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>Someone releases a product with hackable/open specs, people are overjoyed because you can't easily get good hardware for cheap and build a bunch of software ar
by jimmies 9y ago
>Someone releases a product with hackable/open specs, people are overjoyed because you can't easily get good hardware for cheap and build a bunch of software around it, thus (usually greatly) extending the capabilities of the product,...
I maintain a list of such things. It's amazing when I researched, there is not a central place that does it.
https://github.com/htruong/hackable-consumer-hardware https://github.com/htruong/hackable-consumer-hardware
- StavrosK 9y agoVery nice, starred! You might want to add the ESP32 MCU as well.
- jimmies 9y agoI actually have it on the list, but it was lower on the list because I thought it was just not as spectacular of a hack ("unintentional") as ESP8266 was. When they created the ESP32, they knew their audience :)
- Fnoord 9y agoiRiver H3{2,4}0 was one of the earlier devices with a 2,5" HDD able to run Rockbox. Even with stock firmware, it supported OGG Vorbis. It sports a NXP ColdFire (previously owned by Motorola/Freescale). I can recommend the FP2, if you can afford it, since its a tad expensive. Esp for the out of date hardware. But it is unfortunately not all open firmware. Then again, is there any 4G phone out there with open firmware? The FP3 should be out within a year. We gotta see what it'll have in store. Anyway, nice list. Maybe mention the open source router firmware such as OpenWrt (EDIT: oh, you did. Well, LEDE merged w/them recently). PC-Engines APU(2) [1] also supports Coreboot. There's also a plethora of Raspberry Pi clones out there, many of which run AllWinner which is a PITA. [1] http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
- jimmies 9y agoThanks, I will remember to add to the list :) FP2 is a respectable piece of hardware, by the way. I just never had it because I am too poor.