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Data is now a huge part of many sports, from F1 racing to football. Presenting that data to fans is secondary to the real purpose: helping teams and athletes maximize performance. No matter what sport you enjoy, you can…
What happens when you combine a little imagination with a powerful dual-brain board and a handful of building-block sensors? In the case of Arduino community member LucaDilo, you get a reaction game that doesn’t simply…
We're delighted to share that Raspberry Pi has once again been awarded the London Stock Exchange's Green Economy Mark. The post Recognised again: Raspberry Pi and the London Stock Exchange’s Green Economy Mark appeared…
This is going to be a very personal question, because when you’re talking cloud vs local anything, it comes down to this: how much are you willing to pay for …read more
The Philips PM5139 is not famous. It won no great victories on the battlefield, nor was instrumental in changing the political landscape. It was just a useful function generator that …read more
This week Jonathan chats with Olivier Vernin of Updatecli, the tool that helps you update everything! Need to roll out dependency updates intelligently? Or even automatically deploy to a server …read more
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…
Chaos Theory built this fully autonomous, 3D-printed Star Wars Mouse Droid. The open source project uses an Arduino Uno, an ultrasonic sensor, some strobing LEDs, and a DFPlayer Mini. Like any good mouse-droid, it has…
This week’s pick is the Adafruit 2.23″ Monochrome OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi! Watch the video for a live demo and more. Tune in every Tuesday at 3pm ET and 12pm PT on Youtube LIVE, Twitch, Periscope (Twitter) and…
The progression of the web browser from a tool for simple static information browsing into a do-everything computing environment has been inexorable, with package after package making the jump. Today …read more
A few weeks ago, my wife was out walking the dog, and she sent me four or five photos of small orange boxes planted all around our neighborhood. (OK, I’ll …read more
3D Hangouts – Franky, E-Ink and Smiley Stitched Mask https://youtube.com/live/dOYB77YSUC8?feature=share This week @adafruit Pedro is back with progress on the e-ink display project. Noe is in the progress of writing up…
PolyMO is brenpoly’s offline AI virtual pet that gets sick if you doomscroll for too long. It is a real object: a palm-sized creature with a bright AMOLED face that sits on your desk and blinks at you. It gets hungry,…
The NEC V20 is an Intel 8088-compatible processor that features the same use of microcode, though with its own characteristics. This makes it important to use this same microcode if …read more
Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research’s GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it’s …read more
Waveshare ESP32-C5 Pico board brings the ESP32-C5 dual-band WiFi 6, Bluetooth LE, and 802.15.4 (Zigbee/Thread) SoC to the Raspberry Pi Pico form factor. The board features an ESP32-C5-MINI-1 Series module with PCB or…
[Michael] has a thing for playing audio over beepers using a single bit. He’s done it with the Apple ][ and the IBM PC. This time he turns to the …read more
[lcamtuf] has an in-depth look at the concept of negative resistance that goes somewhat further than one might expect. Normally, as voltage across a resistance increases so too does the …read more
The FREE-WILi 2 (Founder Edition) is an open-hardware, portable hacking multitool and lab designed for hardware hackers, pentesters, and embedded system developers. Designed as an “open electronics multitool,” it…