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Punched paper tape Summary: Scalable RGB WS2812 LED panel inspired by ASR33 teletype using punched paper tape-like 0.1" spacing

Punched paper tape

https://www.revk.uk/2025/11/punched-paper-tape.html

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 344: Board with Lasers, Op-Amp Torture, and Farewell Supercon 9 Summary: Hackaday editors recap Supercon 9 hacks, with laser projects, op-amp torture, PCB debates, and 3D printing curiosities.

Hackaday Podcast Episode 344: Board with Lasers, Op-Amp Torture, and Farewell Supercon 9

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/07/hackaday-podcast-episode-344-board-with-lasers-op-amp-torture-and-farewell-supercon-9/

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Converting hot dog plasma video to sound with OpenCV

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/converting-hot-dog-plasma-video-sound-opencv

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Raspberry Pi power meets industrial smarts: SECO Pi Vision 10.1 CM5 Summary: SECO Pi Vision 10.1 CM5 wraps Raspberry Pi CM5 in industrial edge computing for IoT, with Node-RED, Docker, TensorFlow Lite, and Clea OS.

Raspberry Pi power meets industrial smarts: SECO Pi Vision 10.1 CM5

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-power-meets-industrial-smarts-seco-pi-vision-10-1-cm5/

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Pi-Powered Camera Turns Heads and Lenses In Equal Measure Summary: A Pi Zero-based turret camera with multiple M12 lenses, OpenSCAD designs, and open-source Python control showcased by Jenny List.

Pi-Powered Camera Turns Heads and Lenses In Equal Measure

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/07/pi-powered-camera-turns-heads-and-lenses-in-equal-measure/

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I Built a 27V Circuit to Fix This $3 Gadget

https://www.atomic14.com/2025/11/07/27v-pcb.html

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Spectravideo Computers Get A Big Upgrade Summary: Upgrade of Spectravideo 318/328 via SVI-38 PicoExpander using Raspberry Pi Pico 2W for RAM, disk/cassette emulation, 300 MHz overclock.

Spectravideo Computers Get A Big Upgrade

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/spectravideo-computers-get-a-big-upgrade/

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Weeknote #1973 Summary: Updates, kitchen gear musings, and a curated list of links spanning food, fonts, pens, and DIY tech projects

Weeknote #1973

https://rknight.me/blog/weeknote-1973/

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MCE Blaster Translates TTL For Modern(ish) Monitors Summary: MCE Blaster translates TTL to VGA using a Raspberry Pi Pico, enabling retro TTL video to modern monitors.

MCE Blaster Translates TTL For Modern(ish) Monitors

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/mce-blaster-translates-ttl-for-modernish-monitors/

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Speech Synthesis on A 10 Cent Microcontroller Summary: Speaker synth on a CH32V003. Talkie library, LPC voice synthesis, 48 MHz RISC-V MCU, 16 KB flash, 2 KB RAM.

Speech Synthesis on A 10 Cent Microcontroller

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/31/speech-synthesis-on-a-10-cent-microcontroller/

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Pixelfed Photo Viewer on Fruit Jam Summary: Pixelfed Photo Viewer on Fruit Jam demonstrates fetching and displaying Pixelfed images via JSON API on a Fruit Jam with HSTX/DVI output.

Pixelfed Photo Viewer on Fruit Jam

https://learn.adafruit.com/pixelfed-photo-viewer-on-fruit-jam

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Casio FX9000P RAM replacement Summary: RP2040-based RAM replacements restore Casio FX9000P, enabling video RAM upupgrade and potential LCD display integration.

Casio FX9000P RAM replacement

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/casio-fx9000p-ram-replacement/

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What we've been reading in September & October (2025) Summary: September–October 2025 reading list: LLVM, UBSan, Compiler Explorer, GNU Tools Cauldron, Rust, RISC-V, embedded Rust, Zephyr podcast, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi news.

What we've been reading in September & October (2025)

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/september-and-october-2025-roundup

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Build Your Own Force-Feedback Joystick Summary: DIY force-feedback joystick using Arduino Micro, TMC2208 drivers, two stepper motors, belted pulleys, 3D-printed gimbal, and magnetic encoders

Build Your Own Force-Feedback Joystick

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/30/build-your-own-force-feedback-joystick/

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Building A Clamshell Writer Deck Summary: ESP32-powered clamshell PDA PocketMage with external USB keyboard, Markdown support, and distraction-free writer deck.

Building A Clamshell Writer Deck

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/31/building-a-clamshell-writer-deck/

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Is This The Last PCB You’ll Ever Buy? Summary: Rapid-prototyping via viagrid: using a bulk via grid and DPSS laser to mill copper on FR4 for quick 2-layer PCBs.

Is This The Last PCB You’ll Ever Buy?

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/is-this-the-last-pcb-youll-ever-buy/

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NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware Summary: Firmware tooling to revive bricked Nest Gen 1/2 devices using DFU, bootloader/kernel flashing, and NoLongerEvil platform integration with C, shell scripts.

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat

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Bauble

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?4O86

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HortiRoot scanners

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/hortiroot-intro/

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RP2350 hacking challenge 2: into extra time Summary: RP2350 hacking challenge 2 extends deadline for AES library side-channel analysis on Raspberry Pi Pico RP2350

RP2350 hacking challenge 2: into extra time

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-hacking-challenge-2-into-extra-time/

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Building a Rubik’s Cube That Solves Itself Summary: Small Rubik’s Cube inside componentry, ESP32 control, DRV8833 drivers, five motors, potential PCB integration

Building a Rubik’s Cube That Solves Itself

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/building-a-rubiks-cube-that-solves-itself/

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The wolfDemo Board Story: From Idea to Reality Summary: wolfSSL engineers design and demo a self-made wolfDemo board using STM32U585, MikroBUS, wolfCrypt benchmarks, and TPM integration

The wolfDemo Board Story: From Idea to Reality

https://linuxjedi.co.uk/the-wolfdemo-board-story-from-idea-to-reality/

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DIY Pinball Machine Uses Every Skill Summary: Tabletop pinball build using lasers, 3D printing, lathe, microcontrollers, solenoids and conductive targets

DIY Pinball Machine Uses Every Skill

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/01/diy-pinball-machine-uses-every-skill/

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Give ATMega88 the Boot With This Retro Front Panel Summary: Retro front panel booting with an ATmega88, Linus Åkesson hardware hacks, and a minimalist LED interface

Give ATMega88 the Boot With This Retro Front Panel

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/28/give-atmega88-the-boot-with-this-retro-front-panel/

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I made a 10 Cent MCU Talk

https://www.atomic14.com/2025/10/29/CH32V003-talking.html

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My ultimate e-paper board... Summary: Designer builds a Waveshare 7.5" e-paper board with a back-mounted driver, NFC, sensors and ESP32S3 for access control and WiFi NDEF capabilities.

My ultimate e-paper board...

https://www.revk.uk/2025/11/my-ultimate-e-paper-board.html

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Develop embedded firmware for Pico using Rust or Zephyr with pico-vscode Summary: Set up Pico firmware projects in Rust or Zephyr using the official pico-vscode extension

Develop embedded firmware for Pico using Rust or Zephyr with pico-vscode

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/develop-embedded-firmware-for-pico-using-rust-or-zephyr-with-pico-vscode/

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Book of Making 2026 on sale now! Summary: Book of Making 2026 distils HackSpace into maker projects for keyboards, LEDs, 3D printing, and Raspberry Pi Pico guidance.

Book of Making 2026 on sale now!

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/book-of-making-2026-on-sale-now/

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Links do dia Summary: Links do dia: atualização de gadgets, apps, podcasts e serviços como NewPipe, BentoPDF, Networking Toolbox e StreetComplete

Links do dia

https://manualdousuario.net/links-do-dia-20251027/

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Radxa X5 Release Imminent? Summary: Radxa X5 schematics reveal 64-bit memory bus, RP2350 GPIO, and improved N150 GPU/CPU in a Pi-sized board

Radxa X5 Release Imminent?

https://bret.dk/radxa-x5-release-imminent/

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