CircuitPython 10.3.2 Released!
From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 10.3.2, a bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. Highlights of changes since 10.3.1 Remove compromised certificates from root certificates…
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Why do small components stand up after soldering?
JLCPCB has a short video on tombstoning, the defect where a small chip resistor or capacitor stands up on one end during reflow soldering instead of lying flat on its two pads. The cause is uneven wetting and heating.…
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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…
An auto-driving ball-wheeled omni-directional car
James Bruton built an auto-driving car with ball wheels that can move in every direction, and showed it on his YouTube channel. An Arduino Ventuno Q runs the robot’s software. The Ventuno Q runs ROS2, the open source…
The Secret of Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side
Paninosoffline, a two-brother team, has put together a web viewer at monkeyisland.pages.dev that shows all 13 versions of The Secret of Monkey Island side by side. The same twelve moments from the game appear in every…
The Arduino Nano family is now XL
The Arduino Team announced two new boards on the Arduino Blog at electronica 2026 in Munich: the Nano XL Link and the Nano XL Link Connector Carrier. Both aim at industrial, home and building automation work. The Nano…
Tim Peters, Python user #2 and prolific contributor, has died
Tim Peters, one of the earliest contributors to Python, died on July 15, 2026, as announced on discuss.python.org. He found Python soon after its first release and became the second real user of the language, after its…
A Google engineer points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar and finds an unmapped Maya pyramid
A software engineer, writing at pietromiotti.com, used AI agents to go through public NASA lidar data and turn up a Maya site in Mexico that wasn’t in the Mexican government’s register. Lidar fires laser pulses through…
Hand-assembly of the “hopefully final” FeatherS31D prototype
Unexpected Maker posted on X that he’s hand-assembling what he hopes is the final prototype of the FeatherS31D, a Feather-format development board, on a livestream. The new revision adds switchable USB. Hand-assembly…
An unofficial Fritzing desktop application for Apple Silicon
Frederick Blais has published an unofficial Apple Silicon build of Fritzing 1.0.8 on GitHub. Fritzing is the open source tool for drawing breadboard layouts, schematics and PCBs. This release is a native ARM64 build for…
Use the Wii Balance Board as an open source Bluetooth game controller
Jacek Fedoryński has published wii-balance-board-hid-transmitter on GitHub, a Windows app that turns a Wii Balance Board into a gamepad. Leaning left and right or forward and back can drive an analog stick axis or the…
SpudCell, the synthetic cell
Fluorescent microscopy of SpudCell – a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components – undergoing division. Credit: Kate Adamala, Adamala Lab via University of Minnesota Twin Cities Associate…
Modular, 3D Printed Train Whistles For Everyone
If the word “train” didn’t grab your attention, you’re probably not the target audience for this project. If it did, then there is no need to explain why [AeroKoi] has …read more
Startup gives new life to salvage Teslas by turning them into simple vans and trucks
Adam Ismail writes at The Drive about Hoffman, a small company building new vehicles out of parts pulled from used Teslas. The company previously did EV conversions for DeLoreans. Now it takes steering wheels, seats,…
Caltech robot makes history by assembling the first structure in orbit without astronauts
Zo Ahmed writes at TechSpot about ASTRA, a Caltech robot that built part of an antenna frame in low Earth orbit from loose struts and joints. Its creators say it’s the first structure assembled autonomously in space.…
280 MHz STMicro STM32G5 Cortex-M33 mixed-signal MCU targets digital power and motor control applications
Debashis Das writes on CNX Software about STMicroelectronics’ new STM32G5 series, a family of 280 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 mixed-signal microcontrollers aimed at industrial power supplies, photovoltaic inverters, EV chargers,…
College student develops LEGO-like, 3D-printed moon bricks
Andrew Paul, writing for Popular Science, covers a University of Arkansas project that makes interlocking bricks out of moon dust alone. Cole McCallum, then an undergraduate, worked with mechanical engineer Wan Shou on…
Inside a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder
Fahad Naim posted on X a look inside a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and a flight data recorder (FDR) pulled from a retired aircraft, taken apart layer by layer. Inside the outer housing is the crash-survivable memory…
The pollycrisis in London
The Baffler has a long piece on the ring-necked parakeet, the bright green parrot that now roosts by the thousand in London. Hither Green Cemetery holds one of the city’s largest roosts, where the birds pour into a line…
Google gooses Python AI performance by… removing Python
Joab Jackson at The Register reports that Google has open sourced XSE, the XLA Serving Engine, a C++ runtime for serving machine learning models without a Python interpreter in the path. It’s the newest piece of the…
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