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29 Oct 2026 edition

50 articles · 7 sources ·

Top topics: Hardware · General · AI

Hardware

How about a Hallowuino half-dozen?

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…

Source: Arduino Blog David Groom
Hardware

Replicating the Color-Changing Effect of the Lycurgus Cup

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

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware

Rotating Christmas Ornament – Makerlab #3DThursday #3DPrinting

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben
Hardware

Pumpkin Decoration #3DThursday #3DPrinting

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),…

Source: Adafruit Blog Pedro
Hardware

Low Poly 3D printed Skull Mask #ElectronicHalloween

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Jessie Mae
Hardware AI

Vintage phone AI assistant

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Touchscreen shirt shows photos, plays videos, and answers calls

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

H.264 is magic (2016)

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Send BLE air quality data to Cloudflare D1 with Python

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

ESP32-S3 WiFi bridge for a USB printer

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Open-source Hermes turns ESP32 into voice assistant

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Christmas Ornament Bauble #3DThursday #3DPrinting

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben
Hardware

Cute Autumn Buddies #3DThursday #3DPrinting

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Pedro
Hardware

An Attempt at a Useful Desktop OS For Microcontrollers

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

Source: Hackaday Jenny List
Hardware

John Park’s Workshop — LIVE TODAY 10/29/26

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog John Park
Hardware

The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela

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