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Flip-disc displays used to be very common in the days before affordable LEDs, LCDs, and OLEDs. But as electromechanical devices with a lot of moving parts, they’re expensive and rare today. That’s a shame, because…
Last spring, MIT physics graduate student Manu Srivastava got an email from six high school students in India he’d never met. They were entering Beamline for Schools — an international competition that lets secondary…
Resolve missing local addresses for Mitsubishi Comfort devices (@nikolairahimi - #173270) velbus: fix unique_id collision for Property sensor entities (@StefCoene - #176343) Fix mangled model names in Google Generative…
The formula of a Raspberry Pi camera is such that it’s almost a self-assembly kit of parts. Over the years we’ve seen a lot of attempts to make one that’s …read more
ARK Just A Pi is a tiny NDAA-compliant carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM5 designed for drones, robots, or other space-constrained embedded applications that’s about the size of the Compute Module itself. This…
D-Robotics RDK S100P development kit is a robotics SBC built around an S100P-based module providing an alternative to NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB with a 6-core Cortex-A78AE application cluster, a 4-core Cortex-R52+ MCU…
Flip disc displays can be quite a task to drive, what with having some sort of actuator mechanism for each and every dot in the display. [Zimm] has built an …read more
Orange Pi Zero 4 is an affordable yet feature-rich Allwinner A733 single board computer (SBC) with up to 8GB RAM, eMMC/UFS storage footprint, a microSD card slot, and plenty of I/Os. The board packs mini HDMI and USB-C…
Sometimes regarded as a less violent form of tennis, badminton is still a pretty challenging sport. One which suffers like so many sports from requiring at least two players since …read more
If you’re intending to transmit on the VHF band, you’re probably going to reach for a handheld or some kind of rackmount rig in your ham shack. But you needn’t …read more
