JC @jc@librem.one

last shot for today, 741 left. at least 200 are solved when filling a GND plane, so around 500 left for real. most of USB, displays, main power, audio, ethernet is done. a lot of fiddly stuff left for the charger/battery cells controls and the LPC (microcontroller). this board might look unusually bulky because i always tried to choose components that are hand-serviceable, so avoided BGA, QFNs and passives smaller than 0603.

NEWS: The OLinuXino line of single-board computers has officially been certified as "Open Source Hardware" by the Open Source Hardware Association! 🎉

This means the Pioneer Edition #FreedomBox kit is officially #OSHW! Join us in congratulating @olimex!

Details here: https://olimex.wordpress.com/2019/07/08/olinuxino-open-source-hardware-single-board-linux-computers-are-now-officially-oshwa-certified/

Certification for the LIME2 is here: https://certification.oshwa.org/bg000039.html

Debian 10 buster has been released! https://bits.debian.org/2019/07/buster-released.html

We are very proud today to introduce Nextcloud Text, a collaborative, rich text editor for #nextcloud! Try it out and get productive!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-collaborative-rich-text-editor/

Wow. My friends over at @purism sent me this. So AWESOME!! 🥰🥰

Open Source Hardware Precise air quality digital sensor board with CCS811B and BME280 sensors and UEXT connector for our ESP32 IoT boards https://olimex.wordpress.com/2019/06/21/oshw-high-precision-calibrated-digital-air-quality-co2-temperature-humidity-air-pressure-sensor-board-with-uext-connector/

New Open Source Hardware PCB released. If your Arduino project runs out of memory OLIMEXINO-2560 comes with 256K Flash, 5-15VDC DCDC power supply, on board micro SD card connector and 79 GPIOs to help https://olimex.wordpress.com/2019/06/21/if-you-need-more-memory-and-micro-sd-card-for-your-arduino-project-olimexino-2560-is-with-256k-flash-and-sd-card-on-board/

GitHub has added Liberapay to the funding platforms supported in the `FUNDING.yml` file: https://github.blog/changelog/2019-06-20-new-funding-platforms/

We want to congratulate the @Matrix@twitter.com project on reaching 1.0 and starting the Matrix foundation! And yes, Talk interoperability is on our minds 🤔 #decentralization
https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/11/introducing-matrix-1-0-and-the-matrix-org-foundation

Sharing failures helps remind people that projects often don't go according to plan and not to get discouraged when things don't work right on the first (or fifth) try.

Matrix version 1.0 has been released! We think Matrix is already so good that you could host it on a home server and use it to replace Whatsapp.

We even made a video tutorial!

📺 VIDEO: "FreedomBox Tutorial: Setting Up a Chat Server with Matrix and Riot"
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/18d46a5f-ec0b-4e70-809b-24c5c34e8d65

NEWS: #FreedomBox now supports two new hardware models: the Lamobo R1 and the PINE A64-LTS single-board computers! 🎉🎉🎉

This means that we'll publish OS images for each of these two boards whenever a new version of #FreedomBox is released.

Full story:
https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/news/new_hardware_support_June_2019/

The new daily mantra of Amazon Alexa owners?
“Alexa, delete everything I said today”.

@natjlevy reports you can now delete recordings with a simple voice command, but sadly only a partial day's worth.“ Alexa, delete what I just said” also works. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/now-can-erase-every-amazon-alexa-recording-last-day-voice-command/

All our ESP32 Open Source Hardware boards now have option for External antenna (-EA) more flash (up to 16MB) and Extended temperature range -40+105C for demanding reliable applications https://olimex.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/esp32-devkit-lipo-esp32-poe-and-esp32-poe-iso-boards-now-have-option-with-external-antenna-and-all-our-esp32-boards-can-be-build-in-extended-temperature-range-40105c-for-demanding-applications/

I wrote an article about the redesign of MNT Reform https://mntre.com/media/news_md/2019-05-20-reintroducing-reform.html

#FreeSoftware has a lot of potential in the developing world.

In rural India, 12 villages use #FreedomBox to host free digital services. Activists have re-purposed old computers into FreedomBoxes, mounted them on posts, and served entire villages with free wi-fi and digital services.

These rural #FreedomBox networks got covered in the Times of India.

READ: ‘Every old computer is a potential server that can bring Internet connectivity to an entire village’

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/hyderabad/every-old-computer-is-a-potential-server-that-can-bring-internet-connectivity-to-an-entire-village/articleshow/67833580.cms

We have some exciting news! The team at Purism are thrilled to announce the launch of Librem One https://librem.one Private and secure email, chat, social and VPN. No ads! No tracking! No data sharing! Just the best end-to-end encrypted communication and social. Join the revolution today and take back control of your data and life #LibremOne