Welcome to our maker news where we wrap up some fun and interesting stories in the maker world from the last few weeks. The video will come out on Fridays, but we are posting a topic here on Wednesdays to post the video’s sources and to collect any news from the community to potentially include in next week’s as well as just open up general discussion.
This week we looked at:
Running Windows on a Raspberry Pi has always been a bit tricky, but thanks to an official Windows 11 for ARM release and the work of a high schooler who goes by Botspot, it’s now pretty straightforward to run Windows 11 in a virtual machine on a Pi. Our heavenly father Jeff Geerling took it for a test and found that it handled networking and audio passthrough right of out the box and was overall, a really usable solution with some decent performance results in geekbench.
IBM has published a patent relating to 4D printing? If you don’t know, 4D printing is just a name for a 3d printed object that reacts to stimuli like heat light, magnetic fields, or current to move or transform. IBM has patented the ability to use 4D-printed nanomachines to manipulate microscopic particles, a very cool application in this emerging technology. This is just one of those incredible things that we can probably expect to eventually trickle down into the maker world with 3d prints that assemble themselves or perform repeatable actuation from external stimuli. Don’t mean to flex, but I already have a 4D printer, its when I print ABS and my print warps and jumps off the print bed.
Raspberry Pi’s RP3250 chip is finally available for purchase for all, not just manufacturers. The microcontroller chip as seen on The Pico 2 and all its variants of it, is now available to all makers in down to single-quantity purchases for all of your custom board needs. Raspberry Pi has also teamed up with JLC PCB to make the chip available with their PCB assembly service and has also said that variants of the chip with onboard flash memory are set for release sometime this year.
If you have any news from the maker world, feel free to post it below and we may include it in next week’s video, until then we will see you next week!
