It’s been a busy February, and a day longer than usual to boot, but if I had to pick some personal highlights they’d include this dual-display sunlight-readable PDA build, a tiny $5 mechanical keyboard, Paul Krizak’s amazing Wire Wrap Odyssey microcomputer, an anonymously-published 6,000 PPI boardview of the Nintendo Switch Lite, Wojciech Graj’s audio-only Doom port, and Tankgrrl’s Commodore 1541-style housing for a USB floppy drive.
- Marcel’s BeetleMeter Provides a Push Button Reading of Pet Beetles’ Environmental Comfort
- MadRadar Triggers “Hallucinations” in Autonomous Vehicle Sensor Systems, Researchers Say
- Colton Baldridge’s OS3M Mouse Is a Smart Open Source, 3D-Printable SpaceMouse Alternative
- C. Scott Ananian’s OpenEVSE Upgrade Adds a Touchpad, RFID Reader for Safer Energy Sharing
- Tankgrrl’s 3D-Printable USB Floppy Housing Is a Commodore 1541-Inspired Throwback for 3.5″ Drives
- This Compact Modular Robot Can Map, Inspect, and Even Repair Gas Pipes — No Digging Required
- Evan Grove Turns a 1990s Basketball Scoreboard Display Into a Zephyr IoT Device
- AI2’s OLMo 7B Is a “Truly Open Source” Large Language Model for Gen AI — Training Data and All
- Snap Recalls Its Autonomous Pixy Camera Drones, Warns of Battery Fire Risk
- These 3D-Printed “Pneumatic Logic Gates” Make for Robust, Electronics-Free Soft Robotics
- Eco-Friendly “Plant-Wearable” Sensors Can Pick Up Pesticides on Fruit and Vegetables
- Morten’s IoT Thing Is a Smart General-Purpose Project Board — and a Detailed KiCad 7 Tutorial
- IdeaZero’s Low-Cost Bench Supply Turns USB Power Delivery Into Whatever Voltage You Need
- Stefan Wagner’s USB PD Tester Is a Tiny Power Supply Gadget Built Around a RISC-V Microcontroller
- Banana Pi Unveils an Eight-Core Edge AI Development Board Built around a RISC-V Chip: the BPI-F3
- A Mid-Century Modern Clock Radio Gets a Surprisingly Simple Overhaul in Barry’s Upcycling Project
- Hrvoje Cavrak’s DeskHop Is a Slick Dual-Raspberry Pi Pico Keyboard-and-Mouse Sharing Switch
- Joe Burks’ OtterX Is an Eight-Bit “Neo-Retro” Machine with Commander X16 Compatibility
- Electro Boy Blends New and Old, Builds an Arduino UNO-Style Board for the Classic Intel 8051
- Chen Liang’s “Mirrorless Camera for Makers” Is a Tiny Photography Powerhouse
- Steven Bergeron Meza’s FrameDeck Is a Valve Steam Deck-Inspired Handheld for On-the-Go PC Gaming
- Data Recovery Experts Warn of Faulty Flash Components Popping Up, Relabeled, in USB Storage Sticks
- Thomas Roth Breaks Microsoft’s BitLocker in Under a Minute — with a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico
- The MCULink-Mini Is a Shrunken, Cost-Reduced But Fully-Featured Open-Hardware Debug Probe
- This Seeed XIAO ESP32C3-Based Alarm Is a Teeny-Tiny Motion Sensor with Smart Potential
- James Warner Frees a “Smart” Air Purifier From Its Proprietary App with a Bit of Reverse Engineering
- Sophgo Blends a Proprietary TPU with RISC-V and Arm Cores — and, Apparently, an Intel 8051 Clone
- Arduino IDE 2.3 Brings the Standards-Based Debug Feature Out of Beta
- 52Pi’s NVdigi HAT Combines an M.2 NVMe Slot with HiFiBerry Digi+ S/PDIF Digital Audio Outputs
- Sipeed Unveils the LicheeRV Nano Range, Tiny Edge AI Camera Boards Built Atop the Sophgo SG2002
- Brent Rubell’s Adafruit MEMENTO Smart Doorbell Offers a Privacy-Respecting DIY Alternative
- Seeed Studio’s Local Voice Chatbot Puts a Speech-Recognizing LLaMa-2 LLM on Your NVIDIA Jetson
- Google’s Bard Gen AI Is Now Gemini, While Gemini Advanced Promises to “Outperform Human Experts”
- A Robot Called the “Swiss Army Knife of Marine Research” Is on the Prowl for the “Jelly Web”
- Oliver Hagen’s DivingBoard Aims to Unleash the Power of the Roland DJ-Xi Synth
- Brilliant Labs Unveils Frame, Smart Glasses Delivering “AI Superpowers”
- CERBERUS 2100, Bernardo Kastrup’s Multi-Headed Educational Computer, Is Now on Sale
- Top DNG Builds a $600 Digital Radio Scanner on the Cheap — with a Raspberry Pi 5 and RTL-SDR
- The Government of Canada Seeks to Ban the Flipper Zero, SDR Dongles Over Car Theft Fears
- Scott Rapson’s Exhaustive Testing Finds the Easiest, Lowest-Latency Wireless Microcontrollers
- SparkFun Launches the Multi-Function Thing Plus ESP32-C6 with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and IEEE 802.15.4
- Will Warren’s GARAGINATOR Wants to Smarten Up Basic Garage Door Openers with Apple HomeKit Support
- Bit Eclectic Boots Your Apple II From an Unusual Source: A Website Pretending to Be a Disk Drive
- 3d Printz’s Case Turns a Raspberry Pi Into a Neat, 10TB-Capacity Network-Attached Storage Appliance
- Arvind Sanjeev’s SPIN Is a Synth with a Generative AI Twist — and a Turntable, Too
- Milk-V Drops the Unusual Sophgo SG2002 Into an Upgraded, AI-Ready Duo Development Board
- STMicro, Mobile Physics Partner Up to Turn Smartphones Into Always-On Air Quality Monitors
- Wojciech Graj’s Doom Port Eschews the Display Device in Favor of Rendering Everything in Sound
- Hypnotriod’s BeagleBone AI-64 Robot Has a Go Heart and a First-Person View
- Oliver Child’s Raspberry Pi Pico-Powered Sonolithographic Machine Makes Pretty Patterns with Sound
- Flipper Zero Gets the Big Screen Treatment with a Raspberry Pi RP2040-Powered Video Game Module
- Kingham Xu’s OV-Watch Is a Slick, $20 Open Source STM32 Smartwatch Built Around FreeRTOS and LVGL
- Pegor Karoglanian’s smahtSticker Is ChatGPT-Powered Social and Political Camouflage for Your Car
- Don Wilcher’s Radio Shack Science Fair Microcomputer Trainer Gets a Raspberry Pi Pico Accessory
- NVIDIA Launches Chat with RTX, a Free, Personalizable Large Language Model Chatbot for GeForce GPUs
- Edgen Aims to Deliver an Open Source Drop-In Replacement to OpenAI’s API, for Gen AI at the Edge
- Microchip Offers a Lower-Cost Entry Point for PolarFire SoC Experimentation with the Discovery Kit
- Luxonis’ Latest OAK Edge AI Camera Packs a Thermal Sensor for Data Fusion and Computer Vision
- Jay Carlson Hunts Down the Cheapest Flash-Equipped Microcontroller: a Puya 32-Bit Arm Cortex-M0+
- Vodafone, Lime Micro Unveil a Next-Generation 5G Network-in-a-Box Built Around a Raspberry Pi 5
- Limitbit Tech’s Doly Launches with the Promise of an Edge AI-Powered “Unique Personality”
- SparkFun Aims for Easier 10BASE-T1L Experimentation with Its MicroMod Single-Pair Ethernet Kit
- James Brown’s High-Speed Rotary Volumetric Display Experiments Take on New Depth — Literally
- The RC2014 Gets a Smart Emulated Sound Module as Spencer Owen Aims for a New Board Every Month
- Asus Refreshes the Tinker Board 3 Single-Board Computer with the New 3N Plus, 3N Lite
- Ken St. Cyr Gives a TRS-80 Model 100 a Serious Speed Boost with Steve Adolph’s “Turbo Mode” Mod
- Bojan Jurca’s ESP32 Oscilloscope Turns Low-Cost Microcontroller Boards Into Web-Connected Tools
- Olimex’s USB-NeoHub Promises Perfect Compatibility with TinyUSB on the Raspberry Pi RP2040
- Dr. Scott M. Baker’s MasterBlaster Puts Eight Intel 8008s to Work in a Game of Life “Supercomputer”
- This Low-Cost Compact Carrier Board Turns a Seeed XIAO SAMD21 Into an 18V Six-Channel Voltmeter
- Vlad Tomoiaga Puts Linux on the $0.15 WCH CH32V003 RISC-V Microcontroller
- Waveshare Launches New SIMCom-Equipped Espressif ESP32-S3 Boards for Cellular IoT Projects
- Blade Runner’s Image Enhancement Tool Nears Reality with an Algorithm for Seeing Around Corners
- Blues Partners with Skylo on the $49 Starnote, Offering Low-Cost Satellite Connectivity for the IoT
- BrainChip Opens Pre-Orders for Its Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Akida Edge AI Box at $799
- The VoltSchemer Charger Attack Can Fry Your Phone, Credit Cards, Passport, and Even Whisper to Siri
- Nordic Semi Unveils the New nRF9151, a System-in-Package for Power-Efficient Cellular Projects
- CiferTech’s “EvilDuck” Is a Microchip ATmega32U4-Powered BadUSB for Security Testing, Automation
- Jake Wachlin’s MetaShunt Is a 10,000,000:1-Range Current Measurement Device for Low-Power Projects
- J. Chitpin’s ThinkDeck Is a Penkesu-Style Raspberry Pi Zero W Homage to Classic IBM ThinkPads
- Haruki Toreda’s HelTXT Lite Is a Compact, Standalone Node for Meshtastic Communication Networks
- Particle Announces M-Series “Multi-Radio” SoMs, Muon Dev Board, with LoRaWAN, Satellite
- Renesas Shows Off a High-Performance STT-MRAM Design for 200MHz-Plus Microcontrollers
- Liam Jackson Saves an Old HP MicroServer From the Scrapheap with a 3D-Printed Drive-Bay PC Bracket
- Jordt Bartolome’s DrivePACK Is a Smart, Highly-Flexible Replacement for Casio Keyboards’ ROM PACKs
- Andrey Konovalov Turns a Hacked Lenovo ThinkPad Laptop Into a Flexible USB Device Emulator
- Tristam R. Rolls His Own Slick ESP32 Smart Speaker for Private, Local Home Assistant Voice Control
- STMicro Unveils the High-Resolution All-in-One VL53L9 Direct Time-of-Flight LIDAR Sensor
- Joe Scotto’s Latest Hand-Wired Keyboard Boasts Flat-Topped “ScottoCaps” and Bluetooth Support
- Alistair Francis Hacks a Husqvarna Automower 305 for Bluetooth-Driven Home Assistant Control
- An Epic Journey in Reverse Engineering Ends with a 6,000 PPI Boardview of the Nintendo Switch Lite
- Qualcomm Launches Its AI Hub, Offering Optimized On-Device AI Models with Four Times the Performance
- Shake the Dust Off Your Minitel Terminals with the MiniPlay, an Arduino-Powered Game Cartridge
- Quectel Launches New Compact, Low-Power Yet High-Performance Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Modules
- The Arduino Nano 33 BLE Gets a Rev2 Refresh with Dual-IMU, Power Supply Upgrade, and More
- ADLINK’s New MXA-200 Can Handle Wi-Fi and 5G Gateway Operations with a Side of Edge AI
- Husqvarna’s “One Hell of an Update” Puts a Copy of Doom on Selected Automower NERA Robo-Mowers
- The Hardware-Oriented Microprocessor Simulator, HOMS, Unveils the Secrets in Black Box Chips
- Paul Krizak’s Wire Wrap Odyssey Is a Real Labor of Love for the Vintage Microcomputer Era
- DIY Guy Chris’ “Octopus” VI Curve Tracer Draws Oscilloscope Patterns to Identify Component Types
- TangibleFuture’s LOOI Turns Smartphones Into Ambulatory Companion Robots with ChatGPT Support
- This Sunlight-Readable Dual-Display PDA Acts as Its Own Software Development Tool
- Arduino’s Portenta Machine Control Gets a Revamped Library, New User Guide
- Christian Lo’s Tiny Mechanical Keyboard Costs Just $5 in Parts — and Makes a Perfect Giveaway
- Eirik Brandal’s “Shell-Tethered Vespa” Is Part Circuit Sculpture, Part Synthesizer, All Awesome
- Can You Steal a Car with a Flipper Zero? “Yes,” Says Nic, “But It Certainly Has a Few Caveats”
- FOSSi Foundation: El Correo Libre Issue 71
- MyriadRF Over The Air: A Raspberry Pi 5-Powered Network-in-a-Box, Decoding Moon Messages, Gqrx for Windows, and More