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…
news & releases
Microduck: A $399 Open-Source Biped Robot for Physical AI Labs
A 25 cm biped with 15 degrees of freedom, an 8x8 ToF LiDAR and a $399 preorder price. Here is what Microduck offers student…
diy projects
TinyML on a Raspberry Pi 3: LesionIQ Scans Skin Lesions Offline
A PhD student in Edinburgh fit a skin-lesion classifier onto a Raspberry Pi 3 with no internet at all. Here is how that constraint…
diy projects
How ExpressLRS Squeezes Kilometers Out of a 1-Watt ESP32 Link
Four open-source ELRS receivers, an SX1280 LoRa radio, and one 50-ohm trace: the RF design tricks that keep a 1-watt link locked kilometers out.
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…
esp32 & esp8266
An ESP32-P4 Runs Doom While Claude Sonnet Fumbles the Controls
A 51-ray depth scan, an ASCII automap, and a WebSocket that freezes the game between moves. That is everything Claude Sonnet gets to survive…
raspberry pi
LiteRT on Raspberry Pi 5: Run Gemma and Vision Models Locally
Google's LiteRT CLI puts Gemma and EfficientNet on a Raspberry Pi 5 with three commands. Here is the setup, the file sizes, and the…
news & releases
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 Packs 78 TOPS Into a 15-Watt Board
Double the inference of the Orin Nano Super at 78 TOPS, plus 40 percent less power in 15-watt mode. What NVIDIA's new Jetson means…
diy projects
DIY PLC on a PocketBeagle 2: Is a $1,000 Allen-Bradley Fair?
A $1,000 PLC versus a $10 dev board: element14's Clem Mayer built his own on a PocketBeagle 2 to find out exactly where the…
arduino
Arduino VENTUNO Q: 8-Core Dragonwing SBC With an STM32 Sidekick
Arduino's VENTUNO Q pairs an 8-core Dragonwing with an STM32, 16GB of LPDDR5 and a 40 TOPS DSP for $299. Here's what to have…
diy projects
How a DIY 1S FPV Quadcopter Reached 5 km and 34 Minutes Aloft
A 1S quad that flies 34 minutes and 5 km, and the copper battery tray that made it possible. The voltage-sag fix works on…
esp32 & esp8266
ESPHome Firmware Cuts the Litter-Robot 4 Free From the Cloud
A PIC runs the motors, an ESP32 just bridges Wi-Fi to UART. Reflash that ESP32 with ESPHome and the litter box answers to Home…
diy projects
Build Your Own Cyberdeck: A Raspberry Pi 5 Power Budget Guide
Raspberry Pi's cyberdeck guide breaks the build into brains, peripherals, power and case, with the 28W power maths most first decks get wrong.