And the week ends with the latest design from @oskitone: the Space Dice, a 3D-printable microcontroller-free synth... that specialises in sci-fi laser pew-pew noises. And is also a digital D6 dice-roller, because why not? […]
Then some good news for #HomeAssistant users: 2026.4, coming out on the 1st of April, offers much improved security for backups - independently-audited, to boot.
www.hackster.io/news/home-assistant-2026... […]
Final #Hackster round-up of the week, and today's three starts with the news from @matthewvenn that Tiny Tapeout is running another demoscene-inspired contest - and you can get a free tile for your entry!
(You don't get a chip for that, tho' - you'll have to pay for the devkit to actually get […]
And today ends on a little bit of #science, as researchers show off a wrist-based wearable which uses ultrasound to monitor the movement of tendons and muscles to deliver high-accuracy gesture detection for VR, AR, and robotics use-cases […]
Then something for the #Verilog and #Factorio crowd to bond over: a tool for taking a Verilog chip design and putting into the game... as a functional factory.
Demos of its capabilities go all the way up to a 32-bit #RISCV CPU […]
It's #Hackster round-up time again, and I'm starting with another #crowdfunding campaign - this time for the modular Brax open_slate, which can run de-Googled Android or a mainstream Linux.
I covered the unveiling back in January, but the campaign is now live - complete with a price hike […]
And finally, a bit of a mixed bag from PINE64.
The good: there's a new PineTime in the works, the PineTime Pro - with battery-saving improvements, new features, and a shiny AMOLED display!
The bad: PINE64's suffering, like everyone else, from the AI bubble's insatiable hunger for RAM, so […]
Then the Canute Scientific, heading to @crowdsupply in the near future: a 13" laptop with a built-in refreshable Braille display, designed to provide "parity of display" to scientists with visual impairments. Again, #OpenHardware and #RaspberryPi powered! […]
An early #Hackster round-up today, as I'm actually ahead of the game for a change.
First up, a lovely #RaspberryPi-powered 3D-printable pocket camera - yes, yes, another one, but this one's got a twist: in-body film emulation, processed entirely on-device. (And it saves the RAWs as well, so you […]
Finally, some #science with a look at ongoing work to build a solid-state ornithopter - a flapping-wing drone which doesn't have motors or gears or anything of the like, working instead on bio-inspired piezoelectric muscles.
The good news: a team has proven the design in simulation. The bad […]
This one comes with a disclaimer: I skimmed the original blog post this morning, loved the *concept*, and decided I'd write about it...
...then on proper read-through reached the bit about a chunk of the work having been farmed out to the Stochastic Parrot as a Service du jour, Anthropic's […]
It's #Hackster round-up time, and hide your wallets because I'm once again starting with a crowdfunder: the Ampisu, a #RaspberryPi microcontroller-powered 7.5/15VDC dual-channel programmable PSU with third fixed 3.3VDC channel.
The bonus? A neat web interface, you can automate it via Python or […]
And finally - I overachieved earlier in the month, so I only have to do three a day now to hit my target for March - is something that was announced too late last week for me to cover: the addition of a new over-the-air update feature ("experimental," for now) to #RaspberryPi Connect […]
The second is the Neuro N6, an STM32N6-powered Feather-format #microcontroller development board built with edge... err, computer vision in mind. Milliwatt-power CV on-board, its creators promise - all accessible via extension to the #Arduino IDE […]
It's Monday, which can only mean it's time for another #Hackster round-up.
Today, I'm starting with a couple of crowdfunding campaigns - first for the Coglet, a 3D-printable desktop companion robot with some pretty nice features. Open-source, too! (Albeit under an unspecified licence - or, at […]
And finally, there's a new Espressif ESP-IDF out - with a new and more compact standard C library, an Installation Manager that makes setup easier and can manage multiple installations side-by-side, and more!
...including a Model Context Protocol server for those who would prefer to have the […]
Then Google's given a glimpse at what the future of Android "sideloading" - what we used to call "installing software" before the walls appeared around the garden - will look like once mandatory developer registration comes in. It's... a bit of a pain, and includes 24-hour wait(!) before you're […]
Right, about to lock my focus on a newsletter I need to get written by the end of the day - so let's procrastinate just a little longer with today's #Hackster round-up.
First up: a fantastic, but pricey, physical Conway's Game of Life board - built using a cheap microcontroller connected to a […]
And finally, not the first I've seen but I love the design: an instant camera, printing snaps to thermal paper via a receipt printer using a #RaspberryPi.
www.hackster.io/news/this-bright-yellow-...
#Technology #News […]
Then a new product from Seeed Studio, the reTerminal D1001 - an 8" full-colour smart touchscreen display with an Espressif ESP32-P4 at its heart.
www.hackster.io/news/seeed-studio-target...
#Technology #News […]
Okay, reasonably-timed #Hackster round-up today - miracle of miracles!
Some #science to start, as researchers come up with a way to watch the electrons flow through electronic components in-situ — straight through the package […]
And then a little #science, as a research team figures out a more efficient way to handle autonomous robot swarms in noisy environments - by watching hours of sheepdog trials […]
An even later #Hackster round-up than usual, thanks to a day absolutely jam-packed with distractions...
Only two today, starting with the BentoIO CMX2 - an ultra-slim carrier board for the #RaspberryPi Compute Module 5 […]
And, finally, a neat trick for using an MSLA 3D printer - the ones that work with UV-curing liquid resin - to print directly onto plywood for slick-looking tactile front panels for project boxes.
Just.... watch that stuff, 3D printer resin is *nasty*. Gloves, mask, and pay attention to the bit […]
Something for the computer vision crowd next as STMicro teams up with Leopard Imaging to develop a three-in-one smart vision platform: RGB and IR vision, lidar depth-sensing, and an integrated IMU for motion detection […]
Then a #crowdfunding campaign for something I desperately want: an acoustic camera. You know how thermal cameras let you see heat? Yeah, well, this uses a microphone array to see sound.
Can't justify dropping $900 on one, though, even if that *is* a lot cheaper than the $18,000 FLIR will charge […]
A late #Hackster round-up today, as everything seems to have been pulling my attention in about 15 directions this afternoon.
First up, Vitaly Puzrin's teeny-tiny little hotplate for solder reflow work (and any other task that involves heating small things up to set temperatures) - permissively […]
Finally, before I let you go, a call for participation: #Hackster is running a #competition dubbed Invent the Future - and has 300 (three hundred!) #Arduino UNO Q boards to give away, gratis, to entrants.
If you fancy a shot at picking one up, you can find out more on the official competition […]
Oh! And while the videos from #EmbeddedWorld2026 are still working their way through the editing process, #Hackster has put together a little teaser.
That teeny-tiny DJI camera I took is great. Shame about the oik in front of the lens, tho'!
