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…
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…
robotics
Luxonis OAK 4 FFC Puts Five Cameras on One Robot Board
Luxonis' OAK 4 FFC links five MIPI cameras to a 48 TOPS vision module with PoE+, CAN bus and GPIO. See what it means…
raspberry pi
Run an Apple II on Raspberry Pi with the LinApple Emulator
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a 1977 Apple II. Build the LinApple emulator, add Mockingboard sound, and write BASIC the way early game makers…
diy projects
Bot Reborn: A $4 Toy Robot Gets Voice Control and an AI Brain
A $4 toy robot, an FT232H and a tiny fine-tuned model add up to a voice-controlled bot with 200 ms reflexes. See how Bot…
diy projects
Open GPS: A DIY ESP32-S3 Golf Shot Tracker With a Rotary Dial
Open GPS tracks golf shot distances with an ESP32-S3, a NEO-M9N GPS and a rotary dial. See how it works and how to prototype…
diy projects
Chili Pepper: An ESP32-S3 Board Built for DIY Musical Instruments
Chili Pepper packs an ESP32-S3, 24 touch inputs, a PCM5102 DAC and USB MIDI on one open source board. Here is how to prototype…
microcontrollers
IR Remote Protocols Explained: NEC, RC-5 and IrDA for Makers
Why infrared still beats Bluetooth for simple, private control, and how NEC, RC-5 and IrDA work. Decode your first remote with an Arduino or…
diy projects
Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Guide: Build Your Own Console
A new Raspberry Pi Press book shows how to emulate hundreds of consoles, wire DB9 joysticks and build an arcade cabinet. Here is the…
esp32 & esp8266
Scentronic: ESP32 and Gas Sensors Send Smells Over the Internet
Ohio State's Scentronic uses six gas sensors, machine learning and an ESP32 to detect a smell and recreate it remotely. Here is how to…
microcontrollers
LattePanda Sigma 2: 64GB Board with an RP2350 Real-Time Co-Processor
LattePanda's Sigma 2 pairs an Intel Core Ultra X7 with an RP2350 microcontroller for real-time control. Here is what it means for robot and…
arduino
Arduino UNO Q Gets a Touch Library for Adafruit’s 2.8in TFT Shield
Old Uno touchscreen shields break on new boards when SPI pins move. This library remaps them for the Arduino UNO Q and handles FT6206…
diy projects
Raspberry Jams Bring Python and Robots to Rural Argentina
Teacher Eliana Otrera runs Raspberry Jams across rural Argentina, teaching Python, Minecraft and robots on Pis. Here is how to copy her setup in…