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A lot of newer 3D printers incorporate sophisticated sensor suites and cameras to detect problems with print jobs, like the dreaded “spaghetti failure.” Those work pretty well and prevent wasted time, wasted filament,…
Language English ESP32-H2This is the documentation for esptool.py, a Python-based, open-source, platform-independent utility for flashing, provisioning, and interacting with Espressif SoCs.latestTuesday, September 15,…
Language English ESP32-H2This is the documentation for esptool.py, a Python-based, open-source, platform-independent utility for flashing, provisioning, and interacting with Espressif SoCs.latestTuesday, September 15,…
Language English ESP32-S31This is the documentation for esptool.py, a Python-based, open-source, platform-independent utility for flashing, provisioning, and interacting with Espressif SoCs.latestWednesday, September…
Language English ESP32-H2The ESP-IDF Programming Guide provides an extensive overview of official development framework by Espressif for its SoCs, enabling the creation of robust and efficient embedded applications. It…
Language English ESP32-C6The ESP-IDF Programming Guide provides an extensive overview of official development framework by Espressif for its SoCs, enabling the creation of robust and efficient embedded applications. It…
Language English ESP32-C3The ESP-IDF Programming Guide provides an extensive overview of official development framework by Espressif for its SoCs, enabling the creation of robust and efficient embedded applications. It…
Language English ESP32-C2The ESP-IDF Programming Guide provides an extensive overview of official development framework by Espressif for its SoCs, enabling the creation of robust and efficient embedded applications. It…
Language English ESP32-S3The ESP-IDF Programming Guide provides an extensive overview of official development framework by Espressif for its SoCs, enabling the creation of robust and efficient embedded applications. It…
Language English ESP32-S2The ESP-IDF Programming Guide provides an extensive overview of official development framework by Espressif for its SoCs, enabling the creation of robust and efficient embedded applications. It…
Language English ESP32The ESP-IDF Programming Guide provides an extensive overview of official development framework by Espressif for its SoCs, enabling the creation of robust and efficient embedded applications. It…
From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 10.3.1, a bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. Highlights of changes since 10.3.0 Allow importing turbo (@viper and @native) .mpy files on…
Being able to monitor voltages and currents is essential for many applications, with the national electrical grid being no exception. The obvious complication here is that the voltages and currents …read more
A new project called zSST is a SystemVerilog implementation of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics chipset, the SST-1. Paired with the z486 soft CPU and the rest of a PC’s hardware, it forms z486 XL: a DOS machine with Voodoo…
Marko Štamcar, writing for the Računalniški muzej in Ljubljana, traced the origins of the plastic case used by the Iskra Delta Partner, the most successful Slovenian microcomputer. The 1983 Partner was built around the…
Kenton Varda documented the LAN party house he and Jade Wang built in Austin, Texas, at lanparty.house. The basement game room has 12 PCs built into the walls that fold away when not in use. A conference table in the…
Ken Shirriff has published another look inside Intel’s 8087 floating-point coprocessor on righto.com, this time tracing the microcode behind a single instruction: FSCALE. He is working with the Opcode Collective, a…
Marcin Wichary, writing on his blog Unsung, points readers to the Game UI Database, a reference site covering the interfaces of almost 2,000 games through more than 75,000 screenshots. It was built by Edd Coates, who…
Mike Rankin posted on X about trying OSP, a less expensive PCB surface finish, for the first time. He ordered boards from JLCPCB to compare it against the ENIG finish he normally uses. In his photo the top board is…
The Chip Letter published a guest post by Jordan Taylor on computing with air. It covers fluidic logic: circuits that switch and store state using pressure and flow instead of electrons. Harvard’s Wyss Institute Octobot…