Serial Studio: see data from Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and other devices in real-time

• Serial Studio is a tool that helps you see data from Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and other devices in real-time. • It works with serial ports (UART), Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 124 words

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker #IoTsecurity

• Aimilios Hatzistamou recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. • What was not expected was the ability to read strangers’ brainwaves and send them electric impulses in th

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 197 words

Hard drive failure analysis - the Backblaze experience

• backblaze.com marks 13 years of collecting Hard Drive Stats data. • Statistics such as these provide folks who may not be keeping such detailed records to have a statistical appr

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 215 words

Diagnosing a Commodore PET video fault from one photograph

• Tynemouth Software writes about an owner who had initially made contact saying they had a PET 2001, and there was no video output, and they wondered if bad ROM or RAM could cause

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 228 words

NEW LEARN GUIDE: Tiny Wiki for CircuitPython #CircuitPython #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

• Tiny Wiki is a small webserver that runs on a microcontroller and hosts a minimal Wiki system backed by markdown files. • It was originally created by Kevin McAleer for Micropyth

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 199 words

The 'Crown of Nobles' noble gas tube display

• Scott Shambaugh works with spacecraft ion thrusters as a day job. • (neat) He writes: I wanted a little desk display so I could interact with the gas. • A chance to get more fami

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 225 words

A Markdown-powered kanban task board for VS Code and Obsidian

• Hexfield Deck is a Markdown-powered kanban task board for VS Code and Obsidian by Jim Lindblom. • Hexfield Deck transforms your markdown weekly planner files into interactive kan

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 179 words

Claude reverse engineering a sleeping mask

• Aimilios Hatzistamou posts an interesting session transcript interacting with Claude in reverse engineering a wireless connected Chinese sleeping mask. • Specific information is

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 195 words

The rise of the Triforce in arcade gaming

• During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension . • With console shenanigans lik

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 216 words

New XIAO / QT Py Terminal Block Breakout BFF With Benefits

• Over on the Adafruit forums someone asked us to make a QT Py / XIAO board terminal breakout. • We have loooots of BFFs in the shop but not one like this, so we spent this morning

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 253 words

A platform-independent embedded C++ library for terminal/shell implementation

• EmbeddedTerminal is a new platform-independent C++ library for embedded systems by GitHub user boeserfrosch. • It provides a terminal/shell implementation with command parsing, f

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 90 words

Sipping Power With NeoPixels #adafruitlearnsystem

• LED smarter, not harder with this guide in the Adafruit Learn system! • I’m often asked for help on a portable or wearable project, the designer insisting ‘it has to be completel

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 228 words

A printed circuit board (PCB) rework and repair guide

• The PCB board rework and repair guide is available from intertronics.co.uk having been published by Circuit Technology Center, Inc. • PC boards are more complex today than ever b

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 210 words

JP's Product Pick of the Week returns next week

• There will be no JP’s Product Pick of the Week this week as Lars reckons with his unfortunate haircut. • The show will return next week, Tuesday, Feb. • You can catch up on previ

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 78 words

Automagically generate beautiful Adafruit-like pinout diagrams for IoT boards with boardgen

• Boardgen by Kuba Szczodrzyński allows folks to generate vector images, containing pinout diagrams for any IoT module. • The images are inspired by Adafruit’s great, well-recogniz

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 197 words

Vintage Robots: Revisiting the early robots of the 20th Century via old photos #MakeRobotFriend

• Over on rarehistoricalphotos.com, they look at the early robots of the 20th Century via a collection of old photographs. • The 20th century marked a significant period of evoluti

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 219 words

One of the rarest? The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979

• Mister X on stereo2go.com goes over the brief history of the Sharp PC-2001 Boombox Computer from 1979. • Not much information can be found on this rare device. • It’s a Boombox R

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 248 words

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks

• Professor Lori Emerson looks at the history of of barbed wire fence telephone networks used in the US and Canada. • …the history of using barbed wire to communicate is surprisi

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 274 words

An Arduino core for nRF54L15 (Zephyr-based)

• lolren’s Arduino core for nRF54L15 is a Zephyr-based core for the Arduino IDE to allow Arduino programming on the relatively new Nordic nRF54L15 microcontroller. • A clean, light

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 175 words
Olimex ESP32-P4-PC board offers HDMI video output, Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, and more

Olimex ESP32-P4-PC board offers HDMI video output, Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, and more

• Based on an Espressif Systems ESP32-P4NRW32 SoC with a 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V CPU, 768 KB RAM, and 32MB PSRAM,Olimex ESP32-P4-PCis one of the most feature-rich ESP32-P4 boards

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 3 min · 462 words
ESP32-P4-PC Open Source Hardware Board - the most comprehensive and feature-rich ESP32-P4 board on the market

ESP32-P4-PC Open Source Hardware Board - the most comprehensive and feature-rich ESP32-P4 board on the market

• olimex all fun projects at Olimex Ltd Home About Tips ESP32-P4-PC Open Source Hardware Board - the most comprehensive and feature-rich ESP32-P4 board on the market 17Feb20264 Com

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 402 words

🐴Happy Lunar New Year, 2026 🐴

• The horse is chasing the snake away as we celebrate the Spring Festival For the next couple of weeks communities across the globe will be celebrating. • For New Yorkers, Document

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 254 words
Support RAJA and Scientific Applications on RVV Architectures

Support RAJA and Scientific Applications on RVV Architectures

• Project Snapshot In this work, we aim to make RVV more accessible to scientific applications by integrating it into the RAJA performance-portability framework. • RAJA is a C++ li

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 230 words
PiBot CNC Pendant V4.0 - A handheld Bluetooth and RJ12 controller for FluidNC-based CNC machines

PiBot CNC Pendant V4.0 - A handheld Bluetooth and RJ12 controller for FluidNC-based CNC machines

• ThePiBot CNC Pendant V4.0is a handheld Bluetooth/RJ12-based controller designed for CNC machines running FluidNC and GRBL-HAL firmware. • Developed by PiBot, with firmware suppor

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 390 words
60W Pocket Cloud is a microSD card reader with USB PD passthrough for your smartphone (Crowdfunding)

60W Pocket Cloud is a microSD card reader with USB PD passthrough for your smartphone (Crowdfunding)

• 60W Pocket Cloud is a microSD card reader with 60W USB PD passthrough for your smartphone that works with Android (USB-C) and iOS (USB-C or Lightning) mobile devices, as well as

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 412 words
DShanPi-A1 AI Education Rockchip RK3576 SBC features HDMI input and output ports, dual GbE

DShanPi-A1 AI Education Rockchip RK3576 SBC features HDMI input and output ports, dual GbE

• DshanPi-A1 AI Education is a single board computer (SBC) powered by a Rockchip RK3576 octa-core Cortex-A72/A53 SoC, and paired with up to 8GB RAM and 64GB eMMC flash, which I fir

Open Hardware · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 3 min · 455 words

The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation

• Chris Lewis continues to push the envelope of LLM-assisted decompilation in his latest post, building on work on how coding agents could be used to decompile Nintendo 64 games .

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 223 words

Can a SPARC server host a website today? Why yes!

• Darko Mesaroš is hosting a website on a 25-year-old 2021 Sun Netra X1 SPARC server running OpenBSD 7.8. • The setup includes: Noctua fan mods for quiet operation, httpd serving s

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 221 words

Making an STM32G431 analogue TV transmitter

• Kris Slyka has a bit of an obsession with vintage analogue video cameras. • A few weeks ago I felt like it was finally time to take the next step and get myself one of those ’tel

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 221 words

ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: CircuitPython 10.1 Release Candidate, AI on Microcontrollers, and Much More!

• If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. • To never miss another issue, subscribe now ! • - You’ll get

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 186 words

Turning an ESP32 into a thermal USB webcam

• Chris G on atomic14 turns an ESP32 into a real USB webcam with a real camera. • I also wanted to push things a bit further - I’ve got an I2C thermal camera module - why not turn

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 261 words

A Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer built in Python

• VOOG, an Virtual Analog Synthesizer is a Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer built in Python with a tkinter GUI inspired by the Subsequent 37. • Features 3 oscillators with sine, s

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 216 words

A modern 6502 based laptop design

• 65C02 microprocessor runs at 8 MHz, delivering classic 6502 performance with modern tweaks. • 46 KB RAM and BASIC ROM provide a lightweight, retro computing environment. • 9″ dis

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 178 words

Adam Savage Meets a Real-Life Wall-E Robot!

• Adam Savage’s Tested shared this video on Youtube Adam finally meets a real-life Wall-E robot! • Robot and droid builder Matt Hobbs brings his incredible remote controlled Wall-E

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 118 words

No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women's Tools

• A woman used a tool, shared what she made, it might even save her some time, and then some men lost their minds . • This is not a new story. • Guy Manning stood before a medical

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 258 words

I gave Claude access to my pen plotter

• Marc in Space at Harmonique.one gave Claude Code access to a pen plotter. • I was the interface between the two machines. • Claude Code produced SVG files that I plotted with my

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 192 words

A program to monitor serial ports in Windows

• lucadentella states ‘I don’t know if it happens to you: every time I need to connect to a USB device that opens a virtual serial port (e.g., an Arduino board, a USB-to-serial ada

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 214 words

Reverse engineering the Dash learning robot

• Jonathan Diamond brushed up on Ghidra to add to the open source interface for a Dash robot found at a thrift shop. • Much to their credit, the MakeWonder company released an offi

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 208 words

New York City in Minecraft

• MineFact presents a 1:1 scale Minecraft recreation of New York City. • Built collaboratively by BTE NYC and MineFact over five years. • Tour available on YouTube, showcasing intr

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 112 words

Romantic Reads for V-Day

• The New York Public Library shares new romance books to get your heart burning this Valentine’s Day.

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 39 words

Daisy Gatson Bates Day Black History Month 2026 #BlackHistoryMonth #DaisyGatsonBatesDay

• Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a civil rights activist who played an integral role in the integration of Arkansas schools. • She was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine , she and her hu

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 242 words
Project Aura - A neat, easy-to-assemble, DIY Air quality monitor compatible with Home Assistant

Project Aura - A neat, easy-to-assemble, DIY Air quality monitor compatible with Home Assistant

• Project Aura is an ESP32‑based DIY air quality monitor that combines a touchscreen display and industrial sensors. • It is fully integrated with the Home Assistant open-source ho

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 214 words
xSDR - A tiny M.2 2230 SDR module with Artix-7 FPGA and LMS7002M RFIC (Crowdfunding)

xSDR - A tiny M.2 2230 SDR module with Artix-7 FPGA and LMS7002M RFIC (Crowdfunding)

• Wavelet Lab’s xSDR is a tiny, single-sided M.2 2230 software-defined radio (SDR) module designed for integration into laptops, embedded systems, and edge computing devices. • A s

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 3 min · 429 words
LR2021 LoRa Plus board combines Semtech LR2021 and Nordic nRF54L15 for high-speed FLRC and LoRa connectivity

LR2021 LoRa Plus board combines Semtech LR2021 and Nordic nRF54L15 for high-speed FLRC and LoRa connectivity

• Last year, Semtech released theLR2021 LoRa Plus transceiver chip, designed to address the low data-rate issue associated with LoRa, but surprisingly, they didn’t release a develo

Open Hardware · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 284 words

Building a Desk Sized Kodak Photo Kiosk

• snappiness built a mini Kodak Picture Maker for their desk that is able to print photos and shared the project build on YouTube Grab a MEMENTO when they’re back in stock so you c

Open Hardware · February 15, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 85 words

Susan B. Anthony Day 20216 #SusanBAnthony #SusanBAnthonyDay

• We celebrate on February 15th, what would be her 206th birthday! • Anthony was an American social reformer, women’s rights activist, and brilliant orator who played a pivotal rol

Open Hardware · February 15, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 220 words
Creality Falcon A1 Pro Review - An easy-to-use, fully enclosed 20W laser engraver with a built-in HD camera

Creality Falcon A1 Pro Review - An easy-to-use, fully enclosed 20W laser engraver with a built-in HD camera

• Creality has sent a review sample of the Falcon A1 Pro fully enclosed laser engraver and cutting machine. • It’s designed to be easy to use out of the box since it’s mostly pre-a

Open Hardware · February 15, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 255 words

Here's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware Design

• We’ve been using LLMs for years to do software and firmware assistance. • Now we’re starting to look at it for hardware help too. • Ladyada’s still in the driver’s seat… but no

Open Hardware · February 14, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 258 words
Android 17 Beta 1 released with H.266/VVC support, camera improvements, and more

Android 17 Beta 1 released with H.266/VVC support, camera improvements, and more

• Google hasjust announcedthe release of Android 17 Beta 1 with performance improvements, H.266/VVC video codec support, smoother camera mode transitions, privacy and security enha

Open Hardware · February 14, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 233 words
STMicroelectronics Stellar P3E quad-core Arm Cortex-R52+ automotive MCU features Neural-ART AI accelerator

STMicroelectronics Stellar P3E quad-core Arm Cortex-R52+ automotive MCU features Neural-ART AI accelerator

• STMicroelectronics has introduced theStellar P3E, the first automotive MCU with an embedded Neural-ART AI accelerator, designed to simplify X-in-1 Electronic Control Units (ECUs)

Open Hardware · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 391 words
Avalue EMX-PTLP - A thin mini-ITX motherboard powered by up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 358H Panther Lake-H SoC

Avalue EMX-PTLP - A thin mini-ITX motherboard powered by up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 358H Panther Lake-H SoC

• Avalue’s EMX-PTLP is an industrial, thin mini-ITX motherboard powered by Intel Panther Lake-H Core Ultra (Series 3) family, up to the 12-core Intel Core Ultra 7 358H SoC deliveri

Open Hardware · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 3 min · 494 words
Mimiclaw is an OpenClaw-like AI assistant for ESP32-S3 boards

Mimiclaw is an OpenClaw-like AI assistant for ESP32-S3 boards

• MimiClaw is an OpenClaw-inspired AI assistant designed for ESP32-S3 boards, which acts as a gateway between the Telegram messaging application and Claude online LLM to control th

Open Hardware · February 13, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 304 words
New Power Supply Modules for PCB Mounting in stock

New Power Supply Modules for PCB Mounting in stock

• olimex all fun projects at Olimex Ltd Home About Tips New Power Supply Modules for PCB Mounting in stock 12Feb2026Leave a comment byOLIMEX Ltdinautomotive,industrial,new productT

Open Hardware · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 299 words
de next-RAP8-EZBOX - An ultra-compact, fanless or actively-cooled Intel Core i7-1365UE Raptor Lake embedded system

de next-RAP8-EZBOX - An ultra-compact, fanless or actively-cooled Intel Core i7-1365UE Raptor Lake embedded system

• AAEON’s de next-RAP8-EZBOX is an ultra-compact embedded system powered by an Intel Core i7-1365UE 10-core Raptor Lake SoC paired with 16GB of LPDDR5x system and one M.2 2280 M-Ke

Open Hardware · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 3 min · 439 words
CHUWI CoreBook Air Plus 16 laptop review - Part 1: Specs, unboxing, teardown, and first boot

CHUWI CoreBook Air Plus 16 laptop review - Part 1: Specs, unboxing, teardown, and first boot

• It’s been a while since we’ve tested a laptop, but CHUWI sent us their latest CoreBook AirPlay 16 laptop for review. • It’s powered by a mid-range AMD Ryzen 5 6600H hexa-core pro

Open Hardware · February 12, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 3 min · 470 words
Open Stack standalone 4G LTE IoT board runs RTOS on Quectel EC200U LTE module (Crowdfunding)

Open Stack standalone 4G LTE IoT board runs RTOS on Quectel EC200U LTE module (Crowdfunding)

• Open Stackis a standalone 4G LTE IoT connectivity board designed to run RTOS-based C applications directly on the Quectel EC200U series LTE module, meaning you don’t need an exte

Open Hardware · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 402 words
ESP32 Marauder 5G - Apex 5 module for Flipper Zero combines ESP32-C5, two Sub-GHz radios, nRF24, and GPS

ESP32 Marauder 5G - Apex 5 module for Flipper Zero combines ESP32-C5, two Sub-GHz radios, nRF24, and GPS

• Designed by HoneyHoneyTrading, theESP32 Marauder 5G-Apex 5 Moduleis an ESP32-C5-based hacking and penetration testing tool for the Flipper Zero, with dual-band WiFi 6 (2.4GHz and

Open Hardware · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 279 words
PiLink PL-R5/R5M Series - IP20/IP65 Industrial PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM5

PiLink PL-R5/R5M Series - IP20/IP65 Industrial PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM5

• PiLink PL‑R5/R5M Series: compact industrial PCs powered by Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5).\n• IP20 and IP65 ingress protection options, with Basic, Basic Plus, USB, and DIO

Open Hardware · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 206 words
VU GPSDR - A low-cost GPS-disciplined SDR expansion board for the Vivid Unit RK3399 touchscreen SBC

VU GPSDR - A low-cost GPS-disciplined SDR expansion board for the Vivid Unit RK3399 touchscreen SBC

• UUGear’sVUGPSDRis a low-cost GPS-disciplined SDR expansion board designed specifically for theVivid Unit, a palm-sized Rockchip RK3399-based touchscreen SBC we covered back in 20

Open Hardware · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 403 words
RISC-V Mentorship Taught Me the RISC-V ISA Is Far More Than a Reference Manual

RISC-V Mentorship Taught Me the RISC-V ISA Is Far More Than a Reference Manual

• When I first heard about the RISC-V Unified Database project, I was immediately drawn to its ambition: to become a single, machine-readable source of truth for the RISC-V Instruc

Open Hardware · February 10, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 292 words