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12 Oct 2026 edition

48 articles · 6 sources ·

Top topics: Hardware · AI · General

Hardware

Bringing computing to rural schools in Argentina

Meet the teacher running Raspberry Jams so kids can access computers and programming in rural Argentina. The post Bringing computing to rural schools in Argentina appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

Source: Raspberry Pi News Rob Zwetsloot
Hardware

arduino-esp32 GitHub Repo

Language English ESP32This is the GitHub repo of Arduino core for the ESP32 family of SoCs.latestFriday, October 9, 2026https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32Send add/update notification to subscribers: Document…

Source: Espressif News Anonymous
Hardware

WiFi Router Does Software-Defined Radio

Perhaps the most famous of software-defined radios is the RTL-SDR, which is very cheap because it’s a digital TV receiver that’s been pressed into service delivering raw I and Q …read more

Source: Hackaday Jenny List
Hardware

Turn every escape room puzzle into a Home Assistant device

Djair Guilherme has released two open source Arduino libraries on Hackster that make an escape room puzzle show up in Home Assistant as a device. esp32_escaperoom runs on ESP32 boards and handles WiFi and MQTT.…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

8-channel analog monitor with NXP HEF4052BP and Arduino

Robert Fletcher posted a project on Hackster that reads eight analog inputs using only two Arduino ADC pins. The part doing the work is the NXP HEF4052BP, a dual 4-channel analog multiplexer. Each switch section routes…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Stylophone Mini turns the classic pocket synth into a keychain

Synthhead at Synthtopia reports that Stylophone has released the Mini Original, a keychain-sized version of its stylus-played electronic instrument. The original Stylophone dates to 1968. The Mini keeps the metal…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Taking a Nokia 3310 game jam to new heights

Hoani Bryson entered the 8th Nokia 3310 Jam in September 2026 and placed 1st out of 51 entries with Trick Shot II. Writing on hoani.net, Bryson describes building not only the game but the engine and the hardware to run…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Debloat Windows 10 and Windows 11 in just two steps

Julian Horsey at Geeky Gadgets covers WinSux, a one-click PowerShell script from FR33THY that strips unwanted software out of Windows 10 and Windows 11. It removes preinstalled apps, including Microsoft Edge, and…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Doory is an open-source Canva

Siam has published Doory on GitHub, a design editor that runs in the browser and can be self-hosted. It handles posters, social posts, stories, slides, invitations, resumes, thumbnails and business cards. Start from a…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware AI

Shall we play a game? Agent vs. Agent

Pierre, writing at ICT en Onderwijs BLOG, rebuilt an agent-to-agent demo he saw in a Better Stack video. The original pitted GPT-6 Luna against Claude Haiku 5.5 in a game of Battleship. Pierre wanted the same three-part…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Slim type for small screens, with PixelFonts

Developer mcer12 has published PixelFonts, a family of fonts for small, low resolution displays. The fonts are compatible with Adafruit GFX and u8g2, and they are drawn narrow and condensed so more text fits on a line.…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

A Quake platform that for 30 years was considered unreachable

Marcin Wichary, writing on his blog Unsung, points to a Karl Jobst speedrunning video about a new discovery in Quake. The level in question shows the player a bridge up and to the left. Reaching it would skip a large…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Paperboy reaches 60 FPS pixel draws without a full refresh

Developer hpsaturn posted on X about porting Paperboy, Wenting Zhang’s eInk driver work, to older hardware. Paperboy drives eInk panels directly at the row and column level, which gets about 60 FPS without a full…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

Open-Source Voice AI runs entirely on ESP32-S3

Ananthu Ashok, writing for Open Source For You, covers Ivy AI, a voice assistant from Anankush Pandit that runs speech recognition, language model inference and speech synthesis on an ESP32-S3. Firmware, model…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
Hardware

How to knit a breadboard #Threadboard

On the right, the original threadboard, clocking in around 12in x 9in / 30cm x 22cm; on the left, the tutorial threadboard, about 7in x 5in / 18cm x 12cm, image via Alanna Okun/button mash Dubbed the threadboard, this…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben

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