The hardware isn’t much different than what you’d find in a conventional macropad. The Raccoon Lab designed a custom PCB hosting a microcontroller, mechanical key switches, a small LCD screen, a ...

This is a cube about five inches to a side, with a kind of foot on one side. It rests on that foot. When activated, the foot ...

Now, researchers have developed a robotic fish called ScaFi that makes moving between environments far easier. Instead of being designed around one particular size, ScaFi can be scaled from around ...

SID SYNTH turns a C64 into a live synthesizer (📷: LukHash) The Commodore 64's SID chip is responsible for some of the most recognizable sounds of the 8-bit era, but there is no reason it has to be ...

Gaming giant Valve has opened sign-ups for its second-generation in-house virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame — and while it's designed to be "streaming first" the company has also telegraphed a ...

A simple wireless communication system that connects two Arduino boards using paired HC-05 Bluetooth modules, with one acting as the Master Wireless communication between two microcontrollers can be ...

There is no shortage of tiny Linux computers these days. Raspberry Pi boards, mini PCs, and countless single-board computers can all serve as the foundation for everything from home servers to ...

If you spend a lot of time hiking or exploring remote areas, a smartphone isn’t the best way to stay connected. Once the nearest cell tower is a few miles away, it won’t be of much use. LoRa mesh ...

Build a live video pipeline on Ultra96-V2: UVC webcam through a custom HLS IP in programmable logic, then out to DisplayPort. One important note up front: for Vivado, create the project on the ...

For those I haven't had the chance to meet yet, my name is Joel Bados, and I'm your Community Lead at Hackster. My role is centered on supporting creators, growing our community, connecting innovators ...

Gaming giant Valve is preparing to launch a virtual reality headset dubbed the Steam Frame, and open source software engineering firm Collabora has been tapped to provide the operating system — with ...

The way that many software engineers work has changed since the emergence of AI coding assistants, and now OpenAI wants to change how they interact with those assistants. Best known for its algorithms ...