company life
300 Hours of Growth: Celebrating our Colegio de Muntinlupa Interns’ OJT Completion
The goal of Circuitrocks Philippines has never changed, which is to inspire every maker or builder. It can be in terms of supplying components…
news & releases
Circuit.Rocks Backs Create & Conquer 2026 as Keystone Sponsor: FEU Tech CpEO Hackathon
Circuit.Rocks joined Create & Conquer 2026, the FEU Tech CpEO hackathon, as a Keystone sponsor: monetary backing, a judging seat on Demo Day, and…
news & releases
Insect-Inspired Flying Robot Survives Swats and 11,000x Loads
A 185 mg polymer flapper from UCLA and UC Davis lifts three times its weight and keeps flying after a flyswatter hit. Here is…
diy projects
DIY Handheld Spectrometer Uses a TCD1304 CCD and STM32
An STM32 board, a TCD1304 linear CCD and a 4-inch SPI display turn a diffraction grating into a battery-powered pocket spectrometer you can carry.
diy projects
Hidden Lockbox Opens Only to a Secret Magnet Gesture
No keyhole, no keypad: a Teensy 4.1 and an 8x8 Hall-sensor grid unlock this wooden box only when you trace the right magnetic gesture.
diy projects
Raspberry Pi Satellite Ground Station Built on an 8-Foot Dish
A salvaged 8-foot dish, a wheelchair motor, a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR become a satellite ground station. See how the pointing and decoding…
diy projects
Sylphide OS Turns Cheap Microcontrollers Into Retro Desktop PCs
Sylphide OS gives ESP32-P4 and Pico 2 boards a windowed desktop with a mouse, built on FreeRTOS. Here's what runs today and what to…
diy projects
Weekend Build: An Intel 8048 Conference Badge from 1976
An Intel 8048 from 1976, an EEPROM and two vintage LED displays make a conference badge you can wire up in a weekend. Parts,…
diy projects
OuijaCNC: A Self-Playing Ouija Board on Raspberry Pi and ESP32
A core XY gantry, a magnet and a spare Pi 3B+ make a Ouija board that spells messages alone. Here is how it works…
diy projects
TWEACMAN: A Pocket WAV Player With Tape-Style Scrubbing Knobs
Two dual-pot knobs and a Renesas RA6M5 board turn WAV playback into tape-style scrubbing, from 0.001x to 1000x. Here's how the trick works.
news & releases
Powered by Raspberry Pi: Photo Booths, Audio DSP and Tablets
A Pi 5 photo booth, a Pi 4 audio DSP platform and a 5-inch Pi tablet show how prototypes turn into products. Here is…
esp32 & esp8266
Proton AI Core Vision+: ESP32-S3 Board With Camera, Mic and IMU
Protonverse Labs packs a 5 MP camera, MEMS mic and 6-axis IMU onto one ESP32-S3 board. Here is what it offers and how to…
raspberry pi
Omnibot Upgrade: Raspberry Pi 5 and AI Camera Revive a 1984 Robot
Mario Cruz gave a 1984 Tomy Omnibot a Raspberry Pi 5, an IMX500 AI camera and an OLED eye, all controlled with audio tones.…
microcontrollers
BeagleConnect QuadESC Drives Four Brushless Motors at Once
BeagleBoard's QuadESC pairs a 200 MHz Cortex-M33 module with four motor drivers rated 40 A each. Here is what it means for student robot…