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As things get smaller, we can fit more processing power into devices like robots to allow them to do more things or interact with their environment in new ways. If …read more Continue reading The Design Process For A Tiny Robot Brain
The range of hardware that comes on some dev boards these days is truly staggering. Those little LoRa boards are a prime example — ESP32 with WiFi and Bluetooth, a …read more Continue reading Custom Library Rescues Good LoRa Hardware from Bad Firmware
For the most part, Hackaday is all about hardware hacking projects. Sometimes, though, the real hack in a project isn’t building hardware, but rather building a community around the hardware. …read more Continue reading “Cheap Yellow Display” Builds Community Through Hardware
At its core, the ESP32 chip is not much more than an integrated circuit, a huge mass of transistors sealed inside an epoxy resin package with some leads. Of course, …read more Continue reading How Small Can the ESP32 Get?
Is [William Herr]’s RPDot actually the world’s smallest RP2040 dev board? We can’t say for sure, but at 10 mm on a side, we’d say it has a pretty good …read more Continue reading RPDot: The RP2040 Dev Board Barely Bigger than the Chip
For those looking to add wireless connectivity to embedded projects or to build IoT devices, there is perhaps no more popular module than the ESP32. A dual-core option exists for …read more Continue reading The ESP32 Doesn’t Need Much
The global supply chain is a masterpiece of containerized logistics that allows a container to leave a factory in China and arrive on a British forecourt after only a few …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Throwaway Temperature Logger To Useful ARM Dev Board
[Dan Julio]’s gCore (short for Gadget Core) is aimed at making GUI-based portable and rechargeable gadgets much easier to develop. gCore is the result of [Dan]’s own need for a …read more Continue reading gCore: Make Portable Devices with Less Frustration
When you’re building a quick prototype or a one-off project it’s nice to be able to securely mount the various modules and development boards. Sometimes these boards have mounting holes, …read more Continue reading Simple Dev Board Module Socket
With the widespread adoption of emulators, almost anyone can start playing video games from bygone eras. Some systems are even capable of supporting homebrew games, with several having active communities …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering the SEGA Mega Drive