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How AI Is Transforming the Factory Floor
Published: May 1, 2026, 3:30 pm
This report examines how sensing solutions and edge AI are transforming manufacturing and enabling decision-making in dynamic environments.
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How to Build Obsolescence‑Resistant Systems in an Era of Rapid Tech Change
Published: May 1, 2026, 1:00 pm
Proactively manage semiconductor obsolescence with early insights and trusted partners to avoid redesigns and keep your supply chain secure.
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How ICT Ensures Energy Meters Secure Performance
Published: May 1, 2026, 1:00 pm
Traditional testing fails smart energy meters. SPEA's In-Circuit Testing (ICT) ensures MID compliance, deep PCBA validation, and zero field failures.
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How Bright Is Bright Enough for AR in the Real World?
Published: May 1, 2026, 8:30 am
Efficiency and daylight visibility are the new benchmarks for AR glasses.
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Athos Scraps Multi-Vendor Roadmap, Plans Chiplet Tape-Out
Published: April 30, 2026, 5:00 pm
The startup has ditched multi-vendor chiplets for a powerful in-house design, promising safety, scalability, and aggressive pricing.
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Hackaday News
This Handy Synth Packs An ESP32
Published: May 2, 2026, 11:00 am
Since the first electronic hobbyist wired up a multivibrator to a keyboard many decades ago, electonic synthesisers have been a staple of home-made projects. Now with the proliferation of significantly …read more
Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics
Published: May 2, 2026, 8:00 am
After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more
Rust Helps Make A $1 Handheld Console
Published: May 2, 2026, 5:00 am
These days, even an old Game Boy will set you back $100 or more, and a new handheld console will be many multiples of that. However, you can build a …read more
3D Printed Orrery Runs On A Single Motor
Published: May 2, 2026, 2:00 am
The solar system is kind of hard to observe in motion all at once. Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little model to look at, so you can see the …read more
Magnetic Induction Heats Water
Published: May 1, 2026, 11:00 pm
Producing hot water off-grid is a surprisingly energy-intensive activity, and although it looks simple on its surface it can get quite complicated especially when used in large scale for something …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Cloud Lamp #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
Published: May 1, 2026, 8:00 pm
hyunjinkim1112 shares this really cool cloud lamp on instructables A glowing cloud that responds to your remote — pick from rainbow, sunny, cloudy, rainy, or thunderstorm moods, each with its own sound and lighting effect. Powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2W.
UPDATED LEARN GUIDE: Adafruit MAX44009 Lux Light Sensor #AdafruitIO #WipperSnapper #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Published: May 1, 2026, 7:00 pm
UPDATED GUIDE: Adafruit MAX44009 Lux Light Sensor This is an easy to use light / lux sensor which features an ultra-wide 22-bit dynamic range from 0.045 lux to 188,000 lux. That means you can use the Adafruit MAX44009 Wide-range Lux Sensor in darkness or in bright outdoors sun, without having to tweak the integration time or gain: […]
UPDATED GUIDE: Adafruit STCC4 and SHT41 CO2, Temperature & Humidity Sensor #WipperSnapper #AdafruitIO #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Published: May 1, 2026, 6:30 pm
UPDATED GUIDE: Adafruit STCC4 and SHT41 CO2, Temperature & Humidity Sensor The STCC4 is a tiny sensor that can measure CO₂ gas and fit in just about any enclosure. It uses thermal conductivity (TC) instead of NDIR or photoacoustic measurements. TC is based on the inherent thermal conductivity of all gases. The Adafruit STCC4 and […]
Claude Helped Create a Tamagotchi-Style Task Manager #piday #raspberrypi
Published: May 1, 2026, 5:30 pm
Have you used AI to assist your projects? Adam Davidson at How-To Geek had an OLED display and an idea, Claude helped him bring it to life. Davidson wanted to use the screen to help keep him focused and to gamify his work. The idea was a Tamagotchi-style system that rewards him when he […]
All About LEDs #AdafruitLearnGuide
Published: May 1, 2026, 4:00 pm
This tutorial covers those wonderful blinky things, LEDs. We’re going to cover how to calculate the current going through an LED and in the mean time introduce two important laws of electronics, Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law and Ohm’s Law. We’ll begin by performing experiments that will demonstrate how voltage and resistance affects current and then prove […]
Electronics Weekly News
Spaceflux funding spurs AI-powered space intelligence
Published: May 1, 2026, 4:50 pm
Spaceflux has raised a further £3.5 million in an extension to its seed round, which brings total funding to £9 million for the London-based space intelligence company. The company says ...
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Gadget-in-Extremis: Google’s TPU 8i tensor processor
Published: May 1, 2026, 2:57 pm
At the recent Google Cloud Next ’26 event, Google unveiled its latest processors for customised AI processing: the TPU 8t and TPU 8i, for AI training and inferencing, respectively.
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Blu-Ray – No Way
Published: May 1, 2026, 1:30 pm
Back in 2002 battle was joined over the format for the blue laser DVD. This is how it was reported: ’The first shot in a new standards war was fired ...
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La Luce Cristallina produces 200mm BaTiO₃ wafers at Austin fab
Published: May 1, 2026, 1:29 pm
Barium titanate (BaTiO₃) is gaining interest in the manufacture of modulators or photonics ICs. At Microelectronics US, Caroline Hayes spoke to Chomani Gaspe, material scientist at La Luce Cristallina about ...
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Microchip expands PQC‑ready root of trust controllers
Published: May 1, 2026, 9:27 am
Microchip is expanding its portfolio of Trust Shield devices. The new post‑quantum cryptography (PQC)‑ready chips are the TS1800 Platform Root of Trust controller and the TS50x secure boot controller. They ...
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