Find the AI tools, models and methods that make you a faster hardware engineer, the day they appear.
For electrical, mechanical, semiconductor, embedded, robotics and manufacturing engineers who use AI. Spezia reads 36 sources where hardware engineers find what works, from the chip and electronics trade press, IEEE Spectrum and Hackaday to Reddit's hardware communities, GitHub, Hugging Face, X and YouTube. The same find seen in several places becomes one item, and each is ranked by how much it could change the way you design and build.
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- Hardware
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”:…
Trade press ↗Found Nov 12, 2026
- Model
Runway’s Praxis-1 world action model for robotics is now available
Praxis-1 builds on Runway’s work as a founding member of the Cosmos Coalition, advancing open world models for physical AI. | Source: Runway Runway AI Inc. yesterday released Praxis-1, its world action model for…
Trade press ↗Found Nov 12, 2026
- Open source
Humanoid whole-body motion tracking with one differentiable world model.
GitHub: 1,277 stars since it was made ↗Found Nov 12, 2026
- Hardware
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…
Reddit ↗Found Nov 12, 2026
- Hardware
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…
YouTube: 72,135 views ↗Found Nov 12, 2026
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Each item is ranked by how much it could speed up or improve real design, verification or build work, not by how loud it was. A tool you can adopt today outranks a hot take.
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An open-source PCB tool written up on Hackaday, shared on Reddit and starred on GitHub shows up once, with each place it was picked up. Being found in several places lifts it.
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- 2Narrow to tools, models, methods, open source, research or hardware, or to one source.
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Where does it look?
36 sources in 9 places: the chip, electronics, embedded, robotics and manufacturing trade press, including IEEE Spectrum and Hackaday, 15 Reddit communities on chips, electronics, PCBs, CAD, robotics and manufacturing, Hacker News, GitHub's new chip design, PCB, CAD and robotics repos, Hugging Face's robotics and 3D models and its daily papers, X, the analysts who write about chips, the makers' own news and the YouTube channels engineers learn from.
Is it only about chips?
No. It covers chip design and verification, electronics and PCBs, CAD and generative design, simulation, embedded firmware, robotics and robot learning, and the factory floor. Stock moves, funding news and consumer gadgets are left out.
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