diy projects
DIY PLC on a PocketBeagle 2: Is a $1,000 Allen-Bradley Fair?
A $1,000 PLC versus a $10 dev board: element14's Clem Mayer built his own on a PocketBeagle 2 to find out exactly where the…
diy projects
A Homebrew Motorola 68000 Gets Two Working PCI Slots at 10 MHz
A 1979 CPU and a 1990s bus, wired together by hand: 10 MHz 68000, an FPGA host bridge, and PCI graphics and Ethernet cards…
robotics
Ice Dart: The Drone That Spikes Itself Onto a Drifting Iceberg
Canadian roboticists built a quadcopter that lands on slippery icebergs, drives retractable spines into the ice, and hangs on at a 60-degree tilt.
news & releases
NVIDIA Retires Jetson Xavier: What ECE Students Should Buy Now
NVIDIA set a July 2027 end of life for every Jetson Xavier module. Here is what that means for your capstone build, and which…
microcontrollers
PwrBlock 323: An STM32 Programmable PSU Built Into Your Test Rig
Everypin built a 1-32V programmable supply that bolts inside your test jig and takes SCPI commands over USB. No more hand power-cycling boards at…
diy projects
Teardown 2026: 450 Hardware Hackers Took Over Jupiter Hotel
Crowd Supply's Teardown 2026 packed 41 talks and 47 demo tables into one hotel. Here are the embedded, USB-C PD, and ESP32 bits worth…
microcontrollers
WCH’s CH32V407 Brings Vector Extensions to a $2.40 RISC-V MCU
A 200MHz RISC-V microcontroller with vector extensions, 8MB of optional PSRAM, and a $2.40 price tag. Here is what the CH32V407 can actually do.
diy projects
Reverse Engineering a Cotton Candy Machine’s Robot Brain
A $6,400 cotton candy vending machine refused to run offline. One maker used ADB, SQLite and a patched APK to cut the cord and…
microcontrollers
XCORE-VISION: Real-Time Embedded Vision, No Pi Needed
XMOS' XCORE-VISION runs YOLOv8 and MobileNetV2 on-device with an 8MP camera, landing between the ESP32-CAM and a Raspberry Pi for real-time vision.
microcontrollers
Forlinx AM62L32 Local EVM: Industrial SBC on One Board
Forlinx's AM62L32 Local EVM squeezes a dual Cortex-A53 SoC, a real-time M4F core, and a wall of buses onto one four-layer board, no carrier…
esp32 & esp8266
ESP32 Bit Pirate v1.7 Adds Browser Tools and LoRa Debugging
ESP32 Bit Pirate v1.7 turns cheap Espressif boards into a Bus Pirate-style debug tool, now with in-browser WebUSB access and SX1262 LoRa packet sniffing.
diy projects
Build a Working Apollo DSKY Replica with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
A maker rebuilt the Apollo DSKY with a Raspberry Pi, Arduinos, and open-source VirtualAGC. Every CAD file and schematic is free, so you can…