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Picoslidertoy: Expand Your Raspberry Pi Pico with Touch Inputs An embedded developer called Tod Kurt, has designed a capacitive touch control surface for the Raspberry Pi Pico. The device, named picoslidertoy, has 25 individual sensors capable of sensing basic touch controls as well as more intricate linear and rotary slide controls. The picoslidertoy interfaces with a Raspberry Pi Pico, utilizing up to 25 of its general-purpose… |
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Signaloid C0-MicroSD: Powerful FPGA Development Board in a MicroSD form Factor Signaloid, a Cambridge-based company, has showcased its new development board: the Signaloid C0-microSD, a compact FPGA development board that's as small as a standard microSD card. Equipped with an iCE40 FPGA, this board features a unique programming model and interface. The Signaloid C0-microSD is a deagined cloud and edge-based computing needs, particularly for… |
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Pescado Engine: A Custom 3D Graphics Solution for ESP32-S3 Game developer Alex Fish has unveiled a new 3D graphics engine called Pescado, specifically tailored for the Espressif ESP32-S3 microcontroller. Originally developed in WebGL and later in OpenGL, Alex adapted the engine for the ESP32 platform, achieving smooth performance even on this microcontroller. The Pescado Engine employs a unique approach where 3D points are… |
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Raspberry Breadstick: The Tool You Need for Tangle-Free Electronics Prototyping Raspberry Breadstick is a very unique development board designed specifically for breadboard prototyping. Unlike traditional development boards that often result in a tangled mess of wires, the Raspberry Breadstick features a unique form factor that spreads its I/O pins along the length of a breadboard. This layout eliminates the need for lengthy jumper wires,… |
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Arduino Sketch Transforms ESP32 Board into Web-Based Oscilloscope Bojan Jurca’s open-source Arduino sketch "Esp32_oscilloscope," transforms any ESP32 board to function as a web-based oscilloscope accessible over WiFi. While the Scoppy project demonstrated the conversion of a Raspberry Pi Pico W into a 2-channel oscilloscope, Bojan's project showcases the potential of using the more robust ESP32-series microcontroller for similar… |
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Identifying Components Using Octopus VI Curve Tracer As you know there are a ton of component testers in the market. Which can be used to test and identify the components very easily. But there is an interesting new device from the maker named Chris, aka "DIY Guy Chris", called the “octopus”. The "octopus" is a VI curve tracer, which can be used with an oscilloscope to quickly test unidentified electronic… |
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Quilter: An AI-Driven PCB Design Solution Quilter, an AI startup, recently garnered $10 million in Series-A funding to revolutionize the process of designing printed circuit boards (PCBs). Their approach combines machine learning with high-performance computing to streamline what has traditionally been a labour-intensive and manual task. Despite the availability of automation tools like auto routers, Quilter… |
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Design to Display: Creating Custom Displays When it comes to displays like LEDs, LCDs, and VFDs, options are often limited to what manufacturers offer, making it challenging to find a perfect match for individual preferences without breaking the bank. Even though there are many graphics displays available, they are not always the best solution. That is where custom displays come into play. In the past, there… |
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OS3M Mouse an Open-Source 3D printable Spacemouse Alternative Colton Baldridge, an electrical engineer known for his engineering enthusiasm, has devised a cost-effective open-source alternative to the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse, renowned for its six degrees of freedom (6DOF) functionality in computer-aided design. Frustrated by the high price tags attached to commercial 3D mice, typically ranging from $150 to $400, and the limited… |
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Bus Pirate 5: The Next Generation Debug Tool The Bus Pirate is a very popular open-source hardware and protocol debugging tool among the electronics community. Dangerous Prototypes, the developer of the Bus Pirate, has announced the launch of the latest version of it. The latest version, Bus Pirate 5, is built around the RP2040 microcontroller from the Raspberry Pi foundation. It also features a color LCD… |
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New Long Range High-Power Laser can hit a Coin from a Kilometer Away! In the United Kingdom, a significant advancement in military technology has been achieved with the successful testing of the DragonFire, a laser directed-energy weapon (LDEW) system. This system, notable for its high precision and cost-effectiveness, marks a notable step forward in the UK's defence capabilities. This technology, which can inflict damage at the speed… |
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The 10 Cents MCU Gets Arduino Support Last year WCH launched the CH32V series RISCV microcontroller series. The main selling point for those was their price which started around 10 cents and onwards. The series ranged from the CH32V003, AKA the “10 cents microcontroller” with 2KB SRAM and 16KB flash to the CH32V307 with 64KB of SRAM and 256KB flash. So far, to program them the users have to rely on… |
