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CNX Software ☛ Brainchip AKD1500 M.2 and PCIe Edge Hey Hi (AI) cards, BrainBoard 1500 SPI module now available for $99 and up
Back in November 2025, we wrote about the Brainchip AKD1500 PCIe/SPI Edge Hey Hi (AI) co-processor designed for low-power systems and delivering up to 800 GOPS at just 300 mW. In recent months, the company has launched several hardware platforms based on the ADK1500. At the end of July, Brainchip introduced the AKD1500 M.2 B+M Key development card for $129, shortly followed by the $99 BrainBoard 1500 module in August, and a few days ago, the company started selling the AKD1500 PCIe development card for $149.
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Hackaday ☛ Reverse Engineering A Sony Car Stereo LCD
The driver for this diminutive LCD is a chip obviously labeled LC75826W, and that’s what the Arduino ends up talking to. Thankfully, there was a datasheet available for that part, which gave [Jose] a great starting point for figuring out how to use it. While [Jose] is working with the LC75826W driver, he’s quite explicit in his GitHub repo that this repository is not a driver library for that chip. The code only targets the specific LCD on the CDX-A250 head unit. Still, if you’ve got a different oddball LCD that uses this driver, [Jose]’s code is a great place to start, and since it’s under an MIT license, you can fork to your heart’s content.
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Hackaday ☛ Ski Lift Removes Mice From Chicken Coop
The build comes to us in roughly two parts. The first is the gondolas, which not only cart the mice down the hill to freedom but also double as the mousetrap themselves. They are placed in the chicken coop, and a trap door on the ceiling with bait causes the mice to fall inside. 3D printed with acrylic windows, they are a luxurious way for a mouse to travel. At the bottom, another trap door opens onto a pile of brush, releasing the mice. The second part is the lift, built hastily out of wood and other parts lying around. After much hiking up and down the hill, [Super Valid Designs] eventually got it working properly and reliably toting the mice and automatically releasing them at the bottom of the hill.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Clicks Communicator brings 4.03-inch AMOLED display and physical keyboard to Android 17
Clicks is preparing the Communicator, a compact Android smartphone built around a physical keyboard and a 4.03-inch AMOLED touchscreen. The device uses MediaTek’s 4nm Dimensity 8300 platform, includes 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and is designed to operate either as a standalone phone or alongside another smartphone.