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Awesome All-in-Ones, Potent Components: The Top Desktops and PC Parts of CES 2026

Unique designs, smart engineering, and serious performance defined this year’s CES PC haul. These are our favorites across 11 categories of hardware.

Lenovo showed me its new ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and this year's upgrades caught me off guard

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition features a new "Space Frame" -- a double-sided motherboard with components on both sides. For one, it packs more components into a smaller space, but it also ...
Hackaday

Building An Escape Room Lockbox With The ESP32 Cheap Yellow Display (CYD)

Escape Room Lockbox with the Cheap Yellow Display. You may have heard of the “cheap yellow display” (CYD), so-called ...
Hackaday

Trying Out The Allwinner-Based Walnut Pi SBC

When it comes to the term ‘Raspberry Pi clones’, the most that they really clone is the form factor, as nobody is creating ...

Building a DIY environmental sensor for under R550

The BME280 sensor was easier to set up, as it communicates over the I2C serial protocol. This means that we only needed to ...
IEEE

Exploring Arduino Board Applications in Embedded Systems: The Role of AI, Cloud Computing, and Edge Computing

Abstract: Arduino is an open-source microcontroller system that has been widely used in the development of various electronic projects because it is simple to use and many resources are available. The ...