Gareth Halfacree, Author at Maker News

Gareth Halfacree December 7, 2023 Andrew, Balls, Kinetic, Kotites, Microcontrollers, Pairs, raspberry, Sculpture, Steel

Andrew Kotite’s Kinetic Sculpture Pairs a Raspberry Pi and 40 Microcontrollers with 80 Steel Balls

Maker and artist Andrew Kotite has created an unusual volumetric display in which each pixel takes the form of one

Gareth Halfacree December 6, 2023 Amazons, certified, Customized, iot, Launches, Network, Seeed, Sidewalk, Studio, Tracker, Wio

Seeed Studio Launches a Wio Tracker Customized and Certified for Amazon’s Sidewalk IoT Network

Embedded and maker hardware specialist Seeed Studio has announced the launch of a new asset-tracker development kit, designed specifically for

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Gareth Halfacree December 6, 2023 Amazons, certified, Customized, iot, Launches, Network, Seeed, Sidewalk, Studio, Tracker, Wio

Seeed Studio Launches a Wio Tracker Customized and Certified for Amazon’s Sidewalk IoT Network

Embedded and maker hardware specialist Seeed Studio has announced the launch of a new asset-tracker development kit, designed specifically for

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Gareth Halfacree December 6, 2023 board, CentyVin, delivery, EasilyAdjustable, Nguyens, power, PPSTrigger, usb, Vincent

Vincent “CentyVin” Nguyen’s PPSTrigger Board Provides Easily-Adjustable USB Power Delivery

Electrical engineer Vincent “CentyVin” Nguyen is working on a “much simplified” board which aims to lower the barrier to entry

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Gareth Halfacree December 6, 2023 1970s, aircraft, clock, Desk, DME, Frazers, Instrument, King, Life, Lives, Park, PowerHungry

Park Frazer’s 1970s King DME Aircraft Instrument Lives a New Life as a Power-Hungry Desk Clock

Electrical engineering student Park Frazer has given a piece of a 1970s aircraft radio navigation system a new lease on

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Gareth Halfacree December 6, 2023 Chris, ESP32powered, Espressif, Faster, Greening, power, Running, SIMD

Chris Greening Gets an Espressif ESP32-Powered TV Running Faster Than Ever with the Power of SIMD

Maker Chris Greening has been investigating how to get an Espressif ESP32 microcontroller to play back JPEG files faster —

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Gareth Halfacree December 6, 2023 arduino, ATmegaBased, HardwareFree, library, Offers, ripred, Trent, Users, VoltageMonitoring, Wyatt

Trent “ripred” Wyatt Offers ATmega-Based Arduino Users a Hardware-Free Voltage-Monitoring Library

Developer Trent “ripred” Wyatt has released an Arduino library which gives Microchip ATmega-family microcontrollers the ability to measure the voltage

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Gareth Halfacree December 6, 2023 board, core, Development, ePaper, ESP32S3, Espressif, Lilygo, mini, shiny, Updates, Version

LILYGO Updates Its Mini E-Paper Core Development Board with a Shiny New Espressif ESP32-S3 Version

Embedded electronics specialist LILYGO has launched an upgraded version of its Mini E-Paper Core all-in-one development board, which is now

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Gareth Halfacree December 5, 2023 BIER, Decisions, Faster, Find, Lets, Researchers, Uncrewed, Underwater, Vehicles

BIER Lets Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles Make Better Decisions Faster, Researchers Find

Researchers at Flinders University, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ESTA Bretange), and the French Naval Group Research Center

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Gareth Halfacree December 5, 2023 Barrier, Breaks, FPGA, keyboard, Keys, lowlatency, MCU, Nyan, overkill, sound

The Nyan Keys Low-Latency Keyboard Breaks the Sound Barrier with an FPGA and “Overkill” MCU

Pseudonymous maker “Portland.HODL” has created a mechanical keyboard designed for the absolute lowest possible input latency — by using a