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If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick(s) of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the Adafruit I2S 3W Class D Amplifier Breakout – MAX98357A! Watch the video to find out about the Adafruit I2S 3W Cla...
If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version....
This is CircuitPython 10.4.0-alpha.2, an alpha release for 10.4.0. Further features, changes, and bug fixes will be added before the final release of 10.4.0....
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GitHub user ch32-riscv-ug has developed wch-protocols, a knowledge base for the protocols behind flashing and debugging WCH’s CH32 RISC-V chips....
jzb at LWN reports that Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced seven stable kernel releases at once: 7.2.6, 6.18.52, 6.12.110, 6.6.157, 6.1.188, 5.15.221 and 5.10.270....
Writing on yuvalino.com, jachashx traced a demo crash at DEFCON 34 down to a 40 year old kernel bug. The demo was a VM running an SSH server inside an iOS app, with a userspace TTY built from a pair of connected UNIX domain sockets. It crashed only o...
NollKollTroll has published OpenSpand on Codeberg, an all-in-one expansion for the Sinclair ZX81 and its clones. It works much like the ZXpand+, with more functions and extended versions of the existing ones....
An anonymous writer at A6M-Zero set two rules for a hardware experiment: describe a board in plain English, then stay out of the design. The prompt asked for an RP2350 development board that drives an E-ink display. Fable 5 worked autonomously for a ...
Ayush Pande, writing at XDA Developers, snapped one of the MIPI latches on his Raspberry Pi 5 within a few months of buying the board. He ignored it until he wanted to run two cameras into a Frigate server on the same Pi. That meant both MIPI sockets...
Can a $20 hotspot help you conquer doomscrolling? bkovac on GitHub created this texting device from an inexpensive modem....
In the future, every microcontroller will be able to run models with 1.5 million parameters....
Michael Larabel at Phoronix reports that Firefox 157 Beta is out, moving the browser’s next release into public beta testing....
rh1tech has published FRANK-386, an i386 PC emulator that runs on the RP2350, the chip on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2. It is based on Tiny386 by Chunhui He, ported to the microcontroller by Mikhail Matveev and DnCraptor....
Adafruit has published turbo on GitHub, a pair of pieces that let CircuitPython run machine code from the @micropython.native and @micropython.viper decorators. The language already has the decorators. What was missing was firmware that can load the ...
lambdamikel has published Perfect Paul ][ on GitHub, a DECtalk speech synthesizer card for the Apple II built around a Raspberry Pi Pico. It is named after DECtalk’s default voice. The card speaks plain text, sings in DECtalk’s phoneme mode, and can ...
gpasquero has published the source for Vintage Emulator Studio (VES) on GitHub. VES is an audio plug-in for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows, and Linux, in AU and VST3 formats where supported, plus a standalone application. It wraps a curated...
This is CircuitPython 10.3.1, a bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release....
A new project called zSST is a SystemVerilog implementation of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics chipset, the SST-1. Paired with the z486 soft CPU and the rest of a PC’s hardware, it forms z486 XL: a DOS machine with Voodoo graphics running entirely in the pr...
Marko Štamcar, writing for the Računalniški muzej in Ljubljana, traced the origins of the plastic case used by the Iskra Delta Partner, the most successful Slovenian microcomputer. The 1983 Partner was built around the Zilog Z80 family and CP/M 2.2, ...
Kenton Varda documented the LAN party house he and Jade Wang built in Austin, Texas, at lanparty.house. The basement game room has 12 PCs built into the walls that fold away when not in use. A conference table in the office opens to reveal six more s...
Ken Shirriff has published another look inside Intel’s 8087 floating-point coprocessor on righto.com, this time tracing the microcode behind a single instruction: FSCALE. He is working with the Opcode Collective, a group reverse engineering the chip’...
Marcin Wichary, writing on his blog Unsung, points readers to the Game UI Database, a reference site covering the interfaces of almost 2,000 games through more than 75,000 screenshots. It was built by Edd Coates, who calls himself a UI artist. The si...
Mike Rankin posted on X about trying OSP, a less expensive PCB surface finish, for the first time. He ordered boards from JLCPCB to compare it against the ENIG finish he normally uses....
The Chip Letter published a guest post by Jordan Taylor on computing with air. It covers fluidic logic: circuits that switch and store state using pressure and flow instead of electrons. Harvard’s Wyss Institute Octobot ran on a hydrogen peroxide res...
Mike McCoy writes at mbmccoy.dev about a preprint that proves the Spherical Hadwiger Conjecture, open since about 1974....
NishantJoshi00 bought an Xteink X3 e-reader because the fine print said it was fully programmable, and wrote up the result on nishantjosh.dev. Loading files onto it meant joining the device’s hotspot and using a browser upload page. So the goal becam...
Alfonso Maruccia at TechSpot reports that the RPCS3 team has added direct disc play to the PlayStation 3 emulator. Games can now boot straight from their original Blu-ray discs, with no need for external servers. Developers “digant73” and “Megamouse”...
A writeup posted at kjartanvandriel.github.io walks through solving a Jane Street puzzle that hands you just two files: a GDS chip layout and a VCD recording of one test run. No Verilog, no schematic, just polygons on layers....
Brian Krebs reports at Krebs on Security that Microsoft shipped updates for at least 974 security flaws this month, the largest single patch batch the company has ever released. The previous record was 570 flaws in July. September’s release pushes th...
DosFox1 has posted OSHintosh on GitHub, an open source hardware Macintosh 512Ke logic board built with no Apple hardware at all. It is a diskless machine: no SCSI, no floppy drive, no mass storage of any kind. It boots from a disk image baked into th...
Michael Larabel reports at Phoronix that Intel has reversed its decision to cancel Intel One Mono, the company’s open-source font project....
A drone detector that relies on that unique whir of propellers, not a radio signal. University of York student Agam Rossen built this open-source acoustic drone detector. It uses four MEMS mics, an ESP32-S3, and it hears the propellers instead of the...
The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi)....
Super cool recent build from Indian maker Arnov Sharma:...
Prints Charming walks viewers through how they make these flat stained glass inspired 3D prints of Pokémon in this YouTube video:...
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more....
Brewser is a homebrew web runtime for modded Switch consoles. The app Matrix Studio lets you drive an LED Matrix from your Switch!...
Would you like to add powerful and easy-to-use Bluetooth Low Energy to your robot, art or other electronics project? Heck yeah! With BLE now included in modern smart phones and tablets, its fun to add wireless connectivity. So what you really need is...
UPDATED GUIDE: Adafruit Metro M4 AirLift (WipperSnapper Essentials)...
Skye Jacobs, writing for TechSpot, reports that JAXA will launch its Martian Moons eXploration mission, MMX, from Tanegashima Space Center on October 20. The spacecraft will travel to Phobos and return at least 10 grams of material to Earth in 2031. ...