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Raspberry Pi Pico Powers a DIY Blood Lab Centrifuge
A Raspberry Pi Pico, a drone motor and roughly $50 in parts drive an open-source centrifuge built to spin blood at 400 g for cancer research.
Raspberry Pi 5 GMSL2 Camera HAT Reaches 10 Meters
BE-IIS built a dual GMSL2 camera HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs two IMX708 sensors over 10-metre coax, priced at $229 plus $79 per serializer.
TICKEY Puts 48-Color E-Paper on an ESP32-S3 Badge
ENIAC's TICKEY is a 3.8mm clip-on badge with a 3.7-inch 720x480 48-colour e-paper panel and an ESP32-S3, starting near $50 with open firmware.
OpenMANET Runs Video Over Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh Networks
OpenMANET pushes 1-15 Mbps over 802.11ah mesh on a Raspberry Pi 4, adding voice, RTSP video and full IP where Meshtastic sends only short text.
Renesas RZ/G3L MPUs Hit 1 mW Standby With Cortex-A55
Renesas' new RZ/G3L and RZ/G3SE run four Cortex-A55 cores at 1.2 GHz and drop to roughly 1 mW in deep standby, from $14.28 in volume pricing.
ESP32-S3 Runs Linux 6.11 With 3.7MB of RAM to Spare
Release 0.8 of the native ESP32-S3 Linux port fixes the crash that hit one boot in ten and halves the memory cost of every fork. One file to flash.
Alif StartKits Put an Ethos-U55 NPU on a $50 Board
Alif's Balletto B1 and Ensemble E1C StartKits pair a 160MHz Cortex-M55 with an Ethos-U55 NPU, two mics and a camera header for $49.99.
JetKVM Mini Cuts IP KVM Cost to $39 With ESP32-P4X
JetKVM Mini drops Linux for FreeRTOS on an ESP32-P4X, landing a 42mm IP KVM with HDMI capture and WebRTC streaming at $39, or $33 in a 3-pack.
Wi-Fi HaLow USB Adapters Bring 802.11ah to Any PC
Morse Micro's MM8108-based USB adapters add sub-1 GHz Wi-Fi HaLow to a PC or router for $58, with up to 43.3 Mbps and roughly ten times normal Wi-Fi range.
Mecha Comet: A $239 Modular Linux Handheld With an NPU
The Mecha Comet pairs an NXP i.MX95 with a 3.92-inch AMOLED and magnetic keyboard, gamepad and GPIO modules, starting at $239 and shipping January 2027.
Olimex Neo6502kbd Puts a Real 6502 CPU in a Keyboard
Olimex's 50-euro Neo6502kbd hides a real W65C02 CPU and an RP2040 in a keyboard case with four USB hosts, HDMI output and fully open KiCad schematics.
NeoEyes NE302 Puts 600 GOPS of Vision AI on USB-C Power
CamThink's NeoEyes NE302 is a $99 fanless edge AI camera: STM32N6 at 800 MHz, a 600 GOPS Neural-ART NPU, Wi-Fi 6, and USB-C power in a 42 mm cube.
Amlogic A123X Is the First Cortex-A320 Edge AI SoC
Amlogic's A123X and C305X2 are the first shipping Cortex-A320 chips: 12 TOPS of NPU on TSMC 6nm, sampling now, mass production in Q4 2026.
ODROID-M1S Lite Is a $60 SBC With NVMe and 2036 Supply
The ODROID-M1S Lite pairs a Rockchip RK3566, 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC and an M.2 NVMe slot for $60, and Hardkernel promises supply until at least 2036.
Tomb Raider Runs on an ESP32-P4 at 30 FPS With OpenLara
A new OpenLara port runs the original Tomb Raider on Espressif's ESP32-P4 microcontroller at about 30 FPS, rendering at 320x240 and scaling to 1024x600.
LattePanda Mu Ultra Puts 97 TOPS on a Compute Module
The LattePanda Mu Ultra compute module packs an Intel Lunar Lake CPU, 16GB LPDDR5X and up to 115 TOPS of AI into 69.6 x 60mm, starting at $599.
Arduino UNO Media Carrier Adds Two Cameras for $19.25
Arduino's $19.25 UNO Media Carrier adds two MIPI CSI camera ports, a MIPI DSI display connector and three audio jacks to the UNO Q and VENTUNO Q.
FREE-WILi 2 Packs Two RP2350s and an FPGA in One Tool
The $400 FREE-WILi 2 open hardware multitool pairs two RP2350 chips, an ESP32-C5, an iCE40 FPGA and a Raspberry Pi CM0 running 64-bit Linux.
ESP32-C5 Pico Brings Wi-Fi 6 to the Pico Footprint
Waveshare's ESP32-C5 Pico packs dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 and Thread into a Raspberry Pi Pico-compatible dev board starting at just $8.99.
YuzukiNeko Runs Linux on a Pi Pico-Sized RISC-V Board
The YuzukiNeko squeezes a Linux-capable Allwinner F101 RISC-V chip into a Raspberry Pi Pico footprint, with 16MB PSRAM and open hardware files.
Arm C2-Ultra Delivers 1.7x AI Performance on Mobile
Arm's CSS for Mobile 2 pairs the C2-Ultra CPU with the first Mali GPU to carry neural accelerators, claiming 1.7x AI gains on 38% less power.
Asahi Linux Adds Official Apple M3 Support at Last
Asahi Linux now installs on M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max Macs, with Wi-Fi, webcam, USB and AV1 decode all working. The GPU and sleep are still to come.
XIAO Plus Boards Add 16 GPIOs and Battery Charging
Seeed's XIAO SAMD21 Plus and RP2040 Plus keep the same thumbnail footprint but add up to 16 GPIOs and onboard Li-ion battery charging, from $4.90.
ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 Benchmarks: A $400 Wildcat Lake Box
The $399 ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 posts 5,309 in PCMark 10 and 26,212 on Geekbench AI NPU, and draws under 4.3W at idle thanks to its 15 TOPS NPU.