Collaborate Disseminate
Over on Hackaday.io there’s a fun and playful write-up for a fun and playful project — the Piko, an ESP32 powered smartwatch. Our hackers [Iloke Alusala], [Lulama Lingela], and [Rafael …read more Continue reading Piko, Your ESP32 Powered Fitness Buddy
Here is a hacker showing off their engineering chops. This video shows successive design iterations for a LEGO vehicle which can cross increasingly large gaps. At the time of writing …read more Continue reading Making a LEGO Vehicle Which Can Cross Large Gaps
[Leo Goldstien] recently got in touch to let us know about a fascinating update he posted on the Hackaday.io page for ManiPylator — his 3D printed Six degrees of freedom, …read more Continue reading Simulation and Motion Planning for 6DOF Robotic Arm
Today we heard from [Richard James Howe] about his new CPU. This new 16-bit CPU is implemented in VHDL for an FPGA. The really cool thing about this CPU is …read more Continue reading Can We Replace a Program Counter with a Linear-Feedback Shift Register? Yes We Can!
Today we’re going to make a little digression from things that we do to look at perhaps why we do the things that we do. This one is philosophical folks, …read more Continue reading A Love Letter to Embedded Systems by V. Hunter Adams
[Kalesh Sasidharan] from Sciotronics wrote in to tell us about their project, Stamp: a modular set of template breakout boards designed to make prototyping with SMD components faster, easier, and …read more Continue reading Stamp: Modular Breakout Boards for SMD Prototyping
Today in material science news we have a report from [German Science Guy] about a new supermaterial which is as strong as steel and as light as Styrofoam! A supermaterial …read more Continue reading New Supermaterial: As Strong as Steel and as Light as Styrofoam
[ChrisJ7903] has created two Ardiuno programs for reading Victron solar controller telemetry data advertised via BLE. If you’re interested in what it takes to use an ESP32 to sniff Bluetooth …read more Continue reading Intercepting and Decoding Bluetooth Low Energy Data for Victron Devices
Today from the team at Cesanta Software — the people who gave us the open-source Mongoose Web Server Library and Mongoose OS — we have an article covering how to …read more Continue reading How to Build an STM32 Web Dashboard Using the Mongoose Wizard
Here’s one for our astronomy geeks. Our hacker [arrow] has made their own observatory! This particular video is a bit over ten minutes long and is basically a montage; there …read more Continue reading Making a Backyard Observatory Replete With Retractable Roof