Daboa is a $10 dev board with an open source Baochip-1x RISC-V microcontroller (crowdfunding) The Dabao Evaluation board is a tiny new single-board computer with a USB 2.0 Type-C port, a 20-pin GPIO header, and a custom RISC-V chip called the Baochip-1x. It's that last bit that makes this board distinctive. Designed by hardware hacker bunnie Huang, the Baochip-1x is a "mostly-open" chip designed for use as a security chip and microcontroller. Huang is…

Daboa is a $10 dev board with an open source Baochip-1x RISC-V microcontroller (crowdfunding) #Baochip, #Baochip1x, #Betrusted, #BunnieHuang, #Dabao, #DevBoard, #Xous

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"Those with a bit of silicon savvy would note that it’s not cheap to produce such a chip, yet, I have not raised a dollar of venture capital. I’m also not independently wealthy. So how is this possible?" […]

Dabao Evaluation Board to Showcase Open-RTL Baochip-1x RISC-V MCU Baochip has previewed the Baochip-1x, a mostly open RTL, RISC-V–based microcontroller fabricated on TSMC’s 22 nm process. Designed with openness and verifiability in mind, the MCU integrates a VexRiscv application core running at up to 350 MHz, alongside a quad-core I/O accelerator cluster clocked at 700 MHz. The Baochip-1x uses a VexRiscv RV32IMAC processor with […]

Pluralistic: bunnie’s piggyback hack (09 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The latest #Pluralistic post by Cory Doctorow is about a very smart #OpenHardware approach: the #Baochip. I know very little about hardware manufacturing, but this looks really cool and feasible.

Go read it at: pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/q...