Daily edition · Hardware
TILens turns technical updates into a focused daily brief: official releases, trusted reporting, and practitioner analysis, deduplicated and organized by topic.
The industrial world runs behind everyone else, technologically speaking. Reliability, safety, and maintenance are the biggest concerns, which means tried-and-true control solutions reign supreme. Even new facilities…
When it comes to 3D printing in the FDM world, you can go a long way just relying on standard settings that ship with your 3D printer and/or slicer. If …read more
There’s been a lot of talk about the vuln-pocalypse, to which Dan Luu doesn’t have much to add because Dan isn’t not a security person. But there hasn’t been much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less…
Philomena posts on Philo’s Website about using an industrial linear scanning camera to take very wide photos out of trains and ferries. Getting it working has been quite the challenge, but I think the results speak for…
Meta has filed for a patent that includes a “memory recall” system that appears to: detect people via facial recognition, record them automatically, and show you a highlights reel later. Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses…
A new paper in the Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities entitled Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts…
If you are a regular reader, then the odds are you have taken apart an electronic gadget, either for a fix, or simply because your curiosity got the better of …read more
Dean Millien working at his studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn (image courtesy James Fisher-Smith) via Hyperallergic Hyperallergic highlights Brooklyn artist and self-taught sculptor Dean Millien. Millien recently made his…
James Bowman on the Excamera Labs Substack discusses that, unlike in the media, real inventors make prototypes. Some rules: At least one prototype before production Not too may prototypes You don’t ship the prototype I…
Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want to miss it because there…
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…
Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all Cursor paid plans. They’re starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship…
Guanzhong Chen’s discusses the experience fixing their Framework 13” laptop with an AMD 7060 series processor that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update. It ended up taking US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing…
This project by an engineering student (CroissantPoisson) is the perfect blend of the DIY spirit and that summer feeling. See more details here on Instructables: Last summer, my friends showed up unannounced at my door…
Although we personally have yet to see anyone brandishing an old digital point-and-shoot camera, we hear they’re back in vogue. Why, though? People are nostalgic for that image quality. While …read more
Adafruit last reported on Repair Cafés in 2017 where their popularity was growing. Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located,…
🐍 Augusst is ssslipping away which can only mean itsss almost CircuitPython Day 2026! This Friday, August 21, 2026 we celebrate the snakiest of holidays! CircuitPython Day is an official holiday for the Adafruit team;…
Digi-Comp I image via Wikipedia A very cool piece of computer history from Chris Staecker on YouTube. It looks like a simple toy but the Digi-Comp 1 is actually a fully functional mechanical digital computer. Was this…
What is it about retrocomputing? For some people, it’s nostalgia. For others, it’s the appeal of simplicity. For still others, it’s the chance to save old machines from the graveyard. …read more
This post gives a modular performance at Modular On The Spot Munich by synthesist and sound designer Martha Bahr, aka Panic Girl. Bahr’s performance, The Day The Earth Stood Still, was recorded at MOTS Munich on July…
In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator. The IBM 604 came out just after the transistor was invented, too early…
Adobe Photoshop was released 36 years ago in 1990. Adobe Photoshop is a proprietary raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. It is…
Developer Robin van Soelen demonstrates gesture.live, a free, browser-based application that turns your webcam into an instrument. gesture.live lets you play with hand gestures through your webcam. Use you left hand to…
Old cameras are a fantastic way to experiment with photography, and outside a few brands, they can be an inexpensive way too. It’s easy to find older cameras in a …read more
Was IBM’s Simon from 1994 the original smartphone? The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon) is a cellular phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) designed by International Business Machines…
One of the biggest questions Jessamyn West gets at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. Her…
It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971. No accounts, no algorithm, no central server. Your entire profile fits in a single plain text file that you control. John…
In the mid-90s the coolest thing to buy for a PC, besides the incredibly expensive Intel Pentium, was a CD-ROM drive. With their capacity of 640 MiB (three times the storage of PC HDD at the time), CDs allowed…
If you don’t actually need one, you’d be forgiven for thinking a hearing aid just makes everything louder for the wearer. Especially since there are plenty of shady products out …read more
I’m ready! I’m ready! To 3D PRINT! momandeum created this delightfully fun Gary the Snail inspired housing for an existing phone charger and speaker situation and shared a vide of the process on YouTube While we don’t…
Waveshare PiRack-M6F is a multi-node server cluster kit for Raspberry Pi 4/5 designed for 10-inch 2U racks and supporting up to six Model B SBCs with all ports brought to the front panel. We wrote about rack mounts for…
If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get a terrific newsletter each Monday (which is…
A manual skill like soldering is so much easier to learn and grasp when one can watch it in action, and there’s a brand new way to do that using …read more
LILYGO T-Echo Lite Kit is a Nordic nRF52840-based LoRa + GPS development kit with a built-in keyboard that enables direct off-grid communication without a smartphone. The kit is not entirely new since it’s based on the…
Some projects seem too good to be true until you dig into it and find the secret magic that makes it all work. Take Paper Tunes by [Makestreame], a project …read more
USBridge-KVM 2.0 is a compact open-source AI-enabled IP-KVM designed for remote management and troubleshooting of servers and PCs, including systems that are unresponsive or have not yet booted. It provides out-of-band…
There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches involved Helmholtz resonance, as demonstrated by [Junsun Hwang] et al. with a …read more
We’ve been following Canadian startup Edison Motors for some time now, but their latest offering caught us a bit off guard — their BDE series truck will be offered first …read more
