EE Times News
CASPA CEO Summit Preview with President Jimmy Cheng
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:04 pm
CASPA’s annual conference celebrates its 35th anniversary with a lineup of more than 35 CEOs from Silicon Valley, including Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan and Cerebras’s Andrew Feldman.
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17 Years with China: What Really Makes a Partnership Work
Published: October 13, 2026, 1:00 pm
Honya Europe's Robert Tarantowicz shares 17 years of lessons on PCB sourcing in China, quality, trust, and risk management.
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Europe’s Advanced Packaging Gap: Fraunhofer, Swissbit Target the Missing Middle
Published: October 13, 2026, 9:06 am
Low-volume production sits between research and mass manufacturing. Europe needs an industrial model to fill the gap.
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Applied Materials Bets $5B on a New Model for Chip Innovation
Published: October 12, 2026, 4:59 pm
Applied Materials’ $5 billion EPIC Center brings chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and researchers together to accelerate semiconductor R&D and commercialization.
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Embedded Graphics on an MCU – Without an Accelerator
Published: October 12, 2026, 4:49 pm
Join this webinar and learn how to add LCD graphics to MCU projects without a display controller, accelerator, or external DRAM.
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Hackaday News
ESP-SDR Can Now Transmit
Published: October 13, 2026, 8:00 pm
Well, that was fast! Last week, we reported on two apparently simultaneous hacks using the 2.4 GHz radio inside many ESP32 variants that enabled raw access to the radio samples, …read more
Using a Waffle to Check the Health of your Wii U’s NAND Flash
Published: October 13, 2026, 6:00 pm
Game consoles tend to have a weak spot or two that will take certain units out sooner than they would due to normal parts aging. In the case of the …read more
Counting the PET Bottles Needed to Make 1 Kg of Printer Filament
Published: October 13, 2026, 3:30 pm
In countries where PET bottles do not get slapped with an additional fee that induces you to return it for recycling and said fee back, the resulting piles of discarded …read more
The FPGA Chronicles: Ready to Probe
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:02 pm
In the last few installments, we looked at using the Tang Nano 20K with both the GOWIN tools and some open-source tools. The open-source tools certainly had the advantage of …read more
A Modern Browser for the PlayStation Portable
Published: October 13, 2026, 11:00 am
The Sony PlayStation Portable, better known as the PSP, is now over two decades old. In its day it was an impressive handheld gaming machine, not least because of the …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Bonnie J. Dunbar #ALD26 @findingada
Published: October 13, 2026, 8:15 pm
Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut who flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998. University of Washington Magazine shared her story. It was only fitting that Dunbar flew on the space shuttle. As an undergraduate at the UW, she helped Ceramic Engineering Professor James I. Mueller develop […]
Yamin Zhang #ALD26 @findingada
Published: October 13, 2026, 7:15 pm
image via yaminzhang.group Dr. Yamin Zhang has invented a sesame seed sized wireless pacemaker that is both an electrical stimulator and a battery: Its electrodes, made from bioabsorbable metals like molybdenum, magnesium, and/or zinc, pass current through the heart’s own fluids, which serve as the battery’s electrolyte. The pacemaker, roughly the size of […]
Mini Retro TV: a tiny video player with ESP32-S3
Published: October 13, 2026, 6:50 pm
Tech Talkies built a small video player around an ESP32-S3 and posted the build on Hackster.io. The board is a MaTouch Lite ESP32-S3 with a 2.4 inch ST7789 SPI IPS touchscreen, dressed up as a miniature television. Decoding H.264 on a microcontroller is not practical, so the project sidesteps the problem. A video is converted […]
JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 3pm Eastern TODAY 10/13/26 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick
Published: October 13, 2026, 6:46 pm
Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 3pm ET / 12pm PT Check out the livestream right here inside this product page you won’t want to miss it because there will be a LARGE DISCOUNT during the show! Tune in […]
OpenClaw for ESP32 – meet WireClaw!
Published: October 13, 2026, 6:44 pm
cgwaltney Christopher posted a video on the Seeed Studio Forum introducing WireClaw, a port of OpenClaw for the ESP32. The thread sits in the forum’s General Info and Guidance category, and the post itself is the video. In a follow-up message, the same poster reports getting stuck while working through the tutorial. Asking the chat […]
Electronics Weekly News
10 years of TME Education – a decade of supporting technical education
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:16 pm
Learn more about TME Education – an educational project based on practical learning and collaboration with local communities.
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Pathways into Electronics reports on women’s route to study electronics
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:11 pm
The UK Electronics Skills Foundation’s (UKESF) new report examines the routes women take to study electronics in further education: Pathways into Electronics: Women EEE Students. It shares findings into the […]
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How Can Users Who Seek Mental Health Support From AI Be Protected?
Published: October 13, 2026, 1:22 pm
As more and more people lean on chatbots for comfort and guidance, experts have raised alarms over the potential pitfalls: erosion of social skills, unhealthy attachment to digital companions offering […]
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Linking functional safety with cybersecurity in the automotive industry
Published: October 13, 2026, 11:00 am
Adding cybersecurity to a car alongside existing protection against technical failures may disrupt critical reaction times for preventing an accident. Engineers can balance this through combined risk analysis, writes Diego […]
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Knowles ATT A-Series of attenuators in compact SMT package
Published: October 13, 2026, 10:50 am
Knowles is introducing its ATT A-Series of wideband, surface mount attenuators, broadening its high-performance RF component portfolio. The company highlights the series’ attenuation accuracy and high power handling in a compact […]
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