Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 36! This week saw the Arduino IDE 2.0 beta released, DietPi added Docker and Steam support, the ESP32-M1 seeks crowdfunding, and there’s an early hands-on look at the ESP32-S3! Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Super Early hands-on look at ESP32-S3 with Unexpected Maker
• Using Raspberry Pi GPIO pins as radio transmitters
• "The Thresher" A personal grooming device from JoelCreates you'd never want to use
• Bitluni 3d Printed Holographic Displays
• Zack Freedman talks about "Disgusting Secrets of Real Hardware"
• ESP32-M1 Reach Out - long-range Wi-Fi board
• Binary Decoder SMD soldering kit
• Simple Calculator Through Hole Kit
• Arduino IDE 2.0 hits Beta
• Arduino Day 2021
• Free RISC-V training classes from Linux Foundation and RISC-V International
• Embedded World Closing Report
• DietPi 7.0 now has Docker and Steam support

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 35! This week saw an upgradeable and repairable laptop, ESP32-powered Alexa Spotify player, and tons of Pimoroni RP2040 devices! Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• WVR now has a webstore
• 3D Printed Articulated Giant Isopod 
• Wireframe teapot on Arduino uses motion sensor for tilting
• DIY Arduino "Hakko" Soldering Station  
• Arduino Lo-Fi Orchestra  
• Magical Alexa CD player uses RFID and ESP32  
• First Look at the Pimoroni Tiny 2040 
• The Secret Life Of Components - a spiritual successor to the Secret Life of Machines 
• Framework - modular, upgradable, repairable laptop: 
• Raspberry Pi Foundation Pi Day fundraiser
• Pimoroni is going ham with the RP2040: 
• NXP Hackathon 2021 is now live

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 34! This week saw a Raspberry Pi Pico-based intruder alarm, Arduino and ESP32 Amazon Alexa development board, and more! Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Stray Cat Shelter uses Arduino to deliver food
• Low-power IoT Intruder Detector With Rpi4 + Pico
• Using the Raspberry Pi Pico's PIO to create PWM synthesizers 
• 128 Opto-isolated Input hat for Raspberry Pi
• WVR - Tiny open-source multi-track music player
• MDB-JS Board - Control older vending machines in JavaScript with a Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi is now selling IQaudio products
• ESP32 based board designed for easy Alexa integration

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 33! This week’s highlights include an Nvidia Jetson Nano AI-powered dog trainer, ESP32 smart gardening board, and a Raspberry Pi Pico-based OLED display. Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Using an OLED display with the Raspberry Pi Pico: https://www.electromaker.io/project/view/getting-start-with-raspberry-pi-pico 
• VGA out on the Raspberry Pi Pico using only a resistor ladder: https://youtu.be/RmPWcsvGSyk
• Machine Learning Inference on the Raspberry Pi Pico: https://youtu.be/BrRKcEQxrv4
• Multicore Programming on the Pi Pico: https://youtu.be/aIFElaK14V4 
• Making a Macro Keyboard using the Pi Pico: https://youtu.be/aEWptdD32iA
• Mitch Davis explains PWM on the STM32 https://youtu.be/AjN58ceQaF4 
• Browzen: an Nvidia Jetson Xavier powered mood tracker: https://www.electromaker.io/project/view/browzen 
• Eduponics Mini, an ESP32 driven Smart Gardening board on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/steminds/eduponics-mini 
• Nvidia Jetson Nano powered AI dog trainer: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/11/researchers-teach-dogs-new-tricks-with-nvidia-jetson/ 
• Winners of the Electromaker and Cypress PSoC 6 challenge have been announced: https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/the-great-psoc-6-design-challenge-winners-announced 
• STMicro have a NUCLEO-G491RE development board for the newer STM32G4 chips: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/13/new-stmicro-stm32g4-mcus-target-cost-effective-motor-control-systems-with-up-to-512kb-flash/ 
• New Quartz64 board on the way from Pine64: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/16/pine64-unveils-quartz64-sbc-powered-by-rockchip-rk3566-soc/

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 32! This week’s highlights include a Raspberry Pi-powered Spotify streaming iPod, NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Module, Tiny MCU FPGA Dev Board, and more. Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• Qomu - Tiny MCU and FPGA dev board
• D-Mark - Open-source ARM board with loads of outputs and super interesting code interpreter 
• Raspberry Pi Foundation add Microsoft repository to Raspberry Pi OS update  
• Original Reddit thread about a Microsoft repo on Raspberry Pi OS 
• Jetson AGX Xavier module for outdoor AI use
• Auto drawing machine 
• Automatic MIDI slide whistle playing machine

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 31! This week saw some neat Raspberry Pi Pico projects, the Tube map drawn on a BBC Micro, and an Inkplate 10 released. Check out these top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

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• BBC Micro emulated on the Pi Pico
• Also Pi pico Goldfish Synth 
• Drawing the Tube map on a BBC Micro
• Birthday Gift swap between two makers - Becky Stern and Estefannie 
• Inkplate 10: Bigger version of the 8" inkplate 
• Ready! Model 100
• Neurostimduino 
• NXP Cup
• Totally Speed 
• CircuitPython Keyboard PCBA 

Welcome to the Electromaker show, episode 30! It was a big news week with the Raspberry Pi Pico released, Plybot 3D printer seeks crowdfunding, fun Adafruit Feather RP2040 happenings, and more! Check out these maker, tech, DIY, IoT, crowdfunding, and embedded updates!

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• Pi Pico released
• NOtEnoughTECH getting started video (condensed version of livestream after the fact) 
• Logic Gates Demonstrators  
• Island Robotics
• More Miniature Retro Computer terminals! 
• Carl Bugeja making haptic feedback buzzer buttons from cheap piezos
• Piunora - Pi compute module 4 on an Uno footprint board, with onboard ADC, M.2 connector, camera connector, HDMI port (Linux computer but very electronic-sy focused)
• Qodi: Education lego compatible kids robot
• Plybot 3D printer
• Arduino Nano RP2040 coming soon on Raspberry Silicone
• Adafruit too, Feather RP2040 (and itsy bitsy) has a store page but not live yet https://www.adafruit.com/feather2040 (also some cool prototypes)
• Arrow Deca Max FPGA is now only $37

Welcome to the Electromaker show, episode 28! This week saw an ESP32-powered retro game console seek crowdfunding, the Brainfuino debut, and a pair of powerful new handheld retro gaming consoles leaked. Check out these maker, tech, DIY, IoT, crowdfunding, and embedded updates!

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• Custom Powerbank in space-saving form factor
• Livecoding analog VCAs without a screen 
• Mitchel Davis STM32 guide episode 2
• 30 mins of the Internet controlling custom Christmas lights 
• Standup maths 3D Christmas tree lights 
• Glasgow Interface Explorer 
• microByte: A tiny, open hardware, ESP32-powered retro-gaming console 
• Brainfuino - new Arduino form factor board that runs native Brainf*ck 
• MKR SharkyPro BLE, Zigbee, OpenThread development board follows Arduino MKR form factor 
• New DFRobot product: Gravity: URM09 Ultrasonic Sensor 
• Inforce 6560 powerful ARM SBC  
• Leaked The PiBoy CM4 & SRX handheld gaming consoles
• Adafruit Panel-mount TFT ESP32-S2 Feather 

Welcome to the Electromaker show, episode 27! This week saw the PD Micro Arduino-compatible board with programmable power delivery launch, a Wi-Fi mesh system that’s open-source and hackable debuted, an Odroid Blue Box for Home Assistant was revealed, plus a Raspberry Pi LoFi hip hop radio was built. Check out these maker, tech, DIY, IoT, crowdfunding, and embedded updates!

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• Phil’s Lab Mixed-Signal PCB Design Course 
• DIY LoFi Raspberry Pi Radio 
• USB HDMI video capture card using a Raspberry Pi 
• ESP-Mesh with ESP32 and ESP8266 
• ESP32 comparison video
• PD Micro Arduino-compatible board with power delivery 
• Maxwell: Mesh Wi-Fi for nerds - open-source hackable mesh Wi-Fi system 
• BoomBit BBC micro:bit music player 
• Arduino tiny machine learning kit 
• Odroid N2+ Home Assistant Blue Box 
• Home Assistant Core 2020.12 released 
• Odroid HC4
• Google kills Android Things
• Google AI choir

Welcome to the Electromaker show, episode 26! This week saw an Arduino CLI update, the Banana Pi BPI-M5 SBC hit shelves, and a new maker board, the Hackboard 2, has been revealed. Check out these maker, tech, DIY, IoT, crowdfunding, and embedded updates!

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Electromaker Show Episode 26 Highlights

• Lidar and Unity on iPhone
• Raspberry Pi auto analog film scanner
• Amazon Alexa on the Raspberry Pi
• More multiplexing on Arduino
• Great Scott! video on MOSFETs and drivers
• Hackboard 2 
• Pi IoT 2
• Arduino CLI update
• Banana Pi BPI-M5 announced