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Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity. Unfortunately, most camera based tracking suffers when fingers get covered, intertwined, or simply out of view of the headset’s camera. What’s even…
Seeed Studio has introduced the XIAO IPS touch display series, a family of six compact development boards built around the XIAO ESP32-S3 Plus or XIAO nRF52840 Plus MCU, with 0.96-inch, 1.14-inch, and 1.47-inch IPS color displays. All six…
M5Stack has introduced the PaperDIY Assembly Kit, an ESP32-S3-based development platform featuring a 4.7-inch e-paper display with 960 × 540 resolution and 16-level grayscale. The kit combines Wi-Fi connectivity, battery power management…
On the face of it, making an event badge should be an easy process. After all, most of us can hand-assemble a microcontroller, some buttons, a battery, and a screen. But anyone who has been involved in producing one will tell you, the…
[Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to multiply and divide. If you can’t remember, you can usually work it out, as long as you understand how slide rules…
We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and complexity of commercial gamepads, they started soldering and 3D printing to get a cheaper basic controller . The…
Here's a roundup of this week's must-read articles. We cover the latest developments on designing edge AI for real-time systems, solving the edge computing energy problem, PCIe 6.0 high-radix switches for AI data centers, and more. Also…
In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take the opposite approach with their designs. In a recent teardown of the…
More and more city governments are using advanced technologies to improve livability for their residents. Municipalities use data from smartphones and sensors for traffic enforcement, traffic control, and waste management. They also have…
This article is brought to you by COMSOL . These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries. Despite the plethora of localized fulfillment and distributi on centers that have cropped up to meet the…
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this episode off with a discussion about Philadelphia’s budding hacker conference and the imminent retirement of the EZ80. After considering the parallels between the wide world of…
These days, it’s common to give even very young children a mobile device loaded up with educational software that aims to improve everything from basic motor skills to reading and arithmetic. But even the cheapest phone or tablet isn’t the…
Critical Internet keys changed this week . Did you notice? The keys behind DNSSEC, the system for cryptographically validating DNS responses, rolled over on October 11 2026. This is the second time the DNSSEC keys have rotated since the…
Elektrobit and Microchip Technology have announced a collaboration to simplify AUTOSAR -based software development for automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers using Microchip's automotive processor platforms . The initiative combines…
Maker Faire Rome is back ! On October 23rd–25th makers, engineers, educators, and tech enthusiasts will gather for three incredible days of innovation, hands-on demos, and live talks. We’re proud to be Gold Sponsors of this edition and, as…
The ‘biofriendly’ nature of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) filament often gets touted as one of its main advantages over alternatives like PETG, but even a modicum of research ought to inform a person that the biodegrading feature of PLA is only…
After a successful campaign for Xerxes Pi back in 2025, Rapid Analysis has returned with a Xerxes Home Lab ecosystem that includes the Xerxes Pi 2026 and Xerxes Nano carrier board. The upgrade includes M.2 NVMe storage support on the…
It’s often said in this community that DOOM can be made to run on anything, and as time goes on, that’s becoming more and more accurate. We’re at the point now that every “normal” device seems to have some version of the iconic 1993…
Our summer tour of various maker events took us to San Fransisco, where we were invited to visit a unique campus incubating what hope to be future-defining companies , many of which are using Rasberry Pi hardware to get their ideas off the…
The news of the past couple of weeks has seen the ESP32 turned into an software-defined radio (SDR) thanks to a hidden baseband mode, an exciting development by anyone’s standards. It seems unexpected SDRs are like busses in that you wait…
ESP32 Bit Pirate has reached version 1.8, adding experimental software-defined radio (SDR) functionality using the ESP32-S3’s internal Wi-Fi radio. The update also introduces browser-based firmware extraction tools, improved protocol…
Determining the shape of an object which can change dynamically is a bit of a challenge, one that especially vexes those who are really into Virtual Reality. Sensing the orientation of various limbs and appendages usually requires external…
The XPC nano NC50N by Shuttle is an upcoming barebone mini PC based on Intel’s N150 processor. The system supports up to 16GB of DDR5 memory, dual M.2 NVMe SSDs, and 2.5GbE networking, targeting digital signage, point-of-sale terminals…
In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair’s machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in their limited hardware. If there was one component that…
Pick Zigbee® from a menu in the Arduino® IDE, upload an example, and your board joins the smart home network that bulbs, sensors, and switches already share. The Arduino® Nano Matter board has always been about the low-power side of the…
Since we last covered the way that the Linux Kernel project has been dealing with the influx of code created using LLM-based coding assistants, all the way back in April , things have changed a lot, with most recently the Linux maintainers…
If you want to play old Commodore games, there are C-64 emulators available for just about any platform– but most of them are so high level, they’re really meant for just that: playing games. [antirez] has a different goal with his…
Just a few days ago, we wrote about the ESP-SDR project, which turned an ESP32 into an SDR receiver (and now SDR transmitter), but the data was streamed over UART, which couldn’t keep up with the sample rate. Now, developer h0m3us3r has…
Frequent claims reporting successful experiments aimed at leveraging the strange concepts of quantum mechanics in real-world applications risk making what are genuinely remarkable achievements appear almost routine. This is happening with…
Vampires aren’t as common as they once were, but in most places they aren’t fully protected and it’s still possible to get a tag for legal hunting come October — at least if you’re using traditional weapons, like a good old wooden stake.…
One of the singular features of Baotou, an industrial city of 2 million people in Inner Mongolia, is a 10-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) lake that is among the most polluted in the world. The artificial lake, referred to by the name of…
The global campaigns to break China’s dominance of vital rare-earth markets are shaping up into one of the signature geostrategic struggles of the early 21st century. Hundreds of mining companies, government agencies, and industrial…
The Arduino ecosystem is expanding with a new USB-connected accessory designed to help simplify edge AI and computer vision: meet our first official, standalone Arduino USB Camera ! And if you are thinking “Well, it’s just a camera”…
Perhaps the most exciting news of the past few weeks in the world of hardware hacking has been the unlocking of hidden SDR functionality in the Wi-Fi radios found on Espressif ESP32 microcontrollers. They can be used as both transmit and…
With edge AI, the inference has moved from the cloud to the embedded device. Cameras, wearables, industrial sensors, robots, and vehicles can run trained models, making predictions or decisions on new and uncertain data. Because these…
This White Paper shows RF and microwave engineers and technicians how compact analog signal generators support core amplifier and receiver test tasks, from gain and distortion measurements to blocker rejection, power calibration, and local…
HPMicro has introduced the HPM5100 series, a family of 32-bit RISC-V mixed-signal MCUs, starting with the HPM5151 parts. It features a 400 MHz RISC-V processor, 416 KB SRAM, 1 MB flash, four 16-bit ADCs, four operational amplifiers, and…
This year, the Zephyr Project marks ten years as an open source project. What began as a small real-time operating system has grown into one of the most active and widely adopted open source projects in embedded systems. It runs on…
Text messaging has been around on cellular networks en masse for around three decades now. It’s so common that it’s difficult to remember a time without it. Its two-way quick messaging is incredibly useful, but for even simpler…
Do you want to get an AI agent to do something to an iPhone? You could try and jailbreak the device and do some heavy software hacking, or… you could grab a microcontroller off the shelf and have it do the hard work. [Henry Yuan] explains…
There is a vast gulf between making a one-off prototype and mass-production at scale. Within that gulf, there are innumerable small teams and businesses churning out PCBs in relatively low quantities – say dozens or hundreds a month.…
Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s might be familiar with the Atari 2600 console and its now relatively unrecognizable (by modern standards) controller with only a single button and stiff whole-hand joystick. By comparison, the…
Generally the DVB-S and -S2 standards require a satellite somewhere in Earth orbit to provide a signal to receive, but you can also transmit your own DVB-S2 stream with any RF transmitter if you’re so inclined. Courtesy of recent…
Microchip Technology Inc. has expanded its data center portfolio with new connectivity, storage, and acceleration capabilities designed to meet the performance, security, and scalability needs of AI infrastructure. The additions include…
Slow refresh, ghosting and low-contrast — wait, are we talking about passive matrix LCDs, or e-paper displays? That might be why e-paper Game Boy emulators are a thing: the limitations of the black-on-grey e-paper screens remind us of the…
Progress continues in restructuring IEEE’s geographic regions, as outlined in The Institute’s February 2023 article “ IEEE Is Realigning Its Geographic Regions .” The “Region 1” designation will no longer be used. The new Region 2 will…
Orange Pi O1 is a new single board computer (SBC) based on the somewhat older SOPHGO BM1688 octa-core Cortex-A53 SoC with a built-in 16 TOPS AI accelerator/TPU, and support for decoding up to sixteen 1080p30 video streams, or encoding ten.…
Supercon is Hackaday’s annual gathering, and you absolutely need to be there. Today, we’re pleased to announce our lineup of workshops, and it’s more than we’ve ever offered, thanks to moving to a bigger venue and to our awesome community…
Traditional joysticks typically use potentiometers or hall effect sensors to determine the displacement of the stick itself when moved by the operator. Force-sensing joysticks are considered more desirable for certain purposes like…
Axiado Corporation has announced a collaboration with Arm to integrate its Data Center Secure Control Module (DC-SCM) cards into the Arm AGI CPU server platform. The integration combines hardware-anchored security, intelligent platform…
You can’t open a news site at the moment without AI being blamed for something — taking jobs, doing pupils’ homework, orchestrating the death of the internet… Some of that is fair, but one thing tends to get lost in the noise, and it’s the…
Bitmerse Romu is a tiny (15.5 x 12 mm), almost minimal Raspberry Pi RP2354A USB board with a USB 2.0 interface on one side of the PCB, and the dual Cortex-M33/RISC-V MCU on the other side, connected to a few debugging/programming pads…
When id Software released DOOM back in 1993 it helped define the genre, but it was hardly the only hit first-person shooter of that decade. There was also 3D Realms’ 1996 Duke Nukem 3D , a game which added some humor to the genre. Here’s…
Geniatech has listed two M.2 AI accelerator cards targeting local inference workloads on embedded systems and edge devices. The AIM-M-R28 uses Rockchip’s RK1828 processor with 20 TOPS of computing performance, while the AIM-M-H10 is based…
Bitmerse’s Romu recently debuted on Crowd Supply as an ultra-compact development board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2354A microcontroller. Designed to plug directly into a USB Type-A port, the board features capacitive touch input, an RGB…
We’ll give you three guesses what the most important bits of silicon in [LouD]’s USBSID-Pico are , and two don’t count. Yes, there’s a Raspberry Pi Pico, and a pair of the unforgettable SID chips from MOS– the sound chip of the C64, the…
VIEWE has introduced the PLCM-UES31S043H800V480C-U, a 4.3-inch smart display module that appears to be the first third-party development board powered by the new ESP32-S31 MCU. The board includes a 4.3-inch display with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6…
Philadelphia’s homegrown hacker con returns this weekend , and this time it’s starting a day early to pack in even more talks, demos, and activities. Tickets are still available for anyone who can get themselves to Arcadia University by…
Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, turning it into a listen-only software defined radio (SDR)…
Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the Wii U it’s the eMMC storage IC with the console’s firmware and any user data that likes to…
Bringing AI directly into embedded systems is much more than just running a model on the device. When a decision must come within milliseconds, every element of the chain becomes decisive. The sensors, correctly sized memory, optimized…
In countries where PET bottles do not get slapped with an additional fee that induces you to return it for recycling and said fee back, the resulting piles of discarded bottles have led many enterprising individuals to consider using them…
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has claimed the industry's first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to enable 24/7 event-based remote monitoring at nanosecond resolution for AI data centers. Introduced at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global…
Microchip Technology has introduced the MTCH3380P and MTCH3240P, two new capacitive touch controllers that handle touch detection internally, making it easier to build display-free HMI devices with touch-sensitive buttons, sliders, and…
Unveiled at Network X 2026, the Qualcomm Dragonwing FWA Gen 6 Elite Platform combines 5G Advanced (3GPP Rel-19), NR-NTN (New Radio – Non-Terrestrial Networks) satellite communication, and tri-band Wi-Fi 8 with a 5×5 radio configuration.…
Marvell Technology Inc. has introduced the Structera X 3406 and 3506, second-generation CXL 3.2 memory expansion controllers designed to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and utilization in AI servers and data center infrastructure. The…
If you’ve ever wondered how Claude and similar AI agents can answer complex questions in seconds and where they get the information, you’re not alone. Gurmeet Saran works to find that answer every day as an engineer at Anthropic in San…
Artificial intelligence is reshaping data center architecture by changing where system bottlenecks occur. For years, networking discussions focused primarily on scale-out communication between servers and racks using Ethernet and…
This article was originally published by Canary Media . The geothermal startup Fervo Energy is now selling power to the grid from its Cape Station project in Utah—marking the first time a utility-scale, next-generation geothermal facility…
We received two unusual little devices for review this month: the PlugMate and the PlugClaw, both built by TrustKernel, a security company better known for the trusted-execution tech inside other people’s phones than for consumer gadgets.…
This #MakerMonday , we meet Eliana Otrera, a teacher bringing computing to rural schools in Argentina and running Raspberry Jams so kids can access computers and programming. Eliana Otrera lives in Forres in the province of Santiago del…
This White Paper provides roboticists and control engineers with a comprehensive overview of how motion planning and motion tracking can be decoupled to preserve professional athletic style in humanoid robots, and why adaptive, speed-aware…
Sipeed’s SLogic32U3 is a 32-channel logic analyzer designed for high-speed digital capture over USB 3.2 Gen2. The device supports configurable sample rates based on the number of active channels, direct streaming to a host system, optional…
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has released the open-source Muse Gadgets SDK, designed to work with ESP32 boards or Linux-based SBCs like a Raspberry Pi. This requires some explanation… I’ve been on holiday for a while, so I’m not up to…
ZOTAC’s ZBOX PRO CM5-PICO is a compact industrial computer powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. The fanless system supports dual 4K displays, Gigabit Ethernet, M.2 expansion, and a 40-pin GPIO header, with an aluminum enclosure…
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Wireless-Tag WT32P4C5-43S (ZX4D30CE405-V1.3) is a fully integrated 4.3-inch touch display development board that combines an ESP32-P4 MCU with an ESP32-C5 wireless module supporting dual-band WiFi 6 (2.4/5 GHz), Bluetooth LE, and 802.15.4…
Abietec, a subsidiary of Raytac, offers the AX61 series of wireless modules based on NXP’s RW612 and RW610 microcontrollers. The small-form-factor modules support Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Matter connectivity, with multiple antenna…
Zymbit’s ZYMKEY 5 is a hardware security module for Raspberry Pi systems, offering 640 key slots, filesystem encryption, device authentication, and physical tamper detection. It also supports additional cryptographic algorithms compared to…