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Engineering Reliability: Power Architectures for High-Performance Burn-In
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:47 pm
Join this session where our expert will examine key power technologies, design considerations, and best practices that help manufacturers enhance product quality, accelerate qualification, and reduce risk.
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AMD’s Mark Papermaster: Exclusive Video Interview at World Summit AI
Published: October 7, 2026, 2:57 pm
For AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, tailored computing and holistic design are key to delivering AI.
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Enhance Power Quality with a GaN-based AC/DC Three-Level Vienna Rectifier
Published: October 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
Data centers have become essential to almost every part of the global economy with the continuing rise in computing demands. Modern data centers, consisting of rows of equipment racks for storing, processing, and sharing data, require front-end AC/DC converters that are reliable, operate at unity power factor, offer low input current THD, and achieve high […]
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From Electrification to Architecture: The Next Automotive Era
Published: October 7, 2026, 1:00 pm
From electrification to software-defined vehicles, automotive innovation is driving new requirements for semiconductor packaging and test.
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Silicon Labs Adds IoT Developer Platform Tools
Published: October 7, 2026, 11:03 am
To meet rising edge AI demands, Silicon Labs connects its development tools with generative AI and enterprise data infrastructure.
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Hackaday News
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:30 pm
People mod games all the time, but it’s not every day someone mods Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80. [Nick Bild] did exactly that, adding joystick support and a couple …read more
ESP32 As Your Raspberri Pi’s Linux Wireless Co-processor
Published: October 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
A laptop with no wireless connectivity feels like a rarity – but when you shop for powerful Linux single-board computers (SBCs), it is pretty common to see one skimp on …read more
Don’t Try this At Home, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Edition
Published: October 7, 2026, 11:00 am
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is one of those things that seems too wacky to be true. Depression not responding to treatment? Let’s smack you upside the head with strong magnetic fields! …read more
The Commodore 64 Keyboard Font, For Everyone
Published: October 7, 2026, 8:00 am
There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the digital age. The font on the Commodore 64 keyboard for …read more
Don’t Worry, This R/C Airship is Supposed To Be On Fire
Published: October 7, 2026, 5:00 am
We’ve had a lot of flying hacks here over the years, and that includes just about any way to get airborne you can think of — but very few of …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Automating a 35mm film scanning pipeline
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:43 pm
A photographer shooting a Canon AE-1P was spending about four hours per roll of 36 frames: scanning negatives, inverting each file by hand in darktable, cleaning up dust, then editing and filing the results. The write-up on shannadige.com covers the build of a pipeline to take most of that off their plate. The first attempt […]
A terminal monitor for SDR hardware – written in Rust
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:37 pm
MusiThang has published sdrtop on GitHub, a terminal monitor for software defined radio hardware, written in Rust. It draws a spectrum, a waterfall and a set of bench instruments inside a tmux pane, an SSH session or a small cyberdeck screen. Measurements include a Friis noise figure model, bandwidth measured about the carrier rather than […]
Shipping Alert: Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Monday, October 12
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:35 pm
Monday, October 12, 2026 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This is a holiday for the Adafruit team as well as some shipping services. We will still be shipping orders on Monday. Delays may occur on orders placed after Friday 11 AM EDT. There will be no USPS pickup [UPS and DHL are expected to ship […]
Niklas Roy – the Glashütte Trash Clock #ArtTuesday
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:32 pm
The Glashütte Trash Clock is a working pendulum clockwork built almost entirely from discarded materials found in Glashütte, Saxony, during an artist residency hosted by the mechanical watch manufacturer NOMOS. It runs for about half an hour on a falling weight, so it displays only seconds and minutes. The pendulum is a folding wooden ruler […]
velo-emu: a not-so-faithful emulation of the Philips Velo 1
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:20 pm
Philip Howard has published velo-emu on GitHub, an emulator for the Philips Velo 1, a 1997 Windows CE Handheld PC. It runs the stock CE 1.0 ROM and the CE 2.0 upgrade ROM, with a simulated backlit LCD, CompactFlash card images, and the desktop connection tools of the period. It builds on CERF’s core but […]
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Published: October 7, 2026, 3:00 pm
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Teradyne Magnum E2 addresses advanced DRAM and high-speed NAND flash
Published: October 7, 2026, 2:34 pm
The Teradyne Magnum E2 is a high-speed memory test system for advanced DRAM and flash interfaces. Its design, says the company, matches the test demands driven by AI and high-performance […]
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Queen’s University opens Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre
Published: October 7, 2026, 1:06 pm
Queen’s University has officially opened the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC), a £100m investment through the Belfast Region City Deal to support innovation and growth for manufacturing in Northern Ireland. […]
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An Orderly De-Frothing?
Published: October 7, 2026, 11:15 am
There’s a chance that the de-frothing of the AI market could be an orderly retreat rather than a sudden bust. Nvidia is down a trillion dollars from its market cap […]
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Omron R1 inverter drives into high-power applications
Published: October 7, 2026, 9:17 am
Omron is introducing its R1 (3G3R1) variable speed drive as the most powerful member of its inverter family, for demanding, high-power applications. For example in pump sequencing, solar pumping entrance […]
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