The Electromaker Show

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

Welcome to the Electromaker show, episode 25! This week saw a major Raspberry Pi OS update, Elementary OS released for the Raspberry Pi, an Adafruit machine learning module for the Raspberry Pi announced, the Nintendo Game and Watch Classic hacked to run Doom, and more. Check out these maker, tech, DIY, IoT, crowdfunding, and embedded updates!

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• Charis Cat multiplying multiplexers in Arduino
• STM32 guide
• Nintendo Game and Watch hacked to run DOOM
• Speaker Snitch - is your home assistant listening
• DIY Arduino-powered gesture-controlled laser turret
• Ant2 USB-C LiPo Chager: The tiniest USB-C LiPo charger
• Ollie - USB to anything swiss army knife
• Tactigon wearable mouse
• Maker Faire Rome digital edition
• Explaining Computers December update
• Adafruit machine learning stick for the Raspberry Pi
• Elementary OS officially on the Raspberry Pi
• New Raspberry Pi OS release

Welcome to The Electromaker Show episode 23! This week saw the release of open-source firmware to turn an STM32 “Blue Pill” into a multi-purpose test and measurement instrument. We also cover the two new Tinkerboards which will give the Raspberry Pi 4 a run for its money, crowdfunding campaigns, cool electronic projects and much more!

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• DIY perks artificial sun 
• STM Blue Pill as a "nerdy swiss army knife" KiCad 
• Javid9x controlling a car with ASIO c++ async lib
• LoCoMoGo - a toy train that teaches kids to code
• Pi Z Supercap - a super capacitor-based hat for soft shutdown in power outs 
• MorphESP 240 - ESP32 S2 with built-in screen
• Hackboard - "the first powerful and affordable Windows 10 Pro SBC with optional 4G or 5G connectivity"
• BBC HiFive Doctor Who themes RISC V programming kit 
• Mini pcRock pi b / pi 4 with RISC os
• Two new Tinker boards!
  
  

Welcome to the Electromaker show, episode 23! This week saw a 3D-printed modular MIDI playset, liquid-cooled Raspberry Pi, DIY Arduino-based resin 3D printer, and more! Check out these maker, tech, DIY, IoT, crowdfunding, and embedded updates!

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• Retrofitted Arduino-powered cassette player with MP3 and RFID
• Whole-home power monitoring with Arduino
• Liquid-cooled Raspberry Pi
• Python running on an old Nokia
• 3D-printed modular MIDI playset
• OTA ESP32
• StereoPi V2
• Tiuny DIY Arduino-based resin 3D printer
• Pantera Pico PC
• The Great PSoC 6 Design Challenge update
• Nanoleaf smart lights

Welcome to the Electromaker show, episode 22! This week, the week of November 9, 2020 saw the release a powerful RISC-V Linux dev board, a cheap but capable ESP32-based WT32-ETH01 with Ethernet, a DIY Raspberry Pi-based DDJ-400 build, and more! Check out the latest maker, tech, DIY, IoT, crowdfunding, and embedded updates from the week!

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• Conditioning Wild Magpies to Trade Bottlecaps for Food with a Raspberry Pi Automated Dispenser
• DIY Raspberry Pi DDJ-400 with a Raspberry Pi and MIXX
• Arduino Lure Gadget project from Watch Dogs
• 3D Printing Problems
• Students from Metro Atlanta High School create a DIY speech to LED matrix project
• 3D printed Moe’s Tavern for a hedgehog
• How to make a DIY IR sensor from scratch
• LOMO LC-A digital Raspberry Pi camera
• Automatically mute a mic when the door opens
• High-end RISC-V Linux dev board
• Precursor mobile open hardware platform
• E-paper keyboard
• $6 ESP32-based WT32-ETH01 board with Ethernet
• Project Ares retro gaming  image for SBCs
• ATmega328p tutorial

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 21! This week saw the release of the Raspberry Pi 400, an overclocked Raspberry Pi 4 inside a keyboard, the Orange Pi Zero2 SBC debut, the music-oriented OPUS MAX Board microcontroller seek crowdfunding, and more. Check out the top maker, tech, DIY, IoT, crowdfunding, and embedded news stories from the week of November 1, 2020!

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• CNLohr
• Paint with LEDs on an old iPad, Raspberry Pi, and LED matrix
• Lock the door when you open an incognito window
• Indoor hockey game using Arduino and 3D printing
• The Skull CTF Board 
• Koki'o project case 
• OPUS MAX Board
• Raspberry Pi 400
• OmniROM Android 11 Raspberry Pi port
• Orange Pi Zero2 SBC

Welcome to the Electromaker Show, episode 20! Catch up on the most recent maker, tech, DIY, IoT, and embedded news stories from the week of October 26, 2020. This week saw the Arduino IoT Kit debut, an official Ubuntu 20.10 desktop distro for the Raspberry Pi, and more!

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• POV LED Staff
• Stuff Made Here Halloween Edition
• Arduino speed bag
• Battery eliminator
• Raspberry Pi-based 3D-printed synth/DAW
• Microchip VGA Console
• E3K open-source bio-sensing platform
• RPi Press Python GUI book
• Official ubuntu 20.10 desktop for the Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module Review
• Sparkfun Micromod
• Arduino IoT Kit
• BL602 32-bit RISC-V Wi-Fi and BLE wireless SoC  dev board
• NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB