It’s been a busy month, with a number of high-profile launches – not least of which are new products from Raspberry Pi, which is branching out into microSD Card and SSD storage devices in order to deliver guaranteed performance and compatibility with its single-board computer range. STMicroelectronics has also been looking at storage, announcing “Page EEPROM” chips which, it says, combine the benefits of EEPROM and flash memory for non-volatile storage.
It’s been a good month for makers, too, with some very interesting projects – like Stephen Hawes’ work to have a LumenPnP pick-and-place machine place working components on an active circuit for in-production testing, David Buchanan’s “electromagnetic pulse” attack to gain a shell on a laptop, a staggering array of badge Simple Add-On boards, and my favourite of the month: Luke Mortimer’s Quandoom, which runs a cut-down version of id Software’s 1993 classic Doom on a (simulated and very much future-gazing) quantum computer.
A full list of my articles from October, with links to read each in full, is available below.
- STMicroelectronics and Qualcomm Partner on Products Targeting the IoT, AI at the Edge
- BrainChip Shrinks the Akida, Targets Sub-Milliwatt Edge AI with the Neuromorphic Akida Pico
- Espressif Expands Its Secure Matter Manufacturing Service to External Factories, In-Field Upgrades
- Paul Rickards’ Guide Will Get Your iPod 3G Back Up and Running in No Time Flat
- Luke Mortimer Proves Doom Really Will Run on Anything with Quandoom — Targeting Quantum Computers
- Emily Velsaco’s Espressif ESP8266 Transmitter Is an Analog TV Station in Your Pocket
- Andy Geppert’s Raspberry Pi RP2040-Powered SAO Demo Controller Delivers Easier Badge Hacking
- PINE64 Unveils the StarPro64, Launches the Quartz64-Zero, and Completes Production of the Oz64
- Sipeed Clears the Clutter with Its New, Internal NanoKVM-PCIe for ATX Desktops and 2U+ Servers
- STMicro Unveils Page EEPROM Chips — Blending the Benefits of EEPROM and Flash Memory
- David Buchanan Opens a Shell on His Laptop the Hard Way: With a Controlled “Electromagnetic Pulse”
- Cody Tolene’s Pico Portal Turns a Raspberry Pi Pico W Into a Portable Wi-Fi Captive Portal
- Google Japan Unveils the Single-Sided “Gboard Double-Sided” Keyboard — Built as a Möbius Strip
- Rockchip Teases the Next Generation Flagship Processor RK3688 for On-Device Artificial Intelligence
- Marc R. Barker Protects an Old Car’s New Engine with a Simple Coolant Level Sensor
- OMNIVISION Has Its Eye on Computer Vision with Its Latest Global Shutter Camera Sensors
- This Espressif ESP32-Powered Remote Is Designed to Quickly Reboot Your Dodgy Wi-Fi Router
- Stephen Hawes Turns to Conductive Ink for Solderless PCBA with the LumenPnP
- Raspberry Pi Launches Own-Brand, High-Performance microSD Cards
- WiLo Promises to Bridge the Gap Between Wi-Fi and LoRa for the IoT and More
- Volos Projects Puts “Winamp” in Your Pocket, with a Cardputer Media Player Inspired by Nullsoft
- Apple Researchers Release Depth Pro, a One-Shot Model for Sub-Second Depth Mapping on Any Image
- BANDIT Brings Back the Forth Microcomputer, Powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040
- Sebastian Lederer’s Tridora System Is a Ground-Up Pascal-Native Microcomputer on an FPGA
- Silicon Labs Promises to “Connect Just About Anything” with Its Edge AI-Capable Series 3 Parts
- Taoglas Cuts the Footprint of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Integration — By Piggybacking an Antenna Onto RJ45
- Jeremy Geppert’s SAO LoRa Walkie Talkie Gets Your Badges Talking Over Radio Links
- Devon Bray’s RasRig Streaming Setup Makes Great Use of Older Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computers
- Jake Simek’s Pelican-Deck Is an Open Source 3D-Printed Framework for a Pelican-Housed Raspberry Pi
- Arduino Smells the Roses with the Nicla Sense Env — Its First Non-Standalone Nicla Sensor Board
- Inspired by the Arduino UNO Refresh, “Polia31” Builds a Breadboard-Friendly Renesas RA4M1 Dev Board
- Markus Opitz’s “Data Glasses” Turn a Seeed XIAO nRF52840 Into a Smart, Wearable Display
- Infineon Goes Gaming with a PSoC 6-Powered XENSIV Magnetic Sensor Gamepad Evaluation Board
- Thundercomm Unveils the RUBIK Pi, a Qualcomm-Powered Single-Board Computer for Edge AI
- “Speed-Modulated Ironing” Delivers Programmable Textures, Colors, and More to Your 3D Prints
- Joshua Coleman’s Nixie Tube Art Project Makes Clever Use of Gazotron’s Symbolic IN-7 Tubes
- GitLab Warns of Serious Security Vulnerability in CI/CD Pipeline Feature, Advises Immediate Patching
- The nanoTracer Is a Nano-Ampere High-Precision Programmable Power Supply for Low-Power Projects
- Seeed Adds Home Assistant-Ready Breathing, Fall Detection Sensors to Its mmWave Range
- Jarvy Jarvison’s PiSlide OS Is a Write-Minimized Single-Purpose Raspberry Pi OS for Slideshows
- MATCH Abstracts Away Hardware Differences to Deliver Better TinyML on a Range of Microcontrollers
- Peter Balch’s Solve Is a Smart, Espressif ESP32-Powered Pocket Calculator with a 40-Year History
- Kirigami Cuts Turn a Sheet of MXene-Printed Plastic Into a Reconfigurable Microwave Antenna
- Márk Polák’s Electromechanical Pong Is a Real Bat-and-Ball Game
- Kevin Loeffler’s M5Stack Core Ink-Powered Skimmer Scanner Keeps Your Cards Safe From Ne’er-Do-Wells
- Jude Pullen and Pete Milne’s Flood Alert Is an Arduino Nano 33 IoT-Controlled “Physical App”
- David Johnson-Davies Builds a Lisp Compiler for the RP2350’s RISC-V Cores — in Lisp, Naturally
- Reid Sox-Harris’ Metamer SAO Gives Your Badge “RRAYLLGTTBB+UV+WWCWBWDW” LED Mixing Powers
- Microchip Shares Some Wi-Fi Wealth with 20 New IoT Parts, Including the PIC32MZ-W1 Family
- Formlabs Unlocks Its SLA, SLS 3D Printers with New “Developer Platform” — and Unveils the Form 4L
- Vance “KV4P” Vagell’s Espressif ESP32-Powered kv4p Turns Any Android Phone Into a VHF Ham Radio
- Jeff Epler’s Raspberry Pi Pico VT-Style Terminal Brings a Classic IBM Monitor Back Into Service
- Revopoint Promises “Metrology-Grade Accuracy” From Its New MetroX 3D Scanner
- Mistral AI Goes Small with the “World’s Best Edge Models,” Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B
- P-Lab’s Zilog Z80 Single-Board Computer Channels Its Inner Apollo with Woven-Wire Core Memory
- Curious Scientist Takes a New Approach to Breadboard Power Supplies with a USB PD “Decoy” Board
- UNIT Electronics’ Cocket Nova Is a Breadboard-Friendly WCH CH552-Based Eight-Bit Dev Board
- PrincipIoT’s F7 Is an STMicro STM32F7-Powered NDAA-Compliant Flight Controller for FPV and More
- Qualcomm Cancels the Snapdragon Dev Kit Single-Board Computer, Blames Its “Standards of Excellence”
- Ploopy Gets Touchy with Its Latest Open-Hardware Pointing Device: The 3D-Printable Ploopy Trackpad
- This High-Speed Colorimetric Sensor Delivers Rapid Humidity Readings with a Zero Power Draw
- Jarmil Halamícek’s Tortuguita “Little Turtle” Is a Raspberry Pi-Powered Tank-Track Robot Platform
- Synaptics Gathers Its IoT Smarts Under the Veros Umbrella, Launches New SYN4383 and SYN43756E
- Semi-Autonomous “Hyperspectral” Drones Show Promise for Monitoring Lodging Maize Crops
- Quectel’s BG770A-SN Promises Low-Power 5G-Ready Cellular and Satellite Connectivity for the IoT
- ANSPRE Delivers More Accurate, Concise Responses From Large Language Models — Through Prefixing
- Carl Bugeja’s CodeCell Is a Tiny “Robot Brain” with Espressif ESP32-C3 and Motion-Fusion Sensor
- Arduinos That See, Hear, Think: A Tour of the Avnet Arduino Pro Edge AI/ML Vision and Speech Kit
- SiFive Opens Orders for the High-Performance RISC-V HiFive Premier P550 “Early Access Edition”
- Microchip Unveils the High-Performance Eight-Core RISC-V PIC64HX Processor Family
- Orbbec Unveils the Robust FAKRA-Connectable Gemini 335Lg Depth Camera for Autonomous Robots and More
- Michael Yim’s Badge-Waving SAO Delivers a Double-Sided Programmable Persistence of Vision Display
- Universal Robots Wants to Help You Build Physical Collaborative AI Agents with Its AI Accelerator
- Raspberry Pi Launches Own-Brand SSDs and SSD Kits for the Raspberry Pi 5
- AI-Backed Wearable Cameras Can Save Patients From Drug Mix-Ups, Researchers Say
- Renesas Launches Low-Power, High-Performance RX260, RX261 Touch-Ready Microcontroller Families
- UMich Spin-Out MemryX Launches Its Tiny, Low-Power, High-Efficiency MX3 Edge AI Accelerator
- Seeed Launches “the Smallest LoRa Dev Kit in the World” with a View to Compact Meshtastic Deployment
- Particle Announces Five Big Launches at Spectra ’24 — Including a Raspberry Pi M-HAT and Blueprints
- RC2014 Creator Spencer Owen Celebrates in Style with an IMSAI-Inspired Microcomputer Cake
- Anthropic Teaches Its Claude LLM to Use Computers Like We Do — with a Virtual Keyboard and Mouse
- Raspberry Pi Targets On-Device Edge AI with Its 26 TOPS AI HAT+ Add-On
- This NEC TurboExpress Handheld Is a Real Sleeper Build, Hiding a Raspberry Pi for Retro Emulation
- The Circular Electronic Partnership’s Design Guide Aims to Help Address the Growing E-Waste Problem
- Simen E. Sørensen Brings That Record-Scratch Moment to Your Favorite Badge — with an RP2040
- The Simple Solution: When a Computer Vision Occupancy System Is Beaten by a Simple Reed Switch
- Mitsubishi Electric’s Latest MelDIR Thermal Sensor Doubles Your Field of View
- This Fun Fox Facts Fax Line Delivers Exactly What Its Tongue-Twister-Esque Name Suggests
- Need to Wipe a Raspberry Pi RP2040 or RP2350’s Flash Memory? Philip Howard Has the Nuke Tool for You
- Prokyber’s Ch32-Ant Is a Sub-$5 RISC-V Dev Board Built Around the WCH CH32V003 Microcontroller
- A New Edge-Enhancement Approach Delivers Higher-Quality, More Detailed 3D Scan Visualizations
- This Miniature Hydrogel-Based Battery for Medical Implants Is Soft, Body-Safe, and Biodegradable
- Tim Holyoake Brings Back the Sharp MZ-80K, Now Powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico’s RP2040
- The RFHunter Packs an Espressif ESP32 and Analog AD8317 to Track Down Hidden Spy Gear
- AAEON’s New UP Squared Pro 710H Packs a Hailo-8 Chip for High-Performance On-Device Edge AI
- Power and Storage in One: Pineboards Launches the HatDrive! PoE+ for the Raspberry Pi 5
- US Copyright Office Says You Can Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines — But Not Stream Old Games
- Bret Weber Spots Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Accessories in the Channel, Suggesting a Launch Nears
- Arduino Brings Its MicroPython Editor to the Cloud with a Browser-Based Web App Release
- STMicro Targets Smart Health Wearables Everywhere with Its AI-Enhanced ATVAFE3BX Biosensor
- Raspberry Pi Makes Wayland the Way Forward for All Devices in a New OS Release — But Beware Bugs
- Joey Castillo’s “Sensor Watch” SAO Brings a Little Casio-Inspired Display to Any Compatible Badge
- Seeed Studio, openUC2 Team Up on a Modular Microscope Designed to Be “the Raspberry Pi of Optics”
- NXP Boosts Its eIQ Edge AI Platform with GenAI Flow, Time Series Studio Features
- Jeff Sandberg Turns to Software-Defined Radio to Get a ’90s Alarm System Talking to Home Assistant
- IchigoJam Combines Strawberry and Raspberry to Deliver a Raspberry Pi Pico-Powered Educational Micro
- Joe Scotto’s ScottoChoczard is a Fully-Wireless 3D-Printable Evolution of the ScottoHazard Keyboard
- SeamPose Turns Shirt Seams Into Smart, Wireless Capacitive Sensors for Pose Estimation
- Thomas Flummer’s SAO Digital Multimeter Puts a Functional Piece of Test Equipment on Your Badge
- Quantum Defects and Narrowband Emitters Could Deliver High-Capacity Optical Disc Storage
- Chris Haynes’ Micro Planck Is a 3D-Printable Low-Profile Keyboard Designed with Portability in Mind
- Arduino Offers “Certified Engineer” Qualifications Through Its New Arduino Academy Program
- Robert Price Builds an RC2014 Music Player, Controlled with a Custom Rotary Encoder Input Module
- Ken Yap’s Upcycling Keeps a 50-Year-Old Clock Radio Out of Landfill — for the Fourth Time
- The Skull of Fate SAO Turns Your Favorite Badge Into a Tarot-Reading Mystic for Spooky Season
- Jailbreaking a Restaurant Online Order Terminal with a Simple NFC Card
- FOSSI Foundation Newsletter El Correo Libre, Issue 79
- MyriadRF Newsletter Over The Air (Pending Publication)