An increasing proportion of my work is now for publication online rather than in print, leading to this: the first in a new monthly round-up series covering all the articles I’ve had published over the past calendar month.
Negimeister’s Clever USB Debug Probe, Built Using an RP2040 “Compute Module,” Simplifies SWD Keigen7’s Sleek 3D-Printed Raspberry Pi 4 Cyberdeck Rings in 2024 in Style Eric Nam Showcases Meshtastic’s Capabilities with a LoRa-Powered Off-Grid iPhone Demo Bob Harbour Brings Modern Usability to a 1970s Electronic Load Box with an SCPI-Inspired Interface Roy Longbottom Pits 1976’s Cray-1 Supercomputer Against the Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computer Range Greg Zweigle’s “Stem Piano” Is a Teensy 4.1 or Raspberry Pi Powered Open Source Hybrid Digital Piano Inspired by Futurama’s Holophoner, the Soundweaver Aims to Turn Mood Music in Visualizations StenoKeyboards’ Asterisk Is a Stenographic Keyboard Capable of Hitting 200+ WPM with No Moving Parts Anthony Douglas’ Thermistor-Based Anemometer Is a Sub-Dollar Marvel — If You Can Calibrate It Charles Giguere’s GPIOViewer Library Gives You “X-Ray Vision” Into Espressif ESP32-Based Projects Dr. DIY’s Digital Level Is Built Based on ChatGPT’s Source Code and Wiring Instructions Outputs Nicholas Lekatsas’ Raspberry Pi Retrofit Project May Make This the Smartest Cuckoo Clock in History Leaning Tower’s “Pure Analog” GPS Receiver Is a Five-Board Marvel with a TinyFPGA BX at Its Heart The “Networked Hardware” Is an Espressif ESP32, Node-RED-Powered Gadget for Education and Art Ben Hardill Pens a New Guide to Getting a Raspberry Pi 5 Talking in USB Gadget Mode Dmytro’s ProPico Is an “Improved Raspberry Pi Pico” with Better ADC, USB Type-C, and More Intel Announces Articul8, a Spin-Out Focused on Turnkey Generative AI for Large Enterprises Orbbec Launches Long-Range AI-Packing Gemini 2 XL Depth Camera for Robotics and More Radxa Launches the Compact, Low-Cost Intel Celeron J4125-Based X2L Single-Board Computer Himax, Seeed Studio Partner on the WiseEye 2-Powered Edge AI Grove Vision AI Module V2 Bosch, Infineon, Nordic, NXP, and Qualcomm Give a Name to Their RISC-V Joint Venture: Quintauris Jay Convertino Reverse Engineered the Classic ColecoVision to Create the Righteous Tentacle Clone SparkFun’s LTE Stick Packs a u-blox LARA-R6 for Voice and IoT Data Across North America Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Boosts Performance for High-Resolution AR/MR, On-Device AI and ML Preetham Kyanam’s ArduRoomba Library Puts Your iRobot Roomba Under Arduino UNO Control Dimitris Dimitrakoudis Turns a Junk Drawer Espressif ESP32 Module Into a Hi-Fi Internet Radio Voltage Glitching Puts Tesla’s “Autopilot” Secrets on Display, Claim Researchers Low-Power Internet of Things Specialist HaiLa Samples Its First “Monolithic” Wi-Fi Backscatter Chip AONDevices Promises Ultra-Low-Power Always-On Edge AI with Its AON1120 RISC-V Chip Mistral’s MRD5165 Eagle Kit Packs a Powerful Compute Bundle for Advanced Autonomous Aerial Robots Dr. Scott M. Baker Builds Cees Meijer’s Jupiter Ace Clone — and Three New Add-On Modules Ambarella Promises High-Efficiency Generative AI, LLMs with the New N1 System-on-Chip Advanced Tinkering’s Adjustable Power Supply Goes From 20kV to 50kV — Thanks to a 1932 Multiplier Joe Scotto’s First Hand-Wired Keyboard of 2024 Is the Compact, Mirrored ScottoKatana Samsung Declares the “Age of AI,” Will Launch a Revamped Ballie Companion Bot This Year A New Fast-Charging Solid-State Battery Designed Like a “Chocolate Truffle” Shows Serious Longevity LogLeg Silences a Noisy DIY Sim Racing Motion Rig — By Switching to a New Microcontroller OV Tech’s Pi.MX8 Offers a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Alternative with On-Board AI Acceleration SparkFun Teams Up with Digi International for New Digi XBee 3, XBee RR IoT Carrier Boards Quectel Launches “Cost-Effective” KG200Z LoRa Module, Built Atop the STMicro STM32WLEx Intel Acquires Silicon Mobility, Aims at Automotive AI with New “Software Defined Vehicle” SoC Line Atmosic Unveils the Ultra-Low-Power ATM34/e System-on-Chip, Adding Thread and Matter Support Nino Ivanov’s CHRISSI Is a Microchip ATtiny85-Powered “Polybius Cube” Telegraph Machine DPPFA-Net Combines 3D LIDAR and 2D Camera Data to Help Autonomous Vehicles Spot Small Objects Orbbec Announces Hiwonder Partnership for NVIDIA Jetson-Powered Educational Edge AI Robots The PDBrick Is a USB Power Delivery Box with Serious Oomph, Pushing an Impressive 1.7kW DFRobot Brings RISC-V and Matter Compatibility to Its FireBeetle 2 Board with New ESP32-C6 Variant Coobie V2 Is a Web-Driven 512-LED RGB Cube Display, Built by a Student Trio Arduino’s Annual Open Source Report Celebrates Five New Boards, Major Growth, and More MicroPython SB Components’ Duo Display Sandwiches Two Roundy or Squary Smart Displays Into One Clever Bundle Jon Mackey’s WWVB Simulator Uses an STMicro STM32 to Fill in for NIST’s Colorado Radio Time Signal Bambu Lab Offers a “One-Way Ticket” to Installing Third-Party Firmware “X1 Plus” on Its 3D Printers GreatScott! Offers Low-Cost Solutions to a Big USB Power Bank Problem: Low-Current Shut-Off Kévin Courdesses Breaks the ESP32-V3, ESP32-C3, and ESP32-C6 Wide Open with a Side-Channel Attack The ULAdigitizer Sucks “Semi-Digital” Video Out of a ZX Spectrum for Pixel-Perfect Upscaling Betavolt Wants to Put a Nuclear Generator in Your Gadgets with Its 50-Year 3V BV100 Battery A “Critical Supply Chain Attack” on the PyTorch Infrastructure Raises Concerns — and a Bug Bounty Renesas Targets the Edge of the Internet of Things with Its New RZ/G3S Triple-Core System-on-Chip Bantam Tools Acquires Evil Mad Scientist, Brings Its Co-Founders In-House for New Art Machines Fang-Pen Lin Eschews Multi-Gig Ethernet for a USB4 Mesh Network Hitting Nearly 12Gbps Throughput Waveshare Launches an M.2 HAT+ Board for the Raspberry Pi 5 — for Under $10 Samsung’s EX1 “Hip-Assist Robot” Shows Promise as an Exercise Assistant for Older Adults Maker’s Fun Duck Reverse Engineers a Cheap Kitchen Timer to Build a Custom User Interface Gadget Florin “VoltLog” C. Offers a Surprisingly Quick-and-Easy Wi-Fi Upgrade Trick for Rigol DHO800 Scopes Moises de Paulo Dias’ Arduino-Compatible Flower Is an Interactive Piece of Perfboard Art Waveshare Releases a Raspberry Pi 5 PoE HAT Design, Offering Cooling and Power in One Mohit Bhoite’s First Circuit Sculpture of 2024 Is the Cute “Cumin” Environmental Monitor The Web-@nywhere Lives Again, Thanks to Cameron Kaiser, Putting 93kb of the Web on Your Wrist Renesas Unveils Its “Lowest Power Consumption” Dual-Core Flash-Equipped BLE Chip, the DA14592 SparkFun’s Pro Micro Range Gets a Little RISCier with the New Pro Micro ESP32-C3 RISC-V Dev Board Makerfabs Launches the Maduino Zero SIM868 GPS Tracker with Bluetooth Low Energy and Cellular Modem Augusto Marinucci’s Solid State Tank Is a Sealed Low-Power PIC16 Watch with a Homebrew ePaper Screen Marb’s Lab Builds an Arduino-Compatible Molecular Switch, Flipped with Laser Beams Joe Scotto’s Latest Hand-Wired Keyboard Is a Compact Gadget for Live Streaming: The ScottoDeck Glen Akins Pythonizes a Set of XMCOSY RGBW Patio Lights for Automated Per-Light Control Tavis Shows Off a Simple, Low-Cost Way to Build Meshtastic Nodes — with Harbor Breeze Solar Lights Cologne Chip Starts Making Its Toolchain Open Source, Releases a GateMate Integrated Logic Analyzer Dangerous Prototypes Unveils the Next-Generation Bus Pirate 5, Now Powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 Olimex Unveils the ESP32-H2-DevKit-LiPo, Built for Low-Power Matter and the Internet of Things Revitalize Your Older Electronics with MagSafe-Style Wireless Charging — in 15 Minutes Arduino Education Unveils Alvik, an Arduino Nano ESP32-Driven MicroPython Robot SupTronics Launches a Range of Raspberry Pi 5 NVMe Storage Boards — and a SATA One, Too The Apple Touch Bar Lives a Life Free of Its MacBook Pro Prison, Thanks to Some Reverse Engineering Morse Micro Pushes Wi-Fi to the Limits with a Two-Mile Wi-Fi HaLow Video Call Demo This Step-By-Step Guide From “Coreyfro” Gets Your Raspberry Pi 5 Running on >2TB NVMe Drives The National Science Foundation Leads the AI Charge with Its NAIRR Pilot Program Sam Hocevar’s Project-piCo Is an Open-Hardware Raspberry Pi Pico Clone with a Shiny USB Type-C Port This Raspberry Pi-Powered Smart Fridge Keeps an Eye on Ingredients with OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision Wesley Elfring’s AirQuality V3 Is a Low-Cost Broad-Function Do-It-Yourself MQTT Air Quality Monitor EIM Technology Unveils Its Revamped STEPFPGA-Based Electronics Education Bundle Arducam Unveils the PiNSIGHT, a Luxonis OAK-SoM Add-On for Raspberry Pi 5-Hosted Edge AI Work Ben Henshaw’s Ouch! Offers Delay-Free Interactive Video Art on a Raspberry Pi Augusto Baffa’s Baffa-2 Homebrew Micro Gains Apple II+ Compatibility — Including Expansion Cards Libre Computer’s AML-S905D3-CC Solitude Is a Low-Cost Raspberry Pi-Like SBC for Edge AI Projects Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 Comes to a Close with Near 50 Vulnerabilities and Over $1 Million in Prizes Questwise Aims to Take a Battery Out of Push-Button IoT Signaling with Its Energy Harvesting Kit Markus Opitz’s Tiny Camera Takes a Brute-Force Approach to Power Saving Femtosecond Laser Light Etching Could Turn Future Windows Into Transparent Solar Panels Umut Sevdi’s WearPico Turns a Raspberry Pi Pico W Into an RP2040-Powered Smartwatch Platform Ken Shirriff Offers an Introduction to Reverse Engineering CMOS Chips From Die Shots A Look at a Flickering Candle LED Through a Microscope Reveals a Surprise: A Microchip PIC Clone Unethical Info Fights Back Against Forced Filter Replacement with a Xiaomi Air Purifier DRM Guide Jake Wachlin’s Nanosleeper Is a “Feather-ish” Development Board Delivering a Sub-100nA Sleep Mode Flo’s Espressif ESP32-S3-Based Under-Floor Heating Controller Aims to Smarten Up Your Toasty Feet Ryan Susman’s NodeMCU-Powered Battery Monitor Tracks UPS Status and Fires Off Twilio SMS Alerts Simon Monk Puts Three Popular Microcontroller Boards Head-to-Head in an ADC Showdown Hugo Landau Finds an Unexpected Denial of Service Vulnerability in Modern Trains: The Toilet Lock Inkbox Builds a Custom Computer with a Difference: It Lives Entirely Within Microsoft Excel Files Raspberry Pi Confirms a Planned IPO, But Says Hobbyists Will Remain “Incredibly Important” Renesas Goes After Motor Control with Machine Learning Smarts, Launches the RA8T1 Microcontroller Qualys Warns of a GNU C Library Flaw Leading to a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux MyriadRF Over The Air: Ebrahim Bushehri Talks LimeSDR XTRX and LMS8001, LibreCellular Progress, Clever Antennas, and More FOSSi Foundation El Correo Libre Issue 70
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