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Are you ready for Maker Faire Bay Area? We sure are! The family-friendly festival of invention, creativity, and hands-on DIY culture – some call it the “the greatest show-and-tell on Earth” – is holding its special 20th…
Expense calculations in the industrial world tend to be unintuitive to individuals, because service and maintenance often consume larger chunks of the budget than the equipment itself. For that reason, modifications to…
Issue Date: Friday, September 18, 2026 Language English Download: esp32_c61_wroom_1_wfa_certificate.pdfCertificates Status: ShowCertificate Product: ESP32-C6
Issue Date: Friday, September 18, 2026 Language English Download: esp32_s_series_host_esp32_rcp_thread_br_cert_inheritable_cid_14a513.pdfCertificates Status: ShowCertificate Product: ESP32-S3ESP32-C6ESP32-H2ESP32-C5
Language English esp32-s31-wroom-1_wroom-1u_datasheet_en.pdfESP32-S31This document introduces the specifications of ESP32-S31-WROOM-1 & ESP32-S31-WROOM-1U hardware, including overview, pin definitions, functional…
In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted a piece of the action. This led to, among other …read more
In the cross-over between the era of tapes into that of MP3s, you’d see quite a few of those special cassette tapes that were actually digital music players inside. Some …read more
You can make a seemingly innocuous portrait come to life using an ornately framed flat panel TV powered by a Raspberry Pi. With proper lighting, it will look just like a painting, but every so often, the portrait…
Before moving to land grid array (LGA) packaging whereby each pin on the substrate is just a copper pad, processors commonly used pin grid array (PGA) packaging, including the still …read more
#circuitpythonparsec Read button state bitmask and analog thumbstick values via I2C using the Seesaw chip in CircuitPython. Try out the code example To learn about CircuitPython: https://circuitpython.org
This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start the episode off by discussing the latest CircuitPython developments before covering some impressive reverse engineering efforts, the benefits of modeling…
This guide will help you make glowing, animated boot laces. A sensor in each heel, watching you, weighing your every step, waiting for the opportune moment to light your stride and set your dance moves on fire.…
Brothers Jonathan and Michael Weerts transformed this old pay phone into a memorial for their brother, Nick. Loaded with hours of home recordings, the phone booth mostly serves as a place of remembrance for friends and…
We aren’t sure we subscribe to [Upside Down Labs] description that their Neuro PlayGround Lite (NPG Lite) actually constitutes brain control in the science fiction sense. However, the package can …read more
We’ve covered the Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather which means this week it’s time to draw the eye to the Adafruit Prop-Maker FeatherWing. This wing will unlock the prop-maker inside all of us, with tons of stuff…
Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents. Apparently the Flock …read more
ASUS Ascent QN10 is the first mini PC powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite 18-core Armv9 processor with 80 TOPS of AI performance for Windows Copilot+ PCs. The powerful Arm computer ships with up to 32GB LPDDR5…
The Meta Portal and associated devices are effectively defunct, having been abandoned by the company in 2022. If you’ve still got one at home, you might be wondering what to …read more
Last August, CNX Software covered the launch of the Elecrow ThinkNode M9, a standalone LoRa terminal running MeshCore firmware with a QWERTY keyboard, a color display, GPS, and a built-in 2,300mAh battery. Elecrow has…