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We’re thrilled to announce Arduino App Lab 0.10, our biggest release yet. With this update, you can now build applications alongside an AI agent that actively works on your project, not one that just answers questions…
One of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows …read more
Synesthesia now! robots are taking all the fun jobs! A team spread across multiple universities developed the new type of sensor. A robotic fingertip with synthetic skin that detects mechanical deformations by reading…
The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 168 features the Adafruit CYBERDECK HAT for Raspberry Pi 400 & 500. Cut the build and connect a screen to Raspberry Pi’s all-in-one computer with Adafruit’s Cyberdeck HAT for…
The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 168 shows the Alien Typeframe PS-85 cyberdeck by Jeff Merrick: Starting with a set of Semiotic Symbols keycaps based on Ron Cobb’s futuristic symbols in Alien, cosplayer Jeff…
Now that MCUs like the ESP32-S3 are quite capable computer systems including USB host functionality, it only makes sense that you can connect USB peripherals like Logitech racing wheels to …read more
The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 168: Cyberdeck Projects In this issue: We love customising our computer setups – and anything else – so we’re thrilled to find that the cyberdeck has well and truly taken off.…
If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick(s) of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the Adafruit FT232H Breakout – General Purpose USB to GPIO, SPI, I2C – USB C & Stemma…
A few weeks ago, we put out the call for participation for this year’s 2026 Hackaday Supercon, taking place in Pasadena, CA this November. Today was going to be the …read more
pokeemerald-rp2350 is Pokémon Emerald running natively on a $6 microcontroller — the full game, running at 60 fps, with HDMI video out, real buttons, and saves that survive a power cycle. No emulator: the pret…
Anish Singhani and Benjamin Devlin have designed a puzzle, a chip, but they’re only providing the layout. We’ve designed an ASIC, and we’re giving you its final mask: all of its metal, routing, and active transistor…
Daniel Balsom on Adventures in PC Emulation was playing around with a web application – an online disassembler for the x86 – when emoji were being encoded into the url. I pasted a goat emoji, 🐐 and I noticed the…
In a few hours, there is a solar eclipse that will be visible with a track that goes from Spain up through Greenland. Too late to travel for it, but …read more
The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled…
When we last left off, I had just set up a new SLA resin printer and was on the verge of doing the initial round of printing to see just …read more
Huy Vector and HVT Lab made the cutest little robot friend! This AI-powered WALL-E inspired robot build “can see through its camera, chat naturally, recognize objects, and respond to voice commands.” Adafruit Crickit…
In these days of hundred-gigabyte-and-more monster games, it can be nice to stop and remember what a human can do with assembly language and very, very little storage space. In …read more
Apollo Automation’s ESPHome Starter Kit is the first official ESPHome starter kit designed and engineered by Apollo Automation in partnership with the Open Home Foundation. It features the ESPHome C6 board with the…
Forlinx Embedded AM62L32 Local EVM is a low-power industrial SBC built around the Texas Instruments AM62L32 Arm Cortex-A53/M4 hybrid SoC. It is designed for industrial control, IoT gateways, edge computing, embedded…
Although lighting 3D prints on fire is rarely the intended outcome, it’s possible that said print will at some point in its future come into contact with either an open …read more
MINISFORUM Elite Mini M2 Air-304 is a barebone mini PC powered by an Intel Core 3 304 Wildcat Lake penta-core processor with a DDR5 SO-DIMM slot and an M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 socket for NVMe SSD storage. There’s currently a…
