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Nick's open-linear-scale uses the digital-caliper principle: a four-layer sensor board with eight transmit antennas, a passive two-layer reflector 0.1 mm away and an STM32L476RC. He reports 40 µm accuracy and a build cost of roughly $32 before shipping. The design is still in development.
Read the story →Olimex's two new open-hardware level shifters are in stock: a 15 x 13 mm two-line breadboard board for I2C or UART at EUR 3.95, and a UEXT-to-UEXT adapter at EUR 4.95 that shifts UART, SPI and I2C for targets from 1.65 V to 5.5 V.
Hack the North organiser Nicholas Ficara has open-sourced the ESP32 badge built for 1,750 hackers at the 18 September event (KiCad files, GPL-3.0 C firmware with a Lua runtime, and a WebAssembly emulator) and detailed what went wrong across EVT, DVT and PVT.
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