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STM32CubeIDE Tutorial for Beginners: Write, Build and Debug Your First ProjectSTM32 microcontrollers are widely used in...
03/09/2026

STM32CubeIDE Tutorial for Beginners: Write, Build and Debug Your First Project

STM32 microcontrollers are widely used in industrial control, robotics, motor drives, consumer electronics, IoT devices, instrumentation, and embedded systems. For engineers beginning STM32 development, one of the most convenient development environments is STM32CubeIDE, STMicroelectronics' integrated environment for writing, compiling, programming, and debugging STM32 firmware.

This tutorial walks through the complete workflow of creating a first STM32 project: selecting the target, configuring GPIO, generating initialization code, writing a simple LED-blink application, building the firmware, programming the microcontroller, setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and debugging the running application.

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The open-source robotic duck Microduck sold out within 24 hours for $399On August 27th, Pollen Robotics, the robotics c...
02/09/2026

The open-source robotic duck Microduck sold out within 24 hours for $399

On August 27th, Pollen Robotics, the robotics company under the AI ​​open-source community Hugging Face, officially released the bipedal robot Microduck (commonly known as the "robotic duck"). This 25cm tall, less than 800g, and priced at $399 (approximately RMB 2680), "duck" saw pre-orders exceed $2.6 million within 24 hours of opening, selling out quickly at an average rate of one duck every 4 seconds. The official announcement followed: "The community has ordered too many ducks." New order delivery times have been extended to 4 to 6 months, and even if you place an order now, you may not receive yours by the end of the year.

Unlike service products such as robotic vacuum cleaners, Microduck's core positioning is an open-source embodied intelligence development platform for AI developers, which is known in the industry as the "Raspberry Pi moment" in the field of embodied intelligence.

It won't sweep or wash dishes; its beak is just a small gripper, only capable of picking up lightweight objects like socks and markers. However, it allows developers to program it themselves to achieve their desired functions. It comes pre-programmed with seven basic behaviors: walking, sitting, squatting, kicking, grasping, rollerblading, and getting up after falling. Users can explore different ways to play based on these—Dranger demonstrated a user-programmed gymnastic performance of the robotic duck at the launch event.

In terms of hardware, this 25cm-long device packs 15 servo motors (distributed in the legs, neck, and head), a wide-angle camera, a small LiDAR, dual IMUs, a microphone, a speaker, and NFC tag recognition. It also supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC near-field communication. The main control unit uses a domestically produced Rockchip RK3566 processor, which runs a 50Hz control loop, drives the 15 servo motors, and manages the camera, radio, and other modules.

On the software side, the SDK, MuJoCo simulation environment, and complete reinforcement learning training stack are all open-source under the Apache-2.0 license. Developers can train new policies in the simulator, export ONNX for deployment on airborne chips, and upload training results to Hugging Face Hub for global developer sharing.

RF Routing on 2-Layer and 4-Layer PCBs: How to Route RF Traces and Control Impedance?RF PCB layout is fundamentally dif...
02/09/2026

RF Routing on 2-Layer and 4-Layer PCBs: How to Route RF Traces and Control Impedance?

RF PCB layout is fundamentally different from ordinary low-frequency signal routing. At radio frequencies, a copper trace is no longer just an electrical connection with negligible resistance; it becomes a transmission line with distributed inductance and capacitance. Its geometry, the dielectric material around it, its distance from the reference plane, nearby copper, component pads, vias, and even solder mask can affect its characteristic impedance.

For most RF ICs, antennas, filters, RF switches, LNAs, and connectors, the standard single-ended system impedance is 50 Ω. A good RF PCB therefore has two separate but related jobs: first, create a transmission line with approximately 50 Ω characteristic impedance; second, ensure that the RF IC, matching network, filter, connector, and antenna are properly matched to that 50 Ω environment.

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FPGA Alternatives: How to Find a Pin-Compatible or Functional ReplacementReplacing an FPGA is much more complicated tha...
01/09/2026

FPGA Alternatives: How to Find a Pin-Compatible or Functional Replacement

Replacing an FPGA is much more complicated than replacing a standard logic IC, regulator, memory device, or interface transceiver. Two FPGAs may have similar logic capacity, the same package pitch, and roughly the same number of I/Os, yet still be completely incompatible at the PCB, power, configuration, or HDL level.

For engineers and component buyers, FPGA replacement should therefore be divided into two fundamentally different tasks:

Pin-compatible replacement: the alternative can use the existing PCB footprint and, after verification and usually recompilation, can work with the existing board connections.
Functional replacement: the alternative can perform the required system functions, but PCB, power, pinout, FPGA source code, IP cores, clocking, or firmware may need to be redesigned.

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Arduino Low-Power Design Guide: Battery Power, Sleep Modes, Sensor Nodes, and Wireless CommunicationBattery-powered Ard...
31/08/2026

Arduino Low-Power Design Guide: Battery Power, Sleep Modes, Sensor Nodes, and Wireless Communication

Battery-powered Arduino projects are easy to prototype but surprisingly difficult to optimize. A sensor node may appear to consume only a few milliamps, yet a continuously running microcontroller, power LED, regulator, sensor, or radio can drain a battery in days or weeks. By contrast, a properly designed node that wakes only when necessary, performs its measurement quickly, transmits efficiently, and spends more than 99% of its time asleep can operate for months or even years.

The important point is that low-power Arduino design is a system-level problem. Choosing a low-power MCU is only the beginning. The regulator quiescent current, sensor operating mode, radio protocol, GPIO states, USB circuitry, LEDs, battery chemistry, wake-up method, and communication interval can all dominate the final result.

This guide explains how to design low-power Arduino systems for battery-powered environmental monitors, wireless sensor nodes, Bluetooth devices, LoRaWAN endpoints, and Wi-Fi data loggers using concrete component models rather than generic device families.

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10 Best Raspberry Pi 5 Projects: NAS, Home Assistant, AI Camera, Pi-hole, Media Center, and MoreThe Raspberry Pi 5 is m...
28/08/2026

10 Best Raspberry Pi 5 Projects: NAS, Home Assistant, AI Camera, Pi-hole, Media Center, and More

The Raspberry Pi 5 is much more than a faster version of earlier Raspberry Pi boards. Its Broadcom BCM2712 quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 processor runs at 2.4 GHz, while the VideoCore VII GPU supports modern OpenGL ES and Vulkan APIs. It also provides dual 4Kp60 HDMI output, hardware 4Kp60 HEVC decoding, Gigabit Ethernet, two USB 3.0 ports, dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and — particularly important for storage and AI projects — an exposed single-lane PCIe interface.

That combination makes Raspberry Pi 5 especially suitable for always-on home servers, network services, automation controllers, media appliances, edge-AI systems, and small development clusters. For sustained workloads, however, active cooling is strongly recommended. Raspberry Pi also recommends a 5 V/5 A supply for Raspberry Pi 5; its official 27 W USB-C supply provides 5.1 V at up to 5 A and allows considerably more peripheral power than a 5 V/3 A supply.

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How to Decrypt the Program Inside a Microcontroller?Microcontroller decryption is also called microcontroller cracking,...
27/08/2026

How to Decrypt the Program Inside a Microcontroller?

Microcontroller decryption is also called microcontroller cracking, chip decryption, or IC decryption. Strictly speaking, none of these terms are scientifically accurate, but they have become common usage. We often refer to CPLD decryption and DSP decryption as microcontroller decryption. A microcontroller is just one type of chip that can load programs .

Microcontrollers (MCUs) typically have an internal program area and a data area (or one of them) for users to store programs and working data (or one of them). To prevent unauthorized access to or copying of the MCU's internal program, most MCUs have encryption lock bits or encryption bytes to protect the internal program.

If the encryption lock bit is enabled (locked) during programming , the program inside the microcontroller cannot be read directly using a regular programmer. This is called microcontroller encryption.

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In the exciting moments of the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, China's humanoid robots have made great progress again.
26/08/2026

In the exciting moments of the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, China's humanoid robots have made great progress again.

eMMC vs UFS: Which Storage Is Better for Embedded Linux?For embedded Linux systems, storage selection has a direct impa...
26/08/2026

eMMC vs UFS: Which Storage Is Better for Embedded Linux?

For embedded Linux systems, storage selection has a direct impact on boot time, application launch latency, database responsiveness, AI model loading, video recording performance, system power consumption, PCB complexity, and product cost. Two of the most common soldered managed-NAND solutions are eMMC (embedded MultiMediaCard) and UFS (Universal Flash Storage).

At first glance, the choice seems simple: UFS is much faster, so UFS must be better. In practice, the answer is more nuanced. UFS is generally the better choice for high-performance Embedded Linux systems, while eMMC remains highly attractive for cost-sensitive, industrial, HMI, gateway, and moderate-performance applications. The processor's native storage controller, Linux BSP maturity, required capacity, thermal environment, write workload, and product lifecycle can matter more than maximum interface bandwidth.

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Correct connection method for RS-485 networkThis article describes the correct connection method for RS-485 networks, i...
25/08/2026

Correct connection method for RS-485 network

This article describes the correct connection method for RS-485 networks, including recommendations for twisted-pair cabling and proper installation of matching resistors . Receiver waveforms under correct and incorrect termination are shown . Configurations ranging from simple single-transmitter/multi-receiver networks to those with multiple transceivers and branch circuits are presented .

This article serves as a basic guide for connecting RS-485 networks. The RS-485 specification (officially known as TIA/EIA-485-A) does not specifically address how RS-485 networks should be connected. Nevertheless, the specification provides some guidelines. These guidelines, along with good engineering practices, form the basis of this article. However, the suggestions presented here do not cover all the different ways to design a network.

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