JawnCon 0x3 Kicks off in Philadelphia this Friday
Philadelphia’s homegrown hacker con returns this weekend, and this time it’s starting a day early to pack in even more talks, demos, and activities. Tickets are still available for anyone …read more
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Bonnie J. Dunbar #ALD26 @findingada
Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut who flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998. University of Washington Magazine shared her story. It was only fitting that Dunbar…
ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit
Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, …read more
Yamin Zhang #ALD26 @findingada
image via yaminzhang.group Dr. Yamin Zhang has invented a sesame seed sized wireless pacemaker that is both an electrical stimulator and a battery: Its electrodes, made from bioabsorbable metals like molybdenum,…
Mini Retro TV: a tiny video player with ESP32-S3
Tech Talkies built a small video player around an ESP32-S3 and posted the build on Hackster.io. The board is a MaTouch Lite ESP32-S3 with a 2.4 inch ST7789 SPI IPS touchscreen, dressed up as a miniature television.…
JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 3pm Eastern TODAY 10/13/26 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick
Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 3pm ET / 12pm PT Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want to miss it because there…
OpenClaw for ESP32 – meet WireClaw!
cgwaltney Christopher posted a video on the Seeed Studio Forum introducing WireClaw, a port of OpenClaw for the ESP32. The thread sits in the forum’s General Info and Guidance category, and the post itself is the video.…
Adafruit_Stemma_Detect: detect selected Adafruit STEMMA QT sensors on a Raspberry Pi
Adafruit Industries has published STEMMA Detect on GitHub, a Python tool that scans a Raspberry Pi I²C bus, identifies known STEMMA QT sensors, and can install the matching CircuitPython drivers. It is not a universal…
AI distrust is GitHub’s opportunity
An opinion piece at InfoWorld argues that GitHub’s chance in the AI era comes from developer distrust, not enthusiasm. Stack Overflow’s surveys show AI tool use in development rising from 44% in 2023 to 62% in 2024 to…
Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash
Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the …read more
Programming an industrial robot arm to juggle
Mandy Meindersma posted a project on Hackster.io that asks a simple question: can a uFactory robot arm juggle? The arm is known for precision. Fast, ballistic motion is a different problem. The work came out of Viam’s…
Open-source project is closer to letting you run PlayStation 5 games natively on PC
Kishalaya Kundu writes at TechSpot about AnyPS5, an open-source compatibility layer that aims to run PlayStation 5 games natively on Windows and Linux. The project now reports 100% GPU shader instruction coverage, with…
A Pi Pico 2 PC for Varvara
riktw has built a carrier board at Just Another Electronics Blog that turns a custom RP2350B board into a small computer for Varvara, the virtual machine behind the UXN project. The board adds two PS/2 ports, a USB hub…
Writing a demoscene intro for the ZX Spectrum
Mark Dastmalchi-Round wrote up a demoscene intro he built for a stock 128K ZX Spectrum, posted on his blog at markround.com. It has a smooth scrolltext with custom fonts, a three channel AY soundtrack, bouncing VU…
beebgame: a BBC Micro game engine
ebenupton has published beebgame on GitHub, a scrolling-platformer display engine for the BBC Model B with 64K of sideways RAM and the BBC Master 128, written in ca65 assembly. One set of sources is assembled twice,…
Turning a Wi-Fi 7 router into a wideband software-defined receiver
Developer h0m3us3r has published w1700k-sdr on GitHub, a project that turns a Gemtek W1700K Wi-Fi 7 router into a wideband software-defined receiver. The MediaTek MT7996 radio captures raw 14-bit IQ at up to 320 Msps.…
This ESP32-C5 picks up India’s NavIC satellite signal using its built-in 2.4 GHz radio, in early test
CircuitDigest reports on snappnt, an open source project from developer h-shiono that tests whether a low cost ESP32 board can detect signals from NavIC, India’s satellite navigation system. It does not work like a GPS…
Rose Dieng-Kuntz #ALD26 @findingada
Rose Dieng-Kuntz was a pioneering Senegalese computer scientist. At the age of 20 she became the first African woman to enroll in France’s École Polytechnique and began helping build the groundwork for Artificial…
RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Jennifer Ouellette, writing for Ars Technica, reports that Margaret Hamilton died last week at the age of 90. Hamilton coined the term “software engineering” and led development of the onboard flight software for NASA’s…
The making of Super Mario 64: the full Giles Goddard interview
Mark Green has published the unedited version of a 2001 interview with Nintendo programmer Giles Goddard about the making of Super Mario 64, on his site pixelatron.com. Parts of it ran in NGC magazine at the time. This…
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