GOWIN-Based Tiny $14 FPGA Board with 1.5K LUTs, 96 Kb SRAM, and Onboard Debugger

The KIWI 1P5 is a compact, low-cost FPGA development board from OneKiwi based on the GOWIN GW1N-UV1P5 device. It is designed to support prototyping and education in digital logic design. The main FPGA used on the board is the GW1N-UV1P5QN48XF from GOWIN’s LittleBee series. It features 1584 logic units, 96 kilobits of block SRAM, and […]

The Advanced Project Gemini Concepts That Could Have Been

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=nth7pS7_mLk

Looking back on the trajectory leading to Project Apollo and the resulting Moon missions, one can be forgiven for thinking that this was a strict and well-defined plan that was being executed, especially considering the absolute time crunch. The reality is that much of this trajectory was in flux, with the earlier Project Gemini seeing developments towards supplying manned space stations and even its own Moon missions. [Spaceflight Histories] recently examined some of these Advanced Gemini concepts that never came to pass.

In retrospect, some of these seem like an obvious evolution of the program. Given both NASA and the US...

V6 Development Log (08/2025)

Please support CreativeApplications.Net

New CAN update brings four new themes—Silver, Carbon, Red, and NC, Activity gains new cards for Instagram/Twitter plus better commenting with @mentions. RSS tracking and reporting, ad-block monitoring, faster Activity loading, bug fixes, and an optimized animated footer logo.

Read More

Hackaday Podcast Episode 335: Beer, Toast, and Pi

//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/38021345/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/000000/

What happens when you listen in on Elliot Williams and Al Williams? You get a round up of the best of last week’s Hackaday posts, of course. The topics this week range from beer brewing to lightning protection, with a little bit of everything in between.

This week, many problems find solutions. Power drill battery dead? Your car doesn’t have a tire pressure monitor? Does your butter tear up your toast? You can find the answer to these problems, and more, on the Hackaday podcast.

For the can’t miss section, the guys are annoyed that Google wants to lock down their phones,...

Breakout Boards for the Blind

Connecting an LED to a battery seems trivial. If you have any knowledge of using breadboards, knowing that red goes with red, and that black goes with black, it’s as easy as tying your shoes. Except there’s one problem: what if you can’t see the difference between red and black? [Tara] had a student who struggled with a problem just like this, so of course, they made a whole suite of breakout boards to the rescue!

Breadboards rely almost completely on the visual cues of rows, columns, and if the part is even in the hole correctly. [Tara] fixed these issues...

P5LIVE – v1.7.0 is live

Please support CreativeApplications.Net

P5LIVE, the live-coding editor for p5js, has beed updated to v1.7.0. Most note worthy is the snippets manager for community sharing of favorite code blocks + ghost mode for entering such snippets.

Read More

This Week in Security: DEF CON Nonsense, Vibepwned, and 0-days

DEF CON happened just a few weeks ago, and it’s time to cover some of the interesting talks. This year there were two talks in particular that are notable for being controversial. Coincidentally both of these were from Track 3. The first was the Passkeys Pwned, a talk by SquareX about how the passkey process can be hijacked by malware.

[Dan Goodin] lays out both the details on Passkeys, and why the work from SquareX isn’t the major vulnerability that they claim it is. First, what is a Passkey? Technically it’s a public/private keypair that is stored by the user’s browser....

Reading the Praise/Prompt Machine: An Interface Criticism Approach to ChatGPT

Please support CreativeApplications.Net

This paper critically examines ChatGPT through the lens of interface criticism. The work demonstrates the need for new critical approaches attuned to how the language-based interfaces of generative AI manipulate users.

Read More

No Die? No Problem: RealDice.org Has You Covered

Have you ever been out and about and needed to make a check against INT, WIS or CON but not had a die handy? Sure, you could use an app on your phone, but who knows what pseudorandom nonsense that’s getting up to. [Lazy Hovercraft] has got the solution with his new site RealDice.org, which, well, rolls real dice.

Well, one die, anyway. The webpage presents a button to roll a single twenty-sided die, or “Dee-Twenty” as the cool kids are calling it these days. The rolling is provided by a unit purchased from Amazon that spins the die inside a...

NVIDIA Jetson T5000 carrier board supports GMSL3, GMSL2, FPD-Link III, SDI, or MIPI CSI-2 camera interfaces

NVIDIA officially launched the Jetson T5000 AI module found in the Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit earlier this week, and several companies have announced or teased products based on the new 2070 TOPS system-on-module. Connect Tech notably introduced the Gauntlet carrier board for the Jetson T5000, supporting GMSL3, GMSL2, FPD-Link III, SDI, and MIPI CSI-2 camera interfaces via a 16-lane expansion connector, DisplayPort video output, Gigabit Ethernet and 10GbE networking ports, USB ports, and various I/Os. It is designed for physical AI, robotics, autonomy, and AI at the edge. Gauntlet (AGX301-09T) carrier board specifications: Supported system-on-module – NVIDIA Jetson T5000...