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Open Hardware: FPGAs and More
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Marie’s story: From tech beginner to Code Club mentor
Discover how Marie started a Code Club in Tottenham to give children free access to coding, creativity, and confidence for the future.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ DE25-Nano with 138K-LE Agilex 5 FPGA and Dual-Cluster ARM HPS
The board integrates an Agilex 5 FPGA fabric with 138K logic elements together with a dual-cluster hard processor system that combines two Cortex-A76 and two Cortex-A55 cores. This arrangement supports both reconfigurable hardware design and software execution in a single device.
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Hackaday ☛ Coffee By Command: The Speech2Touch Voice Hack
If you were to troll your colleagues, you can label your office coffee maker any day with a sticker that says ‘voice activated’. Now [edholmes2232] made it actually come true. With Speech2Touch, he grafts voice control onto a Franke A600 coffee machine using an STM32WB55 USB dongle and some clever firmware hacking.
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CNX Software ☛ Renesas RA0L1 low-cost Cortex-M23 MCUs adds capacitive, EMI-resistant touch
Renesas has expanded its low-cost RA0 series of low-cost, low-power Cortex-M23 MCUs with the new RA0L1, the first in the lineup to feature integrated capacitive touch. Designed for low-cost battery-powered applications with responsive touch control, ultra-low current consumption, and fast wake-up. The RA0L1 combines up to 64KB flash, 16KB SRAM, and a 1.6V–5.5V operating range with peripherals such as a 12-bit ADC, temperature sensor, multiple UART/I2C/SPI interfaces, timers, RTC, and a random number generator.