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Flip-disc displays used to be very common in the days before affordable LEDs, LCDs, and OLEDs. But as electromechanical devices with a lot of moving parts, they’re expensive and rare today. That’s a shame, because…
Perhaps the most annoying kinds of faults are those that involve expensive equipment that just sit around in a cupboard, only for them to just stop working at all. Such …read more
Wilson Harper set out to learn KiCad and ended up with a battery-free PCB business card that lights up 21 LEDs when tapped against a phone, powered entirely by harvested NFC energy. The card pairs an NXP NTAG I2C Plus,…
Picking the wrong GPIO on an ESP32 can turn a perfectly good project into a board that refuses to boot, and figuring out which pins are safe usually means digging through datasheets and forum posts. ESP32 Pinout Studio…
Bust out the breadboards because Ben Eater is showing you how to build a really cool digital clock.
The hope is always that a good business card will leave a good impression. For those in the electronics field, they also serve as an opportunity to showcase creative design …read more
When it comes to building real-world flying vehicles, testing can be arduous and expensive. You have to find somewhere to fly, then you have to contend with environmental conditions and …read more
The Adafruit MAX98357 I2S Class-D Amps – Stereo and Mono guide has been updated with information about the new Adafruit Stereo I2S 3W Amplifier Breakout – Dual MAX98357A breakout. The same drivers and examples can be…
Dial into Burning Man with this phone booth on the Playa. The Playa Phone sends and receives calls and Burning Man runs till the 7th, so still time to get chatting. Via Reddit: My phone booth is on playa again this year…
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…
The average hot water is a relatively simple appliance to understand. It uses gas or electricity to dump energy into water in the form of heat, keeping it at a …read more
From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 10.3.0, a minor revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. Notable additions, changes, and fixes in 10.3.0 from 10.2.1 Gaming and Display picogame game…
Bradford Morgan White’s latest company history at Abort Retry Fail covers Matrox, and it’s a good one for anyone who remembers shopping for a video card in the 1990s. Lorne Trottier and Branko Matić founded the company…
GentleOS/32 is a nostalgic hobby OS for vintage 32-bit PCs with a retro-style GUI, a handful of built-in apps, and a selection of classic games. Its minimal requirements are an i386 CPU with 640KB of RAM, a mouse, and a…
In the modern world USB has become a truly universal connector, with its inclusion on almost every major piece of consumer electronics. It has even expanded well beyond things that …read more
The binary-research zine tmp.0ut dropped its fifth issue on August 23 with 21 articles on ELF internals, x86-64, and low-level Linux, wrapped in the ANSI art the zine is known for. Contributors include elfmaster,…
Mean Hamster Software announced AGI-64, a long-awaited AGI interpreter for the Commodore 64. It is currently around 75% complete for Space Quest 1, which is completely playable now, and the engine aims to support most…
Over the last few months, Stan Ulbrych has been working on improving CPython’s support for the RISC-V architecture. I’m thrilled to announce that RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython as a tier 3 platform!…
Digital Camouflage is a garment designed to “trick” the computer-vision systems that increasingly watch public space. At first glance it reads as clothing with an abstract, almost hypnotic pattern. In fact, the textile…
We’re digging this super cool concept + project design from MIT students Sreya. V and Shawn Sony: A privacy-first, low-power e-ink sign reading weather & crowd cues to flash hyper-targeted promos in a Japanese woodblock…
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