The ESP32-P4 is Espressif’s high-end application processor, with two blistering fast RISC-V cores for a surprisingly reasonable price. As it’s a very capable computer in its own right, there have been a range of operating systems made for…
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have attracted plenty of controversy in the relatively short time they have been available, given their potential for covert and unvanted surveillance. But given the chance to examine one it would be churlish…
pinkywings shares: A Christmas + winter decor piece with flowing, detailed lines — meant as a centerpiece for tables, shelves, or mantels. Stands without support material; described as easy to print. 3 sizes available. Print profiles: ~56…
Shared by Vafor on Maker World : Time to change up your favorite plants with a fun twist in this cartoon styled cactus pot. The Cactus Planter has 3 slots for your favorite indoor plants. Its unique shape offers ample space for small…
What if you could see sound? A Chladni plate uses a speaker and small particles, like sand, to give you a visual representation of sound, and [CrazyScience] shows you how to make one. The plate dates back to 1787, created by the eponymous…
NUKDDD shares: Teeny, the Tiny Tree’ — a small tree-shaped lamp for a shelf, year-round display. Two parts: LED tea light inside the trunk, trunk screws onto bottom of tree. Overall size 100×128mm. Default trunk fits LED tea lights up to…
Shared by Liguria on Maker World : Following requests from our community, the cottage has been thoughtfully adapted to hold a tealight inside and its much larger. When lit, the gentle glow shines through the chimney and the door, creating…
From the GitHub release page : This is CircuitPython 11.0.0-alpha.3 , an alpha release for 11.0.0. Further features, changes, and bug fixes will be added before the final release of 11.0.0. CircuitPython libraries from the 10.x bundles are…
The Radio Shack TRS-80 Colour Computer may never have achieved the sales volume of its competitors from Commodore or Apple, but it offered a surprisingly capable set of hardware. There were three versions, with the final one being a…
studioofmm shares: A modular helmet stand with Poles (~4.7h, 3 plates), Stand Tops (~8.7h, 4 plates), and Simple Bases (~7.8h, 2 plates). Multicolor-compatible (AMS). Used for Stormtrooper, Mandalorian, Darth Vader, Marvel cosplay helmets.…
A stackable lantern system of cross-compatible 3D-printed parts. Change the lantern’s look with the seasons by swapping inserts and components. Tiny edition ~5cm wide, sized for a tea light. Works as a tree ornament or a small picture…
For most people, just getting any old microcontroller or system on chip (SoC) from our favorite – or cheapest – vendor is more than good enough. But if you’re really into high assurance computing where every transistor has to be accounted…
If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video . This week’s pick is the RV-8803 High Accuracy Real Time Clock Breakout ! Watch the video to find out about the RV-8803 High…
shlomimarcovich shares: A modular kitchen organizer for forks, spoons, knives, and small utensils. Removable containers + drip tray for easy cleaning. Two profiles: ‘No-Supports Easy Print’ (~11.7h, 4 plates) or H2D full-set-on-one-plate…
Ismael has published USBnet on GitHub, a project that tunnels TCP connections between two computers over a single CH32V467WEU6 board. The board plugs into both machines over USB. On one side the client offers a local HTTP proxy at…
Years ago, I wrote an article describing different I2C-on-a-connector ecosystems , explaining their strengths, weaknesses, and implementation details, as well as piling on a heap of fun stories. Looking back at it, it’s a great reference…
A set of 4 gingerbread gnome figures for holiday decor, gnome villages, and miniature scenes. ~60mm tall (download includes a 95mm profile that prints all four together). Four variants: gnome with decorated gingerbread hat, gnome holding a…
Sfeter shares: A desk LED lamp built around a WS2812B strip. Middle part prints without supports; the white diffuser needs vase mode. Electronics: WS2812B addressable strip powered by ESP32 + a touch sensor glued to the top (149 LEDs…
Tobias Mann at The Register talked with AMD’s Madhu Rangarajan about Verano, an Epyc-class processor built for one job: feeding AMD’s next generation of Instinct GPUs. It’s the company’s answer to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin superchips, which pair…
[Nozomi] travels with a Nintendo Switch 2, but the official dock is bulky and doesn’t seem to be made for travel. USB-C hubs with displays are common, but they won’t work with the Switch. Not without a little hacking , anyway. It was…
The Hacker News reports that eMudhra has revoked 8 more intermediate certificate authorities, the same ones it had called unaffected by its October key compromise. An intermediate CA has its own private key, used to sign the certificates…
3D Hangouts – Metro HomeView, Prototypes and Christmas Creeper https://www.youtube.com/live/0ZgEgsY5_x8 This week @adafruit Pedro is testing new code and builds of CircuitPython for the DIY HomeView project. Noe is prototyping parts for…
Julian Horsey writes at Geeky Gadgets about Fable 5.2, an AI model from Anthropic launched alongside Mythos 5.2, and a test where it built an operating system from scratch. Starting from an empty folder, the model coordinated more than…
Jackie Flynn Mogensen reports for Scientific American on a new study in Nature Climate Change that puts 2026 on track for a rare dip in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Between 2019 and 2025, those emissions grew by about 0.8…
Navigation is easy these days, as we’ve entire complex computerized mapping systems and radio-based positioning systems to find ourselves anywhere on Earth. It might seem simple to use GPS these days, even trivial, but billions of dollars…
A new preprint on bioRxiv describes a way to use CRISPR to kill cancer cells by reading the RNA they produce. Many cancers start with mutations in tumor suppressor proteins, the proteins that normally stop cells from growing out of…
Jean-Luc Aufranc writes at CNX Software about the WeAct Studio Logic Analyzer V2, a small board built around the WCH CH32H417 that works as a 16-channel USB 3.0 logic analyzer with up to 200 MHz bandwidth. The board holds three separate…
VideoFromSpace on YouTube is carrying the live launch of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026. Liftoff is targeted for 12:54 p.m. EST (1754 GMT) from Space…
Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Christmas Creeper By Stenly_G makerworld.com/en/models/1969937-christmas-creeper-ho-ho-boom Bambu X1C…
The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware ( microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi ). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython…
seeedstudio shares: An enclosure for a LoRa device built on the XIAO ESP32S3 + Wio-SX1262 modules — ‘the smallest Meshtastic Device.’ Can also serve as a LoRa sensor node or a one-channel LoRaWAN gateway. 868–915 MHz, 2 dBi external…
3DPrintBunny shares: A two-part lantern ornament that screws together and holds an LED tealight. Can hang on a Christmas tree or on the designer’s attached display tree. Screws together without adhesives. Prints without supports. Includes…
Miniaturization is one thing, but how would you like to design a transmitter that attaches to a butterfly? That’s what the BlūMorpho transmitter is made to do, according to [Tom Jokinen] writing for Be Giant . Apparently, most of these…
RS_666 shares: A print-in-place egg slicer — cuts egg into slices. No rafts, no supports. 0.2mm layer, 4 walls, 50% infill, ~1.9h, 1 plate. 4.7★ from 45 ratings. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Kitchen helper for Thanksgiving-prep-week cooking. By RS_666…
user_1428656754 shares: A Christmas-themed glow lamp with a winter village scene — trees, stars, snowflakes, and woodland silhouettes cast a soft glow when lit. Table decoration, night lamp, or festive centerpiece. ‘Use only LED lights…
effdub839_1830254 shares: A small cutter that stamps a five-pointed star into thin dough to decorate pies and other pastries. Deep enough to stamp many stars without emptying the cutter. Easy to print, no supports needed. No brim required…
While pondering some repairs for his Gaggia Classic Pro espresso machine, [Hans Gaensbauer] ended up machining an entirely new boiler from stainless steel. It was a nontrivial undertaking, since the boiler is an assembly that integrates…
Remixed by harryfu shares: A really simple but nice-looking Christmas tree. Flat-printed parts stack together after printing — no supports. Parts: base plate, 3 trunk pieces, limbs 1–9, a star, and a tensioner. Includes a colorized Bambu…
raven94 shares: A large pumpkin-shaped bowl for potpourri, candy, or entryway items — ‘at max build plate size for the A1/P1/X1.’ 0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill, 1 plate, ~8.2h, 238g PLA. Compatible with Bambu P1S/X1 Carbon/A1/H2D. 5.0★…
From the mail bag! I’m about to place my first order but I wanted to reach out and say that whomever is writing your item descriptions is doing a bang-up job. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed out loud reading item descriptions for something…
LEGO building blocks are a great toy, but every so often a hacker decides to take the little bricks outside of the toy room and make them an integral part of a build. [Adam Turaj] took that idea further than most with his Studprint, a 3D…
A few times in the life of someone interested in technology, there comes along something which after seeing it, you know the field is never going to be the same again. For a teenage future Hackaday writer this came in seeing Elite , on a…
This week Jonathan chats with Sattyam Jain about Agent Audit Kit and Agent Airlock. We’re in a brave new world, where anyone can use AI to generate an AI agent. But what keeps those builds secure? And what can we do to prevent AI…
If the word “train” didn’t grab your attention, you’re probably not the target audience for this project. If it did, then there is no need to explain why [AeroKoi] has come up with a modular 3″ train whistle, available on Thingiverse and…
Writing a computer game has always been hard. It is only the nature of the difficulty that changes. A modern game is as much about graphics, sound, and storytelling as it is about programming. But in the early days of computers, writing a…
Adjustable standing desks have had some ergonomic and health benefits for many people who would otherwise be sitting down all day, but those benefits come at a cost of a bit of usability. They can be more expensive, they make cable…
Batteries have a habit of quietly getting worse. Anyone who has nursed an old smartphone through its final years knows the routine—it leaves the house at 100% and is begging for a charger by lunchtime. It’s no surprise, then, that one of…
It’s become a bit of a platitude to state that products were manufactured better in ‘the olden days’, but as [The Meandrous Engineer] covers in a recent video essay , the truth is a lot more greyscale and nuanced than something so trite.…
Somehow, seeing DOOM on things that were never meant to run DOOM never gets old. It’s probably hard to get further into the “never meant to run DOOM ” weeds than a coffee maker, but [Robin M.] has done it, and tells you exactly how in his…
Although combining electronics and 3D-printed structures is fairly common, this usually entails some level of manual assembly. This contrasts strongly with the Print & Place approach demonstrated by [Oliver Child] et al. in their research…
Although it used to be a much more rare event, now almost any time at dawn or dusk, provided clear weather, a human observer can walk outside, look up, and spot an artificial satellite passing overhead. This has caused some consternation…
Back in 2002, [Takahiro Yonemura] and others built a system that used a single webcam-like device to track a user’s hand and generate inputs for a computer. Given that this was more than 20 years ago, the technological limitations were…