Mini Computers
Raspberry Pi, mini PCs, SBCs, and compact computing.
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Sipeed T256s Brings AI Super-Resolution Thermal Imaging to the Maker Workbench
The Sipeed T256s is a pocket USB thermal camera with a 256x192 LWIR sensor and built-in AI super-resolution scaling to 640x480 — professional-grade thermal imaging at a hobbyist price point.
Radxa Taco V1.61 Turns the Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a Five-Drive NAS for Around $65
Radxa's updated Taco V1.61 carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 packs five SATA ports, dual Ethernet, NVMe, and RAID support into a 114×85mm footprint.
Velxio Lets You Simulate Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP32 Boards in Your Browser
Velxio is a self-hostable, open-source board emulator supporting 19 real boards across five CPU architectures — no hardware required, runs fully in-browser via Docker.
Milk-V Jupiter 2 Is the World's First RVA23-Compliant RISC-V SBC With 60 TOPS AI Acceleration
Milk-V's Jupiter 2 opens pre-orders with RVA23 compliance, a SpacemiT K3 octa-core RISC-V CPU, 60 TOPS on-chip AI acceleration, 10GbE, and up to 32GB LPDDR5 from $199.
MSI's MS-CF19 Is a Fanless 3.5-Inch Industrial SBC With Intel Core Ultra and 96GB DDR5
MSI's new MS-CF19 industrial single-board computer packs Intel Core Ultra 100U/200U chips, up to 96GB DDR5 via dual SODIMM, and a fully fanless design into a compact 3.5-inch form factor.
Sentinel Core Puts a PCIe x16 Slot on Your Raspberry Pi CM5
Sanctuary Systems launched the Sentinel Core on Crowd Supply — a $129 open-hardware mini-ITX carrier board that gives the CM5 a full-size PCIe x16 expansion slot.
Orange Pi AI Station Brings 176 TOPS and 96GB RAM to the DIY AI Workbench
Orange Pi's new AI Station packs a Huawei Ascend 310 SoC with 176 TOPS of AI performance and up to 96GB LPDDR4X RAM into a maker-friendly mini PC.
Asus NUC 16 Pro Goes on Sale — the First Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Available to Buy
The Asus NUC 16 Pro hits shelves with Intel's new Panther Lake Core Ultra processors, starting at $999 — a powerful compact desktop with an Intel Arc B390 GPU in the high-end config.
LILYGO T-Display-P4 Packs GPS, LoRaWAN, and Ethernet Into a Smartphone-Style ESP32 Dev Board
LILYGO's new T-Display-P4 combines the ESP32-P4 RISC-V chip with GPS, LoRa radio, Wi-Fi 6, Ethernet, and a crisp 4-inch touch display in a hacker-friendly handheld launching today.
Sipeed's llmdev.guide Benchmarks Every Mini PC for Local AI Performance
Sipeed launched an interactive hardware comparison tool on March 30 that visualizes tokens-per-second benchmarks across dozens of mini PCs, SBCs, and GPUs for local LLM deployment.
M5Stack Stamp-P4 Is a $12.95 RISC-V AI Board Smaller Than a Postage Stamp
M5Stack's Stamp-P4 squeezes an ESP32-P4 RISC-V processor, 32MB PSRAM, MIPI camera and display interfaces, and 44 GPIOs into a 30x22mm board for just $12.95.
Luckfox Lume Is a $21 Industrial SBC With Dual Gigabit Ethernet and RISC-V
The Luckfox Lume combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, a 40-pin GPIO header, and hybrid Arm/RISC-V silicon into a compact industrial SBC for just $20.99.
picoZ80 Gives Vintage Z80 Machines a Raspberry Pi RP2350B Brain
The picoZ80 is a cycle-accurate, DIP-40 Z80 replacement built on Raspberry Pi RP2350B — giving classic vintage computers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and modern compute for free.
ESP32-P4-Pi-VIEWE Brings Raspberry Pi's 40-Pin GPIO to a 400 MHz RISC-V Board
The ESP32-P4-Pi-VIEWE combines a 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V microcontroller and Wi-Fi 6 with a Raspberry Pi-compatible 40-pin GPIO header for next-generation maker projects.
Alibaba's XuanTie C950 Sets a RISC-V World Record and Runs AI Agents Natively
Alibaba DAMO Academy's XuanTie C950 5nm RISC-V processor hits 3.2GHz and sets a new benchmark record, becoming the first RISC-V chip to natively support 100B-parameter AI models.
Hugging Face's Reachy Mini Is a $299 Open-Source AI Robot Powered by Raspberry Pi CM4
Hugging Face's Reachy Mini desktop robot brings open-source AI interaction to makers for $299–$449, with the wireless version running on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.
Clintech Pico Unlocks All 48 GPIOs on Raspberry Pi's RP2354B for Just $20
Clintech's $20 Pico-compatible board is the first to use the RP2354B chip variant, exposing all 48 GPIO pins alongside dual ARM and RISC-V cores for embedded developers.
Espressif Announces ESP32-S31: Its Most Powerful Wireless MCU Yet
Espressif unveils the ESP32-S31, a dual-core RISC-V MCU with Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, BT, Zigbee, Thread, Matter, USB 2.0 High Speed, and MIPI-CSI camera.
Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Mini PCs With 128GB RAM Flood the Market
At least nine Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PCs with 128GB unified memory are now shipping, bringing desktop AI workstation power to compact form factors from $2,399.
Arctic Senza AI 370: A Completely Fanless Mini PC That Mounts Under Your Desk
Arctic releases the Senza AI 370, a fanless mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32GB LPDDR5X, Radeon 890M, and a radiator-style chassis that claims 50C under gaming load.
Radxa AICore DX-M1M Delivers 25 TOPS of Edge AI in an M.2 Module That Sips Just 3 Watts
Radxa and DEEPX release a tiny M.2 2242 AI accelerator with 25 TOPS INT8 performance at 3W, compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 and x86 hosts, starting at $85.
DRAM Surge Pushes Raspberry Pi and Mini PC Prices to Parity — Used Hardware Becomes 2026's Best Homelab Strategy
A 171% DRAM price spike erases the Pi's cost advantage over Intel N100 mini PCs, with Jeff Geerling and homelab experts recommending used corporate hardware as the smart play.
NVIDIA Open-Sources Cosmos World Models and Isaac GR00T N1 — Giving Robotics Developers a Free Physics Engine for AI
The Cosmos world foundation models and GR00T N1 humanoid robot model are now available on GitHub, enabling simulation-to-reality robotics development on Jetson edge hardware.
NVIDIA IGX Thor Hits General Availability — Bringing Real-Time Physical AI to Factory Floors and Industrial Edge
The industrial-grade edge AI platform delivers high-speed sensor processing with enterprise reliability and functional safety certifications for manufacturing and robotics deployments.
Arduino Turns 21 With the Ventuno Q — A Dual-Brain SBC That Pairs Qualcomm AI With STM32 Motor Control for Robotics
Arduino's birthday board combines a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 running 40 TOPS of AI inference with a dedicated STM32H5 microcontroller for real-time actuation in a single platform.
Orange Pi's AI Station Packs a Huawei Ascend 310 With 96GB RAM and 176 TOPS Into a Single Board Computer
The Orange Pi AI Station pairs 10 dedicated AI cores with 16 CPU cores, up to 96GB LPDDR4X, and 256GB eMMC — delivering data-center-class AI inference on a 130mm board.
Sapphire's Strix Halo Mini PC Packs a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With 128GB RAM and RTX 4070-Class Graphics Into a Tiny Box
Demoed at Embedded World 2026, the Sapphire Edge AI Max+ 395 runs 16 Zen 5 cores at 5.1 GHz, a Radeon 8060S iGPU, and can link two units via USB-C for pooled LLM inference.
FriendlyELEC's NanoPi NEO3 Plus Packs Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 Into a 48mm SBC for Just $24
The new NEO3 Plus upgrades to a Rockchip RK3528A at 2.0 GHz, adds eMMC support and RTC battery, and runs Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04, and Proxmox VE out of the box.
ASUS Launches the NUC 16 Pro — An Intel Panther Lake Mini PC With 180 Platform TOPS in a 0.7-Liter Chassis
The latest NUC packs Intel Core Ultra 9 Series 3 with Arc B390 graphics, a 50 TOPS NPU, WiFi 7, and dual 2.5G LAN into a chassis smaller than a coffee mug.
Waveshare's IPCBOX-CM5 Turns a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Into a Rugged Industrial Mini PC
This industrial-grade enclosure adds RS485, RS232, CAN Bus, dual Ethernet, NVMe, and optional 5G cellular to the CM5 — targeting factory floors and edge deployments.
Orange Pi's AI Station Packs 176 TOPS of Edge AI Power Into a Single Board With Up to 96GB RAM
Built around a Huawei Ascend 310 SoC with 10 AI cores, the Orange Pi AI Station delivers over 13x the AI performance of a Raspberry Pi 5 with Hailo — on a single board.
The Pironman 5 Pro Max Transforms a Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Full Tower PC With a Touchscreen, Camera, and AI Accelerator Slot
SunFounder's $146 enclosure adds a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 5MP camera, dual speakers, dual NVMe RAID slots, and Hailo AI accelerator support to the Raspberry Pi 5.
Raspberry Pi Prices Are Closing In on Mini PCs as the Global DRAM Shortage Squeezes the Market
A worldwide memory shortage is pushing Raspberry Pi kit prices uncomfortably close to budget mini PCs, forcing hobbyists to rethink their build strategies.
The Morefine Nexus N1 Is a Compact NAS That Doubles as an AI Workstation — Complete With a Desktop GPU Slot
Morefine's Nexus N1 pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8845HS with four hot-swap drive bays, triple NVMe, and a full-length PCIe x16 slot for desktop GPUs.
Waveshare Launches the IPCBOX-CM5 — A Rugged Industrial Computer Built Around the Raspberry Pi CM5
The IPCBOX-CM5 packs RS485, RS232, CAN Bus, dual Ethernet, and an M.2 slot into a palm-sized aluminum enclosure starting at just $100.
Flip-Screen Mini PCs Are Here — AYANEO's AM01S Leads a Charming New Hardware Category
A wave of mini PCs with built-in flip-up touchscreens is redefining what a desktop computer can look like in 2026, blending retro aesthetics with modern AI silicon.
FriendlyELEC Launches the NanoPi NEO3 Plus — A Tiny Headless SBC With Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.2
The NanoPi NEO3 Plus packs a Rockchip RK3528A quad-core SoC, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.2, and 26-pin GPIO into a palm-sized board running mainline Linux.
Beelink's SER10 MAX Ships With AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 — Bringing Serious AI Compute to Your Desk
The Beelink SER10 MAX pairs AMD's latest Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 processor with a compact desktop form factor, targeting local AI inference and creative workloads.
A Maker Built a Stunning 1970s Terminal Replica With a Raspberry Pi and a 3D Printer
David Green's ADM-3A terminal replica pairs a 3D-printed vintage enclosure with a Raspberry Pi 3 to recreate the dawn of interactive computing for under $100.
This Arduino and Raspberry Pi Duo Powers a Two-Factor Entry System for a Community Hackerspace
A maker built a reliable two-factor access control system pairing an Arduino Nano for hardware control with a Raspberry Pi authentication backend.
Jeff Geerling Builds a Working Macintosh for $20 Using a Raspberry Pi Pico
A Raspberry Pi Pico running Pico Micro Mac firmware delivers 63% more RAM than the original 128K Macintosh — all for about twenty dollars in parts.
Lenovo Unveils the ThinkEdge SE60n Gen 2 — A Fanless Edge AI Computer With 97 TOPS of Intel Arrow Lake Power
Lenovo's new fanless ThinkEdge SE60n Gen 2 packs Intel's Core Ultra 7 265H with 97 TOPS of AI compute into a compact industrial form factor launching April 2026.
Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 Video Decoders Land in Mainline Linux — A Milestone for SBC Media
Collabora merges H.264 and H.265 hardware video decoding for Rockchip's top SoCs into the upstream Linux kernel, benefiting dozens of popular boards.
An Nvidia GPU Now Runs AI Inference on a Raspberry Pi 5 at 121 Tokens Per Second
Community patches enable Nvidia GPU compute on the Pi 5 via PCIe, running a 3B language model at 121 tok/s with llama.cpp and Vulkan acceleration.
The Khadas Mind Pro Is the First Panther Lake Mini PC — And Its iGPU Rivals an RTX 3060
Khadas opens pre-orders for the pocket-sized Mind Pro featuring Intel's Core Ultra X7 358H with Arc B390 graphics benchmarking at RTX 3060 laptop levels.
Microsoft Taps ASUS and Dell for Purpose-Built Windows 365 Cloud PC Mini PCs
The 0.7-liter ASUS NUC 16 and fanless Dell Pro Desktop ship with Windows CPC, booting directly into a cloud desktop experience for enterprise use.
The EXAVIZ Cruiser Turns a Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a 9-Port PoE Networking Powerhouse
This $139 mini-ITX carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM5 packs nine Ethernet ports, dual SATA, NVMe, and Zigbee for serious homelab builds.
Minix Unveils Six New Mini PCs With Up to 180 TOPS of AI Compute
From 36-watt office boxes to 180 TOPS AI workstations, Minix’s 2026 mini PC lineup spans every tier of the local AI computing spectrum.
AMD Strix Halo Mini PCs Are Here — And They Can Run 120-Billion-Parameter AI Models Locally
A wave of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PCs is shipping with 128GB unified memory, bringing serious local AI inference to a box on your desk.
The PocketBeagle 2 Industrial Packs 1GB RAM and 64GB eMMC Into a Rugged $50 SBC
BeagleBoard releases the PocketBeagle 2 Industrial single board computer with 1GB DDR4 RAM, 64GB eMMC, and industrial-grade temperature rating in a 12.7-gram form factor for $50.
The $25 Olimex ESP32-P4-PC Is Now Shipping — A RISC-V Board With HDMI, Ethernet, and 4 USB Ports
Olimex ships the ESP32-P4-PC open-source RISC-V single board computer with HDMI output, Ethernet, four USB ports, and camera support for under $25.
The DshanPi-A1 Is a $70 AI Education Board With a Rare HDMI Input Port
This Rockchip RK3576-powered SBC packs a 6 TOPS NPU, dual cameras, and both HDMI input and output — perfect for computer vision projects.
This Finnish Startup Burned Llama 3.1 Directly Into Silicon — And It Runs at 17,000 Tokens Per Second
Taalas HC1 eliminates the memory bottleneck entirely by hardwiring an LLM into the chip itself, achieving 10x the speed of an NVIDIA H100.