Raspberry Pi Compute Module CM3L and CM3 are fairy inexpensive at $25 and $30 respectively, but if you want to get the complete development kit with Compute Module IO Board, CM3 and CM3L modules, and...


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Giveaway Week a€“ Muses-I² DTV Modulator and Video Encoder
The next item for giveaway is rather specialized hardware, as V-Bridge Muses-I² allows you to take raw video input via HDMI or video composite, encode it and module to your DTB standard (DVB-T,...


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$15 Banana Pi M2 Zero Board is a Raspberry Pi Zero W Clone with a Quad Core Processor
Many development boards have followed Raspberry Pi 2/3 form factor in recent years, including Hardkernel ODROID-C2 and Pine64 ROCK64, but so far I had not seen any boards leveraging Raspberry Pi Zero...


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H.265 / HEVC License Pricing Updated for Low Cost Devices
Most video codecs such as H.264, H265/HEVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4… requires the manufacturer to pay a license fee. The fees are then added to the final product, but the actual codec fees are usually...


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NanoPi Duo Quick Start Guide – Ubuntu, Breadboard, Mini Shield & mSATA SSD
As far as I know NanoPi Duo is the only quad core ARM Linux development board that can fit on a breadboard. We’ve already seen it’s much smaller than Raspberry Pi Zero, and the company...


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Giveaway Week – NanoPi NEO NAS Kit with NEO 2 Board
Time has come to organize another giveaway week. I used to mainly give away TV boxes, but due to recent regulations that will not be possible anymore, and instead this giveaway week will include...


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Intel Speech Enabling Developer Kit Works with Alexa Voice Service, Raspberry Pi 3 Board
We’ve known Intel has been working on Quark S1000 “Sue Creek” processor for voice recognition for several months. S1000 SoC is based on two Tensilica LX6 with HiFi3 DSP, some speech...


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Emcraft Releases Linux BSP for NXP i.MX RT1050 Cortex M7 Evaluation Board
NXP iMX RT series is a family of ARM Cortex M7 processors clocked at 600 MHz, making the solution a “crossover embedded processor” bridging the gap between real-time capabilities of...


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Use your Smartphone as an IR Remote Control with ROCK USB Type C IR Remote Control Transmitter
A few years ago, I wrote about ZazaRemote transforming your smartphone into a universal IR remote control. ZazaRemote is a hardware and software solution that combines infrared dongles micro USB port...


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Sonoff Wireless Switch Family Gets a $3 IP66 Waterproof Enclosure
ESP8266 powered ITEAD Studio Sonoff wireless switches have been popular because they are inexpensive, highly customizable thanks to work from the community leading to open source projects such as...


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