Collaborate Disseminate
Pine64 is an open-source-community-centered project of mostly-open hardware, known for such hits as the PinePhone, the Pinecil soldering iron, and the PineTime. Now, the Pine64 project wants to know what …read more Continue reading What Should Pine64 Build With Microcontrollers?
Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ago, I covered a …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly
There are a few very different pathways to building a product, and we gotta applaud the developers taking care to take the open-source path. Today’s highlight is [Mentra], who is …read more Continue reading Mentra Brings Open Smart Glasses OS With Cross-Compat
Did OneWire of DS18B20 sensor fame ever fascinate you in its single-data-line simplicity? If so, then you’ll like PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network) – a single-wire-compatible protocol for up to …read more Continue reading PJON, Open Single-Wire Bus Protocol, Goes Verilog
What if you find yourself as an iPhone owner, desiring a local backup solution — no wireless tech involved, no sending off data to someone else’s server, just an automatic …read more Continue reading Consider This Pocket Machine For Your iPhone Backups
Looking for an educational microcontroller board to get you or a loved one into electronics? Consider the tinyCore – a small and nifty hexagon-shaped ESP32 board by [MR. INDUSTRIES], simplified …read more Continue reading tinyCore Board Teaches Core Microcontroller Concepts
The age of cheap and powerful devices is upon us. How about a 20 EUR handheld game console intended for retro game emulation, that runs Linux under the hood? [Luiz …read more Continue reading Building Rust Apps For Cheap Hackable Handheld Console
Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’t …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Everyone has a standard for publishing projects, and they can get pretty controversial. We see a lot of people complain about hacks embedded in YouTube videos, social media threads, Discord …read more Continue reading Share Your Projects: Imperfectionism
This summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match. Many badges these days embrace the QWERTY computer aesthetic, which …read more Continue reading Lithium-Ion Batteries: WHY They Demand Respect