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A 3W NPU from Sixfab and DEEPX expands the possibilities for vision and compact language AI at the edge. The post Seeing, understanding, and responding: low-power CNN, VLM and SLM workloads on Raspberry Pi 5 appeared…
UNO Q was designed around a dual-brain architecture that is built to bring high-performance computing and real-time hardware control together on a single board. The Linux environment on the MPU side is constructed to…
Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine …read more
ICYMI (In case you missed it) – the IoT Monthly Newsletter from AdafruitDaily.com went out this morning! If you missed it, subscribe now! – You’ll get one newsletter each month. The next newsletter will be out in a…
Copper sulfate crystals are probably among one of the prettiest crystals you can grow at home, with even just a simple setup with some copper scrap and vinegar already capable …read more
A followup to last year’s Soul Cage vishalsoniindia has another entry in the spooky wearable category. The Eye Pendant is a wearable electronic pendant with a small round display that shows an animated eye. The eye…
The discerning modern gamer’s quest is to find a quieter computer without sacrificing performance. That proves challenging when modern components are highly efficient at producing monumental quantities of thermal…
Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to “silencers” on firearms. On screen, a suppressed pistol makes a pinging thud, and the bad guy in the next …read more
Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to forget what remarkable pieces of engineering they are: …read more
There’s something about when someone claims to have made a suuuuuper small (or even the smallest version of something) that immediately draws me in. This build by maker Milen is no exception! He cites yoradio as his…
Sydney Reefing turns a lava lamp into a reef tank in this video on YouTube. Follow along on YouTube to see the process and problem solving involved with this project. Ranjib Dey wrote an awesome reef-pi project for the…
Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA. The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but it isn’t open source, and there …read more
EI3LH wrote up two days of Parks on the Air activations in County Kilkenny, Ireland, on ei3lh.eu. Both parks were ATNOs, or all time new ones, meaning nobody had activated them before. The first was Coill an Fhailtaigh…
Since 1994 World Teachers Day is honored every October 5. This is a time to celebrate teachers on the anniversiary of a 1966 UNESCO Reccomendation on teachers. Teachers are doing transformative work and they need…
Although VHS-based games have existed for about as long as VHS players have sat in millions of living rooms, they always tended to be rather sparse gaming experiences. For example, …read more
The DEBIX M8391-01 is a compact industrial SBC built around the MediaTek MT8391 (Genio 720) processor, designed for edge AI, computer vision, robotics, and intelligent IoT applications. The SoC’s 9-TOPS NPU enables…
It must be April in October again, because Google Japan has a new, hilariously impractical reimagining of the keyboard: a conveyor belt. This time it’s on GitHub with firmware, STLs, …read more
Back in the old days the IBM-PC, like most of its contemporary computers, shipped with BASIC in ROM. Even after it stopped living in ROM, IBM-Compatibles shipped with GW-BASIC, and …read more
One fascinating thing about a pulsed laser is that, though the average power may be measured in watts or milliwatts, the peak power can easily reach millions of times that. …read more
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up…