# Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere > A custom firmware (CFW) for the Nintendo Switch that replaces the bootloader, TrustZone, sysmodules and patches Horizon OS to enable homebrew and extended features. - Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Steady - Stars: 20,250 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:10–07:13 UTC, ≈ 9 by evening - Star trust: star growth looks organic - Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C++ · License: GPL-2.0 · Created: 2018-01-18 · Last push: 2026-10-16 - GitHub: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere ## Useful for - Install custom firmware on a Switch to run homebrew applications - Set up EmuNAND via Thermosphère to isolate the modified system from the original - Use the Rosalina menu to debug and manage sysmodules in-game ## Why it’s here - Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 00:10–07:13: 20248 → 20250 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval. - Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +9 stars, using observed gains and the previous day. ## Star trust Star growth looks organic. Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer. ## Numbers - Forks: 1,517 - Issues and pull requests: 2,708 - Watchers: 811 - Average over the last week: 11 per day - Usual pace: 13 per day - Stars in the last hour (measured): 0 - Latest release: 1.12.1 (2026-10-16) ## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial) 2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: 12, 12, 14, 7, 14, 5, 8, 10, 8, 10, 10, 8, 11, 16, 9, 11, 13, 18, 16, 12, 7, 12, 10, 7, 10, 17, 11, 10, 11, 2 ## Magnitude by day, last 14 days 10-04 1.3, 10-05 1.5, 10-18 1.7, 10-19 1.7, 10-20 1.6, 10-21 1.4, 10-22 1.5, 10-23 1.4, 10-24 1.4, 10-25 1.6, 10-26 1.8, 10-27 1.6, 10-28 1.4, 10-29 1.4 ## More in this category 1. **ruvnet/RuView** — 7.0 · Breakout · Hardware, IoT & robotics · Rust · +259 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:03–07:05 UTC, ≈ 860 by evening A Rust WiFi-sensing platform that uses CSI data from cheap ESP32 boards to detect presence, breathing, heart rate, activity and pose without cameras or wearables. Runs locally on edge hardware with Home Assistant, Apple Home, Google Home… Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ruvnet/RuView.md 2. **Zagitta/gpu-unlock** — 6.3 · Peaking · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +208 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:02–07:05 UTC, ≈ 791 by evening Linux kernel module that unlocks certain NVIDIA GA102/GA104 GPU features (e.g. RTX 3090) before the nvidia driver binds, using the CMP unlocker technique and UEFI timing. Requires a cold boot and opt-in via the gpu_unlock.targets kernel… Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Zagitta/gpu-unlock.md 3. **impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK** — 4.7 · Early signal · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +28 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:03–07:05 UTC, ≈ 104 by evening Experimental UEFI bootloader for one documented RTX 3090 FE system: performs a headless GPU unlock and hands off directly to Windows without a reset. Source-only, requires building your own EFI. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK.md 4. **JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada** — 4.3 · Cooling · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +36 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:03–07:06 UTC, ≈ 121 by evening A Linux kernel module that applies an SM speed-select override before the stock NVIDIA driver binds, roughly doubling FP16/BF16 tensor throughput with FP32 accumulation on RTX 4090 (AD102) and experimentally on RTX 4070 Ti SUPER (AD103). Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada.md 5. **oosexgang/hakios-xnu-kernel** — 4.0 · Cooling · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +20 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:03–07:05 UTC, ≈ 55 by evening Research project that boots Apple's open-source XNU kernel (iOS 16.5) and the unmodified iOS user space on a POCO X5 Pro 5G Android phone or in QEMU on Linux, using a custom EFI loader, UEFI port and replacements for Apple's closed drivers. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/oosexgang/hakios-xnu-kernel.md --- Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score. Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast. Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself. Data as of 2026-10-29 07:17 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.