Put spare boards to work with buttons, knobs, microphones, and displays.

IntroductionMany people feel that electronics and robot control are daunting because they require hardware knowledge and coding skills. In this project, I experimentally progressed from 1. basic GPIO ...

This hands-on guide will take you through how open source helps to build and deploy user-friendly interactive shells that run ...

By combining a weather API, a constrained local language model, and a synthesizer, you can create a device with something like a daily or hourly mood. This project also reinforces the point that small ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

Nick Lewis is an editor at How-To Geek. He has been using computers for 20 years --- tinkering with everything from the UI to the Windows registry to device firmware. Before How-To Geek, he used ...

Home Assistant can start innocently enough. Maybe you simply need the bedroom lights to turn off automatically, but that's just a gateway drug. After a while, your washing machine starts texting you ...

Malcolm-Jamal Wilson has launched the WLV-01, a fully hackable DIY digital camera built around a Raspberry Pi 5. Designed for hardware tinkerers and photography enthusiasts, the camera features ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

An open hardware and software project for adding a temperature-controlled 140 mm fan to an NVIDIA DGX Spark. A Raspberry Pi Pico W drives a standard 12 V Noctua NF-A14 PWM fan, tracks CPU/GPU ...