arduino
Arduino VENTUNO Q Runs a Vision Model on a Robot Arm
A $299 Arduino VENTUNO Q runs a vision-language-action model on-board, teaching an SO-101 robot arm to pick and place from just 50 demonstrations.
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.
arduino
This Arduino Watches a Treadmill With a Webcam to Clock Speed
A rented treadmill, a USB webcam, and an Arduino VENTUNO Q: an on-board neural net reads belt speed and broadcasts it over Bluetooth as…
diy projects
An ATmega Robot Arm That Serves Badminton Shuttlecocks
A Denso VS050 arm, a pneumatic grabber and two silicone-rimmed discs turn a solo badminton drill into a robotics build you can scale down.
arduino
An Arduino Nano ESP32 Robot Flips All 666 Pixels of This Display
Most flip-disc displays need one solenoid per pixel. This 666-tile panel uses a single Arduino Nano ESP32 gantry robot that prods each tile instead.
arduino
Never Buy the Same L298N Twice: An Arduino UNO Q Parts Tracker
A maker got tired of owning eight identical motor drivers, so he built an Arduino UNO Q inventory tracker that answers one question: do…
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…
news & releases
Adafruit GP8403 I2C DAC Pushes Analog Output All the Way to 10V
Most DACs cap out at 5V. The GP8403 breakout boosts to a real 0-10V analog output over I2C, which unblocks fan drivers, bias rails…
iot & smart home
Upline Puts an ATtiny85 Online Using 4,060 Bytes of Flash
Upline is an open source serial protocol that gets an ATtiny85 or Arduino UNO on the web through a USB cable, using 4,060 bytes…
diy projects
This Arduino Nano-Sized Board Packs a 300 MHz Cortex-M7 Chip
Magmabow squeezed a 300 MHz ATSAME70 Cortex-M7 into an Arduino Nano footprint, and the BGA routing trick he used is worth stealing.
diy projects
This ATmega328P Clock Keeps Swatch’s Failed Internet Time Alive
Swatch's 1998 .beat time died fast, but one maker rebuilt it around an ATmega328P, a DS3231 and a 1990s HPDL-1414 bubble display.
diy projects
This Giant 16×2 Character Display Runs on an RP2040 and 1,000 LEDs
A maker rebuilt the classic 16×2 character LCD at 7x scale using 1,000+ addressable LEDs and an RP2040 that still speaks I2C to any…