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🎮 Exciting news for retro gaming enthusiasts and Open Hardware fans!

The Open DMG Display project is now live! This open-source TFT mod for the original Game Boy (DMG-01) is powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2350B. Features include dimming, palette switching, automatic game detection, and more. All files are available, making it fully open-source and open hardware. Check it out and bring your Game Boy into the modern era! linkhttps://www.embedded-ideas.de/posts/250417_open_dmg_display/ #OpenDMGDisplay #GameBoy #RetroGaming #OpenSource #Modding #RP2350B #OpenSource #OpenHardware #DIY

These boards came out really nicely. One small booboo on the rear side with an inadvertently phallic rework... but aside from that, they'll be delivered to a happy customer tomorrow.

If you didn't see the original post, this is an open hardware 16x 2A output hat for the Raspberry Pi, including a 25W @ 5V power supply for the Pi 5. It's part of the Open Weed Locator, an open-hardware weed detection system for agriculture, and you can find more information here: github.com/geezacoleman/owl-dr

One of my favorite orgs that doesn't get enough attention is glia, which maintains a GitHub org filled with open source medical devices such as this stethoscope or this otoscope. All their projects are all licensed under the TAPR Open Hardware License. This is in addition to their actual sending of doctors and medical staff to war zones and underprivileged areas.

You can donate to them directly here:
https://glia.org/pages/support-glias-mission

Or you can sign up as a Patreon member here:
https://www.patreon.com/glia

GliaGliaGlia is a medical solidarity organization that empowers low-resource communities to build sustainable, locally-driven healthcare projects.

Today some more OSHW work: an unreasonably large Raspberry Pi hat.

This is part of the Open Weed Locator project, which does open-source/low-cost green-on-brown and green-on-green weed detection, suitable for retrofit to existing broadacre spray systems. It allows the Pi to control 16x 2A outputs driving solenoids (or anything else) and it's designed to be robust, self-documenting and repairable in the field.

Still a few checks to do but looking good for an initial prototype order over the weekend.

github.com/geezacoleman/OpenWe #electronics #oshw #openhardware