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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 Circuit★Apr 12, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Apr 11, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Apr 10, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Apr 9, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Apr 9, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Apr 9, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Apr 9, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Apr 9, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Apr 9, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Apr 6, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Apr 4, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Mar 31, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Mar 31, 2026★3 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 Circuit★Mar 30, 2026★3 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 Circuit★Mar 29, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Mar 29, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Mar 27, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Mar 26, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Mar 26, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for Clintech Pico Unlocks All 48 GPIOs on Raspberry Pi's RP2354B for Just $20
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Mar 26, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for Espressif Announces ESP32-S31: Its Most Powerful Wireless MCU Yet
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Mar 25, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Mini PCs With 128GB RAM Flood the Market
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Mar 24, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Arctic Senza AI 370: A Completely Fanless Mini PC That Mounts Under Your Desk
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Mar 23, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Radxa AICore DX-M1M Delivers 25 TOPS of Edge AI in an M.2 Module That Sips Just 3 Watts
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Mar 22, 2026★4 min read