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Cover illustration for Boardcon Tiny1126B Squeezes AI Vision Into a 34×30mm System-on-Module
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Boardcon Tiny1126B Squeezes AI Vision Into a 34×30mm System-on-Module

Boardcon's new Tiny1126B shrinks its Rockchip RV1126B AI vision module to 34×30mm while adding USB 3.0 and more I/Os — targeting smart cameras, robots, and compact edge AI deployments.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 18, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Orange Pi Zero 3W Packs WiFi 6 and a 3 TOPS AI Engine Into a Raspberry Pi Zero Footprint
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Orange Pi Zero 3W Packs WiFi 6 and a 3 TOPS AI Engine Into a Raspberry Pi Zero Footprint

The Orange Pi Zero 3W measures just 65×30mm but delivers an octa-core Allwinner A733, 3 TOPS NPU, WiFi 6, and up to 16GB LPDDR5 — serious compute in a tiny single-board computer package.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 16, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Orange Pi AI Station: 176 TOPS of Edge AI in a Mini PC With Up to 96GB RAM
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Orange Pi AI Station: 176 TOPS of Edge AI in a Mini PC With Up to 96GB RAM

Orange Pi's AI Station packs 176 TOPS of AI computing power and up to 96GB unified RAM into compact form, outperforming Raspberry Pi 5 for serious edge AI inference workloads.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 16, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Apple Is Testing Four AI Smart Glasses Designs Ahead of 2027 Launch
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Apple Is Testing Four AI Smart Glasses Designs Ahead of 2027 Launch

Bloomberg reports Apple is testing four frame styles in premium acetate with oval cameras — bringing AI-on-device smart glasses to market in late 2026 or early 2027.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 14, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for AAEON Intelli TWL01 Edge: Dual 4K Industrial Mini PC on Intel's Twin Lake Platform
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AAEON Intelli TWL01 Edge: Dual 4K Industrial Mini PC on Intel's Twin Lake Platform

AAEON's fanless Intelli TWL01 Edge packs Intel Twin Lake N-series into a 152mm chassis with dual 4K HDMI, wide 9–36V input, and DIN rail mounting for demanding industrial deployments.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 13, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for AceMagic Retro X5 Review: An NES Shell Hiding a Copilot+ Powerhouse
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AceMagic Retro X5 Review: An NES Shell Hiding a Copilot+ Powerhouse

The AceMagic Retro X5 puts AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and 55 TOPS of AI performance inside a retro NES-styled shell — and it benchmarks remarkably well.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 12, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Opens the Door to Generative AI at the Maker Workbench
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Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Opens the Door to Generative AI at the Maker Workbench

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 packs 40 TOPS of on-device AI acceleration into the Pi 5 ecosystem, enabling local LLMs, vision models, and generative micro-apps.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 11, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Intel 'Wildcat Lake' Arrives in Production: Advantech Ships the First SBC on the New Platform
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Intel 'Wildcat Lake' Arrives in Production: Advantech Ships the First SBC on the New Platform

The Advantech MIO-5356 debuts as the first production SBC on Intel's 'Wildcat Lake' platform, with DDR5, 2.5GbE TSN, and triple-display support.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 10, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Sipeed T256s Brings AI Super-Resolution Thermal Imaging to the Maker Workbench
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Radxa Taco V1.61 Turns the Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a Five-Drive NAS for Around $65
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Velxio Lets You Simulate Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP32 Boards in Your Browser
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Milk-V Jupiter 2 Is the World's First RVA23-Compliant RISC-V SBC With 60 TOPS AI Acceleration
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for MSI's MS-CF19 Is a Fanless 3.5-Inch Industrial SBC With Intel Core Ultra and 96GB DDR5
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Sentinel Core Puts a PCIe x16 Slot on Your Raspberry Pi CM5
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Orange Pi AI Station Brings 176 TOPS and 96GB RAM to the DIY AI Workbench
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 6, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Asus NUC 16 Pro Goes on Sale — the First Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Available to Buy
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 4, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for LILYGO T-Display-P4 Packs GPS, LoRaWAN, and Ethernet Into a Smartphone-Style ESP32 Dev Board
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 31, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Sipeed's llmdev.guide Benchmarks Every Mini PC for Local AI Performance
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 31, 20263 min read
Cover illustration for M5Stack Stamp-P4 Is a $12.95 RISC-V AI Board Smaller Than a Postage Stamp
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 30, 20263 min read
Cover illustration for Luckfox Lume Is a $21 Industrial SBC With Dual Gigabit Ethernet and RISC-V
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 29, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for picoZ80 Gives Vintage Z80 Machines a Raspberry Pi RP2350B Brain
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 29, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for ESP32-P4-Pi-VIEWE Brings Raspberry Pi's 40-Pin GPIO to a 400 MHz RISC-V Board
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 27, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Alibaba's XuanTie C950 Sets a RISC-V World Record and Runs AI Agents Natively
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 26, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Hugging Face's Reachy Mini Is a $299 Open-Source AI Robot Powered by Raspberry Pi CM4
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 26, 20263 min read