Streaming Games Means the Nintendo DSi Will Never Be Obsolete
There comes a point where you have to acknowledge that your beloved console is out of date and– barring the odd homebrew title– won’t be playing new games ever again. …read more
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JP’s Product Pick of the Week 10/6/26 @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #newproductpick
If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing! Watch the video to find out about the DC Motor +…
Handheld Atari 2600 Packs a CRT
We covered [Nick Bild]’s mini Atari console using original devices not so long ago, and today he’s back with the same console wrapped up with a CRT as a handheld. …read more
Integrating Electronics With Human Cells
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed a flexible mesh that integrates electronics with human cells. The mesh is capable of providing a continuous electrical supply. The study was…
The Hexa-Bouncer ball juggling robot
T-Kuhn has built the Hexa-Bouncer, a ball juggling machine published on Electron Dust and the successor to the Octo-Bouncer. It is a rotary hexapod that uses universal joints on all six arms instead of ball joints. An…
Easy Flash: Flash your ESP32 from the browser
Easy Flash is a browser based tool for writing firmware to ESP32 boards. Pick a hardware project from the list on the page, connect the board, and the flashing happens in the browser with no toolchain to install. It…
Enigma: the machine and its history
A website called enigma.design puts a working 3D model of a German Enigma machine in the browser, with lessons on how it was used and how it was broken. The German military used Enigma during World War II to send…
A Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on an ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM)
Zed (@M-Abozaid) published a DNS ad-blocker on GitHub that runs on a $2 ESP32-C3 with no PSRAM. Most ESP32 DNS sinkholes load blocklist domain strings into RAM, which is why they need PSRAM. This one stores each domain…
Watch Vectrex Doom via the UVMC2 Multicart
Kris Moyse, writing at Time Extension, covered new footage of DOOM appearing on the Vectrex, Milton Bradley’s vector-display tabletop console from 1982. E1M1 is recognizable, with id Software’s 1993 shooter redrawn as…
OFFgrid-SDR: make your own RTL USB HTML SDR radio
diddy-boy has published OFFgrid-SDR on GitHub, a software defined radio receiver that runs in a web browser from a single file. Copy index.html to a USB drive, plug in an RTL-SDR stick and an antenna, and the page…
I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it’s my Home Assistant dashboard
Anton Frolov, writing on his Substack, commissioned an environment artist to illustrate his house and turned the artwork into a Home Assistant dashboard. The goal was simple: nobody else in the family would open the…
Repairing a Couple of Very Expensive Registered DDR5 RAM Sticks
It’s definitely a sign of the times when repair shops get handed sticks of registered ECC DDR5 RAM by businesses to try and fix, rather than just tossing the defective …read more
Automating a 35mm film scanning pipeline
A photographer shooting a Canon AE-1P was spending about four hours per roll of 36 frames: scanning negatives, inverting each file by hand in darktable, cleaning up dust, then editing and filing the results. The…
A terminal monitor for SDR hardware – written in Rust
MusiThang has published sdrtop on GitHub, a terminal monitor for software defined radio hardware, written in Rust. It draws a spectrum, a waterfall and a set of bench instruments inside a tmux pane, an SSH session or a…
Shipping Alert: Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Monday, October 12
Monday, October 12, 2026 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This is a holiday for the Adafruit team as well as some shipping services. We will still be shipping orders on Monday. Delays may occur on orders placed after Friday…
Niklas Roy – the Glashütte Trash Clock #ArtTuesday
The Glashütte Trash Clock is a working pendulum clockwork built almost entirely from discarded materials found in Glashütte, Saxony, during an artist residency hosted by the mechanical watch manufacturer NOMOS. It runs…
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing
People mod games all the time, but it’s not every day someone mods Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80. [Nick Bild] did exactly that, adding joystick support and a couple …read more
velo-emu: a not-so-faithful emulation of the Philips Velo 1
Philip Howard has published velo-emu on GitHub, an emulator for the Philips Velo 1, a 1997 Windows CE Handheld PC. It runs the stock CE 1.0 ROM and the CE 2.0 upgrade ROM, with a simulated backlit LCD, CompactFlash card…
DOOM on a plotter and a YouTube forgery machine
Daniel Catt plotted the E1M1 map from DOOM on a pen plotter and filmed a timelapse of the run, writing about it in his newsletter Drawing Machines & Notes from Art Studio Robots. The map had been a set of theoretical…
Windows 95 running on an ESP32-P4, a tiny386 port
winitboonkliang has published a port of tiny386, Chunhui He’s x86 PC emulator, to the Guition JC8012P4A1C, a 10.1″ ESP32-P4 board with a 1280×800 MIPI-DSI panel. It boots Windows 95 OSR2 from a microSD card, with USB…
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