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The premiere episode of Hardwired By Hackster is officially live! Join hosts Cameron Coward and Whitney Knitter as they dive into the wildest hardware hacking and engineering breakthroughs from across the community. In Episode 1, we're breaking down: 🦠 Can bacteria compute? Building living logic circuits with bio-transistors. 👾 Recreating a 1990s 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card in SystemVerilog. 🥁 A spinning rotary LEGO drum machine powered by Unreal Engine & computer vision. 📺 Transmitting analog video over a single wire. 🛠️ A hand-solderable $50 Feather-compatible Crystal FPGA board. Whether you're an FPGA veteran, a retro-gaming enthusiast, or an engineering student looking for your next weekend build, this podcast is for you!

The premiere episode of Hardwired By Hackster is officially live! Join hosts Cameron Coward and Whitney Knitter as they dive into the wildest hardware hacking and engineering breakthroughs from across the community. In Episode 1, we're breaking down: 🦠 Can bacteria compute? Building living logic circuits with bio-transistors. 👾 Recreating a 1990s 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card in SystemVerilog. 🥁 A spinning rotary LEGO drum machine powered by Unreal Engine and computer vision. 📺 Transmitting analog video over a single wire. 🛠️ A hand-solderable $50 Feather-compatible Crystal FPGA board. Whether you're an FPGA veteran, a retro-gaming enthusiast, or an engineering student looking for your next weekend build, this podcast is for you!

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🍌 Up for grabs: a Banana Pi BPI-AI2N SoM + carrier board. Here's what one can do! 👇 Adam Taylor watched Minority Report, then brought it to life: AirDesk 3D is a hand-controlled spatial desktop running on the Banana Pi BPI-AI2N. 🖐️ 📷 C920 webcam → MediaPipe → 21 hand landmarks per frame 🎯 Palm-center cursor (mean of wrist + 4 knuckles), so it doesn't jump when your hand closes ✊ Open/fist grab detection with hysteresis, no trained gesture classifier 📏 Onion Tau LiDAR fused in for real Z depth (0.42 to 1.47 m in testing) 🖥️ All processing on device, served to any browser on the LAN ✅ 19/19 unit tests passing on the board itself Full project, code, and systemd user service are in the write-up: https://lnkd.in/gzVeYDez Your turn. Take the quiz, pitch your own BPI-AI2N build, and you could win the board. Winners who publish their project within a month of getting the hardware can earn up to $500: https://lnkd.in/gBaEdUSV But hurry, submissions close November 1st at 11:59pm PT. #Hackster #Renesas #JourneyAroundJapan #AI #VisionAI #GestureControl

Have you completed October's Journey Around Japan activity? Here's what's on the bench this month: 🧠 BPI-AI2N-Core SoM: the compute module 🔌 BPI-AI2N carrier board: the I/O breakout so you can actually prototype ✨ Sticker pack and a banana squishy (for when the build fails at 2am) Proof it ships real work: Adam Taylor built AirDesk 3D, a hand-tracking gesture interface, on this exact platform! https://lnkd.in/gUfr2fCt Plus, upload your build within 30 days and you're eligible for up to $500. 🗾 Take the quiz now!

The Boss Battle in the AI Arena is officially open. Use the PSOC™ Edge E84 AI Kit, ModusToolbox™, and DEEPCRAFT™ Studio to create a futuristic edge AI project that can outwit the Infineon Team's Survival Sensor Box. Light sources for the city's tunnels, a flying assistant, underwater-ready gear, a detection system that spots the Boss' underlings: if it helps you survive and thrive in PSOC™ Edge City, it belongs in the AI Arena. Submissions close January 3, 2027 at 11:59pm PT.