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AgileWhisker Keyboard: The Ultimate Open-Source Programmable Keyboard with RP2040 KittenBot has launched the AgileWhisker Keyboard, a customizable mechanical keyboard designed for hobbyists, coders, and tech enthusiasts. This compact keyboard is ideal for anyone who wants to adjust their setup for better performance and functionality, thanks to its many programmable features. Some key highlights include the use of an RP2040 microcontroller and support for programming… |
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Pilet - An Opensource Mini-Computer Powered by Raspberry Pi 5 In the fast-paced world of portable electronics, a new project, Pilet, has captured the attention of tech enthusiasts and makers alike. Based on the newly released Raspberry Pi 5, this modular mini-computer is designed for versatility and portability. With a 7-hour battery life and support for a wide range of modules, it’s still in development but promises an exciting launch soon.… |
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DIY Real-Time Air Traffic Tracker with Raspberry Pi An Electronics hobbyist has developed a flight tracker using Raspberry Pi 4, 4 nos of 64x64 RGB LED Matrix Display, and an RTL-SDR dongle, Providing a real-time visual display of Air Traffic. With the help of the open-source project DUMP 1090, the system receives ADSB (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) signals directly from aircraft. The data is processed and displayed on the LED… |
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Human Plus: The Open-Source Humanoid Robot Shadowing Human Motions An interesting project has emerged from the students at Stanford University: Human Plus, a humanoid robot that closely resembles Atom from the movie Real Steel. Remarkably, it has the ability to copy human motions and possesses autonomous capabilities. Even more intriguing is that the creators made this project open source, encouraging the community to collaborate… |
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OpenSource UI for SmartWatch - Built with LVGL on the Arduino framework Felix Biego, an embedded software engineer from Kenya, has recently developed an open-source user interface for a smartwatch using LVGL on the Arduino framework. This UI runs on the ESP32 C3 Mini with a 240x240 touch display. Amazingly, it includes all the basic features of an entry-level smartwatch in the 2024 market. The supported… |
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Open Source and the Electronics Industry As embedded and miniaturized hardware solutions continue to advance, an increasing number of developers are opting for standardized open-source or license-free software solutions. Mouser Electronics and Adam Taylor, founder and lead consultant of Adiuvo Engineering & Training Ltd., discuss how open-source solutions impact the electronics sector and explore what… |
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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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An open source single cell BMS for Lithium-ion Cells with USB Type C Power Delivery Open UpCell is a USB Type-C PD single cell lithium-ion battery management system with either 5 v or 3.3 v outputs, up to 14 v input, and an i2c interface for battery and charge status monitoring. You can check battery fuel gauge, charge status, charge voltage selection, charge current selection, and more via the provided Arduino IDE and PlatformIO SDKs. Output… |
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Affordable FT8 Receiver with RF Chip Designed using Open Source Chip Tools and Fabrication Maverick-603 from RadioStack is an affordable FT8 receiver board containing an RF receiver chip designed using fully open source tools and fabrication and capable of acquiring FT8 signals between 7 MHz and 70 MHz. The Maverick-603 chip shows that open source chip design is matching and surpassing the capabilities of its closed source counterparts. This… |
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Compact Open-Source 600 MHz CPU Board with WiFi/BLE Communication Utilizes the Power of LuaJIT EdgePro1 from EdgePro is a tiny (32 mm by 16 mm) open-source development platform that utilizes powerful hardware and state-of-the-art firmware based on the POSIX-compliant Real-Time Operating System. Equipped with the U-Blox NINA-W102 communication module, EdgePro1 supports Wi-Fi and BLE communication and the main advantage of it is the full use of… |
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Open-Source Multi-Channel Hand-Tracking Interface for Music, Art, and More Quadrant from Interstitial Technology is a human-computer interface based on an array of distance sensors and is developed as an open hardware circuit board that acts as a USB controller to a host computer. The hardware consists of 4 time-of-flight sensors and is specifically designed to detect the position, velocity, and orientation of the user’s hand in… |
