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…
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…
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…