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The Zephyr Project gave its 10th-anniversary Community Awards at the Zephyr Developer Summit in Prague (Oct 7–9, 2026). Anas Nashif, Maureen Helm and David Leach shared the Distinguished Achievement Award, and contributors from Nordic, Embeint, Vestas, Antero and Google won the other five categories.
Read the story →Microchip's MTCH3380P and MTCH3240P turnkey touch controllers, launched 8 October 2026, use 12 parallel ADCs to sense up to 64 and 32 mutual-capacitance buttons, sliders or wheels, target IEC/UL 60730 Class B, and start at $1.06 and $0.80 in 10,000-unit quantities.
TI says its broad embedded portfolio of MCUs, MPUs and wireless connectivity devices is now supported on Zephyr with an upstream-first workflow, announced on 1 October 2026 as TI and Infineon upgraded to Platinum membership of the Zephyr Project.
In an October 8, 2026 anniversary post, Arduino said more than 270,000 UNO Q boards had shipped worldwide as of September 29, 2026. The post also covers ecosystem numbers and software milestones, including Arduino Core on Zephyr 1.0.0 leaving beta.
Adafruit's CircuitPython 11.0.0-alpha.1, a pre-release from September 24, puts 11.0.0 in place of 10.4.0 as the next stable release. It adds hmac and hardwarekey modules and an RP2350 alarm module, and removes the broadcom, litex and renode ports. Stable remains 10.3.1.
NXP's $85 FRDM-IMXRT1186 is in stock. It is the company's first FRDM board on the i.MX RT crossover MCU family, built on the MIMXRT1186CVJ8C, which pairs an 800 MHz Cortex-M7 with a 300 MHz Cortex-M33 safety core, and it has four Ethernet ports for TSN and EtherCAT work.
Seeed Studio has released the XIAO nRF54LM20A and XIAO nRF54LM20A Sense, 21 x 17.8 mm boards pairing Nordic's nRF54LM20A SoC with an nPM1300 PMIC, 28 GPIOs, 8 MB external flash and NFC. The Sense model adds a 6-axis IMU and a digital microphone. No price was given at announcement.
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