EE Times News
Manufacturing Expands in June Amid Global Unrest
Published: July 7, 2026, 12:30 pm
U.S. manufacturing expanded in June, but Middle East conflict impacted raw materials.
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eSIM Evolves from Subscriber Identity to Device Trust
Published: July 7, 2026, 7:00 am
eSIM turns SIMs into device trust anchors for IoT, cars and AI, letting fleets switch networks and stay secure remotely.
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Canada’s AI Ecosystem Needs More Urgency
Published: July 6, 2026, 10:00 pm
Canada has the AI talent. Now, it’s time to scale its domestic compute and sovereign hardware.
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MIPS on the RISC-V Shift: ‘Physical AI Is Agentic AI at the Edge’
Published: July 6, 2026, 5:00 pm
MIPS bets RISC-V and ARC AI will power physical AI in cars and factory robots. Watch the interview and learn more.
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Voice Is Key to Physical AI; Development Methods Need to Catch Up
Published: July 6, 2026, 12:41 pm
To solve far-field ASR challenges, physical AI needs acoustic reality, prompting engineers to use physics-based simulation.
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Hackaday News
SB Mini II is a Homebrew Apple II Clone
Published: July 7, 2026, 3:30 pm
On the one hand, the original Apple II has been copied over and over again since at least the early 80s, so maybe this hack is old hat to the …read more
Is Now the Time for Volumetric 3D Printing?
Published: July 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
Of all innovations adopted by the maker community within the past couple of decades, one stands among the rest on top for anything regarding manufacturing. It goes without saying here …read more
An Interactive Tomato Farm Overseen by AI
Published: July 7, 2026, 11:00 am
Oh, the farming lifestyle…living off the land, fending for yourself. But who’s got time for all that? For the modern hacker, the best option in the garden space may be …read more
Why the NES Put Out a Wobbly Picture
Published: July 7, 2026, 8:00 am
The NTSC television standard is a masterpiece of mid-century engineering, to pack a color image into the transmission bandwidth of a monochrome one, and to do so while maintaining backward …read more
Belt Fed Potato Cannon Spits Spuds
Published: July 7, 2026, 5:00 am
Spud guns are a staple of summertime fun for the maker set, especially on the Eagleland side of the pond, combining as they do two of our favourite things: firearms …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Designing a personal Pebble watchface
Published: July 7, 2026, 4:14 pm
Jonas Hietala recently got a Pebble Time 2 and wanted to create a custom watchface for his specific problems. It took more effort to design the watch than I had anticipated and there’s a deceptively large amount of thought that has gone into some of the features here, so I thought it’d be interesting to […]
Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
Published: July 7, 2026, 3:54 pm
Christopher Drum on the Stone Tools blog takes a look back at Visual Basic on the PC using the Windows 3.1 operating system. A while back, I dug into Apple’s HyperCard. Visual Basic gives us an interesting opportunity to look at a similar first-party, visual programming solution from Microsoft’s perspective. Like HyperCard, Visual Basic had its own dedicated magazine, and inspired legions of developers […]
ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: ScrollKit for your LED Matrices, AI Tools, Device Security and More!
Published: July 7, 2026, 3:11 pm
If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get a terrific newsletter each Monday (which is out before this post). 12,366 subscribers worldwide! The next newsletter goes out Monday morning and subscribing is the best way to keep […]
Marble Machine Phone Case
Published: July 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
Strange Inventions 3d printed a phone case that’s also a marble machine! I’m laughing out loud at “built in filter”. Check out the project video over on YouTube.
Bypassing the Sound Blaster’s new firmware signature check
Published: July 6, 2026, 8:53 pm
Rasmus Moorats recently demonstrated a few vulnerabilities in the Sound Blaster Katana V2/V2X/SE which allowed one to hijack the device over Bluetooth and turn it into an attacker-controlled keyboard peripheral, injecting keystrokes into the connected machine. One of the flaws I highlighted in my previous post was that CTP, which the mobile and desktop applications use to […]
Electronics Weekly News
Q-Tech targets rad-hardened MCXOs at Space applications
Published: July 7, 2026, 2:07 pm
Q-Tech is expanding its QT2020/QT2021 series of microcomputer compensated crystal oscillators (MCXOs). The new MCXOs are designed to withstand radiation levels of 50kRad(Si) TID, highlights the company. The oscillator specialist ...
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Who Has AC?
Published: July 7, 2026, 1:30 pm
An estimated 2.4 billion people living in hot climates are expected to lack access to cooling systems by 2030, according to projections by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Data from ...
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Picture of the day: MTG-I2 is pushed into place for final tests
Published: July 7, 2026, 11:19 am
Amid the high-tech world of satellite testing, there's also old fashioned grunt work... The ESA satellite MTG-I2 is pushed into place for final environmental tests.
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AI takeoff meets the grid
Published: July 7, 2026, 11:00 am
Barry Mansfield explores how hyperscalers, engineers and chip architects are powering AI’s unprecedented demands on electrical infrastructure. Hamina Finland datacentre, source Google Today, a single frontier AI datacentre can require ...
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Power supply design in modern electronics
Published: July 7, 2026, 11:00 am
From rectification to integrated power management, Muhammad Asim Niazi looks at power supply design. Functional diagram of a AC to DC power supply that forms the basis of modern power ...
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