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Building Supply Chain Resilience: Selecting Reliable Capacitor Suppliers
Published: August 12, 2026, 1:00 pm
Supply chain stability is becoming a key consideration for companies when selecting electronic components. Discover more!
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Sony-TSMC $4.7B Deal Helps Thwart Samsung, Analysts Say
Published: August 12, 2026, 10:06 am
Sony and TSMC have joined forces to counter Samsung's growing presence in smartphone image sensors, particularly for Apple.
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Agentic AI, Multi‑Physics, and Standards Will Redefine Chips Design
Published: August 11, 2026, 10:00 pm
Agentic AI, brutal physics bottlenecks, and standards are remaking chip design from silicon to systems.
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AMD Challenges GPU-Centric Architectures as It Takes Aim at Nvidia in Robotics
Published: August 11, 2026, 2:09 pm
AMD’s new SoC for robots combines CPU, GPU, NPU on one chip with unified memory.
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Managing Your Component Library for Supply Chain Resilience
Published: August 11, 2026, 2:00 pm
To take a PCB from design to production, an unmanaged component library is a hidden liability. Obsolete parts, single-source vulnerabilities, long lead times, counterfeit exposure, and compliance gaps often go undetected until they trigger costly redesigns, audit failures, or production delays. This guide shows how to solve those problems at their source. By transitioning to […]
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Hackaday News
Watch Today’s Eclipse at Home
Published: August 12, 2026, 3:30 pm
In a few hours, there is a solar eclipse that will be visible with a track that goes from Spain up through Greenland. Too late to travel for it, but …read more
Getting Back Into Resin Printing: First Results
Published: August 12, 2026, 2:00 pm
When we last left off, I had just set up a new SLA resin printer and was on the verge of doing the initial round of printing to see just …read more
3 KB Solitaire Fits in QR-Code, Runs in DOS
Published: August 12, 2026, 11:00 am
In these days of hundred-gigabyte-and-more monster games, it can be nice to stop and remember what a human can do with assembly language and very, very little storage space. In …read more
Lighting 3D Printed Parts on Fire for Science
Published: August 12, 2026, 8:00 am
Although lighting 3D prints on fire is rarely the intended outcome, it’s possible that said print will at some point in its future come into contact with either an open …read more
Titanic-esqe Telegraph Keeps Relationship Afloat
Published: August 12, 2026, 5:00 am
When people say the key to a happy, long-lasting marriage is communication, they generally mean the verbal kind: talking things out with your spouse, sharing your feelings, and all that …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Pokémon Emerald running natively on a Raspberry Pi RP2350B
Published: August 12, 2026, 4:20 pm
pokeemerald-rp2350 is Pokémon Emerald running natively on a $6 microcontroller — the full game, running at 60 fps, with HDMI video out, real buttons, and saves that survive a power cycle. No emulator: the pret decompilation is recompiled from ARMv4T to Cortex-M33 and the Game Boy Advance’s video hardware is reimplemented in software on the second […]
Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
Published: August 12, 2026, 4:01 pm
Anish Singhani and Benjamin Devlin have designed a puzzle, a chip, but they’re only providing the layout. We’ve designed an ASIC, and we’re giving you its final mask: all of its metal, routing, and active transistor layers, along with some sample inputs and outputs. Your job is to reverse engineer it. First, recover a netlist […]
Executable Emoji
Published: August 12, 2026, 3:48 pm
Daniel Balsom on Adventures in PC Emulation was playing around with a web application – an online disassembler for the x86 – when emoji were being encoded into the url. I pasted a goat emoji, 🐐 and I noticed the encoding %F0%9F%90%90. As it turns out, the vast majority of emoji graphemes, as they are called, start with […]
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
Published: August 12, 2026, 2:32 pm
The Python for Microcontrollers Newsletter is the place for the latest news involving Python on hardware (microcontrollers AND single board computers like Raspberry Pi). This ad-free, spam-free weekly email is filled with CircuitPython, MicroPython, and Python information that you may have missed, all in one place! You get a summary of all the software, events, projects, and the latest hardware worldwide once a week, no […]
ESP32-S3 WALL-E is the Perfect Desk Companion
Published: August 12, 2026, 2:00 pm
Huy Vector and HVT Lab made the cutest little robot friend! This AI-powered WALL-E inspired robot build “can see through its camera, chat naturally, recognize objects, and respond to voice commands.” Adafruit Crickit #MakeRobotFriend Make your robot pal who’s fun to be with using Crickit! Animating Animatronics Control your servo-driven characters and robots with Bottango […]
Electronics Weekly News
Intel may be heading back to memory
Published: August 12, 2026, 3:18 pm
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan (pictured) is teasing a return for Intel to the memory market. ”I used to be, ‘do not invest in memory because it is a kind of […]
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Lockheed Martin demos AI sensor-driven autonomy on a fighter aircraft
Published: August 12, 2026, 2:05 pm
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is highlighting that it has demonstrated sensor-driven autonomy on a fighter aircraft, albeit involving a simulation test aircraft. The company’s advanced-projects division was working with the […]
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Ukraine Is All About Drones
Published: August 12, 2026, 1:14 pm
Following the suspension of U.S. military aid under the Trump administration, European countries have increased their support for Ukraine, significantly ramping up the volume of their assistance in 2025 and […]
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Astrolight, ATMOS Space Cargo sign MoU for in-flight laser comms
Published: August 12, 2026, 10:39 am
Astrolight and ATMOS Space Cargo have signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) to jointly demonstrate what they describe as the first in-flight optical communications link between a re-entry spacecraft and […]
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Published: August 12, 2026, 9:01 am
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