Collaborate Disseminate
Hacker Hotel is a small Dutch hacker event that takes place, as its name suggests, in a hotel. It’s a welcome high point in the damp of a north-west-European winter, …read more Continue reading A Telegraph Interface For the Hacker Hotel 2024 Badge
[Minikk], aka [Athul] is about to enter 10th grade and reports that they and their contemporaries are eschewing boring mobile games for 90s stuff and old games like PONG. Well, …read more Continue reading DIY Pocket PONG Breaks the Mobile Spell
If you have mischievous children or forgetful elderly in your life, you might want to build a couple of these tiny motion detection alarms to help keep them out of …read more Continue reading Tiny Motion Detection Alarm Does the Trick
[James Stanley] likes to spend time making puzzles and gadgets for escape rooms, and decided for a change to try their hand at a bit of magic. The idea was …read more Continue reading The Egyptian Coin Box ‘Trick’
[Frans] claims to have made the world’s smallest orrery. We won’t take a position on that — such things are best left up to the good folks at Guinness. But …read more Continue reading Tiny Orrery Keeps the Planets in Their Places
An essential for the engineer is a decent caliper, to measure dimensions with reasonable accuracy. Some of us have old-fashioned Vernier scales, while many up-to-date versions are electronic. When entering …read more Continue reading A Fancy Connected Caliper For Not A Lot
It’s an exciting time in the world of microprocessors, as the long-held promise of devices with open-source RISC-V cores is coming to fruition. Finally we might be about to see open-source from the silicon to the user interface, or so …read more
Continue reading Exploring The Open Source That Really Goes Into A RISC-V Chip
We just got our hands on some engineering pre-samples of the ESP32-C3 chip and modules, and there’s a lot to like about this chip. The question is what should you compare this to; is it more an ESP32 or an …read more
Continue reading Hands-On: The RISC-V ESP32-C3 Will Be Your New ESP8266
Six years on from the emergence of the Espressif ESP8266 we might believe that the focus had shifted to the newer dual-core ESP32. But here comes a twist in the form of the newly-revealed ESP32-C3. It’s a WiFi SoC that despite its ESP32 name contains a RISC-V core in place …read more
Continue reading Espressif Leaks ESP32-C3: A WiFi SoC That’s RISC-V and is ESP8266 Pin-Compatible