HardwareNov 11SteelSeries' $180 Rival Pro gaming mouse uses Ultra-Wideband radio and twist-out batteries instead of USB
HardwareNov 11A homeowner revived a discontinued Nest thermostat with open firmware and a new furnace cable
HardwareNov 11M5Stack’s pocket controller puts 256 LEDs across its face, with motion sensing built in
HardwareNov 11A developer reverse-engineered Windows drivers to revive a six-chip Pulsar II sound card on Linux
SoftwareNov 9BuildCores Lets You Assemble a PC from 5,000-Plus 3D Part Models in the Browser, So You Can See What Fits Before You Buy
HardwareNov 9Logitech's MX Master 4 Adds a Buzzing Thumb Panel and 9 Grams Over the 3S, With the Same 8,000 DPI Sensor
HardwareOct 30Adafruit's $34.95 Metro ESP32-P4 Hydra Puts Raspberry Pi Display and Camera Connectors on an Arduino Uno-Shaped Board
HardwareOct 29Core 4 Solutions Lists a $59.7 Million AI Cluster on eBay With 9,600 Nvidia A100s and $50 Overnight Shipping
HardwareOct 29Arduboy Maker Kevin Bates' $149 Digital Candle Generates Its Flicker With a 3,545-Parameter Neural Network on 144 LEDs
HardwareOct 29LattePanda Sigma 2 Lets Its Intel Arc GPU Claim 59GB of 64GB Memory, on a $2,599 Board the Size of the Original Sigma
HardwareOct 29LILYGO's $150 T-Display K230 Runs Linux on RISC-V With LoRa Built In, and Its Snap-On Keyboard Adds LTE-M and GPS
HardwareOct 29Origami Robotics' S1 Glove Reads 20 Finger Joints So Its Matching Robot Hand Can Copy Each One Directly
GamingOct 28Smashcat's Arduino Uno Now Plays Pac-Man Championship Edition on a TV, Drawing Each Line Just Before the Screen Does
RetroOct 28A $15 Thrift-Store TRANZ 330 Credit Card Terminal Now Uses Its Z80 and a GPS to Work Out Where the Planets Are, Then Prints It Like a Receipt
HardwareOct 27Keybytes Puts a RISC-V Microcontroller in Every Single Key, Then Snaps the Keys Together With Magnets and Pogo Pins
HardwareOct 27NUS Researchers Wove a Working Touchscreen Into a Garment Sleeve From 1 mm Fibres That Survive 50 Machine Washes
Hacks & BuildsOct 27nktbuilds Heard a Coin-Sized Bluetooth Tag 12 km Away With a €60 Grid Dish That Only Listens
RetroOct 27MattKC ran the Philips CD-i off a USB-C phone charger by building a board that asks for 9 volts and flips part of it to the minus 5 volts the console needs
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Bot Reborn Gives a $4 Silverlit Toy Robot 200 ms Reflexes With a 0.8B Qwen Model That Picks a Move Instead of Writing a Word
HardwareOct 23Nick Steele Reverse-Engineered Digital Calipers Into an Open-Source $32 Linear Encoder, Gapped With Two Layers of Kapton Tape
HardwareOct 23USB went from 5Gbps on AMD's 2011 chipset to 80Gbps, and the USB-IF now says "USB4" and "USB 3.2" don't belong on the box
