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The Embedded Linux Conference & IoT summit 2017 took place in the US earlier this year in February, but there will soon be a similar event with the Embedded Linux Conference *& Open Source...


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Broadcom Introduces Three 802.11ax “Max WiFi” Chips: BCM43684, BCM43694 & BCM4375
We’ve already written about the new 802.11ax WiFi standard that promises up to 10 Gbps data rates, support for 2.4 & 5 GHz bands, up to 4x longer range, and better handling of high density...


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Purism Librem 5 Open Source Linux Smartphone Focuses on Privacy (Crowdfunding)
Purism is computer manufacturer founded in 2014 whose mission is to “provide the highest quality hardware available, ensuring the rights of security, privacy, and freedom for all users”,...


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X96 Mini Amlogic S905W Android TV Box Sells for $25 and Up
Last week, we discovered Amlogic S905W processor through Tanix TX3 Mini TV box, with the processor maxing out at 4K @ 30 Hz in order to provide cost-competitive solutions, for example against...


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ComfilePi Industrial Touch Panel PCs are Based on Raspberry Pi CM3 Module
ComfilePi CPi-A070WR & CPi-A102WR are industrial IP65 panel PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM3 compute module, with respectively 7″ and 10.2″ resistive touchscreen displays, and that run...


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YotaPhone 3 Dual Screen Smartphone to Launch for $360 and Up (in China)
Russia based Yota makes some unusual phones with dual display with a standard color front display, and an e-paper rear display that allows you to check the time without pressing a button, keeping...


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NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Developer Kit SE Offered for $199 (Promo)
Launched in 2015, NVIDIA Jetson TX1 developer kit integrates some serious processing power with a Jetson TX1 module with a 256-core Maxwell GPU, four Cortex A57 cores, 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, and plenty...


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Intel Wireless-AC 9560 CRF Module Adds 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 5 to Gemini Lake/Cannon Lake Processors
Last week, we saw that the upcoming Intel Gemini Lake processors integrated a CNVi (Connectivity Integration) block with a WiFi MAC, and Bluetooth MAC & Baseband Modem connected over a CNVio...


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ESP32-PICO-D4 System-in-Package Combines ESP32, 4MB SPI Flash, a Crystal Oscillator, and Passive Components
Espressif Systems has revealed another ESP32 variant, but this time it’s not an SoC, but a 7x7mm system-in-package (SIP) that comes ESP32 dual core processor, a 4MB_ SPI flash, a crystal...


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Android 8.0 Oreo Launched, OS Images, and AOSP Source Code Released
Google has now formally announced Android O version and name: Android 8.0 Oreo. We already had seen the new Features in Android O-reo during the first preview release with picture-in-picture support,...


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I’ve been using an SSL certificate to the download subdomain of this blog running ownCloud for about 2 years, but recently my free StartSSL certificate expired, and I had troubles to renew it,...


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Khadas VIM2 Amlogic S912 Development Board Sells for $75 and Up
Khadas VIM2 is the only low cost development board powered by Amlogic S912 octa-core processor that I know of, but when we first wrote about the board it was not available yet. The three versions of...


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Hardkernel ODROID-HC1 Home Cloud One Stackable NAS is now available for $49
Hardkernel has just launched their ODROID-HC1 stackable NAS system based on a cost-down version of ODROID-XU4 board powered by Samsung Exynos 5422 octa-core Cortex-A15/A7 processor, which as...


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Checking out Hologram’s Developer SIM Card for Worldwide IoT Projects
Hologram is a service that offers 2G/3G/4G cellular connectivity for the Internet of Things via a SIM card that works in over 170_ countries, and with pricing starting at $0.40 per month. In order to...


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Single Core ESP32-S0WD WiSoC Datasheet and Price
I’m subscribed to Espressif Systems’ notification system so that I received an email each time there’s a documentation update on their website, and this morning they posted...


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Bqeel MVR9 (NT-N9) TV Box Review – Part 2: Android Nougat Firmware, RKMC, YouTube 4K, and More
Bqeel MVR9 is another TV box powered by Rockchip RK3328, but that model comes with Gigabit Ethernet and 2GB RAM contrary to the cheaper A95X R2 TV box I previously reviewed. If you want to check...


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$14 Orange Pi R1 Allwinner H2+ Board Comes with Two Ethernet Ports, 256 MB RAM
Shenzhen Xunlong has introduced the new Orange Pi R1 board with Allwinner H2+ quad core Cortex A7 processor that’s a bit different from their other models, as it includes two 10/100M Ethernet...


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NutsBoard Pistachio 3.5a€³ Embedded SBC is Powered by NXP i.MX 6Dual/Quad Processor
I don’t write about i.MX6 solutions much anymore, since there are so many options available on the market, but Pistachio SBC has been designed by a company I had never heard of before:...


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It’s very easy to find breadboard compatible boards in the market with products based on Espressif chips such as NodeMCU or ESP32 boards, as well as OpenWrt board like Onion Omega2, or LinktIt...


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Zidoo X7 Review – Part 2: Android 7.1 Firmware, ZDMC, WiFi, and More
Zidoo X7 is an Android TV box powered by Rockchip RK3328 processor similar to Bqeel MVR9 with 2GB RAM, but instead of provide Gigabit Ethernet, and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, it comes with Fast Ethernet, and...


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ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array is $25 Quad Microphone Add-on Board for Raspberry Pi
Last year, Seeed Studio launched ReSpeaker WiFi Audio / IoT board based on_Mediatek MT7688, as well as an optional microphone array board with 7 microphones and 12 LEDs. Later on, they introduced a...


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Intel Introduces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit with Dedicated Neural Compute Engine
Intel has just announced the third generation of Movidius Video Processing Units (VPU) with Myriad X VPU, which the company claims is the world’s first SoC shipping with a dedicated Neural...


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MediaTek Helio P23 & P30 Processors Unveiled for “Premium” Mid Range Smartphones
MediaTek has introduced two more octa-core Cortex A53 processors with respectively Helio P23 for worldwide markets, and Helio P30 for China. Both processors build upon Helio P20/P25 design, but are...


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Testing KingDian N480 240 GB M.2 SSD in MeLE PCG03 Apo Mini PC
MeLE PCG03 Apo Apollo Lake mini PC supports M.2 80mm SSD’s, but at the time of the review I did not have such accessories, so I only tested the computer with its 32GB eMMC flash and external...


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X-Powers AC108 is a Quad-Channel ADC Chip for Microphone Arrays
X-Powers, a company better known to supply PMIC “companion” chip for Allwinner processors, also made some audio chips including AC108 is a chip specifically designed for microphones...


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Broadcom Introduces Three 802.11ax “Max WiFi” Chips: BCM43684, BCM43694 & BCM4375
We’ve already written about the new 802.11ax WiFi standard that promises up to 10 Gbps data rates, support for 2.4 & 5 GHz bands, up to 4x longer range, and better handling of high density...


More...

Purism Librem 5 Open Source Linux Smartphone Focuses on Privacy (Crowdfunding)
Purism is computer manufacturer founded in 2014 whose mission is to “provide the highest quality hardware available, ensuring the rights of security, privacy, and freedom for all users”,...


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X96 Mini Amlogic S905W Android TV Box Sells for $25 and Up
Last week, we discovered Amlogic S905W processor through Tanix TX3 Mini TV box, with the processor maxing out at 4K @ 30 Hz in order to provide cost-competitive solutions, for example against...


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ComfilePi CPi-A070WR & CPi-A102WR are industrial IP65 panel PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM3 compute module, with respectively 7″ and 10.2″ resistive touchscreen displays, and that run...


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YotaPhone 3 Dual Screen Smartphone to Launch for $360 and Up (in China)
Russia based Yota makes some unusual phones with dual display with a standard color front display, and an e-paper rear display that allows you to check the time without pressing a button, keeping...


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NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Developer Kit SE Offered for $199 (Promo)
Launched in 2015, NVIDIA Jetson TX1 developer kit integrates some serious processing power with a Jetson TX1 module with a 256-core Maxwell GPU, four Cortex A57 cores, 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, and plenty...


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Intel Wireless-AC 9560 CRF Module Adds 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 5 to Gemini Lake/Cannon Lake Processors
Last week, we saw that the upcoming Intel Gemini Lake processors integrated a CNVi (Connectivity Integration) block with a WiFi MAC, and Bluetooth MAC & Baseband Modem connected over a CNVio...


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ESP32-PICO-D4 System-in-Package Combines ESP32, 4MB SPI Flash, a Crystal Oscillator, and Passive Components
Espressif Systems has revealed another ESP32 variant, but this time it’s not an SoC, but a 7x7mm system-in-package (SIP) that comes ESP32 dual core processor, a 4MB_ SPI flash, a crystal...


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Android 8.0 Oreo Launched, OS Images, and AOSP Source Code Released
Google has now formally announced Android O version and name: Android 8.0 Oreo. We already had seen the new Features in Android O-reo during the first preview release with picture-in-picture support,...


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Khadas VIM2 Amlogic S912 Development Board Sells for $75 and Up
Khadas VIM2 is the only low cost development board powered by Amlogic S912 octa-core processor that I know of, but when we first wrote about the board it was not available yet. The three versions of...


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Hardkernel ODROID-HC1 Home Cloud One Stackable NAS is now available for $49
Hardkernel has just launched their ODROID-HC1 stackable NAS system based on a cost-down version of ODROID-XU4 board powered by Samsung Exynos 5422 octa-core Cortex-A15/A7 processor, which as...


More...

Checking out Hologram’s Developer SIM Card for Worldwide IoT Projects
Hologram is a service that offers 2G/3G/4G cellular connectivity for the Internet of Things via a SIM card that works in over 170_ countries, and with pricing starting at $0.40 per month. In order to...


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Back in April, BBen showcased their “Micro computer”, an Apollo Lake mini PC in stick form factor, at the Hong Kong Global Sources Electronics Fair, which was scheduled to launch in July....


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When Your Code Lands You in Jail
You’ve probably heard about Volkswagen emission scandal that surfaced last year. Basically, the company used some tricks to detect when the vehicle was under test and ran in low emission mode...


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LoFive is a Tiny Open Source Hardware Board based on SiFive FE310 RISC-V Open SoC
Do you remember HiFive1? It’s an Arduino compatible board based on the SiFive FE310 open source RISC-V SoC. Michael Welling has now started working on LoFive board using the same processor, but...


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Those Charts Show The Benefits of Microphone Arrays for Hot Word Detection
Since I started looking more into smart speakers, including DIY ones such as the I made with Orange Pi Zero board + Google Assistant with a single microphone, I was told about the importance of...


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8K VR Headsets Are Coming, Starting with Pimax 8K
The user experience with current virtual reality headsets is far from ideal, because of a lack of content, the “screen-door effect“, and the screen resolution is not quite high enough...


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Google Releases ARCore Augmented Reality Preview SDK for Android
Augmented reality has been a thing for many years, and Qualcomm released an Augmented Reality SDK working with Android as soon as 2011, but Google has only just released a preview of ARCore augmented...


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A First Look at ESP32 PICO Core Development Board Powered by ESP32-PICO-D4 SiP
Last week, I wrote about ESP32-PICO-D4 system-in-package (SiP) that contains ESP32 WiSoC, 4MP SPI flash, a crystal oscilloscator and some passive components in a single 7×7 mm package in order...


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Save Power, Hibernate Your Embedded Linux System
This is a guest post by Tharma Rajan G, Project Lead, e-con Sytems. What is the best way to save power consumption of your embedded Linux system? Is there any way to save max power and resume...


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$6.10 Loraduino Board Combines LoRa and Atmega328P MCU
We’ve previoulsy seen low costs SX1278 LoRa modules @ 433 MHz_ which you could connect to your own board, but Electrodragon is now selling Loraduino board with an Atmega328P MCU and SX1278 for...


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The Stress Terminal UI (s-tui) is a Pretty CPU and Temperature Monitoring Terminal App
While it’s possible to do monitoring with tools like RPI-Monitor on headless or remote systems, top and htop are likely the commonly used tools to monitor CPU and process usage in the terminal....


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Zidoo X7 is an Android TV box powered by Rockchip RK3328 processor similar to Bqeel MVR9 with 2GB RAM, but instead of provide Gigabit Ethernet, and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, it comes with Fast Ethernet, and...


More...

ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array is $25 Quad Microphone Add-on Board for Raspberry Pi
Last year, Seeed Studio launched ReSpeaker WiFi Audio / IoT board based on_Mediatek MT7688, as well as an optional microphone array board with 7 microphones and 12 LEDs. Later on, they introduced a...


More...

Intel Introduces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit with Dedicated Neural Compute Engine
Intel has just announced the third generation of Movidius Video Processing Units (VPU) with Myriad X VPU, which the company claims is the world’s first SoC shipping with a dedicated Neural...


More...

MediaTek Helio P23 & P30 Processors Unveiled for “Premium” Mid Range Smartphones
MediaTek has introduced two more octa-core Cortex A53 processors with respectively Helio P23 for worldwide markets, and Helio P30 for China. Both processors build upon Helio P20/P25 design, but are...


More...

Testing KingDian N480 240 GB M.2 SSD in MeLE PCG03 Apo Mini PC
MeLE PCG03 Apo Apollo Lake mini PC supports M.2 80mm SSD’s, but at the time of the review I did not have such accessories, so I only tested the computer with its 32GB eMMC flash and external...


More...

X-Powers AC108 is a Quad-Channel ADC Chip for Microphone Arrays
X-Powers, a company better known to supply PMIC “companion” chip for Allwinner processors, also made some audio chips including AC108 is a chip specifically designed for microphones...


More...

Broadcom Introduces Three 802.11ax “Max WiFi” Chips: BCM43684, BCM43694 & BCM4375
We’ve already written about the new 802.11ax WiFi standard that promises up to 10 Gbps data rates, support for 2.4 & 5 GHz bands, up to 4x longer range, and better handling of high density...


More...

Purism Librem 5 Open Source Linux Smartphone Focuses on Privacy (Crowdfunding)
Purism is computer manufacturer founded in 2014 whose mission is to “provide the highest quality hardware available, ensuring the rights of security, privacy, and freedom for all users”,...


More...

X96 Mini Amlogic S905W Android TV Box Sells for $25 and Up
Last week, we discovered Amlogic S905W processor through Tanix TX3 Mini TV box, with the processor maxing out at 4K @ 30 Hz in order to provide cost-competitive solutions, for example against...


More...

YotaPhone 3 Dual Screen Smartphone to Launch for $360 and Up (in China)
Russia based Yota makes some unusual phones with dual display with a standard color front display, and an e-paper rear display that allows you to check the time without pressing a button, keeping...


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Karl here with final part of Tevo Tarantula dual extruder 3D printer review. The kit that was sent by Gearbest has a large bed, auto leveling, dual extrusion, and flex extruder of which I only found...


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Intel Pentium Silver N5000 “Gemini Lake” Notebook Shows Up in Benchmarks
We all know that Gemini Lake processors will succeed Apollo Lake family, we have a good idea of the supported features. and even know that Intel is expecting 10 to 15% CPU integer performance...


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AutoPi is a 4G & GPS OBD-II Dongle Based on Raspberry Pi Zero W Board (Crowdfunding)
We’ve previously cover Macchina M2 OBD-II dongle based on an Arduino compatible MCU, and with 4G LTE support for the maker market, and iWave Systems OBD-II dongle with 4G LTE and LTE running...


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Google Assistant News – AIY Voice Kit For Sale (in the US), Offline Support, 3rd Party Smart Speakers Announced
There’s been a lot of development related to Google Assistant in the last few days. First, Google provided an update for AIY Projects, with their AIY Projects Voice Kit now available for...


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When Your Code Lands You in Jail
You’ve probably heard about Volkswagen emission scandal that surfaced last year. Basically, the company used some tricks to detect when the vehicle was under test and ran in low emission mode...


More...

LoFive is a Tiny Open Source Hardware Board based on SiFive FE310 RISC-V Open SoC
Do you remember HiFive1? It’s an Arduino compatible board based on the SiFive FE310 open source RISC-V SoC. Michael Welling has now started working on LoFive board using the same processor, but...


More...

Those Charts Show The Benefits of Microphone Arrays for Hot Word Detection
Since I started looking more into smart speakers, including DIY ones such as the I made with Orange Pi Zero board + Google Assistant with a single microphone, I was told about the importance of...


More...

8K VR Headsets Are Coming, Starting with Pimax 8K
The user experience with current virtual reality headsets is far from ideal, because of a lack of content, the “screen-door effect“, and the screen resolution is not quite high enough...


More...

Google Releases ARCore Augmented Reality Preview SDK for Android
Augmented reality has been a thing for many years, and Qualcomm released an Augmented Reality SDK working with Android as soon as 2011, but Google has only just released a preview of ARCore augmented...


More...

A First Look at ESP32 PICO Core Development Board Powered by ESP32-PICO-D4 SiP
Last week, I wrote about ESP32-PICO-D4 system-in-package (SiP) that contains ESP32 WiSoC, 4MP SPI flash, a crystal oscilloscator and some passive components in a single 7×7 mm package in order...


More...

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This is a guest post by Tharma Rajan G, Project Lead, e-con Sytems. What is the best way to save power consumption of your embedded Linux system? Is there any way to save max power and resume...


More...

$6.10 Loraduino Board Combines LoRa and Atmega328P MCU
We’ve previoulsy seen low costs SX1278 LoRa modules @ 433 MHz_ which you could connect to your own board, but Electrodragon is now selling Loraduino board with an Atmega328P MCU and SX1278 for...


More...

The Stress Terminal UI (s-tui) is a Pretty CPU and Temperature Monitoring Terminal App
While it’s possible to do monitoring with tools like RPI-Monitor on headless or remote systems, top and htop are likely the commonly used tools to monitor CPU and process usage in the terminal....


More...

ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array is $25 Quad Microphone Add-on Board for Raspberry Pi
Last year, Seeed Studio launched ReSpeaker WiFi Audio / IoT board based on_Mediatek MT7688, as well as an optional microphone array board with 7 microphones and 12 LEDs. Later on, they introduced a...


More...

Intel Introduces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit with Dedicated Neural Compute Engine
Intel has just announced the third generation of Movidius Video Processing Units (VPU) with Myriad X VPU, which the company claims is the world’s first SoC shipping with a dedicated Neural...


More...

MediaTek Helio P23 & P30 Processors Unveiled for “Premium” Mid Range Smartphones
MediaTek has introduced two more octa-core Cortex A53 processors with respectively Helio P23 for worldwide markets, and Helio P30 for China. Both processors build upon Helio P20/P25 design, but are...


More...

Testing KingDian N480 240 GB M.2 SSD in MeLE PCG03 Apo Mini PC
MeLE PCG03 Apo Apollo Lake mini PC supports M.2 80mm SSD’s, but at the time of the review I did not have such accessories, so I only tested the computer with its 32GB eMMC flash and external...


More...

X-Powers AC108 is a Quad-Channel ADC Chip for Microphone Arrays
X-Powers, a company better known to supply PMIC “companion” chip for Allwinner processors, also made some audio chips including AC108 is a chip specifically designed for microphones...


More...

Broadcom Introduces Three 802.11ax “Max WiFi” Chips: BCM43684, BCM43694 & BCM4375
We’ve already written about the new 802.11ax WiFi standard that promises up to 10 Gbps data rates, support for 2.4 & 5 GHz bands, up to 4x longer range, and better handling of high density...


More...

Purism Librem 5 Open Source Linux Smartphone Focuses on Privacy (Crowdfunding)
Purism is computer manufacturer founded in 2014 whose mission is to “provide the highest quality hardware available, ensuring the rights of security, privacy, and freedom for all users”,...


More...

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Orange Pi 2G IoT is a $10 development board with a 2G cellular modem that was launched last March. The board is based on RDA Micro RDA8810PL processor designed for cheap Android phones, but Linux...


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Linux 4.13 Release – Main Changes, ARM & MIPS Architectures
Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 4.13 and a kidney stone…: So last week was actually somewhat eventful, but not enough to push me to delay 4.13. Most of the changes since...


More...

ESPDUINO-32 & Wemos D1 R32 ESP32 Boards Support (Most) Arduino UNO Shields
The compact ESP32 NodeMCU like board are great for many project, but in case you plan to leverage your existing Arduino shield, it’s more convenient to have a compatible board. We’ve...


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Geniatech ATV495 Max & ATV598 Max TV Boxes Run Android TV OS
Most TV boxes coming from Chinese manufacturers are running Android operating systems based on the mobile version, which gives you more flexibility, but for some use cases such as watching online...


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Huawei Introduces Kirin 970 Mobile SoC with Built-in Neural Processing Unit for Artificial Intelligence Applications
Huawei has unveiled their latest Kirin 970 SoC for premium smartphone at IFA 2017. The processor features an 8-core CPU, and a new 12-core GPU, but what makes this new processor stands apart it a...


More...

Intel Pentium Silver N5000 “Gemini Lake” Notebook Shows Up in Benchmarks
We all know that Gemini Lake processors will succeed Apollo Lake family, we have a good idea of the supported features. and even know that Intel is expecting 10 to 15% CPU integer performance...


More...

AutoPi is a 4G & GPS OBD-II Dongle Based on Raspberry Pi Zero W Board (Crowdfunding)
We’ve previously cover Macchina M2 OBD-II dongle based on an Arduino compatible MCU, and with 4G LTE support for the maker market, and iWave Systems OBD-II dongle with 4G LTE and LTE running...


More...

Google Assistant News – AIY Voice Kit For Sale (in the US), Offline Support, 3rd Party Smart Speakers Announced
There’s been a lot of development related to Google Assistant in the last few days. First, Google provided an update for AIY Projects, with their AIY Projects Voice Kit now available for...


More...

When Your Code Lands You in Jail
You’ve probably heard about Volkswagen emission scandal that surfaced last year. Basically, the company used some tricks to detect when the vehicle was under test and ran in low emission mode...


More...

LoFive is a Tiny Open Source Hardware Board based on SiFive FE310 RISC-V Open SoC
Do you remember HiFive1? It’s an Arduino compatible board based on the SiFive FE310 open source RISC-V SoC. Michael Welling has now started working on LoFive board using the same processor, but...


More...

[CNX]

Since I started looking more into smart speakers, including DIY ones such as the I made with Orange Pi Zero board + Google Assistant with a single microphone, I was told about the importance of...


More...

8K VR Headsets Are Coming, Starting with Pimax 8K
The user experience with current virtual reality headsets is far from ideal, because of a lack of content, the “screen-door effect“, and the screen resolution is not quite high enough...


More...

Google Releases ARCore Augmented Reality Preview SDK for Android
Augmented reality has been a thing for many years, and Qualcomm released an Augmented Reality SDK working with Android as soon as 2011, but Google has only just released a preview of ARCore augmented...


More...

A First Look at ESP32 PICO Core Development Board Powered by ESP32-PICO-D4 SiP
Last week, I wrote about ESP32-PICO-D4 system-in-package (SiP) that contains ESP32 WiSoC, 4MP SPI flash, a crystal oscilloscator and some passive components in a single 7×7 mm package in order...


More...

$6.10 Loraduino Board Combines LoRa and Atmega328P MCU
We’ve previoulsy seen low costs SX1278 LoRa modules @ 433 MHz_ which you could connect to your own board, but Electrodragon is now selling Loraduino board with an Atmega328P MCU and SX1278 for...


More...

The Stress Terminal UI (s-tui) is a Pretty CPU and Temperature Monitoring Terminal App
While it’s possible to do monitoring with tools like RPI-Monitor on headless or remote systems, top and htop are likely the commonly used tools to monitor CPU and process usage in the terminal....


More...

ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array is $25 Quad Microphone Add-on Board for Raspberry Pi
Last year, Seeed Studio launched ReSpeaker WiFi Audio / IoT board based on_Mediatek MT7688, as well as an optional microphone array board with 7 microphones and 12 LEDs. Later on, they introduced a...


More...

Intel Introduces Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit with Dedicated Neural Compute Engine
Intel has just announced the third generation of Movidius Video Processing Units (VPU) with Myriad X VPU, which the company claims is the world’s first SoC shipping with a dedicated Neural...


More...

MediaTek Helio P23 & P30 Processors Unveiled for “Premium” Mid Range Smartphones
MediaTek has introduced two more octa-core Cortex A53 processors with respectively Helio P23 for worldwide markets, and Helio P30 for China. Both processors build upon Helio P20/P25 design, but are...


More...

Testing KingDian N480 240 GB M.2 SSD in MeLE PCG03 Apo Mini PC
MeLE PCG03 Apo Apollo Lake mini PC supports M.2 80mm SSD’s, but at the time of the review I did not have such accessories, so I only tested the computer with its 32GB eMMC flash and external...


More...

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Seeed Studio launched Wio GPS tracker with a 2G GSM module a few months ago, and while it should work in some countries, others are phasing out 2G networks, and only support 3G or 4G. The company has...


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Flick HAT is a 3D Tracking & Gesture Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi Boards
Way back in 2012, I wrote about Microchip MGC3130 3D Gesture Controller with “GestIC technology” which allows you to make gesture up to 15cm from the surface and at lower power in order...


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RadioShuttle Network Protocol is an Efficient, Fast & Secure Alternative to LoRaWAN Protocol
LoRaWAN protocol is one of the most popular LPWAN standards used for the Internet of Things today, but some people found it “lacked efficiency, did not support direct node-to-node...


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Xiaomi Mi A1 Android One Smartphone Launched in India
Android One initiative aims to deliver low cost smartphones with at least 2-year worth of firmware updates. The program first launched in India in 2014, has since then expanded into more countries,...


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MINIX NEO N42C-4 Apollo Lake Mini PC To Launch Soon with SO-DIMM and M.2 Slots
I’ve just completed MINIX NEO Z83-4 Pro review, a Cherry Trail mini PC with Windows 10 Pro, but if you’d like something with a more recent and faster processor, the company will soon...


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MINIX NEO Z83-4 Pro Mini PC Review – Part 2: Windows 10 Pro
MINIX launches NEO Z83-4 Cherry Trail mini PC last year, but the company has now launched NEO Z83-4 Pro, an updated version with a slightly faster Atom X5-Z8350 processor, Windows 10 Pro (instead of...


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Connect Watch Runs AsteroidOS Open Source Operating System (Crowdfunding)
At the beginning of last year, we discovered AsteroidOS (hobby) project aiming to provide a Linux based open source operating system working on some Android Wear smartwatches. At the time the OS...


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Linux 4.13 Release – Main Changes, ARM & MIPS Architectures
Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 4.13 and a kidney stone…: So last week was actually somewhat eventful, but not enough to push me to delay 4.13. Most of the changes since...


More...

ESPDUINO-32 & Wemos D1 R32 ESP32 Boards Support (Most) Arduino UNO Shields
The compact ESP32 NodeMCU like board are great for many project, but in case you plan to leverage your existing Arduino shield, it’s more convenient to have a compatible board. We’ve...


More...

Geniatech ATV495 Max & ATV598 Max TV Boxes Run Android TV OS
Most TV boxes coming from Chinese manufacturers are running Android operating systems based on the mobile version, which gives you more flexibility, but for some use cases such as watching online...


More...

[CNX]

Huawei has unveiled their latest Kirin 970 SoC for premium smartphone at IFA 2017. The processor features an 8-core CPU, and a new 12-core GPU, but what makes this new processor stands apart it a...


More...

Intel Pentium Silver N5000 “Gemini Lake” Notebook Shows Up in Benchmarks
We all know that Gemini Lake processors will succeed Apollo Lake family, we have a good idea of the supported features. and even know that Intel is expecting 10 to 15% CPU integer performance...


More...

AutoPi is a 4G & GPS OBD-II Dongle Based on Raspberry Pi Zero W Board (Crowdfunding)
We’ve previously cover Macchina M2 OBD-II dongle based on an Arduino compatible MCU, and with 4G LTE support for the maker market, and iWave Systems OBD-II dongle with 4G LTE and LTE running...


More...

Google Assistant News – AIY Voice Kit For Sale (in the US), Offline Support, 3rd Party Smart Speakers Announced
There’s been a lot of development related to Google Assistant in the last few days. First, Google provided an update for AIY Projects, with their AIY Projects Voice Kit now available for...


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When Your Code Lands You in Jail
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LoFive is a Tiny Open Source Hardware Board based on SiFive FE310 RISC-V Open SoC
Do you remember HiFive1? It’s an Arduino compatible board based on the SiFive FE310 open source RISC-V SoC. Michael Welling has now started working on LoFive board using the same processor, but...


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8K VR Headsets Are Coming, Starting with Pimax 8K
The user experience with current virtual reality headsets is far from ideal, because of a lack of content, the “screen-door effect“, and the screen resolution is not quite high enough...


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Google Releases ARCore Augmented Reality Preview SDK for Android
Augmented reality has been a thing for many years, and Qualcomm released an Augmented Reality SDK working with Android as soon as 2011, but Google has only just released a preview of ARCore augmented...


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A First Look at ESP32 PICO Core Development Board Powered by ESP32-PICO-D4 SiP
Last week, I wrote about ESP32-PICO-D4 system-in-package (SiP) that contains ESP32 WiSoC, 4MP SPI flash, a crystal oscilloscator and some passive components in a single 7×7 mm package in order...


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$6.10 Loraduino Board Combines LoRa and Atmega328P MCU
We’ve previoulsy seen low costs SX1278 LoRa modules @ 433 MHz_ which you could connect to your own board, but Electrodragon is now selling Loraduino board with an Atmega328P MCU and SX1278 for...


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Habey USA has sent out an email to announce their EMB-2200 industrial grade Pico-ITX board powered by NXP i.MX6UL processor with up to 512 MB DDR3, WIFi and Bluetooth, optional PoE support, LCD...


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IPv10 Draft Specification Released for IPv6 IPv4 Communications
The first time I used IPv6 was in 2000 for my final year project, and for many years, we’ve been told that IPv4 32-bit address space was running out, and a transition to 128-bit IPv6 address...


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Geekcreit ESP32 Development Board Goes for $4 Shipped (Promo)
While you may have thought Wemos Lolin32 board selling for $6.9 plus shipping was already a decent deal, you can now buy a breadboard friendly ESP32 development board for the normal price of ES8266...


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e-con Systems Introduces a 360° Camera Kit for NVIDIA Jetson TX1/TX2 Development Boards
e-con Systems has previously launched MIPI cameras for Jetson TX1/TX2 development kit, but the company has now announced e-CAM30_HEXCUTX2, a kit with an adapter board, and six synchronized HD cameras...


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H96 PRO Plus Amlogic S912 TV Box with 3GB RAM, 32GB Storage Sold for $48.49 (Promo)
H96 Pro+ is a Amlogic S912 TV box with 3GB RAM, 32GB storage, that’s similar to R-Box Pro 3G TV box I reviewed, and Banggood has now a promotion for the box for just $48.49 shipped with about...


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Linux 4.9 Kernel Source Code Released for Phoenix OS Android Desktop Operating System
Phoenix OS is one of the last options left for people wanting to run Android with desktop optimizations on their computer. The problem is that so far, it was fully closed source, and the company...


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Particle E Series is a Family of 2G, 3G, 4G LTE Cellular IoT Modules Optimized for Mass Production
Cellular IoT has really taken off this year from the low cost Orange Pi 2G IoT board to 4G GPS Trackers, and global IoT SIM cards. Particle has been in this market for a couple of years, starting...


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Flick HAT is a 3D Tracking & Gesture Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi Boards
Way back in 2012, I wrote about Microchip MGC3130 3D Gesture Controller with “GestIC technology” which allows you to make gesture up to 15cm from the surface and at lower power in order...


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RadioShuttle Network Protocol is an Efficient, Fast & Secure Alternative to LoRaWAN Protocol
LoRaWAN protocol is one of the most popular LPWAN standards used for the Internet of Things today, but some people found it “lacked efficiency, did not support direct node-to-node...


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Xiaomi Mi A1 Android One Smartphone Launched in India, Coming to 40 Markets Soon
Android One initiative aims to deliver low cost smartphones with at least 2-year worth of firmware updates. The program first launched in India in 2014, has since then expanded into more countries,...


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I’ve just completed MINIX NEO Z83-4 Pro review, a Cherry Trail mini PC with Windows 10 Pro, but if you’d like something with a more recent and faster processor, the company will soon...


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MINIX NEO Z83-4 Pro Mini PC Review – Part 2: Windows 10 Pro
MINIX launches NEO Z83-4 Cherry Trail mini PC last year, but the company has now launched NEO Z83-4 Pro, an updated version with a slightly faster Atom X5-Z8350 processor, Windows 10 Pro (instead of...


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Connect Watch Runs AsteroidOS Open Source Operating System (Crowdfunding)
At the beginning of last year, we discovered AsteroidOS (hobby) project aiming to provide a Linux based open source operating system working on some Android Wear smartwatches. At the time the OS...


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Linux 4.13 Release – Main Changes, ARM & MIPS Architectures
Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 4.13 and a kidney stone…: So last week was actually somewhat eventful, but not enough to push me to delay 4.13. Most of the changes since...


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ESPDUINO-32 & Wemos D1 R32 ESP32 Boards Support (Most) Arduino UNO Shields
The compact ESP32 NodeMCU like board are great for many project, but in case you plan to leverage your existing Arduino shield, it’s more convenient to have a compatible board. We’ve...


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Geniatech ATV495 Max & ATV598 Max TV Boxes Run Android TV OS
Most TV boxes coming from Chinese manufacturers are running Android operating systems based on the mobile version, which gives you more flexibility, but for some use cases such as watching online...


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Intel Pentium Silver N5000 “Gemini Lake” Notebook Shows Up in Benchmarks
We all know that Gemini Lake processors will succeed Apollo Lake family, we have a good idea of the supported features. and even know that Intel is expecting 10 to 15% CPU integer performance...


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AutoPi is a 4G & GPS OBD-II Dongle Based on Raspberry Pi Zero W Board (Crowdfunding)
We’ve previously cover Macchina M2 OBD-II dongle based on an Arduino compatible MCU, and with 4G LTE support for the maker market, and iWave Systems OBD-II dongle with 4G LTE and LTE running...


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Google Assistant News – AIY Voice Kit For Sale (in the US), Offline Support, 3rd Party Smart Speakers Announced
There’s been a lot of development related to Google Assistant in the last few days. First, Google provided an update for AIY Projects, with their AIY Projects Voice Kit now available for...


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When Your Code Lands You in Jail
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All my devices are still rely on eMMC flash, but premium smartphones, for example, make use a UFS 2.0/UFS 2.1 flash storage with performance similar to SSD, with Samsung UFS 2.0 storage achieving up...


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Amlogic A111, A112 & A113 Processors are Designed for Audio Applications, Smart Speakers
Amlogic processors are mostly found in TVs and TV boxes, but the company is now apparently entering a new market with A111, A112, and A113 audio processors. I was first made aware of those new...


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IPv10 Draft Specification Released for IPv6 IPv4 Communications
The first time I used IPv6 was in 2000 for my final year project, and for many years, we’ve been told that IPv4 32-bit address space was running out, and a transition to 128-bit IPv6 address...


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Geekcreit ESP32 Development Board Goes for $4 Shipped (Promo)
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e-con Systems Introduces a 360° Camera Kit for NVIDIA Jetson TX1/TX2 Development Boards
e-con Systems has previously launched MIPI cameras for Jetson TX1/TX2 development kit, but the company has now announced e-CAM30_HEXCUTX2, a kit with an adapter board, and six synchronized HD cameras...


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H96 PRO Plus Amlogic S912 TV Box with 3GB RAM, 32GB Storage Sold for $48.49 (Promo)
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Linux 4.9 Kernel Source Code Released for Phoenix OS Android Desktop Operating System
Phoenix OS is one of the last options left for people wanting to run Android with desktop optimizations on their computer. The problem is that so far, it was fully closed source, and the company...


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Particle E Series is a Family of 2G, 3G, 4G LTE Cellular IoT Modules Optimized for Mass Production
Cellular IoT has really taken off this year from the low cost Orange Pi 2G IoT board to 4G GPS Trackers, and global IoT SIM cards. Particle has been in this market for a couple of years, starting...


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Flick HAT is a 3D Tracking & Gesture Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi Boards
Way back in 2012, I wrote about Microchip MGC3130 3D Gesture Controller with “GestIC technology” which allows you to make gesture up to 15cm from the surface and at lower power in order...


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RadioShuttle Network Protocol is an Efficient, Fast & Secure Alternative to LoRaWAN Protocol
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