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07 Sep 2026 edition

35 articles · 5 sources ·

Top topics: Hardware · AI · General

Hardware

Build a digitally sovereign second brain

Build a system to keep information and notes organised, searchable, synchronised, and backed up using Raspberry Pi. The post Build a digitally sovereign second brain appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

Source: Raspberry Pi News Jo Hinchliffe
Hardware

ESP32-P4 Powers Video Alarm Clock

Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning. Now that it’s …read more

Source: Hackaday Tyler August
Hardware

Is this the year of the Linux… television?

WayDroid-ATV has published a set of Waydroid Android TV builds on GitHub. The images run Android TV on top of an existing Linux install rather than replacing it, so a desktop or server keeps doing its normal work while…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

What it took to triple software engineering output in 18 months

A technology leader writing in InfoWorld describes what changed at a legal software company after it rebuilt its product development life cycle around AI over 18 months. Output per engineer roughly tripled, deployments…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

The ill-fated HP-Compaq merger

Dave Farquhar looks back at the HP-Compaq merger on his blog, The Silicon Underground. HP announced the $25 billion acquisition on September 6, 2001. At the time it was the largest technology merger in history. HP…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

Austin Z. Henley set himself a weekend challenge on his blog at austinhenley.com: write a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes of C, with no macro tricks and no libraries. The original target was 512 bytes. A basic…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

The CircuitPython Show Episode 64 – CircuitPython Day 2026

Episode 64 of The CircuitPython Show is a replay of The Bootloader livestream that ran on Adafruit’s YouTube channel for CircuitPython Day. Host Paul Cutler and co-host Tod Kurt look back at the past year of…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

A Vacuum Tube Computer For The Home

The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Colossus. Vast machines that required the budget of a country at …read more

Source: Hackaday Jenny List
Hardware

CHC5 open Camera System Image Sensor Specification comparison

Gaurav Singh has posted the first part of a series on the CHC5 open camera system at circuitvalley.com, and it starts with picking a sensor. The post is a side by side technical reference for nine candidates: the Sony…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Stopping the unstoppable

Practical Engineering looks at how railroads try to stop a train that has run out of track. The starting point is the 2016 New Jersey Transit crash at Hoboken Terminal, where a commuter train hit the terminal wall at…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades

Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it’s from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 Sea Stallion first entered service in 1966. It’s a huge …read more

Source: Hackaday Adam Fabio
Hardware

The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free

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…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela

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