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TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announces the expansion of its NTC temperature sensor portfolio with the M704 (ordering code: B57704M0103A001) and M705 (ordering code: B57705M0103A001) series, engineered for reliable temperature measurement in high-voltage environments. With voltage ratings of up to 4000 V (AC) for the M704 and 2500 V (AC) for the M705, these probe assemblies enable safe and…
Renesas has launched the RX74M and RX74N, the first RX-family microcontrollers built on a 22nm process and the first to use embedded MRAM instead of conventional flash. Both run an RXv3e core at up to 600 MHz, and Renesas says they deliver more than twice the performance of the 240 MHz RX72M and RX72N they succeed. The RX74M targets factory automation gear like AC drives, industrial robots and…
If you have ever wanted to fix a footprint on a college lab PC or a Chromebook where you cannot install anything, this one is for you. Akshay Rukade and the ZiroEDA project have ported KiCad 10's C++ source to TypeScript, so KiCad's schematic editor, PCB editor, interactive router, ERC and DRC run in a normal browser tab. It opens and saves native .kicad_pro projects directly, with no import…
Cheap digital calipers hide a clever capacitive encoder inside, and Nick Steele (nichlock) has turned that idea into an open-source linear scale you can build yourself. It is just two PCBs, a sensor board with an STM32L4 and a passive copper "reflector" strip, sliding about 0.1 mm apart. The maker rates it at 40 µm accuracy against a Mitutoyo digital indicator, and the build costs roughly $32…
The Nokia E6, the 2011 Symbian business phone with a QWERTY keypad and a 640x480 touchscreen, is getting a second life as a Linux machine. Developer fluffleswaffles has brought up Linux 6.12 on it. The project's milestone log starts with a first boot to a BusyBox shell on 13 October, and the kernel now drives the phone's own display, runs the Wayland compositor weston with the foot terminal,…
Analog FPV goggles normally need a dedicated 5.8 GHz receiver module, but Leon (Twotoz) has built one out of a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-C5 and seven resistors. His open-source C5VRX-5 firmware uses the ESP32-C5's own dual-band Wi-Fi radio to pick up the FM video from a drone's analog VTX, demodulates it, and pushes composite PAL or NTSC video out of six GPIO pins into your goggles, a DVR or a…
Temperature sensing on a crowded board usually means putting the thermistor wherever there is room, not where the heat is. Murata has announced the NCU01 series, an NTC thermistor in the 008004-inch size (0.25 mm × 0.125 mm, called 0201M in metric), which the company says is the world's smallest based on its own research as of 19 October 2026. Compared with its previous smallest 01005-inch…
India has pushed back the date from which standalone hard disk drives must carry BIS registration. In a Gazette notification, S.O. 5689(E), dated 16 October 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) says the implementation date of its May order "stands extended to 1st May, 2027". The earlier date was 5 November 2026. If you build NAS boxes, homelab servers or CCTV storage, or buy and…
Hardware hacker machinehum (Rootkit Labs) has built 4reel, a small open-source stereo vision board that gives robots depth perception without a Raspberry Pi or a PC riding along. Two OV9281 global-shutter cameras sit at either end of the PCB, and the depth maths runs on the board's own Rockchip RV1103 chip. Your Arduino or ESP32 just reads the results over UART. Powered by a single-core 1.1…
A single mainstream DDR4 chip now costs more on the spot market than a whole entry-level Raspberry Pi. In its latest memory spot price report, TrendForce put the average spot price of a DDR4 1Gx8 3200 MT/s chip (8 Gb, or 1 GB) at US$46.357 for the week of October 20, up 0.84%. Raspberry Pi still lists the 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 at US$45. If you design boards or buy SBCs, memory now decides your…
Developer juricabi has built StickTime Pi, an open-source project that turns a Raspberry Pi 4 into a "virtual quad". The Pi runs the StickTime FPV simulator and pushes the picture through a 5.8 GHz video transmitter (VTX) wired to its AV jack, so the game shows up in the same analog goggles you use for real flights. You fly it with your own radio over the ExpressLRS/Crossfire WiFi joystick,…
Maker Kati (missmolerat) has designed Clotty, a palm-sized RP2040 board cut in the shape of a uterus. It's meant to be an offline, privacy-first period tracker that plays like a Tamagotchi, and it passed the hacker world's oldest test early: it runs DOOM. The two ovaries are capacitive touchpads, the screen sits in the middle, and the USB-C port is exactly where you'd guess. Kati says the…
