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24 alternatives to μArt
A UART adapter finally for professionals
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. μArt launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1MR
I needed to stuff twice the telemetry through the same 115 kbaud line on a Cortex-M0+ that only had 8 kB flash left. Micro-RLE is the smallest drop-in I could come up with: 264 B of Thumb code, 36 B of state, no malloc, worst-case 14 cycles/byte and still lossless for every 8-bit pattern. On the usual sensor streams (ADC, IMU, GPS) it’s 33-70 % smaller than raw output and boots in < 600 µs, so you can fire-and-forget from main() before the PLL even locks. Repo is a single .c file and a 3-function API—replace the weak emit() hook with your UART / DMA / ring-buffer and you’re…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Precision exposure for film photography with your phone
2024 · its alternatives →
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- 7IZ
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 footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2 USB b ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple LEDs. This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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EMV & chip-compatible dongle from Square, pre-launch
2014 · its alternatives →
- 11DA
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The world’s most advanced digital film camera
2020 · its alternatives →
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Contribute to Park07/amradio development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI-powered multilingual unit conversion tool
2025 · ultraconverter.org · its alternatives →
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- 19TG
Sign, authenticate and encrypt with a USB dongle at the cost of a soda. The goal here was to easily program around ~20 Gnuk devices at the budget of a single dongle of the commercial solution. Contains every step and fixes to get it running on current and next Ubuntu and Debian versions.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20AA
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21PA
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Use any USB-PD 2.0/3.0 adapter / powerbank to power RPi 5
2024 · pichondria.com · its alternatives →
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The Cheapest UNO Board $3.38 Worldwide Free Shipping
2019 · its alternatives →
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Charge 6 devices with only 1 pwoerbank
2025 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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