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
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
Open Firmware Fixes Dead Onkyo AV Receivers
Published: October 13, 2026, 8:00 am
If you’ve been reading Hackaday for any length of time, you’ll know we love seeing hackers replacing the stock firmware on their devices with open source alternatives. Usually this is …read more
Emulating a Floppy Drive By Emulating The Drive Itself
Published: October 13, 2026, 5:00 am
The Commodore 1541 is famously the floppy drive for the Commodore 64 series of 8-bit computers, and can be found with relative ease. Not so well known is its 1551 …read more
Using Kirigami Techniques to Make Functional Designs
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:00 am
The variant of origami called kirigami (‘cut paper’ in Japanese) also starts off with a sheet of paper, but it allows for cutting the paper to increase the number of …read more
Adafruit Blog News
The Naïve display GUI for Arduino
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:33 pm
Developer glutio has published Focuspocus on GitHub, a small GUI library for Arduino projects with a display. It provides buttons, labels, checkboxes, radio buttons, sliders, progress bars and popups, with automatic layout, touch input and button-driven focus navigation. The library adds about 12 to 16 KB of flash. The simple TFT examples fit on an […]
PSPi mod board version 6 jazzes the PSP 1000
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:24 pm
othermod has published the hardware designs, firmware, and software for the PSPi 6 on GitHub. The project is a custom circuit board that replaces the mainboard of a PSP 1000 and puts a Raspberry Pi in its place. The original shell, screen area, and controls stay, and the Pi does the work. The board design […]
Sneha Goenka #ALD26 @findingada
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:15 pm
image via SnehaGoenka.com Dr. Sneha D. Goenka was the lead on the computational team for the world’s fastest genome sequencing. She’s been named a 2025 MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year and a 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. Check out Dr. Goenka’s site, GitHub, X, Google Scholar and MIT Technology Review […]
500+ billion tokens later: letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
Published: October 13, 2026, 2:14 pm
Maurice Heumann spent three months on momo5502.com documenting how a group of autonomous AI agents decompiled an old first-person shooter into C++. The game is not named. The setup used Claude Code and Codex CLI agents, GitHub issues as a task list with one issue per translation unit, a Discord channel for agent-to-agent chat, and […]
Father and daughter turn game-making into a family project
Published: October 13, 2026, 1:49 pm
Les Pounder, writing on the Pimoroni blog, covered Fluffpad, a pocket games console built by Ilya Titov (aka Webgoggles) around a Raspberry Pi RP2350 and Pimoroni parts. Titov is also the maker of AttinyArcade, the tiny arcade machine based on an ATtiny85. The build uses a Pimoroni display pack, a Qw/ST pad, hot glue and […]
Electronics Weekly News
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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Fortastra raises $30m for manoeuvrable spacecraft for in-orbit security
Published: October 13, 2026, 10:01 am
Fortastra, a space defence company, has raised $30 million of Series A funding. It aims to establish persistent, multi-orbit security coverage through mass deployment of its security craft. The round […]
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Miniature modules open up in-fixture functional testing
Published: October 13, 2026, 7:33 am
Swedish PCB test company Wireflow has partnered with the UK’s Pickering Interfaces to create Testblox AB, offering automated test that does not need reconfiguration and which is easy to replicate, […]
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