Qualcomm's purchase or Arduino left everyone asking...why?!?! Well. I found out: spectrum.ieee.org/qualcomm-ard... #opensource #qualcomm #Arduino

www.ess-news.com/2025/09/25/e... Great to see progress like this on sodium ion grid-level storage with a 1MWh store.

UK solar power output is breaking records this year, and has now exceeded the total generated in 2024 🌞 www.ft.com/content/9e49...

Almost all renewables cost lesd thsn fossil furls now www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ writes.

You can run #Zephyr applications on QEMU, which is great for early development, debugging, and #CICD workflows. Check out my tutorial for using Espressif’s QEMU fork for emulating #ESP32 applications made with Zephyr: shawnhymel.com/2807/how-to-... #embedded #programming

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Groundbreaking research at DCU has been featured on RTE News! Dr Shirley Coyle & other researchers from DCU and ASU are developing wearable sensors to aid stroke rehab, tracking brain & muscle activity outside the clinic. Read: www.dcu.ie/engineeringa... @dublincityuni.bsky.social @news.rte.ie

Physical AI is the fusion of intelligent software with embodied systems (robots, digital twins, IoT, advanced vision, human–AI collaboration) and is rapidly becoming a headline theme for big-tech roadmaps. We cover all these topics in Engineering DCU. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArL...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE4Y... Good review of the Google XR Glasses, which shows some of the information visible through the glasses. Huge steps forward. A mini-map for real life would be great.

youtube.com/watch?v=jBia... AI Artistic creation is definitely possible when the prompt engineer has a creative mind. #AI #AI-art Great work 👏

Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit

Google Veo 3 is incredible. And I mean, incredible. It's now almost impossible to distinguish AI-generated video from real-world video. #Veo3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qh_...

www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/22/p... Great addition to the family! #beaglebone #pocketbeagle

First attempt at a #Deepmind #Imagen4 prompt to test the image generation capability of Gemini 2.5 flash, which is freely available at: gemini.google.com #gemini #ai

deepmind.google/models/imagen/ Unveiled at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, Imagen 4 is capable of rendering fine details like fabrics, water droplets, and animal fur. The model can handle photorealistic and abstract styles, creating images up to 2K resolution. #imagen techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/i...

This is bleak reading

The Final Year Projects Expo returned to DCU last week & saw 250+ projects produced by almost 400 soon-to-be graduates. The annual event allows students to showcase their acquired skills & expertise gained at DCU to industry professionals. See: www.dcu.ie/engineeringa... @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Google launches new initiative to back startups building AI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XksH... An impressive use of image-based machine learning to bring black-and-white historical photos to life with full-colour and simulated motion. #ML #history #BroughttoLife #HistoryInMotion

Are you an employer in the #engineering or #computing sectors? We are excited to announce that the DCU Final Year Projects Expo 2025 will take place on Wednesday May 7th🥳 Industry professionals & employers looking to attend can sign up here: forms.gle/ZWJpT69RnKDM... @dublincityuni.bsky.social

This is K2-18b. It’s a planet outside of our solar system, about 2 1/2 times the size of earth, orbiting a small red dwarf star. The James Webb space telescope spent time studying this planet via spectroscopy and determined it has gases in its atmosphere that are only created through biology!

‘I kept going for my family’ – Gazan student graduates top of his class at Dublin City University. Sarraj Alsersawi received an MSc in Electronic and Computer Technology @dcuengineering.bsky.social. Read more in @independent.ie: launch.dcu.ie/4jxEXRN

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin @micheal-martin.bsky.social and Minister James Lawless @deptoffhed.bsky.social officially open DCU’s new Polaris Building. Polaris is DCU’s newest building and Ireland’s most advanced facility for STEM Teaching and Learning. Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/3XEScrd

You can search #LibGen, which is the pirated-books database that Meta used to Train their AI models at: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... In my case, there are 64 results that includes full copies of my textbooks. The ultimate irony was when others like OpenAI called out #DeepSeek for plagiarism!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44_... The evolution of the Boston Dynamic Atlas robot is unbelievable. The motion is so smooth and fluid, and it is now more agile than most humans.

bsky.app/profile/dubl... Super tha DCU has now joined Bluesky.

Again and again I hear on social media and read in newspapers that gas replaced coal in the UK. That's simply not the case. In 2024: 📉 43% less electricity generation was from gas than in 2000. 📈 Wind + solar increased more than 100x 🚫 Coal is now zero Source is @ember-energy.org

youtu.be/lgsD_wSZ0hI An impressive review of Gemma 3 from Two Minute Papers. Amazing step forward in performance expecially given the hardware requirements.

youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?... I'm not sure I'll be getting into a #Tesla taxi any time soon, if they ever exist. The lesson is to use complementary sensors whenever available!

www.prnewswire.com/news-release... Wow, simultaneously amazing and worrying for when I have to rework one into a test PCB...

Waymo expands its robotaxi service across Silicon Valley

ESP32 Bluetooth firmware contains 29 hidden HCI commands (0xFC01–0xFC44), enabling RAM/Flash manipulation, MAC spoofing, and LMP/LLCP packet injection. Attackers can achieve persistent implants, device impersonation, firmware checks bypass, and advanced Bluetooth-based pivoting. tinyurl.com/esp32bd

Here is the one everyone has been asking for: Introduction to #Zephyr 🥳 The first episode is out! My plan is to get #embedded devs up to speed on this fast-growing #RTOS. Check it out! 👇👇👇 youtu.be/mTJ_vKlMS_4 #microcontroller #IoT #electronics #programming #ESP32

www.eetimes.com/arm-brings-v... impressive edge AI ARM development with the Ethos-U85 NPU

www.hackster.io/news/next-ge... Great addition to the Beagle family and still fits in an Altoid tin. #beaglebone #beagleboard

Andreas Spiess shares a first look at the ESP32-C5, a RISC-V SoC with 2.4 and 5 GHz radios that support Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, and Thread.

How DeepSeek changed Silicon Valley’s AI landscape

www.kickstarter.com/projects/187... #ESP32 Agent Dev Kit funded on kickstarter: AI-powered dev kit designed to integrate voice interaction. It features an ESP32-S3, 3.5" LCD, WiFi and BLE. Integrates with LLMs, enabling voice interactions. Impressively, it includes mmWave radar presence sensing.

#rustlang in production: Volvo putting Rust in cars (in a good way, hahah) corrode.dev/podcast/s03e...

youtu.be/ZVFB2g25OkM Amazing work by James Bruton in building an omni-direction ball-wheeled bike. The range and quality of motion is excellent. I could watch quality maker videos like this forever. #maker #electronics #robotics #mechatronics

www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/17/h... eMotion Ultra is a Home Assistant-compatible 60GHz mmWave radar presence sensor with a built-in IR blaster with a 15-meter range, a brightness sensor, and a temperature/humidity sensor.

www.techspot.com/news/106258-... I need a good reason to get one of these touch screen displays. USB-C 32:9 aspect ratio with a very high 4k compatible resolution.

www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/09/r... A 16GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 (with BCM2712D0) is now available for $120, bringing desktop level memory to the board for applications involving resource heavy UIs (e.g., involving video).

www.hackster.io/news/alif-en... "Alif is enabling on-device generative AI, which is particularly valuable in voice and vision applications" Great to see more edge AI devices emerging.

www.visualcapitalist.com/the-value-of... This image is amazing, really putting in context the market cap of Nvida with respect to Intel and others. #semiconductor

Good to see investment continue into QNX. The Next Evolution of QNX will be on display at CES 2025. blackberry.qnx.com/en/campaigns...

www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/03/g... Well done Germany, with almost 63% renewable electricity mix in 2024.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Encouraging changes at an impressive rate. Wind and solar alongside grid scale battery storage are an impressive combination!