New chips, boards and robots this week
The new chips, boards, robots, sensors and manufacturing processes hardware engineers are talking about, and what they make possible.
Updated Nov 12, 2026. Read from 36 sources every four hours.
- 1HardwareWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
WeAct Logic Analyzer V2 – A $10 USB 3.0 logic analyzer board compatible with Sigrok/Pulseview (fork)
WeAct Studio Logic Analyzer V2 is a low-cost, small WCH CH32H417 board designed to be used as a 16-channel USB 3.0 logic analyzer with up to 200 MHz bandwidth. The company says the board runs three different “apps”: logic analyzer, USB-serial + DAP, or…
- 2HardwareFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
AMD Delivers an x86 Knockout Part Deux with Venice ft Zen 6 Benchmarks
The AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" series is a monster with up to 256 cores, 512 threads each, 16 channel DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen6 and multiple families. We get into the launch in detail. STH Main Site Article: Substack: STH Top 5 Weekly Newsletter:
- 3HardwareWorth knowingFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
Support-free, 2-colour Pi 4 + SSD case with print-in-place GPIO door and snap-fit OLED (free model, no AMS needed)
Designed for easy printing: - No supports - 2 colours (charcoal + orange), one colour per plate, so no AMS - Print-in-place hinged GPIO door - Printed push rivets and snap pins, no glue - 0.2 mm layers, 3 walls, 15% infill, about 3.1 h, about 77 g PLA It's…
- 4HardwareWorth knowingFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
Point at Anything and Control It — Did I Build the Future Remote?
JLCPCB 6–32 Layer & HDI PCBs: Join JLCPCB’s electronica Online Activity for a Chance to Win Free Tickets & Cash Prizes: You can get the components for the project here: (affiliate links) ESP32 Sense Board: OV3660 Camera: Websites show…
- 5HardwareWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
MCU revitalizing SDVs with diverse compute, virtual prototyping
A new automotive microcontroller incorporates physical AI traits while boosting compute and memory content to support zonal architecture in software-defined vehicles (SDVs). It also introduces a digital twin of the target hardware, letting software engineers…
- 6HardwareWorth knowingFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
I made a CM4-format board for camera work with the RV1126B. It beats the CM4 on video and AI, loses on CPU. Benchmarks below.
I've been building a CM4-pinout module for camera and video work: Rockchip RV1126B, 1GB LPDDR4X, 8GB eMMC, WiFi 6. Not a lot of documentation out there about this chip, so it was a fun project. Most similar to the CM4101008 but I used CM4101000 for…
- 7HardwareWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
Olimex UEXT-CH390 SPI to Ethernet module targets Raspberry Pi and ESP32 MCU boards running ESPHome
Olimex UEXT-CH390 is a small open-source hardware module that adds 10/100 Mbps wired Ethernet connectivity to microcontroller boards through an SPI interface. It is designed for Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico 2 boards, as well as ESP32-S3, C3, C5, C6, and other…
- 8HardwareFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
Laser-armed AI submarine robots patrol Norwegian salmon farms, killing sea lice
- 9HardwareWorth knowingFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
Custom Flight Controller + Remote
Didn't know where to post this but after some help from people in r/PCB and r/PrintedCircuitBoard, I built a fully custom STM32-based quadcopter flight controller and STM32-based wireless remote. STM32F446 Flight Controller The PCBs were designed and…
- 10HardwareWorth knowingFirst seen Nov 12, 2026
Seeed Studio XIAO STM32C5 development board features dual CAN FD and a 6-axis IMU with programmable heating
Seeed Studio XIAO STM32C5 is the company’s first XIAO development board based on an STMicroelectronics MCU, namely a 144 MHz STM32C5A3CG Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller. It features two CAN FD controllers and a 6-axis IMU with programmable heating for…
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