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Voyager Spacecraft: The Ultimate Power Management Challenge?
Published: July 9, 2026, 2:00 pm
Voyager’s plutonium heart is fading, forcing NASA to kill instruments one by one; see how engineers ration watts 15B miles away.
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As AI Moves from Training to Inference, Optics Moves Closer to the Chip
Published: July 9, 2026, 7:15 am
Imec researchers argue that co-packaged optics will not be enough for future AI systems, pushing the industry toward 2.5D and eventually 3D optical I/O.
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White House Executive Order Brings New Urgency to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Published: July 8, 2026, 5:00 pm
Quantum hackers won’t wait: White House orders PQC by 2030, forcing contractors and tech firms to move now.
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Rise of the AI Data Center – Why Infrastructure Strategy Is Now a Board-Level Issue
Published: July 8, 2026, 2:00 pm
This white paper describes the critical engineering and strategic pain points behind today’s AI data center infrastructure gap and offers practical frameworks for resolving them. Whether you’re architecting a new hyperscale facility or expanding or hardening an existing one, here you’ll find the technical and business insights you need to make smarter, more effective infrastructure […]
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SambaNova Raises $1B, Signs JPMorganChase as a Customer
Published: July 8, 2026, 7:45 am
The enterprise market is beginning to kick in, SambaNova CEO tells EE Times.
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Hackaday News
Get a Handle on This Compact Pi Portable
Published: July 9, 2026, 3:30 pm
Between the speed and reliability of modern desktop 3D printers and the abundance of powerful single-board computers, there’s never been a better time to build a personal computing device that …read more
A Brief History of the Crazy Old 7-Segment Display
Published: July 9, 2026, 2:00 pm
How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 …read more
Fixing a Dodgy Cheap Audio DAC
Published: July 9, 2026, 11:00 am
One of the attractions of buying at the bottom end of the electronics market by mail order from China is that you never quite know what will come your way. …read more
Die Casting Comes Home
Published: July 9, 2026, 8:00 am
You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects …read more
C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn’t Pay For
Published: July 9, 2026, 5:00 am
If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Spool Dryer – Curved Desiccant Containers #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Published: July 9, 2026, 4:00 pm
michael.tavel shares: Curved desiccant containers designed to sit directly next to your filament spool inside a dry bag or box. Curved surface area maximizes air-desiccant contact for effective drying. Includes a custom-fit funnel (vase mode) and snap-on lid. Three containers fit around one spool; print as many as needed. By michael.tavel download the files on: […]
3D Hangouts – Flight Tracker, Chiptune Player and Noodle Sword
Published: July 9, 2026, 3:00 pm
3D Hangouts – Flight Tracker, Chiptune Player and Noodle Sword This week @adafruit Pedro is working on a flight tracker with lunar transit features. Noe wraps up Liz Clark’s CircuitPython chiptune player. This week’s timelapse features a pool noodle sword inspired by Zelda video games. Adafruit Feather RP2350 with 8MB PSRAM: Adafruit […]
DOOM ported to the BBC Micro vintage computer
Published: July 9, 2026, 2:48 pm
The ebenupton account on GitHub (likely the creator of the Raspberry Pi) has surfaced another gem of a project: a version of DOOM, an E1M1 wireframe renderer for a stock BBC Micro Model B (2MHz 6502, 32K + sideways RAM). Full BSP traversal, analytical hidden-surface removal, perspective projection, walkable with working doors and lifts, at […]
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
Published: July 9, 2026, 2:28 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 […]
Pool Noodle Master Sword #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Published: July 9, 2026, 1:00 pm
Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Pool Noodle Master Sword By Amedeo Makes makerworld.com/en/models/1513731-pool-noodle-master-sword-legend-of-zelda Bambu X1C PolyMaker PLA 3hr 43mins X:234 Y:152 Z:22mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 10% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 88g 230mm/s Every Thursday […]
Electronics Weekly News
Abaco compute-intensive SBC builds on Intel Core Ultra Series 3
Published: July 9, 2026, 2:40 pm
Abaco Systems will be introducing its SBC3618, a 3U VPX single board computer built on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) processors. The company highlights it is aligned to ...
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Fable: The Persistent Entrepreneur
Published: July 9, 2026, 1:00 pm
There was once a guy who, after serving as an engineer in the army, decided, at the age of 43, to set up his own company. The company sold imported ...
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What caught your eye? Market forecasts, European strengths, Collins Aerospace
Published: July 9, 2026, 10:57 am
There's differing views on semiconductor forecasts, European strengths in the chip industry, and Collins Aerospace opening its UK Engineering Centre of Excellence...
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Collins opens UK Engineering Centre of Excellence in Wolverhampton
Published: July 9, 2026, 10:46 am
Collins Aerospace has opened its UK Engineering Centre of Excellence in Wolverhampton, describing it as a state-of-the-art, modular and scalable test facility. It will expand the company’s aircraft electrification capabilities. ...
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Wayve employees cash in shares worth $85m
Published: July 9, 2026, 5:30 am
Wayve employees have sold $85 million worth of shares in the company on the LSE’s Private Securities Market – the first employee share sale on the PSM. Wayve, the Cambridge ...
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