Hackaday
Retrotechtacular: RCA Loses Fight to IBM
Published: January 21, 2026, 6:00 pm
If you follow electronics history, few names were as ubiquitous as RCA, the Radio Corporation of America. Yet in modern times, the company is virtually forgotten for making large computers. …read more
Fiber Optic Lamp Modified To Be Scarily Bright
Published: January 21, 2026, 4:30 pm
[Brainiac75] is a fan of fiber optic lamps, except for one thing—they’re often remarkably dim. Thus, they set out to hack the technology to deliver terrifying amounts of light while …read more
Tech in Plain Sight: Finding a Flat Tire
Published: January 21, 2026, 3:00 pm
There was a time when wise older people warned you to check your tire pressure regularly. We never did, and would eventually wind up with a flat or, worse, a …read more
Adafruit Blog
New York FY2027 Budget Signals a Shift on Tech, Privacy, and AI Accountability
Published: January 21, 2026, 5:43 pm
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has released the proposed FY2027 Executive Budget legislative text, and while most people will never read it, there are parts of it that will matter to anyone building, teaching, or creating under the broad umbrella of technology. The full legislative text is here: https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy27/ex/fy27bills.html Spread across several proposed budget bills […]
Adding LIDAR to a Robot – The Byte Sized Engineer
Published: January 21, 2026, 5:00 pm
DigiKey shared this video on Youtube! Imagine a fragile house of cards sitting on a table. Now imagine a robot I built, equipped with a LiDAR sensor, driving at full speed directly toward it. If I have done everything correctly, it should stop before it hits the cards and back up safely. But first, do […]
We can still pour mountains… monumental steel castings
Published: January 21, 2026, 4:39 pm
Every once in a while, an image of gigantic industrial chonk of poured metal makes the rounds, sometimes it’s not real, but this time it is… massive steel poured, and finished by humans. Pictured above the hunk being passed around from 2014. The latest meme repost (no fault of the poster) is a colossal steel […]
Electronics Weekly
u-blox ZED-X20P processes signals across all GNSS bands
Published: January 21, 2026, 3:35 pm
Mouser is shipping the u-blox ZED-X20P high precision module, which is described as a professional grade all-band, all-constellation GNSS receiver. Basically, the module integrates all-band GNSS with signal modernisation and ...
2026 world growth of 3.3% forecasts IMF
Published: January 21, 2026, 2:23 pm
Global growth is expected to remain resilient at 3.3 percent in 2026, according to the IMF’s latest edition of the World Economic Outlook. This is slightly higher than the 3.1 ...
Raspberry Pi AI HAT gears up for GenAI projects
Published: January 21, 2026, 11:13 am
Room must be made on Gadget Master to welcome the Raspberry Pi AI HAT +2 - it's the add-on board for running generative AI applications via a Raspberry Pi 5.