and a Raspberry Pi 4 Model A have appeared in Raspberry Pi's Linux kernel tree, first spotted by Phoronix. The Zero 3 W files indicate it uses the Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72 chip found in the Pi 4, a major upgrade from the Zero 2 W's Cortex-A53 processor, along with configuration suggesting an 8-bit eMMC storage controller.
bret.dk
· 2026-10-27
Two hobbyists at the Recurse Center, working around the same time Apple unveiled its own Reference Image proof-of-capture system, built a competing open-source camera using a Raspberry Pi Zero, a crypto chip, and a shutter button. Instead of storing signatures in metadata, which gets stripped when images are shared, their system embeds a signed perceptual hash directly into the pixels using frequency-domain steganography that survives compression like WhatsApp resizing.
merybenavente.me
· 2026-09-10
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