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Doing board level diagnosis on a PCB is hardly black magic, but some PCBs are definitely more daunting than others. The Socket LGA 1851 mainboard that [Fix the Pixel] got in for repair being one of the harder cases due to the sheer size…
Melexis has unveiled the MLX90901 Tactile Fingertip Module, its first integrated mechatronic solution for tactile sensing in humanoid robots. Designed to provide true three-dimensional force detection, the module enables robotic hands to…
Vantron has introduced the VT-SBC-SMARC-IMX952, an 82 × 50 mm SMARC 2.1 system-on-module (SoM) built around NXP’s i.MX 952 processor with two or four Arm Cortex-A55 cores, a Mali-G310 GPU, and a 2 TOPS eIQ Neutron NPU. The module is…
Nixie clocks have become popular enough that these days there’s no shortage of turn-key options that let you experience that warm glow with a minimum of fuss. Many still come as little more than a bare PCB, giving the purchaser some…
Tektronix is better known for its high-end and pricey oscilloscopes, but has now introduced the 1 Series DPO, a line of low-cost digital phosphor oscilloscopes starting at just $450, with optional AI-assisted control through the new Tek…
Revopoint’s Black Friday Sale is here, bringing major savings across its lineup of portable and industrial 3D scanners, accessories, and software. Whether you’re a 3D printing enthusiast, maker, designer, or industrial professional, this…
Designed by CoolMaker Lab in China, the ESP32 4-channel PWM fan controller is an open-source, Home Assistant-compatible board for managing cooling in server racks, NAS systems, network cabinets, and other DIY enclosures. It can…
STMicroelectronics has added support for software-based subscriber identity module (SIM) authentication, with Onomondo SoftSIM, to its ST87M01 industrial NB-IoT module to allow devices to connect to cellular networks without a separate SIM…
Texas Instruments (TI) Inc. has enhanced its CCStudio ecosystem of unified embedded development tools with agentic AI capabilities to streamline embedded software development across its microcontrollers (MCUs), wireless connectivity…
What will you build next? With Arduino ® UNO Q board, you can explore a range of projects, whether you’re exploring your first project or ready to tackle something more ambitious. And with our Black Friday holiday deals on UNO Q bundles…
NXP Semiconductors N.V. has unveiled a unified robotics platform that combines hardware and software with NXP's secure, safety-enabled technologies, initially targeting the drone market. The modular, open-source software development kit…
Compulab has detailed its IOT-GATE-IMX8PV2, a fanless industrial IoT gateway powered by NXP’s i.MX8M Plus processor. The small-form-factor system combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional Wi-Fi 6 and LTE connectivity, and isolated…
Skyworks Solutions Inc. has introduced the SKY4680x family of automotive audio digital signal processors (DSPs), available in one-, two-, and three-core configurations. The new devices extend the company's automotive portfolio beyond…
ST is one of a select few Aliro solutions providers to offer publicly available hardware and software that enable the creation of systems capable of using NFC, Bluetooth LE, and Ultra Wideband (UWB). As markets try to meet new customer…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and I won’t hear a thing to the contrary. Here are some festive ideas if you’re shopping around for something on the nerdier side. (And if any of you are Grinchily just looking to treat yourself, I…
VZMORE sent us a review sample of the iX9 Max mini PC powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H 16-core/22-thread Meteor Lake processor clocked at up to 5.1 GHz, paired with 24 GB of LPDDR5-5600 memory and a 1 TB NVMe SSD. It supports up to…
HIYD is a compact and thin (2.7mm) health and fitness tracker that attaches to the back of a regular wristwatch and looks very similar to the Azume One, which we wrote about last month. Developed by San Jose-based HIYD, the device adds…
WeAct Studio Logic Analyzer V2 is a low-cost, small WCH CH32H417 board designed to be used as a 16-channel USB 3.0 logic analyzer with up to 200 MHz bandwidth. The company says the board runs three different “apps”: logic analyzer…
Lumissil Microsystems IS31CS9202 and IS32CS9202 are 50 MHz Cortex-M0+ microcontrollers for industrial, consumer, and automotive applications with a serial video bus (SVB), a LumiBus LED controller, and a capacitive touch-key controller.…
Embedded hardware is moving toward greater application specificity, with silicon tailored to the software workload. This panel brings together industry experts to discuss how real-world applications are reshaping embedded architectures…
As electronic systems grow more complex, the industry is reaching the limits of a silicon‑centric design model. Success is no longer defined by individual components, but by how effectively hardware, software, and lifecycle considerations…
In this presentation, Sam Grove will show how the change from hardware-first to software-first platform architecture is driving changes for embedded design. With RISC-V and the power of virtual models, it is now possible to start with the…
Edge AI opens up a new range of embedded applications, but it also poses challenges around providing enough performance to handle advanced AI models, along with power and memory constraints and safety and security concerns. This panel…
Cadence Design Systems Inc. has introduced the OrCAD Xplore Design Platform at electronica 2026. The platform combines component research and sourcing within the OrCAD X Capture schematic design environment, building on existing design…
TDK Corporation and Microchip Technology Inc. have developed a distributed sensor-node platform designed to support real-time processing and edge intelligence in robotic systems. Combining InvenSense sensors, Microchip's dsPIC33A digital…
Tria Technologies has unveiled its OSM-SB-EP5, a 146 × 102mm development platform supporting Open Standard Module (OSM) Size-S, Size-M, and Size-L modules. The carrier board combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, MIPI camera and display…
ST is showcasing the GANSPIN1102 and GANSPIN1105 at electronica 2026 . They are our first GaN motor drivers with a 100 V input rating, meaning they can support 48 V and 60 V batteries in very tight spaces thanks to a package measuring only…
Intel Corp. and Altera Corp. have announced a collaboration to develop flexible, real-time sensor bridge reference solutions for edge and physical AI applications. The initiative targets markets including healthcare, aerospace and defense…
This article is brought to you by Innomotics . In the annals of industrial history, few innovations have demonstrated such remarkable staying power as the dynamo-electric principle. Discovered by Werner von Siemens in 1866, this…
MikroTik KNOT Gateway HL9 is an IP66-rated outdoor IoT gateway that combines 915 MHz Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah), Bluetooth 5.1, Wi-Fi 6, LTE Cat 1 bis, Gigabit Ethernet, and GNSS. The gateway supports asset tracking, remote sensor monitoring…
Arduino Nano XL Link is an evolution of the popular Arduino Nano board, with the same dimensions, but featuring a more powerful Microchip PIC32CK Arm Cortex-M33 running at 120 MHz with 2 MB of flash and 512 kB of RAM. It also adds CAN FD…
Renesas RZ/T2N industrial MPU supports up to four-axis motor control and includes PWM timers, encoder interfaces, and trigonometric accelerators. It’s designed for industrial robots, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), motion…
Flipper Devices is preparing a Kickstarter campaign for its “Flipper One,” a portable Linux computer powered by an octa-core Rockchip RK3576 processor and a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. The handheld combines 8GB LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6E…
AAElectronics’ LocalDot is an open-source replacement mainboard that converts a 3rd-generation Amazon Echo Dot into a local voice assistant compatible with Home Assistant. The board replaces one of the two original PCBs while reusing the…
Siemens has announced the HyperLynx Agentic Toolkit, a new solution that combines agentic AI with physics-based simulation to streamline electronic systems verification. Built on the HyperLynx platform, the toolkit automates complex…
Renesas Electronics Corp. has expanded its Renesas 365 development platform with the introduction of the Xplore Developer Hub, a cloud-based environment designed to simplify embedded system development and accelerate the transition from…
Raspberry Pi has been busy publishing books this year, now we’re making it easier for you to get them. We’re teaming up again with Humble Bundle to let you name your own price for a bundle of 15 e-books. Check out the Humble Tech Book…
Bishnu Saroop Atal Acoustics and signal processing pioneer Life Fellow, 93; died 19 August Atal was an acoustics and signal processing researcher at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., and later at AT&T ’s Shannon Laboratory, in Florham Park…
Over the past decades CRISPR, short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”, has become somewhat of a household name, holding the promise of directly addressing genetic mutations by effectively removing, silencing…
STMicroelectronics has announced a unified STM32 microcontroller (MCU) platform at its 2026 STM32 Summit. Spanning across automotive, industrial, and robotics applications, the unified platform enables customers to reuse architectures…
Statistics is one of those fields which people tend to love or hate when they’re confronted with it during their school time. Although incredibly useful and even essential in many fields, including finance and engineering, it’s not always…
Raspberry Pi has just leaked information on the Pi Zero 3W. They did it by publishing a DeviceTree file that describes the hardware of the Pi Zero. This is how we know it has the BCM2711 (Pi 4 CPU), makes use of PCIe (maybe it’s even…
The Nano is one of the most recognizable Arduino boards in the world. Compact, accessible, and endlessly versatile, it has powered millions of projects across a variety of domains. Today, at electronica 2026 (Munich, November 10–13, 2026)…
Andrii Shylenko’s LabWired is an MIT-licensed MCU firmware simulation core that runs compiled firmware against modeled CPUs and peripherals, captures UART and bus output, register state, and supports repeatable checks in CI. The simulator…
As part of the Arduino UNO Q Dream Lab Challenge hosted in partnership with DigiKey, makers and innovators were challenged to push the boundaries of what is possible with the dual-brain Arduino ® UNO Q board and Arduino App Lab. From an…
[Adrian Black]’s enthusiasm is palpable as he shows off something truly unusual: a Lobo MAX-80 computer from 1982 . To call this machine rare would be an understatement, as the company folded soon after its release. The one shown here is…
Learn how guided virtual shock and drop analysis helps engineering teams identify reliability risks before physical testing, reduce qualification iterations, optimize packaging designs, and accelerate electronics product development. What…
The early 2000s saw a Cambrian Explosion of form factors for mobile devices, and one of the most feature-rich phones of the time was the Danger Hiptop, better known as the T-Mobile Sidekick. [ashe] wanted to get the phone going again…
It’s now possible to run KiCad 10 directly in a web browser or as an Android app thanks to two separate open-source projects, unaffiliated with the official KiCad project. Let’s have a look at both. Ziro Designer/ZiroEDA – KiCad 10 in your…
Not only does [Mew463]’s robotic car charger take care of plugging in his vehicle for him, it has some really clever features that are great to see in action. We’ve seen a rover-platform-based robotic car charger before , but what’s…
DomeCtrl’s ControlBox is a Raspberry Pi 5-based controller running Home Assistant and primarily designed for hydronic radiant floor heating (RFH) systems. It also supports lighting solutions and integration with energy devices such as…
The STM32G5 series is a family of 280 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 mixed-signal MCUs designed for industrial power supplies, photovoltaic inverters, EV chargers, robotics, and motor control systems. It doubles the performance of the older STM32G4…
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has expanded its industrial communication portfolio with two devices designed to simplify connectivity across factory automation, robotics, and industrial IoT (IIoT) systems. The TICS100MOD multiprotocol…
MIPS has introduced advances in its Actus reference platform, an open, energy-efficient RISC-V architecture designed to combine real-time motor control, edge inference, and communications for robotics. Developed for compact robot joints…
The latest issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine is an “Incredible Weather Projects” special and is now available to download in PDF format for free! As Andrew Scott reminds us in the movie Pressure , the weather is not boring, so we…
The Zephyr Project community is coming together for its first in-person meetup in Cape Town, South Africa! Join us on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, from 6:00–9:00 PM SAST at Balancell Offices. Co-located with the Capetown Hardware Collective…
Devroom Date: Sunday, January 31, 2027, Session Timings: 09:00–12:45 Location: Brussels, Belgium Open source operating systems run a huge share of the embedded devices around us, from wearables and IoT sensors to industrial controllers…
This article is brought to you by Queen’s University Belfast . Several teams around the globe are leveraging AI by creating a task force of agents managed by an orchestrator and creating applications to support risk assessment, client…
Arduino has always had a special relationship with musicians. Makers in the community have been wiring up theremins and building MIDI controllers from scratch for decades, driven by the simple idea that if you want to play an instrument…
Seeed Studio XIAO STM32C5 is the company’s first XIAO development board based on an STMicroelectronics MCU, namely a 144 MHz STM32C5A3CG Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller. It features two CAN FD controllers and a 6-axis IMU with programmable…
According to a 2025 report from the WHO and UNICEF, approximately an entire quarter of the world’s population currently lacks consistent access to safely managed drinking water. The report also states that many people without safely…
SparkFun introduced two new development boards called IoT RedBoard, both based on the ESP32-P4 v3.x (ESP32-P4X) and compatible with the Arduino UNO R3 form factor. The main difference is that one features an ESP32-C5 for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth…
Morse Micro’s “HaLowLink 2” gateway runs OpenWrt on a MediaTek MT7621 processor with an MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow radio supporting ranges of up to 1km and PHY data rates of up to 43.3Mbps. Originally announced in September 2025, the gateway is…
Mini PC manufacturer VZMORE has launched an early Black Friday deal for its AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470-powered VZMORE AX9 Max model: $229 off, bringing the regular price down to $1,270 from $1,499. The VZMORE AX9 Max mini PC ships with 32GB…
M5Stack’s Core Matrix is an ESP32-C61-based IoT controller with a 16×16 white LED matrix for displaying icons, animations, device status, and notifications. It supports 2.4 GHz WiFi 6 connectivity and is designed for IoT applications…
Back in May, we wrote about the Procolored X One 3-in-1 laser engraver with UV and UV-DTF color printing, and the company contacted us a few months later for a review. But instead of having us review the laser engraver, they proposed that…
Crowd Supply has introduced a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for…
SparkFun today launched two ESP32-P4-based IoT RedBoards, offering either dual-band Wi-Fi 6 through an ESP32-C5 companion or wired Ethernet with Power over Ethernet. Both boards feature dual-core RISC-V processing, 32MB PSRAM, 16MB flash…
Waveshare ESP32-S31-Zero is a small ESP32-S31 development board that follows the form factor of the earlier Waveshare “Zero” boards, such as the ESP32-C6-Zero-B, RA4M1-Zero, and ESP32-S3-Zero, among others. The new tiny board still…
Here's a roundup of this week's must-read articles: ESD eBook Nov/Dec 2026, Designing Medical Devices for the Field, How to Make Embedded Computer Vision Work in the Real World, and The Hidden Engineering Tax on Connected Products…