microcontrollers
Clintech Pico Board: All 48 RP2354B GPIOs in a Pico 2 Footprint
Ran out of pins on your Pico 2? Clintech's new board exposes all 48 RP2354B GPIOs in the same footprint, with room for every…
diy projects
KENSAT: A Home-Built CubeSat Running a TinyLlama LLM in Orbit
A home-built 2U CubeSat runs a TinyLlama model on a Jetson Orin Nano and does its AI thinking in orbit before radioing results back…
diy projects
Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck Turns a Teensy Into a Pocket Music Studio
A Raspberry Pi 4 and Teensy 4.1 team up as a pocket M8-tracker music workstation you can build in a single weekend, screen and…
microcontrollers
The $50 Forgix Puts a Raspberry Pi RP2354 and an FPGA on One Board
Adiuvo's $50 Forgix drops a Raspberry Pi RP2354 and an Efinix FPGA onto one breadboard-friendly board, with an open-source bitstream loader.
diy projects
WeAct N006: A Credit-Card-Sized Jetson Orin NX Carrier Board
The credit-card-sized WeAct N006 crams a Jetson Orin NX and 40W of edge-AI power into a drone-ready board for about $130. Here is what…
diy projects
The Tanmatsu Handheld: An ESP32-P4 Palmtop Built for Hackers
Born a conference badge, the Tanmatsu is now a real open-source ESP32-P4 palmtop. Here is how the RISC-V handheld actually holds up a year…
news & releases
Circuit.Rocks Sponsors SparkFest 2026: GDG PUP Hackathon on July 9
Circuit.Rocks is an official hardware sponsor of SparkFest 2026 - the Google Developer Group PUP hackathon on July 9 at PUP Main Campus, Bulwagang…
3d printing
Build a 3D-Printed Fallout Laser Tag Blaster With a Pico 2 W
A maker spent a year turning a 3D printer and a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W into an arcade-grade, Fallout-themed laser tag system. Here's…
3d printing
E3D Bastion Coated Gears: A Hardened Extruder Upgrade for Bambu Lab
E3D's Bastion DLC-coated extruder gears promise more grip and far less wear for Bambu Lab X1C, X1E, P1P and P1S printers running abrasive filament.
esp32 & esp8266
FGRFMesh Brings Open Sub-GHz Mesh Networking to ESP32 & STM32
Crowded Wi-Fi pushing you out? FGRFMesh is an open 868 MHz mesh platform for ESP32 and STM32 that makes sub-GHz networking refreshingly hackable.
3d printing
E3D Bastion Coated Gears Toughen Up Your Bambu Lab Extruder
E3D's Bastion DLC-coated hardened steel gears drop into the Bambu Lab X1C, X1E, P1P, and P1S to survive abrasive filaments. A perfect weekend upgrade.
3d printing
This Giant 3D-Printed Spiral Lamp Runs WLED on an ESP32-C3
A floor-standing spiral lamp built from 3D-printed segments and addressable LEDs, driven by WLED on an ESP32-C3. Here is how it goes together.