esp32 & esp8266
The ESP32-C61-MINI Finally Ships: Budget Wi-Fi 6 for Your Builds
After nearly three years, Espressif's ESP32-C61-MINI is on sale at $10.70 for five, bringing Wi-Fi 6 and Matter to budget maker and student builds.
diy projects
Open Sauce 2026: Maker Builds You Can Recreate This Weekend
Seven takeaways from Open Sauce 2026, plus how to recreate the show floor's cleverest ESP32 and Raspberry Pi builds on your own desk this…
news & releases
A NIR Wearable Patch That Watches the Brain Clean Itself
Georgia Tech's sub-centimeter forehead patch uses near-infrared light and a 110 mAh battery to track the brain's nightly glymphatic cleanup at home.
news & releases
AI Projects with Raspberry Pi: Run Local Models on a Pi 5
A new Raspberry Pi Press book walks you through running computer vision, local LLMs, and gesture recognition on a Pi 4, 5, Pico, and…
iot & smart home
FalconS1 Pro Brings 26 TOPS of Local Edge AI to the Factory Floor
The FalconS1 Pro runs AI models right on the factory floor with 26 TOPS of local inference, no cloud round-trip, and open schematics you…
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.
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…
diy projects
Build a Modular x86 Cyberdeck on the LattePanda IOTA
A two-person startup built an open-source, dual-boot handheld PC on the Intel LattePanda IOTA, and the design files are heading to GitHub soon.
news & releases
NVIDIA Jetson T3000 and T2000: Smaller, Faster Edge AI
NVIDIA's Blackwell-powered Jetson T3000 and T2000 pack up to 865 teraflops of edge AI into modules half the size and power of the T5000.
microcontrollers
ARDEP: An Open-Source STM32 Dev Board for Automotive Electronics
ARDEP is an open-source STM32 dev board packing dual CAN-FD, LIN, and 48V protection onto one PCB, so joining a car's network gets a…
microcontrollers
DEBIX T62P-01: Industrial Edge Computer With Real-Time Cores
The DEBIX T62P-01 blends four Cortex-A53 cores with two real-time R5F cores, bringing deterministic industrial control to compact edge computing.