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How 10BASE‑T1S Powers Zonal Architectures and SDV Innovation
Published: September 15, 2026, 10:04 am
Join this webinar and learn more about how 10BASE‑T1S replaces low speed legacy buses with deterministic, collision free Ethernet.
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India Hardens Its Cyber Defenses
Published: September 15, 2026, 7:11 am
As cyberthreats target critical infrastructure, and India’s online population tops 1 billion, digital resilience is now a national security priority.
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Digital Keys and Radio Technology in Smart Buildings
Published: September 14, 2026, 5:12 pm
The direction of travel seems clear enough: Digital keys are likely to replace physical ones entirely over time.
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Ambient IoT: From Battery-Free Promise to Mass-Market Reality
Published: September 14, 2026, 12:26 pm
Surging investment, maturing tech, and emerging standards are pushing ambient IoT toward mainstream deployment.
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Small Indian Manufacturers Hit Data, Legacy-System Barriers to Scaling AI
Published: September 14, 2026, 5:53 am
AI adoption across manufacturing in India is progressing, but scaling it is running into structural problems across tiers.
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Hackaday News
Fixing a Ubiquiti 16-Port PoE Switch With an Extra Hole
Published: September 15, 2026, 8:00 am
After saving a £300, 16-port Ubiquiti network switch from getting tossed into the trash, [Buy It Fix It] got the honor of trying to repair it. With four ports and …read more
An Open Heart Rate Monitor
Published: September 15, 2026, 5:00 am
If you spend any time near a gym, you may be familiar with Bluetooth heart rate monitors — a small pack of electronics mounted on a strap round the chest …read more
Writing an ESP32 Bluetooth Printer Driver In Two Acts
Published: September 15, 2026, 2:00 am
[Bas BotBerg] wanted to use a portable Bluetooth thermal printer to run off reports on sensor data collected by an ESP32-C3 microcontroller. But as is so often the case these …read more
How High-Voltage Current Transformers Monitor the Grid
Published: September 14, 2026, 11:00 pm
Being able to monitor voltages and currents is essential for many applications, with the national electrical grid being no exception. The obvious complication here is that the voltages and currents …read more
A UPS For Your Pi That’s a Little Different
Published: September 14, 2026, 8:00 pm
There are many uninterruptible power supply (UPS) solutions for the Raspberry Pi that take the form of HATs with a battery on board, but they’re not suitable for every situation. …read more
Adafruit Blog News
CircuitPython 10.3.1 Released!
Published: September 14, 2026, 11:05 pm
From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 10.3.1, a bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. Highlights of changes since 10.3.0 Allow importing turbo (@viper and @native) .mpy files on RP2xxx boards. More to come. Espressif ESP32-C5 support. Espressif and nordic BLE fixes that improve BLE workflow. Many other bug fixes. […]
Recreating Voodoo graphics and a late-1990s gaming PC on an FPGA
Published: September 14, 2026, 9:37 pm
A new project called zSST is a SystemVerilog implementation of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics chipset, the SST-1. Paired with the z486 soft CPU and the rest of a PC’s hardware, it forms z486 XL: a DOS machine with Voodoo graphics running entirely in the programmable logic of a Xilinx KV260 board. Tomb Raider runs on […]
The origins of Partner’s computer case
Published: September 14, 2026, 9:25 pm
Marko Štamcar, writing for the Računalniški muzej in Ljubljana, traced the origins of the plastic case used by the Iskra Delta Partner, the most successful Slovenian microcomputer. The 1983 Partner was built around the Zilog Z80 family and CP/M 2.2, with boards made to order in Italy, enclosures made in England, and assembly and BIOS […]
A spectacular LAN party house
Published: September 14, 2026, 9:15 pm
Kenton Varda documented the LAN party house he and Jade Wang built in Austin, Texas, at lanparty.house. The basement game room has 12 PCs built into the walls that fold away when not in use. A conference table in the office opens to reveal six more stations. Twenty identical game machines live in a separate […]
Microcode in Intel’s 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
Published: September 14, 2026, 9:09 pm
Ken Shirriff has published another look inside Intel’s 8087 floating-point coprocessor on righto.com, this time tracing the microcode behind a single instruction: FSCALE. He is working with the Opcode Collective, a group reverse engineering the chip’s microcode ROM, which holds 1648 micro-instructions. FSCALE multiplies a number by a power of two by adding to its […]
Electronics Weekly News
Former CEO of Babcock appointed Knight of France’s Legion of Honour
Published: September 15, 2026, 9:43 am
David Lockwood, the former CEO of Babcock International Group and President of ADS Group Limited, has been appointed Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honour in France. This […]
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Google unworried by $200bn datacentre capex
Published: September 15, 2026, 5:16 am
A Google server pays for its cost in two years and, if it’s running on Google chips, pays for itself in a year, according to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian […]
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Chip boom doesn’t represent ultimate market demand
Published: September 15, 2026, 5:15 am
The chip market continues with treble-digit monthly annualised value growth rates, twice as large as the industry’s two previous record highs in June 2000 (59.3%) and January 2010 (66.6%). Prior […]
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Imec demoes 22nm pitch on single-print high-NA step
Published: September 15, 2026, 5:10 am
Imec has demonstrated the feasibility of patterning tight-pitch random logic structures after a CAR-based single-print High NA EUV lithography step. Logic structures include lines/spaces down to 22nm pitch, and vias […]
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SBCs bloodied by the memory boom but surviving
Published: September 15, 2026, 5:09 am
SBCs have become so expensive that even models that are nearly a decade old are pricier than ever. A Raspberry Pi that was $15 is now being sold for $60, […]
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