M5StampS3 BAT Module Combines ESP32-S3 and Battery Management

M5Stack has added the M5StampS3 BAT, a compact embedded module based on the ESP32-S3 platform with integrated battery power management. The module is intended for IoT and low-power applications requiring wireless connectivity and flexible GPIO access in a small form factor. The module is built around the ESP32-S3-PICO-1-N8R8 system-in-package, featuring a dual-core Xtensa LX7 processor […]

Ohm Lab Neuro N6 – Modular STM32N6 AI Vision devkit supports rolling shutter, global shutter, or thermal camera (Crowdfunding)

Ohm Lab Neuro N6 is a compact, modular, Arduino-compatible Edge AI/AI Vision development board powered by an STMicro STM32N6 Arm Cortex-M55 microcontroller with a 600 GOPS Neural-ART accelerator. The Adafruit Feather-sized board features 64MB PSRAM, 32MB flash, a built-in microphone, a 6-axis IMU and magnetometer, a USB-C port for power and programming, and takes power from USB-C (5V) or a LiPo battery. The bottom side of the board features 40-pin and 30-pin high-density connectors for expansion boards, adding a camera (rolling shutter, global shutter, or thermal), a microSD card slot, Ethernet, WiFi, a TFT display, and more. Neuro N6 specifications:...

Shuttle XB860G2 and XH810 Slim Systems Arrive with Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs

Shuttle has added two systems to its XPC slim lineup, the XB860G2 and XH810, both based on Intel Core Ultra 200 series processors. The systems are offered as compact barebone platforms for embedded, industrial, and general-purpose computing applications. Both models use the LGA1851 socket and support Intel Core Ultra 200 series processors (Arrow Lake-S) with […]

Hackaday Links: March 22, 2026

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=rXvVzocq358

On Friday, Reuters reported that Amazon is going to try to get into the smartphone game…again. The Fire Phone was perhaps Amazon’s biggest commercial misstep, and was only on the market for about a year before it was discontinued in the summer of 2015. But now industry sources are saying that a new phone code-named “Transformer” is in the works from the e-commerce giant.

At this point, there’s no word on how much the phone would cost or when it would hit the market. The only information Reuters was able to squeeze out of their contacts was that the device would...

KiCad 10 release – Dark mode, graphical DRC rule editor, new file importers, and more

KiCad 10 open-source EDA software has just been released with support for dark mode, importers for Allegro, PADS, and gEDA/Lepton PCB, and various changes to the Schematic Editor (e.g., hop-over display) and the PCB Editor, notably adding a graphical DRC rule editor. KiCad 10 was built by hundreds of developers, translators, library contributors, and documentation submitters, who submitted 7,609 unique commits after KiCad 9 was released in February 2025. The new version also gains 952 new symbols, 1216 new footprints, and 386 new 3D models. Some UI and usability improvements include dark mode support (Windows only), customizable toolbars, undo/redo support...

ELM11-Feather Board with 70 MHz MCU, Lua, and Hardware Overlay Support

Brisbane Silicon has unveiled the ELM11-Feather, a Feather-compatible microcontroller board designed to run Lua natively for embedded applications. The board targets developers looking for a scriptable platform with closer integration between software and configurable hardware. The system is built around a microcontroller operating at up to 70 MHz and includes 1 MB of RAM. Programs […]

PiDP-1 Replica Recreates PDP-1 Computer Using Raspberry Pi

Obsolescence Guaranteed has introduced the PiDP-1, a hardware replica of the original 1960 PDP-1 computer, reimplemented using a Raspberry Pi for retro computing, gaming, and demoscene-style graphics programming. The kit recreates the front panel, switches, and interactive workflow of the original machine while running a software simulation on modern hardware. The system is part of […]

Radxa AICore DX-M1M M.2 2242 low-power AI module delivers 25 TOPS of edge AI performance for just 3W of power

Radxa AICore DX-M1M is a compact, low-power M.2 edge AI acceleration module built around the DeepX DX-M1M neural processing unit (NPU) and delivers up to 25 TOPS (INT8) of AI performance while consuming only 3W of power. Designed for industrial robot arms, autonomous mobile robots (AMR), edge servers, drones, and AIoT devices, the module delivers high-performance AI and ML capabilities without blowing the power budget. It relies on a PCIe Gen3 x2 interface and works with both x86 and Arm systems, including the Raspberry Pi 5 and Radxa ROCK SBCs. AICore DX-M1M specifications: AI Accelerator – DeepX DX-M1M neural processing unit...

BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor

BIO is the I/O co-processor in the Baochip-1x, a mostly open source 22nm SoC I helped design. You can read more about the Baochip-1x’s background here, or pick up an evaluation board at Crowd Supply.

In this post, I’ll talk about the origins of the BIO, starting by working through a detailed study of the Raspberry Pi PIO as a reference, before diving into the architecture of the BIO. I’ll then work through three programming examples of the BIO, two in assembly and one in C. If all you’re interested in is how to use the BIO, you can skip the...

The best laptop Apple ever made

Today I posted a video titled The best laptop Apple ever made, and tl;dw1 it's the 11" MacBook Air.

I acknowledge in the video my pick is slightly subjective, and I also asked a number of other YouTubers which Mac laptop they consider the best (or at least most influential). If you don't want to watch the video, I'll summarize their choices here: