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09 Nov 2026 edition

54 articles · 6 sources ·

Top topics: Hardware · AI · General

Hardware

Self-sufficient mobile weather station

A weather research station powered by the weather itself. The post Self-sufficient mobile weather station appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

Source: Raspberry Pi News Rob Zwetsloot
Hardware

Learn to make your own music – with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board

Arduino has always had a special relationship with musicians. Makers in the community have been wiring up theremins and building MIDI controllers from scratch for decades, driven by the simple idea that if you want to…

Source: Arduino Blog Arduino Team
Hardware

WaterLens uses AI on the edge to detect water quality issues

According to a 2025 report from the WHO and UNICEF, approximately an entire quarter of the world’s population currently lacks consistent access to safely managed drinking water. The report also states that many people…

Source: Arduino Blog Arduino Team
Hardware

Using forbidden techniques to fix a Neo Geo cartridge!

74XX Arcade Repair has posted a new repair video on YouTube, this one covering a broken Neo Geo cartridge. The channel’s usual subject is arcade hardware from the 74XX logic era, and the fixes here are described as…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Why the Dreamcast was different

GamesRadar+ looks back at the Sega Dreamcast and what set it apart in 1999. It arrived more than a year before the PlayStation 2 with sharp 3D graphics, good sound, a strong set of launch games and online play out of…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

5 useful Python automation scripts for beginners

Bala Priya C has put together five short Python scripts for everyday tasks, published on KDnuggets, with the code on GitHub. They cover image processing, file management, text analysis and command line tools, and…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

What is a gravity wave and how it disrupts GPS

Wikipedia’s page on gravity waves covers the physics behind how a big rocket launch can disturb GPS signals. A gravity wave is a wave in a fluid, or at the boundary between two fluids, where gravity is the force pulling…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

370 books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI

A report at eNCA covers South African writer Coral Hart, who has published more than 370 books since February 2025 using AI models, and who talks openly about how she does it. Coral Hart is a pseudonym. She says she’s…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Saving a vintage high-voltage power supply from the scrap heap

Donald Papp at Hackaday writes about Mr Carlson’s Lab rescuing a Fluke Model 407 high-voltage power supply that was headed for the scrap heap. The unit is in good shape inside, with vacuum tubes and circuit boards and…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

16 things to check before a PCB goes to fab

JLCPCB posted a checklist on X of 16 things to look over before a board design is sent out for fabrication. The list covers design for manufacturing, or DFM: the checks that keep a layout from running into trouble once…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Moments – smart e-ink dashboard adapts to its surroundings

Makestreme has posted Moments, an open-source firmware for the Seeed Studio reTerminal Sticky e-ink display. It turns the Sticky into a dashboard like TRMNL, without a subscription or a cloud account, and changes what’s…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Fold epic paper airplanes

Kyle has put together a library of 109 paper airplane designs at Foldable Flight, each with step by step folding instructions. The planes are sorted by paper type, and clicking one opens its fold sequence. Designs are…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Determining location by listening for airplanes

Aaron Beckendorf at Hackaday covers a technique from colsto that pinpoints where a video was recorded by listening for the planes passing overhead. Aircraft are audible for miles, so they often end up in a recording…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

NASA announces $1 million to students for Moon Base Challenge

Jessica Taveau writes on NASA’s news site that the agency has opened its $1 million Moon Base Student Challenge. It’s open to student teams at U.S. high schools and post-secondary schools, who contribute designs for the…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

From Phone, To SDR, No Extra Hardware

One of the more exciting recent developments has been the discovery that many radio chips used in common and cheap wireless network interfaces, microcontrollers, LoRa interfaces and others can be …read more

Source: Hackaday Jenny List

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