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DSPi firmware turns Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 into a USB sound card with an onboard DSP engine
DSPi is a full-featured audio DSP firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico 2, and other Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 boards, which turns them into a USB sound card with an integrated DSP. It allows users to make use of essential tools like room correction, active crossovers, parametric EQ, time alignment, and more, and essentially works as a regular sound card…
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NuMaker-IoT-MA35D0-A2 (Chili Pro) ultra-compact evaluation board features MA35D0K Cortex-A35/M4 MPU
Nuvoton has added MA35D05KH67C, MA35D05KI67C, and MA35D05KJ67C, three new LQFP128 MPUs, to the NuMicro MA35D0 series, along with the NuMaker-IoT-MA35D0-A2 (Chili Pro) evaluation board. Designed for industrial AI, smart gateways, and renewable energy systems, this heterogeneous MPU has two 64-bit Arm Cortex-A35 cores at up to 650 MHz, plus a dedicated 180 MHz…
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XIMEA MU003TG-SY-UC – A miniature, modular 0.3MP USB 3.0 ToF Sensor based on Sony IMX556
The XIMEA MU003TG-SY-UC is a miniature industrial Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera with a 0.3MP Sony IMX556 CMOS sensor, global shutter, 640 × 480 resolution, and a 60 FPS frame rate. Its compact 26.4 × 26.4 × 28.67 mm enclosure and 31-gram weight make it suitable for space-limited embedded vision systems, robotics, UAVs, kiosks, 3D scanning, face recognition, an…
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Save $70 on GEEKOM A5 Pro 2026 Edition mini PC during Prime Day Sale (Sponsored)
The GEEKOM A5 Pro 2026 Edition is a pocket-sized 0.47L mini PC available at a $70 discount for the company’s Prime Day Sale until October 7. Powered by the 6-core Ryzen 5 7530U (up to 4.5GHz), it handles browsing, documents, video calls, and AI-agent tasks such as drafting, summarizing, and planning with ease. Dual HDMI 2.0 and dual USB-C ports support up to…
- 5 Ekim Pazartesi
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DEBIX M8391-01 industrial SBC features MediaTek Genio 720 SoC with 9 TOPS NPU, dual-display support
The DEBIX M8391-01 is a compact industrial SBC built around the MediaTek MT8391 (Genio 720) processor, designed for edge AI, computer vision, robotics, and intelligent IoT applications. The SoC’s 9-TOPS NPU enables local AI inference without relying on cloud processing. The board features up to 16GB LPDDR4 memory and up to 64GB eMMC storage, with M.2 PCIe 2.…
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Geekworm UPS Scap 5V5A – A supercapacitor UPS HAT for Raspberry Pi 5
Geekworm, in collaboration with Mcuzone, has launched the UPS Scap 5V5A, a new supercapacitor UPS HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5 designed to keep the Raspberry Pi running long enough (a few seconds to a few minutes) to save data and shut down safely, rather than provide hours of backup power. Available in 100F, 60F, and 22F versions, the HAT has a built-in PD ch…
- 4 Ekim Pazar
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ESP-SDR firmware turns ESP32 into a 2.4/5 GHz Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
We have seen ESP32s used for everything from simple IoT devices to AI, audio, and vision projects. But while looking for a new project, I found out about ESP-SDR firmware, which turns the ESP32 into a native Software-Defined Radio (SDR) without additional hardware. This open-source firmware bypasses the ESP32’s fixed-function Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modems and t…
- 3 Ekim Cumartesi
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UUNA TEK iAuto review – A professional handwriting and drawing machine
Hello, today I am going to review the UUNA TEK iAuto, an automatic handwriting machine designed to reproduce physical handwriting using a real pen on real paper. It also supports wireless connectivity, spreadsheet-based mail merge, custom fonts, and font variation features that can make the writing look more natural. The machine can handle paper sizes up to…
- 2 Ekim Cuma
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UP Xtreme PTL Edge Air Panther Lake Mini PC gets AirJet solid-state active cooling solution
AAEON has introduced a new version of its UP Xtreme PTL Edge Panther Lake mini PC with the “Air” variant featuring Frore Systems AirJet solid-state active cooling solution. The company says the AirJet passive cooling technology makes the Panther Lake mini PC 35% thinner, 43% lighter, and capable of operating silently at under 21 dBA. This is mostly achieved…
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Avaota F2 – Allwinner V861 RISC-V SBC targets AI cameras with PTZ and audio support
Avaota F2 is the first SBC based on an Allwinner V861 dual-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC with 128MB on-chip DDR3 memory, support for 4K cameras, H.265 video codec, and a 1 TOPS AI accelerator. It’s an update to the earlier Avaota F1 camera board based on an Allwinner V821 SoC. The new open-source hardware F2 SBC offers several benefits, including support for both F…
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ASRock Industrial NUC 300 series – Intel Core 3 304/Core 5 320 mini PCs and motherboards
ASRock Industrial has introduced the NUC Core 300 BOX series of mini PCs and the NUC Core 300 motherboards built around Intel Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake-U processors. The lineup includes the NUC BOX-320, with the Intel Core 5 320 SoC, and the NUC BOX-304, which uses the Core 3 304 SoC. The company also offers the NUC-320 and NUC-304 as standalone motherboard…
- 1 Ekim Perşembe
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LakeShark firmware turns LilyGO T-Display P4 into a handheld ESP32-P4 SDR scanner
LakeShark is open-source firmware by Samuel Reynolds (SAMS0N1TE) that turns the ESP32-P4-based LilyGO T-Display P4 into a handheld SDR scanner. Paired with an RTL-SDR Blog V3 or V4 dongle, it supports P25 Phase I trunking, analog FM/AM, POCSAG pager decoding, and 1090 MHz ADS-B reception directly on the ESP32-P4, without a PC, Raspberry Pi, or smartphone. It…
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$30 Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module for CM5 targets digital signage displays and kiosks
Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module is a CM5 carrier board compatible with the Intel Smart Display Module (SDM) specification, more specifically the SDM-L form factor (as opposed to the smaller SDM-S option). The Intel SDM standard has been around for years, and we first wrote it in 2018, covering the Axiomtek SDM300s (SDM-S) module. These cards are designed t…
- 30 Eylül Çarşamba
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OpenArm 2.0 – An open-source 7-DOF robot arm with QDD joints, bilateral force feedback, in-hand camera
Tokyo-based Enactic OpenArm 2.0 is an open-source hardware 7-DOF robot arm designed for physical AI research, teleoperation, and contact-rich data collection. It uses quasi-direct-drive (QDD) backdrivable joints to support compliant motion and bilateral force-feedback control. The arm supports 4.1 kg nominal and 6 kg peak payload, features 1 kHz CAN-FD contr…
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ESP32-C5 devkit features 3.5-inch touch LCD, optional camera and battery
Waveshare ESP32-C5-Touch-LCD-3.5 is another ESP32-C5 devkit with a built-in display, but equipped with a larger 3.5-inch color touch LCD and an optional BF3901 low-resolution (0.08 MP) camera and/or a 500 mAh battery. It also features a speaker connector and a built-in microphone for voice interaction, a 6-axis IMU and a temperature and humidity sensor, a mi…
- 29 Eylül Salı
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NXP FRDM-IMXRT1186 development board features i.MX RT1186 crossover MCU, four Ethernet ports
NXP has just launched the FRDM-IMXRT1186, a development board based on the i.MX RT1186 crossover MCU for industrial automation, robotics, PLCs, and edge computing applications. The MCU uses a heterogeneous architecture with an 800 MHz Arm Cortex-M7 core for application processing and a 300 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core for real-time control and communications. The…
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Walnut Pi CM2 – A cheaper Raspberry Pi CM5 alternative based on Allwinner T527 octa-core SoC
Walnut Pi CM2 is a low-cost Raspberry Pi CM5-compatible Compute Module powered by an Allwinner T527 octa-core Cortex-A55 processor paired with up to 4GB LPDDR4 RAM, 16GB eMMC flash, and an optional wireless module. It’s basically the company’s Walnut Pi 2B credit card-sized SBC in Pi Compute Module form factor, exposing I/Os via two 100-pin high-density conn…
- 28 Eylül Pazartesi
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Critical Link MitySOM-AM62x/A/P – TI Sitara AM62 SO-DIMM SoMs for edge AI and industrial automation
Critical Link MitySOM-AM62x/A/P is a family of TI Sitara AM62-based industrial SO-DIMM SoMs designed for embedded Linux systems, industrial automation, HMI, and other embedded applications. The family includes the general-purpose MitySOM-AM62, AI-focused MitySOM-AM62A, and multimedia-oriented MitySOM-AM62P system-on-modules. The standard AM62 modules feature…
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Up2Stream spins off from Arylic as a dedicated DIY audio brand (Sponsored)
Up2Stream started as Arylic’s DIY audio board line and has now been spun off as its own brand. The split is not a rebadge or a clone of Arylic’s finished consumer streamers and amplifiers. It is a deliberate move to put the maker community first: boards, accessories, documentation, and support aimed at people who build speakers, restore vintage gear, or desi…
- 27 Eylül Pazar
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LILYGO T-Dongle-C5 – An ESP32-C5 USB dongle with microSD card slot, optional 0.96-inch OLED
LILYGO T-Dongle-C5 is an ESP32-C5 dual-band WiFi 6, BLE, and 802.15.4 USB dongle that builds upon the earlier ESP32-S3-based T-Dongle-S3 board. The new board still features an optional 0.96-inch color display, a microSD card slot, and a USB-A male port. The main differences are support for dual-band WiFi 6, 16MB flash, 8MB PSRAM, and the addition of a Qwiic…
- 26 Eylül Cumartesi
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KryonOS turns ESP32 boards into JavaScript-powered mini computer
KryonOS is a small JavaScript-powered OS that turns a supported ESP32 development board with a touchscreen into a standalone computer with its own graphical interface, application launcher, and file storage. It provides the basic software environment needed to use the board without writing and flashing a separate firmware program for every application. Unlik…
- 25 Eylül Cuma
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Compact Long-Wave Infrared camera pairs STM32N6 MCU with Lynred ATI320 thermal sensor
8devices 8Sight T100 is a compact Long-Wave Infrared (thermal imaging) camera for UAS, robotics, and industrial applications. It combines a Lynred ATI320 LWIR sensor with an STM32N6 Arm Cortex-M55 microcontroller featuring a Neural-ART NPU and a hardware ISP for edge AI inference and real-time thermal image processing. The camera delivers 320×240 thermal vid…
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MemBrowse continuously tracks firmware memory footprint, is free for open-source projects
MemBrowse tool allows embedded software developers to track the RAM and flash footprint of their firmware in continuous integration, with support for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and other CI solutions. Engineers can monitor footprint changes in a granular way each time code is submitted to their project, instead of finding out when the firmware image stops…
- 24 Eylül Perşembe
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Qualcomm releases Linux developer preview for the Snapdragon X2 Series
Qualcomm has released an “Early Developer Preview” of Linux for the Snapdragon X2 Armv9 family of laptop SoCs. This release is meant for distribution maintainers, toolchain developers, kernel contributors, and hardware enablement engineers. New Qualcomm processors for mobile PCs (that’s what Qualcomm calls laptops) usually target Windows only. We get comment…
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CyboPal ONE – An AI-powered, 6-DOF robotic terminal with 27-inch 4K display that adjusts to your posture (Crowdfunding)
CyboPal ONE is a 6-axis desktop robotic terminal designed to move a 27-inch 4K display using voice and gesture control, spatial sensing, and automatic display positioning based on the user’s position. It includes a camera, a binocular 3D sensor, and a motion sensor (IMU), and supports joint force sensing, obstacle avoidance, collision detection, and power-lo…
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Quectel SE200ZC-AP smart module supports up to five cameras with Rockchip RV1126B/BJ SoC
Quectel has launched the SE200ZC-AP, a compact (40 x 40 mm) smart module based on the Rockchip RV1126B/RV1126BJ quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 SoC with a 12MP ISP, an 8MP AI-ISP, and a 3 TOPS NPU. The module supports up to five 12MP cameras through two 4-lane MIPI CSI interfaces and one DVP interface. Other interfaces include Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0/2.0, two CAN…
- 23 Eylül Çarşamba
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MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max octa-core Cortex-X925/X4/A720 SoC targets Googlebooks
MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max is a 3nm “All Big Core” octa-core Armv9 CPU with an 11-core Immortalis-G925 MC11 GPU, and MediaTek’s 890 NPU delivering up to 55 TOPS for an “upcoming premium, ultra-portable Googlebook device” with all-day battery life. Googlebook is Google’s new premium laptop category built around the company’s Gemini Intelligence and running…
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Soulart Station – A markerless full-body motion tracker for VR and VTubers (Crowdfunding)
South Korean startup Soulart has launched the Soulart Station, a markerless full-body motion tracker for VR, VTubing, and motion capture. The device uses a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor and an onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to capture 3D point cloud data and process motion tracking on the device. By running machine learning models locally, it avoids expe…
- 22 Eylül Salı
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Gearotons M17 – A low-cost NEMA-17 4-in-1 servomotor with driver, motion controller, and encoder
Gearotons M17 open-source hardware servomotor integrates the four parts of a motion axis into one standard NEMA-17 body with no protrusions: the motor, the driver, the motion controller, and the encoder. This level of integration enables it to be low-cost ($20 and up) and easier to use. The user has nothing to source and match, nothing to wire between boards…
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Nordic nRF54LC10A – A tiny Bluetooth LE and 802.15.4 SoC with sub-50 nA hibernation mode
Nordic Semiconductor recently expanded its nRF54L Series with the nRF54LC10A, a new SoC with less memory and a smaller peripheral set compared to the higher-end nRF54L15, while supporting Bluetooth LE with Channel Sounding and IEEE 802.15.4 for Thread, Zigbee, and Matter. Built on a 22nm process, the SoC combines a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with a mul…
- 21 Eylül Pazartesi
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Realtek RTL8773J – A Bluetooth 7-ready Cortex-M55/M33 microcontroller with HDT support
Realtek RTL8773J Series is the first Bluetooth 7-ready microcontroller family we’ve seen so far. It features a dual-core design with a 200 MHz Cortex-M55 application core and a Cortex-M33 sensor and network core, along with DSPs for high-fidelity codec processing and an accelerator for ANC, Talk Clear, and Keyword Spotting. Other features include up to 2MB S…
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Brainchip AKD1500 M.2 and PCIe Edge AI cards, BrainBoard 1500 SPI module now available for $99 and up
Back in November 2025, we wrote about the Brainchip AKD1500 PCIe/SPI Edge AI co-processor designed for low-power systems and delivering up to 800 GOPS at just 300 mW. In recent months, the company has launched several hardware platforms based on the ADK1500. At the end of July, Brainchip introduced the AKD1500 M.2 B+M Key development card for $129, shortly f…
