Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 13 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Boundary conditions, bit-twiddling basics, and the legendary “How to Hunt Elephants” algorithm.

Do You Want To Be An AI Plumber? www.eejournal.com/article/do-y... The folks at Ainekko have launched AI Foundry--an open-source community that releases production-grade RTL, system emulators, software stacks, and developer tooling--and they are actively looking for AI Plumbers.

Analog Neuromorphic Processors for ASICs/SoCs Offer Microwatt Edge AI www.eejournal.com/article/anal... POLYN’s proprietary hardware and design tool ecosystem enables a trained digital neural network model to be translated into an analog neuromorphic core implemented in CMOS.

Want Nano-Scale, CMOS-Based MEMS Sensors? -- Nanusens's sensors are 1,000 times smaller than their traditional silicon-based MEMS counterparts, offering greater bandwidth and higher sensitivity, while also being more cost-effective and reliable. www.eejournal.com/article/want...

Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 12 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Using the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.

#MaxCoolBeans: Worlds Within Worlds www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/wo... Exploring an AI-only world where digital minds build societies while humans lurk outside the looking glass.

Micro-Miniature Ethernet Switches and Routers www.eejournal.com/article/micr... Based on a tiny FPGA and MCU, BotBlox's SwitchCore is an 8-port, 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch AND router that measures just 1.0 x 1.0 x 0.5 inches.

Who Doesn’t Need Battery-Powered, Cloud-Free AI? www.eejournal.com/article/who-... Ambient Scientific's newly announced GPX10 Pro processor blurs the line between traditional microcontrollers and dedicated AI accelerators.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Go Analog or Go Home! www.hackster.io/news/go-anal... A nostalgic ramble from mechanical brains and Heathkits to Moog marvels and modern sonic wizardry.

Make It So: Agentic AI Comes to Flux www.eejournal.com/article/make... Tell Flux what you want to design, and it will deploy AI agents to design the circuit, generate the schematic, select the components, and lay out the PCB.

#MaxCoolBeans: Raving Over Rocket City Restoration www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/ra... When disaster strikes—fire, flood, or worse—who are you going to call? (Hint: Ghostbusters won’t cut it!)

From Code Chaos to Cyber Confidence: Inside the World of Firmware Obfuscation www.eejournal.com/article/from... Emproof’s passive and active protections confound reverse-engineering tools and leave attackers scratching their heads.

Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 11 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Preparing the analog values read from a breadboard-mounted trimpot to drive our 8-segment display.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Yikes! Bikes and Trikes! www.hackster.io/news/yikes-b... Pedaling through childhood memories of tricycles, bicycles, and breakneck go-kart adventures on the hills of Sheffield.

Model-Based Design Is Transforming System Development www.eejournal.com/article/mode... “Fail quickly and fail often, but fail virtually” is the essence of modern engineering. Don’t wait for the prototype to tell you what’s wrong. Let the model do it for you before implementing it in the real world.

Will ECS-DoT Be the Processor-of-Choice for Battery-Powered AI at the Edge? www.eejournal.com/article/will... In the case of Edge AI, compared with leading competitors, ECS-DoT operates up to 93% faster while consuming 90% less energy, all while supporting true multimodal sensor fusion on-device.

#MaxCoolBeans: Blooming Marvelous! www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/bl... Get 333× closer to the cosmos—and you won’t believe what you’ll see!

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Screeching Across the Spectrum www.hackster.io/news/screech... When teenage techies sent computer data over FM radio, they unknowingly foreshadowed our modern wireless world.

Inside the RISC-V Hardware Wars: A Streetfighter’s Unfiltered Take www.eejournal.com/article/insi... In which we learn about the RISC-V crusade of maverick Yuning Liang (founder of DeepComputing) to reshape the chip industry—without permission, funding, or patience.

Is It Time to Bring PCB Assembly (PCBA) In-House? www.eejournal.com/article/is-i... DDM Novastar offers a full suite of equipment tailored for LTH and SMT board assembly, especially for prototyping and low- to medium-volume production.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Good Vibrations and Border Blasters www.hackster.io/news/good-vi... From Wolfman Jack’s midnight howl to homemade transmitters, America’s airwaves echoed freedom, rebellion, and rock ’n’ roll.

Next-Gen Multimodal GenAI Processors for the AIoT Edge www.eejournal.com/article/next... The Astra SL2600 Series of multimodal Edge AI processors from Synaptics is purpose-built for the next wave of... well, everything, really

Polish Logic Meets Silicon Magic: Say Hi to Grinn’s GenioSOM-700 www.eejournal.com/article/poli... Featuring the MediaTek MT8390 processor (6um process node), the GenioSOM-700 punches above its weight in terms of raw computing power with the smallest form factor at an affordable price point.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: When Pirates Ruled the (Air) Waves www.hackster.io/news/when-pi... From Radio Luxembourg to Radio Caroline, the pirates who brought British broadcasting — and pop culture — alive.

Bodacious Buzz on the Brain-Boggling Neuromorphic Brain Chip Battlefront www.eejournal.com/article/boda... BrainChip's Akida IP for SoCs employs a neuromorphic architecture based on spiking neural networks (SNNs), providing real-time streaming Edge AI that runs continuously on milliwatts of power.

#MaxCoolBeans: Scamming the Scammers www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/sc... I hate scammers. I wish I had the skills to track them to their lairs and give them a very “bad hair day” indeed.

Edge AI Inferencing 5X Faster with 1/2 the Memory (What’s Not to Love?) www.eejournal.com/article/edge... Ambiq’s introduced two new edge AI runtime flows, HeliaRT (a plug-in replacement for TFLM that runs 5X faster) and HeliaAOT (also 5X faster AND 1/2 the memory).

Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 10 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Reading and reporting analog values from a breadboard-mounted trimmer potentiometer.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Be Kind, Rewind: The Home Video Revolution www.hackster.io/news/be-kind... Battling formats, flashing clocks, and the sheer wonder of recording television programs at home.

Agentic AI Prevents Costly Machine Downtime in Factories and Semiconductor Fabs www.eejournal.com/article/agen... Via Automation's agentic AI platform addresses the problem of unplanned downtime in factories and fabs, where the costs of such downtime exceed $1.5 trillion globally each year.

Are We Ready for 2Q 21C? www.eejournal.com/article/are-... Powered by FPGAs, embedded CPUs, and adaptive SoCs, say hello to next-generation AI-enabled apps at the edge, where the "internet rubber" meets the "real-world road."

#MaxCoolBeans: Thunderstruck with Paradoxes www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/th... I recently ran across a video presenting 17 paradoxes that promised to change the way I see the universe. It didn’t disappoint!

New Auto Test Capability for the Analog Portions of SoCs www.eejournal.com/article/new-... The combination of Siemens' Tessent AnalogTest and Tessent DefectSim provides SoC verification engineers with the analog equivalent of ATPG, structural test, and fault coverage analysis.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Student Life and Sound Systems in the Seventies www.hackster.io/news/student... Student stipends, secondhand albums, and seventies sound systems made education and music inseparable companions.

SiTime Has Unleashed its Titan MEMS Resonators (Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid) www.eejournal.com/article/siti... At 0.46 x 0.46mm, the Titan consumes 7X less PCB real estate compared to a 1210-size quartz crystal. Additionally, it can be treated like any standard silicon die inside an SiP.

Awesomely Interesting Electronic Projects for Beginners, Part 9 www.designnews.com/electronics/... Using our switches and LEDs to implement a reaction tester.

#MaxCoolBeans: Stop and Smell the Rhapsody www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/st... I know you’re busy. We all are. But you owe it to yourself to take a break, read this blog, and watch the accompanying video.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Fruits and Vegetables of the Season www.hackster.io/news/fruits-... When seasons ruled the greengrocer’s shelves, and new potatoes sparked neighborhood stampedes.

Smarter Human Machine Interfaces at the Edge www.eejournal.com/article/smar... A smarter HMI won’t simply wait for a button to be pressed—it will interpret intent, learn patterns, and deliver feedback in ways that reduce friction and boost productivity.

FPGA-Based Prototyping Like You Wouldn’t Believe www.eejournal.com/article/fpga... One of the keys to Siemens' Veloce proFPGA’s awesomeness is its magnificently modular architecture.

#MaxCoolBeans: Space Cups and High-Voltage Circuit Breakers www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/sp... It saddens me to know that I will only ever scratch the surface of all the amazing things that are out there to know.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: Sudsy Stories From the 1960s www.hackster.io/news/sudsy-s... From coal-fired coppers to clattering contraptions, Mondays meant laundry, laughter, and labor when I was a kid.

Migrating SWaP-C-Constrained Aerospace & Defense Apps to VNX+ www.eejournal.com/article/migr... VNX+ retains the small form factor (SFF) footprints of VNX but upgrades everything else.

Meet the ManT1S: Computing, Comms, and Power Over Single Pair Ethernet www.eejournal.com/article/meet... Silicognition's ManT1S is an ESP32 board with 10BASE-T1S Single Pair Ethernet networking built in. It allows daisy-chaining of multiple boards using just pairs of wires to form a network.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: The Toys That Made Us Tinker www.hackster.io/news/the-toy... Radios, robots, and retro toys — rediscovering the ingenious playthings that shaped generations of young inventors.

Hardware-Agnostic Sensitivity-Aware Fully-Automated AI Model Optimization is a Game-Changer www.eejournal.com/article/hard... CLIKA supports both PTQ and QAT across model families (including generative and agentic). The differentiator is its ability to perform sensitivity-aware quantization (SAQ).

21st Century Real-Time Navigation for the Visually Impaired www.eejournal.com/article/21st... Eyesynth's NIIRA glasses utilize RealSense depth sensing technology to capture 3D spatial data, which is then processed to generate auditory cues for individuals who are visually impaired.

#MaxCoolBeans: Are AI Web Browsing Agents Rotting Your Brain? www.clivemaxfield.com/coolbeans/ar... I want to be the master of my own destiny when I’m online—not a passive spectator to someone else’s curated feed.

#Throwback_Thursdays on @Hackster.io: From Gray to Glorious: The Dawn of Color Television www.hackster.io/news/from-gr... As vacuum-tube TVs hummed and children gasped, drab black-and-white worlds erupted into brilliant color.

AI-Based High-Precision Positioning in the World’s Deepest Mines and on the Moon www.eejournal.com/article/high... The FOGs used in Boreas IMUs from Advanced Navigation are so sensitive and accurate that they can detect the Earth’s rotation, so they aren’t subject to drift!