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It’s almost that time of year again! No chance to 3D print your Arduino®-powered pumpkin project? Didn’t get around to animating the LEDs on your costume? There’s still time, and here’s a half-dozen Hallowuino-themed…
Arduino, Qualcomm Technologies, and Edge Impulse recently teamed up with Hackster to host the Invent the Future competition. The competition attracted 4,028 registrants and 1,202 hardware applications, culminating in…
From the practicalities of everyday life to creative endeavours, Raspberry Pi power is behind hundreds of products. The post Powered by Raspberry Pi – from Stockholm to Sydney, South Korea to Slovakia appeared first on…
Although most archaeological finds from ancient civilizations aren’t quite as exciting as what you might expect from the movies, occasionally you come across something that’s truly special. The Lycurgus Cup …read more
Shared by Bat3DPrint on Maker World: Add a touch of magic to your Christmas tree with this 3D-printed bauble. Its unique design incorporates a rotating inner ring, embellished with three delicate snowflakes at the apex…
klworx shares: A decorative pumpkin with ribbed texture for a cozy handmade look. Each stem is printed separately for color contrast; mix sizes and colors. No carving needed. Three sizes: Small (~59 min, 2 plates),…
A face mask is one of the fastest ways to put together an instant Halloween costume! MakingThingsCLT shared this quick 3D print on Printables! I drew this skull mask by manually meshing the polygons in Fusion 360 over a…
Ramazan Eren Arslan turned a Deutsche Bundespost FeTAp 791 rotary telephone into a voice assistant, with the build documented on Hackster.io. Lift the handset and talk, and Google Gemini answers through the original…
Mack DeGeurin, writing at Popular Science, covered a team at the National University of Singapore College of Design and Engineering that built what it calls the first touchscreen woven into a garment. The display is 96…
Sid Bala wrote a walkthrough of how H.264 video compression works, published on sidbala.com. He starts with a demonstration: a screen capture of the Apple homepage, 300 frames long, encodes to 175KB as H.264. A single…
sheikh shuhad has posted a tutorial on Hackster.io that moves Bluetooth Low Energy sensor readings into a serverless database. A HibouAir sensor advertises air quality data over BLE. A BleuIO dongle plugged into a…
Synthhead at Synthtopia looks at a run of recent announcements that let musicians replace or extend the software running on their hardware. The starting point is the M-Vave FM-1, a low-cost FM synthesizer that drew…
MAXXTANG published a project on Hackster.io that puts a USB-only Brother HL-1110 laser printer on a WiFi network using an ESP32-S3. The computer prepares the job with the normal Brother driver and sends it to TCP port…
Ananthu Ashok, writing at Open Source For You, covers Hermes, an open source push-to-talk voice assistant that pairs an ESP32 with a Windows PC. The project comes from developer ROHITCRAFTSYT and is released under the…
Shared by Fleetwood on Maker World: These Christmas ornaments use twisted ribs to create a lightweight, flowing shape that changes depending on the viewing angle. The collection includes three different designs: a…
woodquarter shares: A tiny seasonal collection: pumpkin, pinecone, ghost, mushroom, chestnut, apple, acorn, and maple leaf — each with its own face. Small autumn decorations, gifts, or party favors. Separate monocolor…
We’re living at an interesting time here in 2026, when microcontrollers are becoming powerful enough to surpass the capabilities of “real” computers from a time when those real computers were …read more
It’s JOHN PARK’S WORKSHOP — LIVE! — Coming up at 4pm ET / 1pm PT Today! LIVE TEXT CHAT IS HERE in the Adafruit Discord chat! Projects: M-Vave FM-1 Firmware Flasher CircuitPython Parsec Learn Guides Gear Report Tool Tips…
A case for a Raspberry Pi 5 with the official AI HAT installed, plus a camera mount on top — an ‘all-in-one setup to tinker with the AI Module.’ Great fit for Adafruit’s Pi + machine-learning audience exploring vision…
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