microcontrollers
Luxonis M8 Box: An RP2040 That Wires Edge AI to Machines
An RP2040 runs the I/O on Luxonis' new M8 Box, letting an edge AI camera flip 16 A relays and drive a CAN bus…
microcontrollers
SensWear Puts an Open Source Wearable Stack on the nRF54L15
SensWear bundles an nRF54L15 board, swappable PPG, temperature and touch sensor modules, Zephyr firmware and open SDKs to fast-track wearable prototypes.
microcontrollers
ChronoWatch X2040: An RP2040 Smartwatch That Just Tells Time
An RP2040 and a Waveshare round touchscreen become a distraction-free smartwatch, coded in C on the Pico SDK with custom touch handling and swappable…
diy projects
Doom Runs on a Scratch-Built RISC-V CPU on an FPGA
An MIT student team designed a five-stage RISC-V CPU from logic gates, dropped it on an FPGA, and pushed Doom from 0.7 FPS to…
microcontrollers
Nordic nRF54L15 Discovery: Two Open-Hardware Boards, One PCB
Icy Electronics' nRF54L15 Discovery packs a Cortex-M33, a RISC-V coprocessor, and a snap-off CMSIS-DAP debugger onto one open-hardware PCB for $27.19.
microcontrollers
CircuitPython 10.3.0 Alpha 4 Brings Audio Effects to RP2040
CircuitPython 10.3.0-alpha.4 adds new audio effects to RP2040 and RP2350 boards, three settings.toml keys, and an SPI baudrate change worth knowing.
diy projects
AirMeter: Stream an AN870 Multimeter’s LCD to Your Browser
A hacker tapped a cheap AN870 multimeter's LCD lines with an RP2040 and streamed live readings to any browser over 433 MHz. Here's how…
microcontrollers
Olimex PICO-EVB Turns a Raspberry Pi Pico Into a Mini-PLC
Olimex PICO-EVB turns a Raspberry Pi Pico into a real PLC: four 15A relays, optoisolated inputs, and Home Assistant support for about $17.
arduino
Meet Pinch: A 32-Bit Arduino Board Smaller Than a Fingernail
The Moddo Pinch is a 32-bit Arduino-compatible dev board just 10.5 x 10.9 mm, packing a SAM D11, 15 GPIO pins, and an RGB…
diy projects
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.
microcontrollers
Moonshine Micro Puts Voice AI on a Sub-$1 RP2350 Chip
A new open-source toolkit squeezes voice detection, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech onto the sub-$1 RP2350, no cloud required.
arduino
Pinch: A Fingertip-Sized 32-Bit Arduino-Compatible Dev Board
The pinch crams a 32-bit Arduino-compatible board onto something the size of a USB-C plug: 15 GPIO pins, native USB, and a $16 pre-order.