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29 Sep 2026 edition

51 articles · 5 sources ·

Top topics: Hardware · AI · General

Hardware

Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module available now at $30

The Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module is available to buy now from our global network of Approved Resellers. The post Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module available now at $30 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

Source: Raspberry Pi News Simon Burgess
Hardware

The Deep Magic of 3D Graphics Perspective

Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike previous 3D games, the camera was an …read more

Source: Hackaday Bryan Cockfield
Hardware

Designing a Fully 3D-Printed Mechanical Calculator

Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and their big mechanical computer brethren remain an absolute marvel of engineering. Using …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware

Synthetic aperture radar drone gets interferometric imaging

Henrik Forstén has posted a follow-up on hforsten.com to his homebuilt synthetic aperture radar drone, and it now does interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with the same cheap hardware. The key addition is RTK…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

You are no longer invited to dinner

Derek Thompson reports new polling on how often Americans have people over. The group Data For Progress replicated the DDB Needham Life Style survey questions that Robert Putnam used in Bowling Alone, and shared the…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware AI

Microcontrollers now run a diffusion model and 289M LLM

Ananthu Ashok, writing for Open Source For You, reports on two open source projects running generative AI models directly on bare-metal microcontrollers, with no Linux, no GPU and no external accelerator. The first runs…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Using the SNES Super FX chip to run Super Mario 64

Maya Posch, writing for Hackaday, covers a project by Tobi that gets a version of Super Mario 64 running on the Super Nintendo using the Super FX chip. The Super FX was the 3D graphics coprocessor built into cartridges…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Meta’s ex launches agent rival to Meta’s Muse

InfoWorld reports that Manus has released Manus 2.0, a rebuilt version of its agentic AI platform, months after its merger with Meta fell apart. Meta announced plans to buy Manus in December 2025, China’s National…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method

In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making …read more

Source: Hackaday Bryan Cockfield
Hardware

Firefox 157 rolls out Mozilla’s biggest visual refresh in years

Ivan Franco writes at TechSpot that Firefox 157 brings Mozilla’s redesign to the Release channel, first offered to users on September 29, 2026. The changes came out of research into how people actually use the browser,…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Candy Bar Brain – Halloween Specimen Chamber

This simple, craftable candy brain chamber was created by thomaschnuppelhase on Instructables. Every season they put a new twist on the office snack station. For the spooky months they went with a ghoulish brain…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben
Hardware

An experimental rack of Android smartphones

sulfuroid posted on X about building a rack of Android smartphones. The post is short: the phones are mounted together as a cluster to experiment with, rather than used one at a time. A commenter asked what the goal is…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Real-time multisensor room monitor on STM32 with FreeRTOS

Phoebien Canete built a room monitoring system for the STM32 Blue Pill, running FreeRTOS and simulated in Wokwi. It reads temperature and humidity from a DHT22, light level from a photoresistor, and motion from a PIR…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela

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