More business news with #Renesas launching the RA6W1 and teasing the RA6W2, its first RA-family microcontrollers to feature dual-band Wi-Fi 6 - and, in the W2, Bluetooth Low Energy. Matter 1.4 certified, too!

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Renesas Launches Its First Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Low Energy Chips, the RA6W1 and W2

Company demonstrates their capabilities with a smart doggy door and a human-machine interface.

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Something for the #makers of a certain vintage next: NanoBASIC UNO, a BASIC interpreter for the Arduino UNO R3 and other ATmega328P-based microcontroller boards. The weird bit: line numbers are optional, unless you're using them as labels for a jump.

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NanoBASIC UNO Is a Minimal Yet Flexible BASIC Interpreter for the Arduino UNO and Other ATmega328Ps

Permissively-licensed firmware gives you a modernized BASIC — with REPL and multi-line program support.

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And for the #FPGA developers, a twist on #AdventOfCode: pick a puzzle or two, complete it using synthesisable hardware (you don't actually have to put it on an FPGA, you can prove it works in simulation), and you could win a shiny new dev board courtesy of Jane Street.

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Jane Street Invites FPGA Developers to Try Their Hand at Solving Advent of Code Puzzles

Advent of FPGA takes the annual programming challenge series and applies it to hardware, with a dev kit up for grabs for the best entry.

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Some #science next with a vine-inspired soft robotic grabber that's soft and strong and very, very long - and which could help safely and comfortably lift bed-bound patients in hospital settings.

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This Vine-Like Grasper Gives Robots a Secure Yet Gentle Touch

Researchers demonstrate how a vine-inspired gripper could be used to lift patients from their beds, harvest fruit, and more.

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An important one for anyone working with #RaspberryPi devices on Linux or macOS next: there's a bug in Imager 2.0 which effectively bricks storage devices, fixed in 2.0.2. Oh, and there's a new guide out for putting custom OS images into Imager - and even submitting them for inclusion in the official repo!

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Raspberry Pi Details Custom Image Support in Imager 2.0, Fixes a Nasty Storage Corruption Bug

Linux and macOS users should upgrade to 2.0.2 in order to prevent their SD Cards and other storage devices getting corrupted during erasure.

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This project's aces: Todd Stidham designed an open-hardware sound-effect board capable of speech synthesis, then used it to make a voltmeter that sounds like it's panicking the higher the voltage gets...

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Todd E. Stidham's Open Source BuzzKill Board Drives This Panicky Speaking Voltmeter

Speech synthesis delivers an eyes-off readout of a circuit's voltage — and as the volts rise, so too does a sense of panic.

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And finally: computer vision specialist #Luxonis has a new fourth-generation OAK smart camera family out, available with or without stereo vision capabilities - and now with the option of an interchangeable lens version with rolling or global shutter sensor. 52 TOPS of INT8 compute on each, I'm told(!)

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Luxonis Launches New Qualcomm Snapdragon-Powered OAK 4 Computer Vision Cameras

Fourth-generation camera family is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8-Series chips, packing an accelerator for 52 TOPS of INT8 compute.

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