New Products 8/29/2026
We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here This week we debut 3 New Products. Adafruit GP8403 Breakout Board I2C DAC with 12V Booster + NVM – STEMMA QT / qwiic Adafruit Stereo I2S 3W Amplifier Breakout – Dual…
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Compact PCB Vise Uses Up That Leftover Filament
Needing less than 70 grams of filament, [Chefkoch]’s 3D printed PCB vise solder station might be a good way to use up some filament spool leftovers and get yourself a …read more
home-assistant/core: 2026.9.0b4
Fix Growatt V1 total output power (@HansKDev - #176513) Fix SmartThings AC temperature range unit conversion (@StellarSea - #180299) Recognize AirGradient 0-1PS as an outdoor model (@samuelbles07 - #180313) Fix…
Wikipedia on a Cheap Yellow Display
The Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) is a board carrying a slightly older ESP32 variant, a display with a resistive touchscreen, an SD card, and not much else. It’s often used …read more
Prepare for NASA’s Roman Launch
Teams inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida encapsulate the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope within the payload fairing on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, ahead of…
Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?
Wadis, or river valleys that are dry in winter months, in Yemen are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 256 miles above. via NASA Sometimes meandering, sometimes turbulent, every river seems to…
Motorized Planer Height Adjustment Dials In
Having access to a planer opens up a lot of options for woodworking. It enables a craftsman to work with much rougher lumber and the finished results generally have tighter …read more
Same As It Ever Was
Whether you like it or not, the use of LLMs to write code is kind of a big deal at the moment. We’ve been asking ourselves what, if anything, this …read more
Firehat brings FireWire capture to Raspberry Pi
Computer Equipment Group has developed Firehat, an open-source FireWire HAT designed for single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi 5 and Radxa ROCK 2F. The board uses a VIA VT6315N FireWire controller to provide…
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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…
The Kodak DC50 camera is now usable on the Apple II
Colin Leroy-Mira has just released a new Quicktake for Apple II version, and it is a quite large upgrade. The program now supports a new camera, the Kodak DC50 Zoom, released in 1996, thirteen years after the Apple IIe.…
Wear Your Way Out Of AI Surveilance
For decades now many of us have lived in surveillance societies where it’s difficult not to be within the view of a camera. When being noticed depended on the attention …read more
home-assistant/core: 2026.9.0b3
Validate KNX entity store data before setting up UI entities (@farmio - #180067) Poll the myStrom motion sensor readings (@frenck - #180416) Restore Plex recovery from a changed plex.direct certificate (@frenck -…
3D Printed Piano Action Faithful to the Original
A piano’s internal mechanism for translating a key press into sound is surprisingly complicated. It has to do a lot of things simultaneously and quickly: provide precise control over velocity, …read more
Playing Snake with a Pneumatic Display
[soiboi soft]’s vacuum-driven dot matrix display is part suction gripper, part touchscreen, and altogether impressive. Its display capabilities are entirely shadow-based, with each pixel being made of a cavity behind…
ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 (Core 3 304) review – Part 1: Specifications, unboxing, teardown, and first boot
ACEMAGIC sent us a sample of the Kron Mini K5 Wildcat Lake mini PC for review. The computer is offered with either an Intel Core 3 304 or Core 5 320 CPU, and features triple display output, 2.5GbE and WiFi 6 networking,…
This Library Needs to Be At Least… Three Times Bigger
Many of us have noted a tremendous price increase in many computer components for some mysterious reason. Whatever this cause is will be debated among the various modern philosophers and …read more
What GLM-5.3 Flash running on Chinese hardware actually means