Even the most gorgeous gowns and amazing accessories are static when you’re standing still. But cool cosplay can come to life with moving lights and sound effects. If you want to add LED animation, audio atmosphere, or sensors to your wearable creation, you’re in luck. These days there are plenty of great boards to choose from. Here are five to get you started.
Making something then using it to play beautiful music or find peculiar sounds is an enjoyable and rewarding experience. We have been creating music and sound for at least 40,000 years, and makers today have access to all sorts of fun tools that we can use in our quest for cool sounds. I’ve seen countless awesome audio projects from makers in every corner of the world, from vintage analog bleeps and bloops to futuristic gestural controllers. There are many different...
Raspberry Pi 5 and the new Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super top our picks for the best dev board for your edge AI projects. But they aren’t your only options. If you’re looking for something smaller, lower cost, something with vision built-in, or even a microcontroller, these are our favorites in 2026.
This article was machine translated from Make Germany 7/2025 with light editing by David Groom. NanoPy is the standard IDE for Oxocard projects. However, thanks to the ESP32 microcontroller at the heart of the Oxocard, programming with C++ via the Arduino IDE is also a viable development option. This offers advantages for both beginners and experienced programmers, as this article demonstrates. The term “Oxocard” refers to an entire family of modularly designed microcomputers in credit card format. The Oxocard...
Microcontrollers and single board computers continue to get better as 2026 barrels toward us with more power and more capabilities that are perfect for amping up your next build. And while the big names like Arduino and Raspberry Pi have just released some exciting new products, they’re not the only game in town. Here are 15 standout boards that have us excited for 2026.
I remember getting my first Arduino in 2007 (a Diecimila “Prototype Limited Edition”), excitedly plugging it into my computer, and programming it as a brain transplant for my Roomba (thanks, todbot!). I vividly recall the arrival of my first Raspberry Pi (Model B, code 2, with just 256MB of RAM!), and my Automotive EE friends making fun of it for using an SD card for storage, which they estimated would wear out after a year or two. These devices allowed...
The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware. Whenever you see the certification logo, you know that the certified hardware meets this standard. Currently the Certification database lists over 3178 individual certifications! In October we added 24 new certifications, from to and everything in between we were happy to have new and...
We featured the VIM4 before, and we’re excited to see Khadas again with the VIM1S. Its combination of compact size, yet full-size ports and built-in storage (saving you a bundle on specialty cables and accessories), plus great graphical performance and Oowow OS delivery service make it stand out in the single board computer (SBC) space.
The LattePanda Mu is DFRobot’s take on the compute modules offered by the likes of Raspberry Pi. Unlike the Arm-powered Pi CM4, however, it is based on the quad-core 3.4GHz Intel N100, with claimed performance of more than double the latest Pi 5, as well as 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 64GB of integrated eMMC 5.1 storage. An open-source carrier implementation turns it into a tiny PC motherboard, complete with PCIe slots, perfect for your next Windows or Linux-based project....
Another spin on the ESP32 + 1.28″ round touchscreen formula, this time from the incredibly innovative M5Stack. What makes this one stand out is the rotary dial that surrounds the screen, providing a unique and charming user input method, which combined with an RFID reader and integrated M5StampS3 makes it great for home automation projects where temperature or light levels require convenient adjustment, as well as user identification and authorization.
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