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To conclude MIT’s working group on generative AI and the work of the future, the group has released a paper summarizing the findings from three years of research on companies’ experiments with generative AI. Across the applications of generative AI addressing these challenges, there has been a shift in the core tasks that professional and […]

Prop and scenic painting technician Carousse shared this really cool carbon microphone on instructables. I worked on a play that required a functioning early 20th century carbon microphone. They are rare, expensive, actors can accidently drop them and would need to be re-wired with a modern wireless microphone. I like this kind of challenge because […]

The conflict in the Middle East has disrupted supplies of crucial raw materials and ‌pushed up prices of the printed circuit boards (PCB) used in almost all electronic devices, from smartphones and computers to AI servers, industry sources and executives have said. The disruption is a fresh blow to electronics manufacturers which are already ​grappling […]

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A collection of electron tubes via Wikipedia Commons   Al Williams on Hackaday stands up for vacuum tubes, they may be gone but they’re not forgotten. In the last gasps of the vacuum tube’s lifespan they actually made big technological advances. Great bit of electronics history!   During the final decades of mainstream tube development, […]

LcdTap is an open source library and example that receives LCD controller commands (via SPI or I2C) and outputs the framebuffer as a DVI-D signal. It sniffs the I2C commands for an OLED display from a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and outputs the image via DVI to mirror it on the HDMI display. There are […]

DIY DC/DC Boost Calculator Guide For many small projects, it’s cheaper and easier to DIY a boost converter than to buy a specialty chip. DIY converters are usually not as efficient but they’re quick & cheap! The above schematic section shows how I designed a 30-60V vacuum fluorescent tube display driven from a microcontroller pin. […]

Julian Horsey on Geeky Gadgets digs up an original Raspberry Pi board to see if it will run a large language model (LLM): Running a local AI language model on a 12-year-old Raspberry Pi might seem like an impossible task, but Better Stack demonstrates how it can be done. Using the Falcon H1 Tiny model, […]

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Clawdmeter is an ESP32-S3-powered desk dashboard that monitors Claude Code token usage and displays it on a 2.16″ AMOLED screen. It uses the LVGL library for its high-resolution UI and the NimBLE stack to communicate with a host daemon via BLE, while also functioning as a HID keyboard for shortcuts. The project features dynamic pixel-art […]

Protoviz 3D is an interactive, web-based 3D communication protocol visualizer designed to help students, embedded engineers, and electronics enthusiasts understand what actually happens on the wire. The project currently supports UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) and I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit), aiming to make serial communication visual, intuitive, and observable rather than abstract. Learning communication protocols like UART and I²C […]

On May 7, 2026, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) released its KiCad component library, which had been used internally, under an open-source CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 – Permissive license. The library contains data for over 17,000 electronic components, including schematic symbols and layout footprints, and is available to anyone free of […]

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In this video, tanks for nothin makes a custom tank to perfectly fill the space below their monitors and shows viewers the process of turning that tank into a riverbed ecosystem. NeoPixel Aquarium with Submersible Lights reef-pi

This project is about scrambling a secret message or picture in such a way that it can only be decrypted when certain environmental factors are met. The guide covers three different types of sensor inputs: GPS coordinates, lux light values, and temperature/humidity/CO2 readings. The general concept could be adapted for other types of sensors like […]

Shy Society is a kinetic installation by Studio Drift that transforms Venice’s Palazzo Balbi into a “breathing” building. The Concept: It mimics nyctinasty—the natural process where flowers close at night. The robotic textile blooms descend and unfurl, then retract and close in a synchronized dance. The Vibe: The movement is timed to a human resting […]