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
RP2350 Laser Attack: Ledger Donjon Re-Enables Debug
Ledger Donjon used a laser and about $250,000 of lab gear to re-enable debug on a locked RP2350-A4. Here is why Raspberry Pi will…
robotics
MIT Roughened Optical Fibers Sense 3D Shape in Soft Silicone
MIT embedded roughened rubber waveguides in silicone to track 3D shape with under 0.4 cm error. Here's how to try the same light-loss trick…
microcontrollers
Toshiba TXZ+ M4H: 120 MHz Cortex-M4F Entry-Level MCU
Toshiba's new TXZ+ M4H microcontrollers pack a 120 MHz Cortex-M4F, 256 kB flash, and up to 51 GPIO into an entry-class part. Here's what…
diy projects
ESP32 AI Calculator V2 Reads Your Handwritten Equations
This open source ESP32 calculator has a camera and two displays, so it can read a handwritten equation and solve it with cloud or…
diy projects
PhoneBot: Turn an Old Android Phone into a $400 Humanoid Robot
UCLA's PhoneBot uses a $50 Android phone as the brain of a 13-joint humanoid. See how it works and how to try the same…
sensors & modules
Sipeed SLogic32U3: A 1.4 GS/s Logic Analyzer for Student Budgets
Sipeed's SLogic32U3 hits 1.4 GS/s over USB 3.2 with 32 channels and a browser app. Here is what it adds and how to learn…
diy projects
Build an ’80s Brick Phone with a Raspberry Pi Pico and Bluetooth
A Pico, a Bluetooth HFP module, and a keypad turn into a retro brick handset that answers your iPhone's calls. Here is how it…
iot & smart home
Raspberry Pi Runs Home Assistant to Track Its Own Net Zero Goal
Raspberry Pi clamped sensors on every breaker and ran Home Assistant on Pi 4 and Pi 5 to cut energy use. Here is how…
diy projects
LED Bubble Hair Extensions with Motion-Reactive Rain Effects
Braid 2020 NeoPixel seed pixels into hair and let an RP2040 Feather and accelerometer turn a head shake into rain and lightning. A weekend…
diy projects
Retro Brick Bluetooth Handset Built with ESP32 and an HFP Module
A retro brick handset pairs with your phone over Bluetooth. See why the ESP32 audio sounded crunchy and how a dedicated HFP module fixed…
diy projects
Negotiator II: A Business-Card USB-C PD Bench Power Supply
Negotiator II turns any USB-C PD charger into an adjustable 5 V to 48 V bench supply on a 2 mm thick card. Here…
esp32 & esp8266
Q8botOne: A Palm-Sized Wire-Free Quadruped on an ESP32-C3
Q8botOne packs eight smart servos and an ESP32-C3 into a 250 g quadruped with no wiring harness. See how its single-PCB design works and…