Open-Source Hardware Digest — Week 38, 2026
Chips, Boards, and Bare Metal
- wch-protocols helps document the use of WCH chips
- Hackaday Europe 2026: Bare Metal Made Easy (Source: Hackaday)
- Running Linux 6.11 on the ESP32-S3 with a Few Tweaks (Source: Hackaday)
- Alif Semi Balletto B1 and Ensemble E1C StartKits feature Cortex-M55 + Ethos-U55 MCU for IoT and Edge AI (Source: CNX Software – Embedded Systems News)
Robots, Puppets, and Hardware Projects
- This cyberdeck is a… puppet? (Source: Arduino Blog)
- A (Maker Faire) Robot Party In The Foundry (Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers)
- Petoi Quaddle, a Robotic Pet for Everyone (Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers)
- MYWAI™ VILMA™ is designed to bring human-like learning to robots via one-shot demonstration (Source: Arduino Blog)
- Sampling the Elephant’s Foot and Chornobyl’s Tedious Corium Clean-up (Source: Hackaday)