Pi-Sky flight-tracking dashboard
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From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor
For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure, proprietary systems, and steep learning curves. That’s changing – fast. Foundation models powerful enough to run at the edge…
Building An Airsoft Claymore Mine
The Claymore mine is a rather fearsome weapon of war, using explosives to blast a cone of shrapnel towards advancing enemies. It’s not really something you should try and build …read more
Discover the Rare First Printed Don Quixote Illustrations
I’m not sure if Don Quixote is still required reading in high school but I’m certain it is still one of the most influential works of literature to this day. The The Laredo Center for the Arts will be presenting The…
How Gold Plastic Syndrome is Killing Toys and Game Consoles
In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears …read more
A flip disc display that does it slow and steady
Zoe Skyforest writing at Hackaday covered a flip disc display by Zimm that throws out the usual electromagnet per pixel. The array is 37 by 18 square discs, black on one side and blue on the other, with no actuator…
Linux was first announced August 25, 1991
Dave Farquhar looks back at the Usenet post that started Linux, writing on The Silicon Underground. On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted to comp.os.minix to describe a free hobby operating system for 386 and 486…
Cobalt: apps and an SDK for Kobo e-readers
Cobalt is an open source application platform for Kobo e-readers, published at bandarlabs.github.io. It includes a launcher, a signed app store, a Rust SDK, and a runtime that keeps each app in its own unprivileged…
CrossPoint e-reader firmware for ESP32-based ePaper devices
LWN published a look at CrossPoint Reader, replacement firmware for the small ESP32-based e-readers that have been showing up from Chinese vendors over the past year. Dave Allie released the first version soon after the…
Microsoft’s WinUI becomes fully open-source
Ananthu Ashok, writing at Open Source For You, reports that Microsoft has finished moving WinUI to open source. WinUI is the native user interface framework behind Windows 11 applications. Mainline development now…
The Most Efficient Origami Donut
A non-paper torus via Wikimedia commons by Dave Crosby Mathematicians are always up to something. Richard Schwartz of Brown University wasn’t satisfied with simply making an origami donut from a sheet of paper; he…
RL training environments for Microduck
Pollen Robotics has published microduck_rl on GitHub, a set of reinforcement learning training environments for Microduck, a bipedal robot about 25 cm tall weighing roughly 800 g. The environments are built on mjlab…
A Spotify Connect client for headless systems
Raspotify is a Debian package from dtcooper, published on GitHub, that turns a headless Linux box into a Spotify Connect target. It wraps the librespot library by Paul Lietar and others as a systemd daemon. It targets…
Reactive Heat and Wind Come to VR, Thanks to Smart Plugs
Want to feel the heat of nearby fire, explosions, or radiation? Or even just the gentle warmth and breeze of a sunny day in the wasteland? If you said yes, …read more
JP’s Product Pick of the Week — New Earlier Time!! 3pm Eastern TODAY 9/1/26 and Beyond! @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick
Product Picks come earlier now! One hour earlier in fact. Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 3pm ET / 12pm PT We’re making changes to some show schedules…
Boot a virtual iPhone on a Mac
Lakr233 has published vphone-cli, a command line tool that boots a virtual iPhone on a Mac using Apple’s Virtualization.framework and the Private Cloud Compute research VM infrastructure. A single command, vphone-cli vm…
Shipping Alert: Labor Day 2026 Monday, September 7
Monday, September 7, is Labor Day. This is a federal Holiday as well as a holiday for the Adafruit team. While some of the team will be shipping orders there will be no carrier pickups. Expedited orders placed after…
Hackaday Europe 2026: Playstation 4 to Psychometer
There are many ways to detect stress in an individual. You can use self-reporting checklists, you could try and measure various vital signs like respiratory rate and pulse and infer …read more
The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Spacelab was a European built laboratory module that flew in the Space Shuttle’s cargo bay. It carried three French made Mitra 125 MS minicomputers, not the Shuttle’s IBM machines. A teardown by Ken Shirriff posted at…
History Workbench brings Git powered file versioning to FreeCAD
The FreeCAD blog has posted a talk from the FreeCAD North American meetup 2026 covering the History Workbench, developed by Ephi. The workbench adds file versioning to a locally stored FreeCAD project folder, so a…
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