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Make it Matter Contest Winners, Avnet ZUBoard 1CG Tech Spotlight + More 🏆 Nordic's Make it Matter Contest Winners Announced A machine learning-enabled posture checker, a smart power monitor, a turtle tank controller, and an indoor garden assistant are the winning projects in Nordic Semiconductor's Make it Matter contest! [Check 'em out]( Hardware 🟩 8051 Dev Board "Electro Boy" has blended two tech giants together in a clash of eras: an Arduino UNO-layout board powered by the venerable Intel 8051. [Read more]( 🤖 Adafruit UPDI Friend Adafruit has announced a USB-based UPDI programmer that targets newer Microchip tinyAVR, megaAVR, and AVR Dx microcontrollers: the UPDI Friend. [Read more]( Projects of the Week 🎮 Alternate Wii Controller Mario Kart Wii is fun, but the controls are awkward. So, Nick Bild built an alternative controller to play the game with a D-pad. [Read more]( ⌨️ The Mintboard Flurples built a wireless keyboard inside an Altoids tin, overcoming size constraints with some smart design choices. [Read more]( What's Happening? 🎉 Arduino Days 2024 Mark your calendars for not one but three Arduino Days — taking place on March 21st-23rd. Want to present or host your own celebration? The call for speakers and organizers is still open. [Learn more]( 👉 Carl Bugeja's Microbots After seven years of one-off projects, Carl Bugeja's latest video announced the creation of Microbots — a company focused on delivering components for miniaturized robotics. [Read more]( 🎙 Paloma Fautley on Café Hackster Café host Alex was recently joined by Paloma Fautley, a seasoned roboticist and BattleBots competitor, who has lent her expertise to Xerox PARC and multiple seagoing robots. She has also planned and led educational curricula. [Watch now]( 🔎 A Closer Look at Avnet's ZUBoard 1CG Avnet's ZUBoard 1CG, featuring the AMD ZU1CG, is an approachable board for exploring the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC architecture. A low-cost entry point for the FPGA-curious, the board sports 81K programmable logic cells – plus onboard temperature and pressure sensors, programmable RGB LEDs and user inputs, onboard JTAG and UART debug interfaces, three Samtec connectors with tons of GPIO, and a mikroBUS socket for solderless expansion modules. Let's unbox it and walk through the getting started process! [Watch now]( [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.