Author: Gareth Halfacree

Gareth Halfacree is a technology journalist and technical author best known for his work on the Raspberry Pi User Guide and an upcoming book covering the BBC’s micro:bit project. A keen open source advocate and RISC-V fan, Gareth is responsible for curating our fortnightly community round-up posts.
1Bitsy Boards on Panels

Community Round-Up: ARM Dev Tools, Five-Network IoT, 128-bit RISC-V, Choosing an RTOS, and an Osmocom CFP

Technology journalist Gareth Halfacree is running the AB Open Community Round-Up series, offering a fortnightly glimpse at what’s happening in and around open source hardware and software, wireless and related topics. Piotr Esden-Tempski has successfully completed a crowdfunding campaign for the 1Bitsy development board and Black Magic v2.1 JTAG/SWD probe,… Read More
An Open-V Chip, Wire-Bonded

Community Round-Up: Open-V, Zephyr, Solar LoRa, Android Things, and Cortex-M0

Technology journalist Gareth Halfacree is running the AB Open Community Round-Up series, offering a fortnightly glimpse at what’s happening in and around open source hardware and software, wireless and related topics. RISC-V-based microcontroller creator OnChip has a convincing reason to investigate its Open-V crowdfunded hardware, courtesy its latest campaign update:… Read More
SiFive HiFive1 Development Board

Community Round-Up: RISC-V Workshop Edition

Technology journalist Gareth Halfacree is running the AB Open Community Round-Up series, offering a fortnightly glimpse at what’s happening in and around open source hardware and software, wireless and related topics. The fifth RISC-V workshop took place this week, and for fans of the open instruction set architecture (ISA) the news… Read More
RDM Makerspace's Marvin LoRa Development Board

Community Round-Up: LoRa and FPGA Boards, RISC-V Progress, and ePython 1.0

Technology journalist Gareth Halfacree has launched the AB Open Community Round-Up series, offering a fortnightly glimpse at what’s happening in and around open source hardware and software, wireless and related topics. For those looking to experiment with long-range radio-based wide-area networking, Niels Stamhuis’ Marvin development board aims to simplify prototyping… Read More