Cyao
Someone forked and submitted my open-source project to a contest, and won $1000
Re:Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer...
on Thursday December 25, 2025 @02:41AM (#46382868)
Thanks! I used the orange pi pc fel tester [1] and gradually lowered the clock speed until it became stable. When I got to 696 MHz the test ran for more than 3 hours without problems.
The H3 CPU has a small bootloader inside, that enumerated the SD card and eMMC to look for a user-made bootloader. IIRC it looks for some file inside of the file system, and loads it to 0x70000. Thus you can customize it if you have enough time :)
[1] https://github.com/ssvb/lima-memtester/releases/tag/20151207...
Re:Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer...
on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @01:03PM (#46377735)
Hey! Not everything needs to have a point. (Or else why would there be 20 AI models competing) I did this mostly for the fun and challenges, because why not! :-P
Re:GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs
on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @09:46AM (#46376012)
Working for me :P
Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3
https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-sbc
I've made an ARM based single-board computer that runs Android and Linux, and has the same size as the Raspberry Pi 3!Why? I was bored during my 2-week high-school vacation and wanted to improve my skills, while adding a bit to the open-source community :PThese were the specs I ended up with: - H3 SoC - Quad-Core Cortex-A7 ARM CPU @ 1.3GHz - Mali400 MP2 GPU @ 600MHz - 512MiB of DDR3 RAM...
Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto
on Sunday December 07, 2025 @10:10AM (#46182224)
But you (theoretically) cannot know who mined the coin, or who is actually the holder of the coin, thus the anonymity. Though currently this is getting restricted as governments require more ID verification from businesses dealing with crypto, which links up your coin to a real person.
Re:Framework Sponsors CachyOS
on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:37PM (#46167719)
Sometimes Discord is still pretty helpful with real-time support. It indeed has its flaws, but some of the best real time help is still given there. I love the C++ discord, it's just filled with gems.
Re:Framework Sponsors CachyOS
on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:28PM (#46167577)
Hope this doesn't end up political... Last time the entire Framework Discord's mod team went on strike because of a controversial sponsorship, and ended with the closure of the discord.
Re:
on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:21PM (#46167478)
Totally agree. Even if I'm a teen myself I never post my age unless someone asks explicitly. Saying your age is just trying to find excuses to justify a sub-par software imo (Not saying this project is sub-par)
Show HN: Leptosis – A 7.5mm split wireless keyboard
https://github.com/cheyao/leptosis
It also has a 2+ month battery life!
Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA in a Pi Zero Form
Re:Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent Is Now on Crowd ...
on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @03:06AM (#44644013)
After getting quite a lot of emails asking to buy one last time - I've put my Icepi onto Crowd Supply!
This is a dev board that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2 USB-B ports are replaced with 3 USB-C ports, and it has additional indicator LED and buttons.
This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more. I'm very proud the product of multiple months of work.
It is also completely open source! Check out the source on github: https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero
Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent Is Now on Crowd Supply
Re:Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @10:04AM (#44144351)
Oh that's nice, how come I never saw those!
Re:Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @02:24AM (#44142258)
Can I ask your reasoning about not selling them too cheaply? I would like to sell them cheaper then the existing boards since the price prevented me from buying one when I was 13
Re:Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @12:22AM (#44141851)
it can! no reason why it wouldnt be
Re:Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
on Friday May 30, 2025 @11:56PM (#44141757)
at bulk 40-50$! My dev batch of 5 comes out at around 70$ per board, but it has a large startup cost.
Re:Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
on Friday May 30, 2025 @11:55PM (#44141754)
it probably can - I see that uls3x already has a few ported over cores, and they will be able to run on this fpga with little modifs
Re:Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
on Friday May 30, 2025 @11:53PM (#44141745)
I am indeed using fully open source tooling! Check out the makefiles in the firmware directory :)
Re:Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
on Friday May 30, 2025 @06:03PM (#44140272)
After the amount of emails i got asking if i sell the boards, I just applied to crowdsupply :P
Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
https://github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero
I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero!In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE." You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain!So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero...