{"id":539,"date":"2025-03-27T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/?p=539"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:23:42","slug":"kit-yourself-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/kit-yourself-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit yourself out!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re looking to upgrade your hardware to something new &#8211; or perhaps you&#8217;re just exploring the world of RISC OS and are thinking about buying your first bit of hardware &#8211; there will be something for you at the show, with at least two exhibitors offering hardware on which to run the operating system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of these is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcomp.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">R-Comp<\/a>, with an extensive range of systems to their name &#8211; such as Project N.Ex.T, 4t\u00e92, mini.pi, the multi-headed Hydra, and many more. For RISC OS North, R-Comp will be showing off a Raspberry Pi 5 add-on to the Hydra and N.Ex.T systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another vendor of new computers &#8211; and kits that allow you to put your own together &#8211; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riscosbits.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RISCOSbits<\/a>. Specialising in stylish case designs and adopting snappy names for systems and cases, you&#8217;ll be spoilt for choice for a new computer. Amongst other things, RISCOSbits will have a Linux add-on at the show for certain of their systems that makes use of a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as computers themselves, you may find hardware elsewhere on the day &#8211; such as graphics tablets available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dragdrop.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drag &#8216;n Drop<\/a>, and you&#8217;ll be able to talk to <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Hall<\/a> about some of his hardware projects, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlart.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andrew Conroy<\/a> about his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking to upgrade your hardware to something new &#8211; or perhaps you&#8217;re just exploring the world of RISC OS and are thinking about buying your first bit of hardware &#8211; there will be something for you at the show, with at least two exhibitors offering hardware on which to run the operating system. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}