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From Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027, this seasonal build uses a Raspberry Pi Pico and some Halloween magic. The post Animate a Halloween skeleton — Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually the 8-bit console it pretends to …read more
natureglass has published a Game Boy Advance port of Real8 on GitHub. It packs a single PICO-8 cart into a standalone GBA ROM and runs it on the Real8 virtual machine. The port is written for speed and memory use, with…
TANAKA Masayuki has published WSL USB Identity Manager on GitHub, a Windows GUI that works alongside usbipd-win to sort out which physical board is on the end of which USB cable. Forwarding USB devices to WSL is fine…
tebl has posted TeleZX on GitHub, a project that recreates the feel of browsing Teletext pages on a ZX Spectrum. Teletext gave you news, movie reviews and ads in 24 rows of 40 characters, organized into pages numbered 1…
Christian Rowlands has published WaveDigger on GitHub, a web app that looks up the physical location of wireless hardware. Give it a WiFi access point’s BSSID, the MAC address of the radio, and it returns a position on…
A Medium post walks through putting a ducted Mitsubishi air conditioner on Home Assistant without Mitsubishi’s own WiFi adapter. The unit, an SEZ-M60DA2 from around 2022, is run by a wired wall thermostat with no…
Raymond Chen, writing at The Old New Thing, explains the history behind the x86 instruction ud2. It is an architecturally undefined instruction that always raises an invalid opcode exception. Compilers emit it to mark…
Eric (@0015) has published a3d on GitHub, a header-only C++17 renderer that draws animated low-poly 3D models on an ESP32 and pushes them to a panel. There is no GPU involved. Every triangle is set up, clipped, binned…
Enactic, Inc. has published OpenArm on GitHub, an open-source 7DOF humanoid arm built for physical AI research and for work in contact-rich environments. The design emphasizes high backdrivability and compliance, so the…
A final year engineering project at the University of Glasgow produced a robot that makes daisy chains. The work covered electrical design, mechanical engineering, and software, and it won the Institution of Engineering…
SAMS0N1TE has published LakeShark on GitHub, a handheld SDR scanner firmware built around the LilyGO T-Display P4. The primary target has a 4.1-inch 568 x 1232 AMOLED, 16 MB flash, touch input, a detachable keyboard,…
CERN’s EP department has released colibri, a VHDL common library, to the wider FPGA community. Work started four years ago, when CERN gateware designers were mostly using homebrew tools across FPGAs from several…
Reddit user jareza shares how they made a working payphone using a Pi Zero. I just wanted to show off my latest backyard addition to people who will really appreciate it: a fully functional payphone! I’ve wanted a…
It’s been more than a year since [Henrik Forstén] built the first iteration of his synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging drone, and he’s certainly been productive in the meantime. Not only …read more
TalkingSasquach has published SquachWatch-CYD on GitHub, firmware that turns the ESP32-2432S028R “Cheap Yellow Display” into a surveillance device detector. It sniffs 2.4 GHz for the wireless signatures of Flock Safety…
Ben took apart an Egret GT e-scooter and replaced the display firmware with their own code written in Rust. The USB-C port on the display, advertised for charging phones, turned out to carry a CAN bus on two of its…
Zefek has published an Arduino library on GitHub for reading BEL single-phase energy meters over a serial line. It decodes the meter’s framed protocol into voltage, current, instantaneous power and cumulative…
Apple Inc. maintains a page on the Apple Developer site with dimensional drawings and technical specifications for its hardware, free to download. The list runs to well over a hundred entries, covering iPhone, iPad,…
All About Circuits reports that Semtech has put two new LoRa Plus transceivers into production, the LR2022 and the LR2012. Both are pin and code compatible with the existing LR2021, the full featured member of the…
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