u-blox JODY-W6 – NXP IW623/AW693 tri-band Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4 LE audio modules

u-blox has expanded its JODY family of modules with the NXP IW623/AW693-based JODY-W6 series that adds tri-band Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4 (including LE Audio) in a single package. There are seven product variants across five main series models, mainly based on NXP’s IW623 chipset for professional use and the AW692/AW693 for automotive use. The modules are optimized for the parallel operation of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and target high-throughput, low-latency, and secure connectivity use cases such as industrial automation, healthcare systems, smart buildings, network infrastructure, and in-vehicle infotainment and telematics systems. It has a 15.6 × 19.8 mm LGA form...

Luckfox Lume Board Features Allwinner T153 SoC with Dual Gigabit Ethernet and MIPI Interfaces

Luckfox has introduced the Lume, a compact development board based on the Allwinner T153 industrial processor. The board combines a quad-core Arm Cortex-A7 with a RISC-V E907 core, along with dual Gigabit Ethernet, MIPI display and camera interfaces, and onboard memory and storage. The T153 uses a heterogeneous architecture combining a quad-core Arm Cortex-A7 cluster […]

8-inch ESP32-P4 touch display offers WiFi 6, BLE, 802.15.4 connectivity, optional 4G LTE and LoRaWAN

Seeed Studio’s reTerminal D1001 is an 8-inch capacitive touch display powered by an ESP32-P4 RISC-V microcontroller and equipped with an ESP32-C6 wireless module, a camera, a dual-microphone array, and a speaker. The reTerminal D1001 is a fully enclosed solution designed for HMI applications such as control panels, vision-enabled IoT terminals, video intercoms, and smart dashboards. One highlight compared to other ESP32-P4 displays is optional support for 4G LTE cellular connectivity using an mPCIe module and SIM card slot, as well as LoRaWAN using a Stamp module. reTerminal D1001 specifications: SoC – Espressif Systems ESP32-P4NRW32 CPU Dual-core 32-bit RISC-V HP (High-performance) CPU...

Clintech Pico – The first Raspberry Pi RP2354B board offers 48 GPIOs in Raspberry Pi Pico form factor

Designed by Clintech Ltd. in Bulgaria, the Clintech Pico Board appears to be the first development board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2354B chip with 2MB on-chip flash. It retains the same form factor as a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 but adds extra GPIOs to make use of the 48 general-purpose GPIOs provided by the RP2354B chip. Like the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, this board features 40 castellated and through holes on the sides, exposing GPIOs 0–22 and 26–28, along with 3 debug pins. Additionally, the board includes 27 extra on-board through holes that break out the remaining GPIOs (23–25...

Free Stuff - January 2026

The January 2026 recipient for the Great Scott Gadgets Free Stuff Program is Hank Fordham, a cybersecurity specialist and public speaker from Alberta, Canada! Hank, better known online as “Hank the Hacker” delivers live hacking demonstrations at conferences, higher education institutions, CTF competitions, and public sector events. We have sent Hank a HackRF One and YARD Stick One to use as core components of these demonstrations at upcoming conferences this year. He tells us that his presentations focus on demystifying wireless attacks by showing audiences how real-world RF threats work in practice. Rather than relying solely on slides, he builds...

Free Stuff - December 2025

The December 2025 recipient for the Great Scott Gadgets Free Stuff Program is Nikos Gerogiannakis, applying on behalf of the Epictetus Wireless Security & Signal Research Initiative at the Hellenic Mediterranean University. Nikos says that their group has established a solid foundation in digital signal analysis and embedded security through hands-on projects such as an FPGA-based logic analyzer and Smart Locker systems. With the HackRF One we have sent their way, the group plans to proactively audit systems like their RFID scanners, probing for real-world vulnerabilities such as signal replay to develop genuinely robust, open-source access controls. They also plan...

Self-Repair Guide for HackRF Pro USB-C Connector

Since HackRF Pro began shipping at the end of 2025, we have become aware of an ongoing issue with USB connectors on some units received by customers. Our engineering team has investigated further and discovered that the connector manufacturer changed tooling between our prototypes and full production, resulting in less reliable ground/shield contact. The next production round has started and we have corrected the issue by using a replacement part, so this issue should only affect units from the r1.2.1-p1 round.

If your HackRF Pro tends to lose USB connectivity easily when the USB cable is touched, first try a different...

Restoring an Xserve G5: When Apple built real servers

Recently I came into posession of a few Apple Xserves. The one in question today is an Xserve G5, RackMac3,1, which was built when Apple at the top—and bottom—of it's PowerPC era.

This isn't the first Xserve—that honor belongs to the G41. And it wasn't the last—there were a few generations of Intel Xeon-powered RackMacs that followed. But in my opinion, it was the most interesting.

Unfortunately, being manufactured in 2004, this Mac's Delta power supply suffers from the Capacitor Plague. The PSU tends to run hot, and some of the capacitors weren't even 105°C-rated, so they tend to wear out, especially...

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[Hardware] Illumination improvements

Фамипия. Оживляем раритетный домофон с тремя ручками

Приветствую всех!

Не так давно я уже рассказывал про раритетный венгерский домофон «Фамипия». И вот очередь дошла до другой панели этой же серии. По виду экземпляр очень похож на домофон «Сезам», отчего зачастую его путают именно с ним. Тем не менее, ничего общего с «тем» сезамом у него нет. «Питерский сезам», «сезам с оптическим ключом», «сезам с кнопкой освещения» — это всё он.

Самое время узнать, как он устроен, и попробовать его запустить. Именно этим мы сейчас и займёмся...