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10 items on 31 Aug 2026
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P.A.R. is a flip-squisk display that draws your pixel art

Flip-disc displays used to be very common in the days before affordable LEDs, LCDs, and OLEDs. But as electromechanical devices with a lot of moving parts, they’re expensive and rare today. That’s a shame, because…

Source: Arduino Blog Arduino Team
Python GitHub Hardware

home-assistant/core: 2026.9.0b5

Resolve missing local addresses for Mitsubishi Comfort devices (@nikolairahimi - #173270) velbus: fix unique_id collision for Property sensor entities (@StefCoene - #176343) Fix mangled model names in Google Generative…

Source: Home Assistant Core Releases frenck
Hardware

Digital “Film” For Your Pi Camera

The formula of a Raspberry Pi camera is such that it’s almost a self-assembly kit of parts. Over the years we’ve seen a lot of attempts to make one that’s …read more

Source: Hackaday Jenny List
Hardware

A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady

Flip disc displays can be quite a task to drive, what with having some sort of actuator mechanism for each and every dot in the display. [Zimm] has built an …read more

Source: Hackaday Zoe Skyforest
Hardware

Making a Robot to Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks

Sometimes regarded as a less violent form of tennis, badminton is still a pretty challenging sport. One which suffers like so many sports from requiring at least two players since …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch
Hardware

Get Your Monitor Transmitting VHF with a Browser Tool

If you’re intending to transmit on the VHF band, you’re probably going to reach for a handheld or some kind of rackmount rig in your ham shack. But you needn’t …read more

Source: Hackaday Zoe Skyforest