Author: Debashis Das

Though it's called a Pendrive, the ThingPulse Pendrive S3 is not your average drive it's a versatile device that can transform into various USB gadgets, like a memory stick, keyboard, mouse, or even a networking tool. But its most intriguing use? It can be a "BadUSB" with the...

The Mixtile Zigbbee & Z-Wave Interface card is designed to provide Zigbee & Z-Wave capabilities to IoT gateways and other devices. The module has an M.2 connector and can be integrated with the Home Assistant and other similar dev platforms. The module is relatively inexpensive...

Apple has recently released a beta version of Embedded Swift programming language that is said to work with ESP32-C6, Pi RP2040, STM32F7, and nRF52840 microcontrollers. Additionally, the company has also developed example codes for matter protocol based on ESP-IDF and ESP-Matter SDKs...

JieLi Technology AC6329C4 is a 35 cents MCU that also has support for Bluetooth 5.0, it also has several I/Os, ADC, PWM, and other features. The MCU is very similar to the CH32V003 MCU in terms of cost but the main difference is that the CH32V003 does not have Bluetooth support but the...

Waveshare PCIe-Based 5G HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5 enables high-speed 5G/4G/3G networking for the Pi. It supports multiple SIMCom/Quectel 5G modules such as Quectel RM502Q-AE and is compatible with both Raspberry Pi OS and OpenWRT. The HAT features a Type-C port for connecting to...

FluidNC TMC2209 Pen/Laser CNC Controller is an ESP32-based 2-axis CNC controller with FluidNC firmware. This CNC controller is designed for machines that use stepper motors on 2 axes. These include pen drawing machines, laser cutters/engravers, sand plotters, etc. It also has an RC...

Espressif Systems has now released a stable version of ESP32 Arduino Core 3.0.0 with support for ESP32-C6 and ESP32-H2 MCUs based on the ESP-IDF 5.1.4 framework. As usual, you can now use this latest version of IDF in your Arduino IDE, but at the time of writing it's unclear whether...

RPGA Feather by Oak Development Technologies is an RP2040 and iCE40FPGA-powered development board in an Adafruit Feather form factor. The board is tiny and features an MCP73831 1S LiPo charger, a USB 2.0 Type-C connector for power and programming, and an RGB LED driven by the...