Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams were in a retro mood this week. There was a new ‘486 computer, a new mechanical TV, and a USB stick with a magnetic personality. Can you ...

The Shanling SCD3.3 is a top-loading CD/SACD player that folds in some very basic USB drive file playback and Bluetooth ...

The ESP32 keeps finding new jobs in my house.

In this today stressed world all are wanting a music world for diverting a stressed mind. Music systems have evolved significantly over the years, and the RFID Smart Jukebox is a modern take on the ...

So you've already outgrown Arduino's most beginner-friendly board, the Uno, and are looking to move on to bigger, more exciting projects. In that case, the Nano family might just be what you need.

This is a copy of the project Makuna/DFMiniMp3 with minor changes for better adaptation to my project. The original author is Michael C. Miller. The constructor will require the declaration of several ...

If you use the playFromMP3Folder() or playAdvertisement() functions, the files to be played must be organised in an extremely precise manner. The "MP3 Folder" must be in the root of the storage device ...

For some, Halloween is starting to rival Christmas for setting up elaborate holiday decorations. Homeowners now spend many hours─and sometimes dollars─creating ghoulish displays of lit pumpkins, ...

While child-sized humanoid robots like the Unitree R1 have come down in price, not everybody has a spare $6,000 to throw around to play with robots, and smaller models like the Tonybot are more ...

As the winter season approaches, comes the festival of lights in INDIA. Yes, we are talking about Diwali, known for lighting up firecrackers. But they don't just light up the party; they also cause ...

Hiwonder’s MechDog is a compact AI robot dog powered by an ESP32-S3 controller that drives eight high-speed coreless servos. It features built-in inverse kinematics for precise and agile movements and ...

If you don’t happen to have a traditional stone-floored domed clay oven on hand, it can be surprisingly challenging to make a pizza that’s truly excellent. Your domestic oven does a reasonable job, ...