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This Open Source RP2040 Development Board Looks Like a Magic Spellbook

With a microcontroller, a display, and a few buttons, you have a hardware platform that can be reused for a thousand different electronics projects. That’s why so many development boards currently on the market feature these exact components. But if you need a certain look, these generic boards probably aren’t going to cut it.

If by chance you’ve got a fantasy-themed project on your mind, then a development board created by an embedded software engineer named Kati could be exactly what you’re looking for. Called the Spell Tome, the platform is split into two PCBs that are sandwiched together to give the assembly a book-like appearance. All of the important hardware is on the bottom PCB, while the top one is just for looks.

The hardware (📷: Kati)

The functional board is populated with the essentials: a Seeed Studio XIAO RP2040 development board, a 1.3-inch OLED display, four push buttons,...

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90% of the World’s Businesses Are SMEs and MSMEs—And AI Is Reshaping Both Their Future and Their Risk

Every year on June 27, the world marks the United Nations International Day for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME Day). This year’s theme — “The Future Generation of MSMEs: An AI-Driven Future” — could not be more timely, because what I’m seeing on the ground is a story very

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Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them

Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition The UK Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) investigation into Microsoft's business software ecosystem has attracted a full range of comments from the unsurprising to the hyperlocal. The watchdog is looking

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London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) will start using static live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in London's West End and Soho by the end of this year following a six-month pilot in the

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I made a massive mistake when buying Red Dead Redemption 2 — Here's how to avoid the same trap with GTA 6

It sounds bizarre saying that I wish I could go back in time and bully my past self into spending more money, but that's exactly what I would do when it comes to Red Dead Redemption 2. I first bought the cowboy adventure game on sale back in

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90% of the World’s Businesses Are SMEs and MSMEs—And AI Is Reshaping Both Their Future and Their Risk

Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them

London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

I made a massive mistake when buying Red Dead Redemption 2 &mdash; Here's how to avoid the same trap with GTA 6

I made a massive mistake when buying Red Dead Redemption 2 — Here's how to avoid the same trap with GTA 6