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Arduino Cloud has been getting some serious upgrades behind the scenes. Dashboards can now have multiple pages, you can see the health of your whole fleet at a glance, and devices can be locked to your account (or freed…
Provision Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 at scale with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig, on sale now. The post Introducing the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
[Ayushmaan] states up front that most of his free time is spent “building things that probably didn’t need to exist”. Well, this one might be an anomaly, because it seems …read more
The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! 8/19/2026 at 7:30pm Eastern. Video. Hosted this week by John Park
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…
Your desk or bench is a work area, so why not make it look the part? That’s the idea behind the miniature blinking traffic barrels that [Glen Akins] recently put …read more
Johns Hopkins University researchers have developed a system to continuously monitor blood pressure without the need for arterial lines. Familiar blood pressure cuffs that wrap around the arm aren’t invasive, but they…
Built from cardboard, an Arduino, a motion sensor and some clever crafting, Barquinics created this web-shooter. Not quite ready to swing from the rooftops, but they it does look super fun! see the guide on…
A £30 badge on the wall by the door that tells you whether to run for the bus. Marcio Lopes has created a MicroPython app for the Pimoroni Badger 2350 e-ink badge that turns it into a tiny live departures board for a…
Google Chrome web browser is now available for 64-bit Arm Linux, and CNX quickly tested it with Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 5 2GB SBC. The open-source Google Chromium web browser has been available for Arm Linux…
Ian is seemingly doing the impossible: hosting a bulletin board service (BBS) on a Casio VX-4. About a eight weeks ago I had virtually no interest in calculators. Blank, dull, tedious-looking objects that remind me of…
The Rings of Saturn blog examines the PC version of Ecco the Dolphin. This game is adapted from the 1993 Sega CD version of Ecco, which is an enhanced version of the 1992 Sega Genesis original. There’s a full-featured…
Dmitry Grinberg on Dmitry.GR is often asked to explain a distaste for RISC-V. A recent post lays it all out on the table. I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V and I often find myself explaining it…
PicoCamera is an Arduino-compatible camera library for the RP2040 / RP2350, featuring an esp32-camera aligned API and broad sensor support, such as OV2640 OV3660 and OV7670. The API aligned with esp32-camera (esp_…
Manfred Bergmann has created CL-Amiga, or Clamiga for short. It is a Common Lisp implementation built for the Amiga family — classic AmigaOS 3 on 68k and MorphOS as a fully native PPC build, AROS and AmigaOS 4 may be to…
Cyber Trace Pad is a new product by SuiLab. This LED gadget features a grid of 144 LEDs. When you touch the touchpad area, the LEDs at the top will light up according to where you touched. Additionally, performing…
Glow up your festival wardrobe with programmable LEDs! In this new tutorial from Erin St Blaine, learn how to add colorful, animated lighting to a faux fur coat using WLED. The fur trim and oversized cuffs become…
Here’s a historical hack for you: you have a big, rolling pressurized kettle, also known as a steam locomotive. It needs water to make up for the steam constantly chuff-chuff-chuffing …read more
Unsung writes that developer Matt Sephton and others compiled many of Apple’s human interface guidelines, starting from 1980 through 2014, including some goodies like early drafts, NeXT, Newton, and so on. Additional…
Nokia DCT3 Emulator is an open-source emulator and architectural-analysis toolkit for Nokia DCT3-era phones — the 3310, 3210, 3410, 5210, 6210, 6250, 7110, 8210, 8250, 8810, 8850 and their siblings. It boots real…
Unexpected Maker has previewed a working FeatherS31 board based on the new Espressif ESP32-S31. Unfortunately, there are a few holes in ESP-IDF S31 support right now – some will get filled, and some likely won’t 🙁…
Level 2 Jeff shared this video on Youtube! Raspberry Pi sent me a little piece of a Pi Factory—a CM5 Programming Jig! You can buy one too; they’re $600. Not that many people watching this will ever need one, especially…
Here’s something that may sound familiar if you’ve been coding with an AI assistant. Every time you start a new session, the agent begins blind. It greps for a term, opens a file, follows an import, backs out, and tries…
After roughly nine years in progress, Rare’s 1997 spy shooter GoldenEye 007 has successfully been 100% decompiled by KholdFuzion and co., exposing all the working code and microcode behind the landmark title, preserving…
Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum can continue to operate even in adverse conditions with very high latency and…
Once upon a time a doorbell was little more than a button, a transformer, and a bell tucked somewhere around the house. These days, they get a little bit fancier. …read more
Hey folks, just a reminder that this weeks 3D Hangouts livestream will happen on Friday, August 21st at 11am ET in celebration of Circuit Python Day 2026. Until then, remember to make a great day! 3D Hangout Show…
If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick(s) of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the NeoPixel Stick – 8 x 5050 WWA White LEDs with Integrated Drivers! Watch the video…
Powered machinery started the industrial revolution, and it was automation that kicked it up another notch in the 20th century. The ability for machines to make things by themselves spurred …read more
In part one of what is intended to be a series on developing an STM32-based oscilloscope, [BTTLab] demonstrates a how to use the built-in ADC of an STM32F207 MCU to …read more
While some companies keep increasing prices, the Pine64 community has now announced they don’t intend to manufacture Linux devices due to the current RAM and eMMC flash shortage and related high prices. Pine64 started…
Finland-based Everypin has introduced the PwrBlock 323, a programmable USB-C PD power supply designed specifically for automated test fixtures. It can provide 1 to 32V at up to 3A, with up to 92W output from a 100W…
In this modern age, if you want a truly swish garden that makes your friends sad when they visit, you need good lighting. [technocraftStudio] has been working on just such a …read more
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig is a single-head provisioning system designed to easily flash an OS to the Raspberry Pi CM5 without a carrier board. The jig connects to the provisioning network via…
As popular as the Nintendo Switch and its sequel are, it’s hard to argue that its click-on Joy-Con controllers are ergonomic, barring you having very uniquely shaped hands. This thought …read more
NXP has introduced the MCX A5 family of Cortex-M33 MCUs, which features a 10/100Mbps Ethernet MAC and an integrated 10BASE-T1S Single Pair Ethernet digital PHY. It targets industrial and networking applications such as…
Link shorteners have been a staple of the online world for over two decades now, but they’ve got some issues– for one thing, it’s totally non-transparent where the link actually …read more
