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Cactus Compute's Needle 2 model runs entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi 5's CPU. The post Turn text input into actions with Needle, a 14MB function-calling LLM appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
Luca Di Lorenzo (@LucaDilo on YouTube) recently worked with us on what was meant to be a simple robot assistant, but soon became something much more fun: a tiny, expressive desktop companion that notices you, listens to…
As a company, NanoLeaf has been producing modular lights that can be easily snapped together into various geometric shapes for around a decade. Similar to the addressable LED light strips …read more
Heat pumps are great, because they pump heat around, and we often don’t want heat where it is. Need it somewhere else? Pump it! It’s great. It’s also a bit …read more
The Adafruit TMF8806 Time of Flight Sensor is a great Time of Flight distance sensor from ams Osram in the TMF series of chips. The TMF8806 in particular can do 20mm to 5 meters at up to 30 Hz update rate, and a…
Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 3pm ET / 12pm PT Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want to miss it because there…
One of the most fun challenges in paleontology is determining characteristics of long-dead species like their behavior and body temperature based on nothing but some fossils and traces that are …read more
The Adafruit TSL2585 Digital UVA and Ambient Light Sensor is a great “three-in-one” light sensor that has ambient light sensing, Infrared channel and UVA (315nm-400nm). In particular it’s not that common to get UVA…
I’m a big fan of projects that keep you off your phone. Ditch the pocket buzz and build a big, bright physical alert that lets you know when a sale is made. Becky Stern shared this Shop Sales Notifier on Instructables.…
Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ago, I covered a …read more
Large format cameras can produce amazing shots, but are a bit too bulky to be practical. Medium format is a different story, as [Wenting] demonstrates with his Sitina B220M — …read more
Instructables user Makestreme created ESP32-S3 drum sticks: Space Drums 2.0 completely upgrades the hardware with self contained motion tracking, haptic feedback, and wireless foot pedals, all in nice looking 3D printed…
In a recent video [Jeff Geerling] addresses an issue discovered with the Raspberry Pi firmware, specifically how since around 2024 the firmware locks down what RAM size and even module …read more
Gearotons M17 open-source hardware servomotor integrates the four parts of a motion axis into one standard NEMA-17 body with no protrusions: the motor, the driver, the motion controller, and the encoder. This level of…
[Salim Benbouziyane] shows off his TN Deck, a tiny custom cyberdeck built into an Altoids tin. It’s a skillful build that really makes the most of the available space, and …read more
Here in 2026 if we need a terminal the chances are we fire one up on our computer and continue on our way without a thought. What we are doing …read more
As cool as it would have been to wield lasers that produce a beam of neutrinos, recently two papers were published by MIT researchers that seem to dampen the likelihood …read more
Nordic Semiconductor recently expanded its nRF54L Series with the nRF54LC10A, a new SoC with less memory and a smaller peripheral set compared to the higher-end nRF54L15, while supporting Bluetooth LE with Channel…
