Open Hardware, Modding, and Restoration
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Entry-level RISC-V MCU board with Wi-Fi6, BLE 5.0 and Zigbee support
Waveshare has introduced the ESP32-C6-DEV-KIT-N8, a versatile development board equipped with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, and IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee 3.0 and Thread) wireless capabilities. This board offers 23 GPIO pins, a USB Type-C port, and compatibility with the ESP-IDF development environment for diverse IoT projects.
As its name implies, this Waveshare development board incorporates the following ESP32 module with onboard PCB antenna.
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Auto Xylophone Uses Homemade Solenoids
Want to play the xylophone but don’t want to learn how? [Rachad]’s automatic xylophone might be just the ticket. It uses homemade solenoids to play tunes under computer control. Think of it as a player piano but with electromagnetic strikers instead of piano keys. You can hear the instrument in action in the video below.
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Amiga CD32 Restoration: Part 3
At the end of my previous blog post, I had things mostly working. But I need to make the temporary repair more permanent and rebuild the machine. Here goes! True Colour The replacement 4066 IC has arrived.