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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