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Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics just launched a tiny robot that could change how people learn robotics at home. Called Microduck, this 25cm tall, 780 gram biped robot is built specifically for reinforcement learning and physical AI and it costs just $399. Unlike Reachy Mini, which was designed primarily around interaction and conversational AI, Microduck focuses on physical movement and…

Arduino has opened pre-orders for the VENTUNO Q, a new edge-AI development platform built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ8 processor. The board is aimed at developers building robotics, computer vision, industrial automation and other systems where AI needs to interact with the physical world. According to Ankit Singh, Arduino’s India lead, the introductory pricing…

A maker from the Youtube channel PickentCode has built a working steampunk computer powered entirely by a Stirling engine, combining a 19th-century mechanical invention with modern electronics and retro computing. The Stirling engine was developed by Robert Stirling in 1816 as an alternative to the high-pressure steam engines of the time. Unlike a conventional internal-combustion engine, it…

A simple candle flame can be used as a small thermal power source when combined with a thermoelectric generator (TEG), a solid-state device that converts a temperature difference directly into electrical energy. A maker from the YouTube channel The Action Lab recently demonstrated this concept by using a candle to heat one side of a thermoelectric module while continuously circulating water…

TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) today announced the launch of the TDK SensEI edgeRX PRO, a new high-performance sensor node that expands its predictive maintenance platform, edgeRX.

edgeRX PRO integrates vibration, acoustic, magnetic, temperature, and rotational motion sensing, leveraging an integrated 6-axis IMU and edge AI processing in…

In 1991, Mazda built one of the strangest vehicles ever made, a car that could fold into a suitcase. Only three promotional prototypes were created, and just one is believed to have survived. Instead of trying to find the original, a maker from the YouTube channel Bucket decided to build a working replica from scratch. The original Mazda Suitcase Car used a square tube chassis, solid rear axle…

YouTuber Zachary McCune from Corridor Crew has turned a simple fire spinning hobby into an ambitious engineering project that can create images in the air while spinning. The project uses the principle of persistence of vision (POV), where rapidly changing lights appear to form a continuous image when moved quickly through space. Instead of using a conventional screen, the device displays an…

21 August 2026: Circuit Digest has been named the Digital Content & Outreach Partner for electronica India 2026, taking place from 16–18 September at BIEC, Bengaluru.

As part of the collaboration, Circuit Digest will identify relevant industry voices, shape discussion themes, host the conversations and distribute the resulting content across its website, YouTube channel and social…

Naz Louis has upgraded his open-source robot Pixel, giving the walking desk robot a new AI system that can see, remember, and reason about its surroundings in real time. The new build runs on Gemini Robotics ER2, an embodied-reasoning model built by Google DeepMind for near real-time robotics applications. The model receives a continuous stream of camera and microphone input and has direct…

TICKEY is a compact clip-on gadget that combines a 3.7-inch, 720 × 480 color e-paper display with an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC. Instead of behaving like a normal LCD or OLED screen, its e-paper display is designed to keep a static image visible without continuously consuming display power. Users can show pixel art, photos, digital badges, QR codes, notes or personal…

An open source project called Meowtion packs two on device AI models onto a single microcontroller with only 256KB of RAM, using a scheduling trick rather than model compression to make it fit. Built by Jerome Graves and documented on Hackaday.io, the wearable collar tracks a cat's eating, drinking, and resting behaviour to flag early changes that can precede illness.

The collar runs on…

MIT researchers have built working logic circuits using engineered bacteria, creating biological versions of components that electronics engineers would normally associate with transistors, relays and digital logic. The work uses Pantoea agglomerans, a bacterium that commonly grows on surfaces, including plants. The researchers modified the cells so they could function as two types of…