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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…
Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) is advancing its collaboration with NVIDIA on 800 Volt direct current (VDC) power architectures for AI data centers. Timed with NVIDIA's GTC Berlin developer conference, the announcement centers on the high-voltage intermediate bus converter (IBC), one of the most critical and demanding conversion stages in the power delivery chain of AI data…
Alonso Vidales has built Off The Cloud, an open-source Raspberry Pi 5 project that lets users store, search and share family photos without relying on a traditional cloud photo and video -storage service. Instead of sending photos and videos to an external server for storage and AI analysis, the system keeps them on a device at home. It automatically backs up full-resolution photos and videos…
Maker Armağan Amcalar demonstrates how multiple ESP-Mosaico boards can work together to build a modular guitar effects system.ESP-Mosaico is a development platform based on the ESP32-S31 chip. In his demonstration, Amcalar uses ESP-NOW, a wireless communication method, to connect boards and run different guitar amplifier models at the same time. These models are software-based simulations that…
Cranktown City has built a DIY satellite ground station that uses an 8-foot satellite dish to follow satellites as they move across the sky and receive the radio signals they transmit. Unlike a manually operated dish, this system can calculate a satellite's position and automatically move the dish to follow it. One of the project's biggest achievements is receiving full-disk weather images…
HVT Lab recently built a custom portable music player using an ESP32 microcontroller, combining local music playback, rotary encoder controls, and Bluetooth connectivity in a compact retro-inspired design. The project allows users to load their favorite songs onto a microSD card and play them through a 3.5 mm headphone jack. An OLED display provides a simple interface, while a rotary encoder…
An open-source project called ESP32 iPhone Agent lets an AI model control a real iPhone using a low-cost ESP32-S3 development board. Created by Henry Yuan, the project can perform actions such as tapping, swiping, typing text, drawing paths and pressing keys. It can also return to the home screen or complete a task. The Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 board costs around $7, and the project does not…
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) debuted the first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to enable 24/7, low-power, event-based remote monitoring at nanosecond resolution.
As AI workloads rapidly increase, data center operators face significant challenges around power instability, inadequate real-time monitoring and signal…
For nearly two decades, vintage Apple iPods have been dormant in desk drawers, victims of dead batteries, obsolete charging cables, and retired iTunes libraries. Now, a London-based hardware startup called Certain Things is changing the narrative with Sprout, an open-source replacement motherboard that drags early-2000s music players kicking and screaming into the modern wireless era. Rather…
