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Penn State’s Paint-On Electronic Tattoos Read ECG, EEG and EMG
Penn State's brush-on conductive ink turns bare skin into a washable electrode that records ECG, EEG and EMG, and even drove a robotic hand.
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W E Ink Typewriter: A Focused WriterDeck
A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and a Waveshare ePaper screen become a distraction-free typewriter, with a live word-count display and a screen that…
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Thread-Based Circuits Sew Health Monitoring Into Your Clothes
Tufts researchers built full analog circuits on a single gold-coated thread that senses breathing and blinking. Here is how to try sewable electronics yourself.
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PocketBeagle 2 Powers an Offline, Privacy-First Security Camera
Clem Mayer built a cloud-free security camera on the PocketBeagle 2 that detects people locally and keeps every frame of video at home.
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Build an Offline Privacy Security Camera on PocketBeagle 2
A weekend build: a PocketBeagle 2 security camera that runs person detection locally and keeps every frame off the cloud and under your control.
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Porting Apache NuttX to the Adafruit Fruit Jam to Run Doom
A forum maker ported Apache NuttX to the Adafruit Fruit Jam, adding USB input and a DVI framebuffer to run LVGL demos and even…
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Brass and a Raspberry Pi 5: A Handheld PC You Build Yourself
Maker Huy Vector bent brass tubes into a frame for a Raspberry Pi 5 handheld with a 4-inch HDMI screen and an I2C keyboard.…
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Build a Rotating UV Flame Scanner With the UVTRON R2868
A solar-blind UVTRON R2868 phototube on a spinning platform spots flames through dense brush from 15 meters. Here's the parts list and wiring.
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Duality Canvas: Build a Wall-Sized ESP32 LED Display With WLED
Andy Huot's Duality Canvas tiles 16x16 addressable-LED PCB panels into a wall-sized display you can scale to any size, driven by an ESP32 and…
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A Palm-Sized Battery Bench Power Supply Built on the ATtiny3216
Ben Makes Everything built a palm-sized battery bench power supply with 0.8V to 22V output, USB-C PD charging, and an ATtiny3216 running the show.
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Lini: An Open-Source Raspberry Pi CM5 Handheld With 40-Pin GPIO
The open-source Lini handheld runs a Raspberry Pi CM5 and breaks out a full 40-pin GPIO header with 6A rails, turning a pocket computer…
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Open Book Touch: The ESP32-S3 E-Reader Built to Be Hacked
A $149 open-source e-reader runs on an ESP32-S3, sips under a milliamp while reading, and hands you the firmware, PCB, and CAD to hack…