Electronic Design Weekly: Sept. 7, 2026
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Editorial: Raspberry Pi for the Professional Engineer
Raspberry Pi has entered the pantheon of industry product standards, where all competitors are referred to as clones; iPhone and Arduino are good company for our SBC champ. I wouldn’t say this was caused by the low introductory price of the Raspberry Pi (R-Pi), or its lack of strong competitors. Rather, it was the quality and robustness out of the box.
R-Pi was originally conceived as a way to boost interest in programming for school children back in 2008, with the creation of The Raspberry Pi Foundation. That low price, $35 USD, announced along with prototype images, had people foaming at the mouth to get it way before it was ready. I remember seeing some news about it in 2009, and I was feeling that same urgency.
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Editor's Choice: From the ElectronicDesign Archives
These articles were chosen by the editors at ElectronicDesign that complement the new articles above. They’re included in our regular newsletters.
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11myths_bestpromoCabe’s Raspberry Pi Picks of the Week
The board is so useful, so easy to work with, and has infinite possibilities. This short list alone, I think, proves it.
- First up is a collection of Halloween projects I built. The first two in the list are powered by a Raspberry Pi. The “Scary Door” project is using the first gen Pi.
- Raspberry Pi 5 taps into AI with add on “hat.”
- Raspberry Pi IoT hats make the board super-functional.
- Don’t like Raspberry Pi? Turn it into an Arduino.
Bill Wong's Picks of the Week
Just a few AI-related articles that might be worth looking at. I found them useful.
- Check out some AI assistants that are not in your regulard IDEs
AI is my CAD Co-Pilot @ Machine Design
The CAD industry has exploded with a slew of AI assistants, co-pilots and text-to-geometry generators, but which are worth using? CAD journalist Ralph Grabowski runs some of the top contenders through their paces. - Here is another AI relevant article for embedded developers
AI Agent Security Reaches a Turning Point: Why Runtime Containment Is Emerging as the New Zero Trust Standard @ Security Infowatch
As autonomous AI agents gain broader access to enterprise systems, security leaders are recognizing that identity and prompt filtering alone cannot prevent misuse. Drawing on research from Anthropic, Zero Trust experts, and real-world deployments, this analysis explains why runtime containment, behavioral enforcement, and least-privilege controls are becoming the foundation of AI agent security.
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- AI adoption can be a challenge, not just for embedded developers
Why industrial AI adoption stalls and how to unstick it @ Control
Operators, investors and startup founders point out that industrial AI's biggest obstacle isn't the technology...it's everything around it - Listen in: Here is another on AI and cybersecurity
Podcast: How AI is altering the landscape of manufacturing cybersecurity @ Smart Industry
In this episode of Great Question, Scott Achelpohl of Smart Industry and Dennis Scimeca of IndustryWeek revisit news of several recent cyber breaches in manufacturing and examine the phenomenon of threat groups using AI to power their attacks.
Andy's Picks from Around the Web
Study: Battery-electric Trucks Becoming Competitive on an Increasing Number of Routes. Link
EV batteries last longer than drivers feared. Link
Batteries are quietly driving down evening electricity prices across the U.S. Link
Joint research team suppresses gas evolution, one of the biggest challenges to commercializing lithium manganese-rich (LMR) batteries. Paper
Click here for more of Andy's picks.
Enhancing the Cycling Stability of Graphite Anodes Using a Dense Fluorine-Containing Thiophene-Based Electrolyte Additive. Paper
Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on AI chatbot to plan trip. Link
Annual humanoid robot shipments to reach 26 million units worldwide by 2040. Report
A Decade of Hype, 3,000 Roofs, and One Redirect URL: Tesla Kills the Solar Roof. Link
Jensen Huang once again declares that ‘AGI has arrived’ — but his GPT-6 celebration feels like he’s just trying to sell next-gen Nvidia GPUs. Link
China targets fourfold boost in AI computing capacity by 2030 in major tech push. Link
Andy's Video Pick of the Week
This MIT video is fascinating - I've always had a thing for ornithopters, but this one can also swim and go airborne after "flying" under water.
If you want the gory details, you can find a paper about it, here.
enjoy,
-andyT
Kaneda! Tetsuo! My homage to Akira, inspired by the one and only time I rode an e-bike. Read my whole ridiculous story behind getting my first e-bike, if falling apart and a police chase here.
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William G. WongWilliam G. Wong
Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF
I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.
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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.
I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.
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Cabe AtwellCabe Atwell
Technology Editor, Electronic Design
Cabe is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design.
Engineer, Machinist, Cartoonist, Maker, Writer. A graduate Electrical Engineer actively plying his expertise in the industry and at his company, Gunhead. When not designing/building, he creates a steady torrent of projects and content in the media world. Many of his projects and articles are online at element14 & SolidSmack, industry-focused work at EETimes & EDN, and offbeat articles at Make Magazine. Currently, you can find him hosting webinars and contributing to Electronic Design and Machine Design.
Cabe is an electrical engineer, design consultant and author with 25 years’ experience. His most recent book is “Essential 555 IC: Design, Configure, and Create Clever Circuits”
Cabe writes the Engineering Life & Engineering on Friday blog on Electronic Design.
See Cabe's cartoons & comic strips here.
James MorraJames Morra
Senior Editor
James Morra is the senior editor for Electronic Design, covering the semiconductor industry and new technology trends, with a focus on power electronics and power management. He also reports on the business behind electrical engineering, including the electronics supply chain. He joined Electronic Design in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Andy TurudicAndy Turudic
Technology Editor, Electronic Design
Andy Turudic is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design Magazine, primarily covering Analog and Mixed-Signal circuits and devices and also is Editor of ED's bi-weekly Automotive Electronics newsletter.
He holds a Bachelor's in EE from the University of Windsor (Ontario Canada) and has been involved in electronics, semiconductors, and gearhead stuff, for a bit over a half century. Andy also enjoys teaching his engineerlings at Portland Community College as a part-time professor in their EET program.
"AndyT" brings his multidisciplinary engineering experience from companies that include National Semiconductor (now Texas Instruments), Altera (Intel), Agere, Zarlink, TriQuint,(now Qorvo), SW Bell (managing a research team at Bellcore, Bell Labs and Rockwell Science Center), Bell-Northern Research, and Northern Telecom.
After hours, when he's not working on the latest invention to add to his portfolio of 16 issued US patents, or on his DARPA Challenge drone entry, he's lending advice and experience to the electric vehicle conversion community from his mountain lair in the Pacific Northwet[sic].
AndyT's engineering blog, "Nonlinearities," publishes the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Andy's OpEd may appear at other times, with fair warning given by the Vu meter pic. His cartoon series, "Inventors", appears each week in Electronic Design Weekly.
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