news & releases
DirectHop: A 1-Gram Robot That Jumps With a DC Motor
A gram-scale robot swaps its spring for a coreless DC motor, letting researchers dial the jump height with current instead of a fixed release.
microcontrollers
CircuitPython 11.0.0-alpha.1 Adds RP2350 Sleep Alarms
CircuitPython 11.0.0-alpha.1 adds RP2350 deep-sleep alarms, wake-on-pin support, and faster USB. Here's what changed and how to flash it this weekend.
news & releases
Raspberry Pi Official Annual 2027: A Year of Pi Builds in One Book
A year of Raspberry Pi projects in one book: home automation, a robot arm hack, Pi 500+ upgrades, and updated OS guides. Here's your…
microcontrollers
Seeed XIAO SAMD21 Plus and RP2040 Plus Double the GPIO Count
Seeed kept the postage-stamp footprint but pushed the XIAO SAMD21 to 30 GPIO and the RP2040 to 29, with onboard battery charging from $4.90.
microcontrollers
Olimex’s Neo6502kbd Hides a Real MOS 6502 Inside a 50-Euro Keyboard
Olimex put a genuine WDC W65C02 under a wedge-shaped keyboard, paired it with an RP2040 for video and USB, and priced the Apple II…
diy projects
Seeed’s reComputer RK3576 Kit Runs YOLO11 at 80 FPS for $219
Seeed's new RK3576 dev kit packs a 6 TOPS NPU, a Pi-compatible 40-pin header and an optional 20 TOPS accelerator. Here's whether your build…
arduino
Arduino’s Zephyr RTOS Core Hits 1.0.0: What Changes for Makers
Arm killed MbedOS, so Arduino rebuilt on Zephyr. The 1.0.0 core adds Nicla Vision camera support, Zephyr 4.4.1, and VENTUNO Q silicon.
news & releases
Raspberry Pi’s CM5 Programming Jig Flashes Modules in One Press
Raspberry Pi's new $600 Programming Jig writes an OS, secure-boot keys and disk encryption to a CM5 in one clamp press. Here's how to…
news & releases
Banana Pi’s BPI-AI2N Packs 15 TOPS of Vision AI Into a Module
Banana Pi's BPI-AI2N runs vision models on-device: a Renesas RZ/V2N module with 15 TOPS, 8 GB of RAM, dual GbE and two MIPI CSI…
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…
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…
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…