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Language English esp32-s31_technical_reference_manual_en.pdfESP32-S31The manual provides detailed and complete information on how to use the ESP32-S31 memory and peripherals.v0.1Monday, September 21, 2026Send add/update…
Once you arrive at your destination via plane, it can be a drag waiting for a rental car. Why not bring your own with a replica of the Mazda suitcase …read more
SweepLED hardware prototype and operation, image via KAIST Cameras are getting smaller and we are all getting more paranoid, so you may want to do this one thing before checking into your short term rental. Using a…
Even if the world has already settled on plain old propellers as the way to make quadcopter drones fly, this doesn’t mean that you cannot give other designs a shake …read more
In the US, among other places, housing costs are skyrocketing. It can sometimes be difficult to get a feel for the scale of the issue and how it hits neighborhoods …read more
Nuclear power really hit its stride in the 1950s. In the post-war period, there was a rush to develop peaceful uses for splitting the atom, beyond its application as a …read more
My son has been huge into LEGO for a couple of years now. The builds decorate the shelves all over the house to the point where they’ve become permanent fixtures. My son and I were talking the other day about some…
Coaxing a DVI signal out of a microcontroller to drive a DVI or HDMI screen has been possible for a while now, but limitations in what the devices can do …read more
Check out the Abuelas Project! Responding to a lack of opportunity to share and archive Latinx stories, the Abuelas Project is an archive started by Latinos in Heritage Conservation. Learn, map, share and explore! The…
Climate Week NYC has officially begun. Check out events open to the public here. This year’s Climate Week NYC will focus on the energy, the impact, and the action that we drive together. Read more and don’t miss this…
In previous installments of this series we looked at how creating a DIY router using an e-waste-level PC has changed over the years, before attempting to boot OpenWrt for x86 …read more
Much of science is performed through inference, with the readings on instruments, a flash of light in heavy water, or the results of parsing through terabytes of sensor data after …read more
Realtek RTL8773J Series is the first Bluetooth 7-ready microcontroller family we’ve seen so far. It features a dual-core design with a 200 MHz Cortex-M55 application core and a Cortex-M33 sensor and network core, along…
Of the popular 1980s 8-bit computers, it’s fair to say that Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum punched above its weight. Sir Clive’s love of squeezing more functionality out of less hardware meant …read more
Photodetectors come in a wide variety of constructions and materials, with the Cu2O-based photodetector that [Mad Scientist Creations] demonstrates in a recent video being a good example of a photodetector …read more
Some sad news to start this week off — after 52 years in business, Sherline has announced they are winding down their manufacturing operations. By the end of October they …read more
Back in November 2025, we wrote about the Brainchip AKD1500 PCIe/SPI Edge AI co-processor designed for low-power systems and delivering up to 800 GOPS at just 300 mW. In recent months, the company has launched several…
