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Maker Faire Rome is back! On October 23rd–25th makers, engineers, educators, and tech enthusiasts will gather for three incredible days of innovation, hands-on demos, and live talks. We’re proud to be Gold Sponsors of…
Take a look around the unique Founders, Inc. campus incubating what hope to be future-defining technology companies. The post Building the next generation of hardware founders appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
[Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to multiply and divide. If you can’t …read more
We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and complexity of commercial gamepads, they started soldering …read more
John Paul Maluya, Karl Vincent Remo, and Amer Patrick Lauma built an eight-song music player built on the STM32F407 RT-Spark board. Check out the details of their project on hackster.io This project was developed for…
In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take …read more
#circuitpythonparsec Use the STEMMA QT port on your board as a plug-and-play set of GPIO pins plus power and ground! Also, bonus code to ask the board for pin name aliases. Try out the code example To learn about…
RAM is expensive. There was a time when makers would default to the beefiest Pi for nearly any project. A little extra RAM couldn’t hurt, right? Well, these days, a little extra RAM can hurt your wallet. Calvin Wankhede…
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the parallels …read more
These days, it’s common to give even very young children a mobile device loaded up with educational software that aims to improve everything from basic motor skills to reading and …read more
Critical Internet keys changed this week. Did you notice? The keys behind DNSSEC, the system for cryptographically validating DNS responses, rolled over on October 11 2026. This is the second …read more
To put it simply, we LOVE nOOds! Our flexible LEDs come in different lengths and color and are perfect when you want lighting that’s got pizzazz. They’re made of dozens of micro LED diodes that are bonded together on an…
A paper posted to arXiv compares two low power mesh protocols used in smart home gear: Zigbee and Matter over Thread. Both run on 802.15.4 radios, both build mesh networks, and both show up in products from the same…
Simon Batt, writing at XDA Developers, reports that Microsoft has responded to the wave of AI-assisted game decompilations with a new group of its own. Recent examples include Super Smash Bros. Melee being decompiled…
The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled…
Eugene Tkachenko built this Halloween set up that transmorphs the existential fear of AI into actual jump scares. It relies on a Raspberry Pi with the SONY IMX500 AI camera to send a message to an off-the-shelf…
The ‘biofriendly’ nature of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) filament often gets touted as one of its main advantages over alternatives like PETG, but even a modicum of research ought to inform …read more
After a successful campaign for Xerxes Pi back in 2025, Rapid Analysis has returned with a Xerxes Home Lab ecosystem that includes the Xerxes Pi 2026 and Xerxes Nano carrier board. The upgrade includes M.2 NVMe storage…
It’s often said in this community that DOOM can be made to run on anything, and as time goes on, that’s becoming more and more accurate. We’re at the point …read more
The news of the past couple of weeks has seen the ESP32 turned into an software-defined radio (SDR) thanks to a hidden baseband mode, an exciting development by anyone’s standards. …read more