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FeroFlyF405 is an open source flight controller built around the STM32F405 microcontroller and running INAV firmware. It was designed from scratch by a maker named Farhan, who shared the hardware files on GitHub and documented the build in a video walkthrough.
The board has an LSM6DSL IMU, a DPS368 barometer, 12 motor outputs, a CAN bus, an I2C port…
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today introduced four new power modules featuring 650 V superjunction MOSFETs in the industry-standard SOT-227 package. Designed to deliver an optimized balance between conduction and switching losses, the Vishay Semiconductors VS-FC50SA65, VS-FC100SA65, VS-FC150SA65, and VS-FC50LA65 support high efficiency power conversion in industrial applications.…
SemiconLab has introduced LiteWing Blockly, a visual programming application that lets users create autonomous LiteWing drone programs with drag-and-drop blocks instead of writing code from scratch. The software is designed to make drone programming more accessible for students, beginners, makers, and educators, while also showing the Python code generated by each block arrangement in real…
Maker pasquale887 has developed HaloSense V1, a wearable haptic headband that helps users sense the direction of people and objects through vibrations instead of looking at a screen. The headband has 13 small vibration motors arranged around the forehead. When a person or target is detected in a particular direction, the motor in the corresponding position vibrates, helping the wearer…
A maker has built a calculator out of some 3D-Printed parts that can perform up to six-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division that too without any complicated electronics. The machine is made from more than 130 custom designed parts and works entirely through gears, pins, levers, springs, and a hand crank. Its design is inspired by historic mechanical calculators, especially…
This DIY drone is doing something much more than taking aerial photos. It uses a custom FMCW radar to create detailed images of the ground from the air.This is built by Henrik Forstén.The system sends radio signals toward the ground and measures the signals that bounce back. As the drone flies, it collects thousands of these measurements and combines them using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)…
David Montero Crespo, creator of Velxio.dev, has managed to run the classic 1998 PlayStation game Metal Gear Solid on the tiny, low-cost microcontroller board - the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense. Instead of emulating the old PlayStation hardware, the project rebuilds the game from its reversed C source code and compiles it directly to run on the ESP32-S3’s processor. The game data is stored…
CPSdrone is building a DIY autonomous submarine to explore shipwrecks without needing GPS while underwater. Since GPS signals cannot reach the submarine underwater, the team added a Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) to help it navigate. The DVL sends sound waves toward the seafloor and listens for the signals that bounce back. By measuring how the sound changes as the submarine moves, it can…
LazyDays Creation built a compact, portable digital compass based on an ESP32-S3 Super Mini and a three-axis magnetometer. He chooses an ESP32-S3 Super Mini because it is capable enough for the project while also including a built-in lithium-battery charging circuit. A round colour display gives the finished device a distinctive watch-like appearance, while the rechargeable battery allows it…
MirrorBallBot, an open-source ball-balancing robot from a maker using the GitHub handle AndreaFavero71, looks at its platform through a mirror rather than from above. The camera sits to the side and points at a mirror inclined at 27 degrees beneath the platform. The author says that, for the same camera and robot height, this widens the field of view by 58%, which allows a larger platform…
Maker Tim Alex Jacobs has turned nearly 3,000 old electromechanical flip dots into an unusual real-time fluid simulation display. Instead of using an LCD or LED panel, the project uses eight salvaged flip-dot panels, where every pixel is a small magnetic disk that physically flips between two positions. which is black and yellow. The result is a display that not only shows the movement of the…
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the SLG46801, the industry’s smallest GreenPAK configurable mixed-signal device offered in both WLCSP and STQFN packages. The 9-ball WLCSP measures just 1.155mm × 1.155mm and combines an ultra-small footprint with multi-time programmability, enabling designers to reduce board…