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There’s a bit of a contest going on when it comes to which is the cheapest microcontroller, yet most of the really cheap ones have one big trade-off in that …read more Continue reading Puya PY32: The Cheapest Flash Microcontroller You Can Buy Is Actually an ARM Cortex-M0+
The scroll wheel might be the best thing that happened to the computer mouse since, well, the computer mouse. But sometimes you want something a little more tangible. For example, …read more Continue reading Hobnobbing with the Knob
We’ve seen many DIY headphones projects on these fair pages over the years, but not many that are quite as DIY as the Ploopy Headphones. What makes this project interesting …read more Continue reading Ploopy Builds Open Source RP2040-Powered Headphones And You Can Too!
Today is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with a few boxes of old …read more Continue reading Dungeons and Dragons Board Game from the 1980s holds a TMS1100
Today is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with a few boxes of old …read more Continue reading Dungeons and Dragons Board Game from the 1980s holds a TMS1100
In theory, using MicroPython on the ESP32 is easy — just flash an image and connect using a serial port. But that leaves a lot of things you still have …read more Continue reading MicroPython ESP32 IDE Makes Life Simpler
One of the fun things about “old school” computers is that it was fairly easy to get kids into programming them. The old Basic interpreters were pretty forgiving, and you …read more Continue reading Scratch Your Itch to Program a Microcontroller
The declining costs of single-board computers has made serious computing power available for even the most trivial of tasks. It’s easy enough to slap a Raspberry Pi onto almost anything …read more Continue reading Audio Playback Toy For DSP Adventures
Smart kitchen appliances are expensive, and more often than not, your usage data goes to whichever company operates the inevitable cloud service. Meanwhile the cheap ones contain substantially the same …read more Continue reading Cheap Kitchen Scale Learns to Speak JSON With ESP32
For those times when you’d rather not get sucked down another internet rabbit hole when you really just wanted the weather, an ambient display can be great. [AlexanderK106] built a …read more Continue reading Ambient Display Tells You if Borealis is Coming to Town