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Meet Adabot, Particle's New Photon 2 + More 🤖 Meet Adabot on Hackster Café! Over at Adafruit, Noe Ruiz and Liz Clark have been cooking up an adorable new 3D-printed mascot. Driven by CircuitPython, Adabot runs on a new board: the RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather with I2S Audio Amplifier. The microcontroller sports screw terminals for connecting NeoPixels, a three-axis accelerometer with tap detection, a three-pin servo connector, and a few other bits and bobs to boost your bot. [Watch now]( Hardware 🟥 GNSS Combo Breakout SparkFun's new GNSS Combo Breakout board packs both u-blox ZED-F9P and NEO-D9S receivers for the ultimate in precision. [Read more]( ⬜ CORE-V MCU DevKit The OpenHW Group is launching an in-house microcontroller development board designed to get users started with its 32-bit RISC-V RV32E40P processor core. [Read more]( Projects of the Week ✍️ Solder Sustainer RoboticWorx's add-on device allows you to effortlessly bond wires while only utilizing one hand for both the solder and soldering iron. [Read more]( 🧲 PCB Flexure Bearings Carl Bugeja combined several techniques to create a electrically actuated flexure bearings using materials and processes available from PCB vendors. [Read more]( What's Happening? 💥 Accelerating RISC-V Leading semiconductor players Bosch, Infineon, Nordic, NXP, and Qualcomm have joined hands to give the RISC-V ecosystem a big boost. [Read more]( 🛴 A Pi-culiar Discovery A treasure trove of Raspberry Pi computers has been hiding in plain sight on city streets, right under our noses, during the chip shortage. [Read more]( 🎙️ Amitabh Shrivastava Amitabh is a physicist turned inventor, hardware founder, and lifelong experimenter. He joined us to chat about his Arduino-driven pneumatics and more. [Watch now]( 🔎 Unboxing the New Particle Photon 2 Particle's Photon 2 is currently on sale for just $9! This upgrade to the original IoT powerhouse brings new security features, BLE support, and improved specs – as well as the same platform-as-a-service that drives Particle's other devices (including global 2G/3G and LTE options). Let's take a look... [Check it out]( [Hackster.io]( Curated weekly by a team of hardware nerds. 2580 Junction Ave San Jose, CA 95134 USA Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from our list.