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25 Aug 2026 edition
Hardware

Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid

Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run. Depending on your …read more

Source: Hackaday Tyler August
Hardware

32×32 Square Pixel Art Animation Display #ArtTuesday

This is a square pixel display that uses an 32×32 RGB matrix display. It’s powered by the Feather RP2040 and RGB Matrix FeatherWing. This runs CircuitPython and the Matrix Portal Library to play animated sprite sheets…

Source: Adafruit Blog Takara
Hardware

Tiny Telco

Evan Grove’s goal is to design a from-scratch, modular, hobbyist-friendly interconnect for analog telephones. It’s like a little phone company in a box that fits on your desk. If you’re new here, the goal is to design a…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

WeatherPaper: a smart weather station using an e-paper display

WeatherPaper is a health and comfort-focused smart weather station designed around a 4.2-inch e-paper display and a custom PCB. It lasts over a year and a half on a single charge. Features 500 Days Battery Life: WiFi…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

libtmt – a simple terminal emulation library

libtmt is Rob King’s Tiny Mock Terminal Library. It provides emulation of a classic smart text terminal, by maintaining an in-memory screen image. Sending text and command sequences to libtmt causes it to update this…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner #ArtTuesday

T.R. Napper’s popular article on the art and beauty of Blade Runner is a classic. Currently 404 on the official site, it is still available on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Blade Runner is one of the most…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

World Humanoid Robot Games

Are you following the action sports of the World Humanoid Robot Games. Coming out of Beijing for the second year in a row, the events set humanoid robots into human-like events. Sometimes comical and sometimes…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben
Hardware

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

European Union’s new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk. Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?

One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content …read more

Source: Hackaday Jenny List
Hardware

os8088 spotlight: new programs and features

os8088 new items: what was added, what it does, screenshots of it running on an Intel 8086, and the video that goes with it, by Jorge Gonzalez. os8088 now fetches real web pages and lays them out as text and tables,…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Buzzing Mindfulness Bracelet #AdafruitLearnSystem

This guide was written for the Gemma board, but can be done with either the v1, v2 or Gemma M0. We recommend the Gemma M0 as it is easier to use and is more compatible with modern computers! Build yourself a buzzing…

Source: Adafruit Blog Jessie Mae
Hardware

The new MCP roadmap

An update on the Model Context Protocol roadmap and focus areas for upcoming specification releases. Today we’re excited to publish an updated roadmap for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering the next…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

RetroESP32-P4: The beloved RetroESP32 ported to the new P4

The beloved RetroESP32 ported to the new P4. Contribute to giltal/RetroESP32-P4 development by creating an account on GitHub. RetroESP32-P4 is an open-source retro-gaming and application platform built on the ESP32-P4 —…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Artificial Intelligence as It Once Was

One day, people will look back at what we call Artificial Intelligence and laugh. We do the same thing today, as chat bots totally outstrip what the computer industry called …read more

Source: Hackaday Al Williams

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