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Cover illustration for CirkitScape Top HAT Combines Four Pi Add-Ons in One
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CirkitScape Top HAT Combines Four Pi Add-Ons in One

The $45 CirkitScape Top HAT adds 16 GPIOs, a 3-channel ADC, RS-485, and four USB ports to a Raspberry Pi using only standard Python libraries.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 26, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Globalscale Case8 Cyberdeck Snaps Into Four Editions
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Globalscale Case8 Cyberdeck Snaps Into Four Editions

The Globalscale Case8 is a modular MediaTek Genio cyberdeck with up to a 10 TOPS NPU, sold in gaming, home, education, and hacker editions from $299.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Moonshine Puts Offline Voice AI on a Pico 2 Chip
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Moonshine Puts Offline Voice AI on a Pico 2 Chip

Moonshine AI fit a full offline voice pipeline — detection, speech-to-text, and neural TTS — onto a Raspberry Pi Pico 2, using just 3.6 MiB of flash.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for BOSGAME E6 ECO Puts Intel Wildcat Lake in a $380 PC
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BOSGAME E6 ECO Puts Intel Wildcat Lake in a $380 PC

The $379.99 BOSGAME E6 ECO pairs Intel's new Wildcat Lake Core 3 304 with 12GB LPDDR5X, Wi-Fi 7, and triple 4K output, launching globally on August 15.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 24, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for AMD Ryzen AI X100 Brings Big Compute to Robots
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AMD Ryzen AI X100 Brings Big Compute to Robots

AMD's Ryzen AI Embedded X100 packs 16 Zen 5 cores and an NPU into robots, while its open Kria dev platform makes 8,000 control decisions every second.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 24, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Augmental MouthPad Turns Your Tongue Into a Trackpad
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Augmental MouthPad Turns Your Tongue Into a Trackpad

Augmental's $1,400 MouthPad is a Bluetooth tongue trackpad with 7+ hour battery, working across phones and computers for fully hands-free control.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 24, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Arduino UNO Q Arcade Bundle Builds a $90 Retro Console
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Arduino UNO Q Arcade Bundle Builds a $90 Retro Console

Arduino's UNO Q Arcade bundle pairs the 4GB UNO Q SBC with snap-together Modulino controls to build a DIY RetroArch console for about $90 at launch.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 23, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Xteink X4 Pro Brings Touch and Frontlight to $99 eReader
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Xteink X4 Pro Brings Touch and Frontlight to $99 eReader

Xteink's X4 Pro adds a touchscreen and frontlight to its 4.3-inch pocket eReader for $99, with a 1,100mAh battery and open-source firmware support.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 23, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA Jetson T3000 Packs 865 TFLOPS Into a Tiny Module
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NVIDIA Jetson T3000 Packs 865 TFLOPS Into a Tiny Module

NVIDIA's Jetson T3000 delivers 865 FP4 TFLOPS with 32GB LPDDR5X on a 50x87mm module, while the T2000 hits 400 TFLOPS. Both arrive in Q1 2027.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 21, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi AI Projects Book Covers Local LLMs for £9
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Raspberry Pi AI Projects Book Covers Local LLMs for £9

Raspberry Pi Press's new AI Projects book covers local LLMs, vision and speech across Pi 5, Pi Zero 2 W and Pico, at an intro price of £8.99.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 21, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for ART-Pi II Pairs a 600 MHz Cortex-M7 With a 2.5D GPU
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ART-Pi II Pairs a 600 MHz Cortex-M7 With a 2.5D GPU

The $45 ART-Pi II runs a 600 MHz STM32H7R7 with a NeoChrom 2.5D GPU, 32MB HyperRAM, Wi-Fi 4 and a Raspberry Pi-compatible 40-pin header.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 21, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Geniatech XPI-3576-CM5 Packs 6 TOPS Into a CM5 Slot
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Geniatech XPI-3576-CM5 Packs 6 TOPS Into a CM5 Slot

Geniatech's XPI-3576-CM5 packs a 6 TOPS RK3576 NPU into a 55 x 40 mm module that drops straight into existing Raspberry Pi CM5 carrier boards.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for moddo Pinch Is the Smallest Arduino Board Yet at 11mm
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moddo Pinch Is the Smallest Arduino Board Yet at 11mm

The moddo Pinch is a 10.9 x 10.5 mm Arduino-compatible board that fits inside a USB-C shell, with 12 GPIO, 11 PWM channels, and pre-orders open at $15.90.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Edge AI Dev Boards With NPUs: A 2026 Buyer's Guide
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Edge AI Dev Boards With NPUs: A 2026 Buyer's Guide

Compare five edge AI dev boards from 4 to 67 TOPS and $70 to $249, and see why NPU toolchain maturity, not the TOPS number, decides what runs.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 20, 20268 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide
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Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide

A buyer's guide to Raspberry Pi LoRa boards and long-range 4G HATs, from a 19 USD Waveshare SX1262 node module to a 149 euros LoRaWAN concentrator.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20268 min read
Cover illustration for OpenInfrared Point: An Open Local ESP32-S3 Remote Hub
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OpenInfrared Point: An Open Local ESP32-S3 Remote Hub

The OpenInfrared Point pairs an ESP32-S3 with IR, NFC and audio streaming, running fully local. Kickstarter early-bird pricing starts at 149 USD.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for BornHack's Cyber Aegg Badge Runs LoRa Mesh Networking
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BornHack's Cyber Aegg Badge Runs LoRa Mesh Networking

The BornHack 2026 Cyber Aegg badge pairs an nRF52840 with an SX1262 LoRa radio and a 1.54-inch e-paper display, and it lasts the whole camp on one charge.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Olimex PICO-EVB Adds Mains Relays to Raspberry Pi Pico
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Olimex PICO-EVB Adds Mains Relays to Raspberry Pi Pico

Olimex's €14.95 PICO-EVB turns any Raspberry Pi Pico into an industrial controller with four 240VAC relays, four optoisolated inputs and ESPHome support.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Espressif's ESP-Aliro SDK Brings Smart Locks to ESP32
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Espressif's ESP-Aliro SDK Brings Smart Locks to ESP32

Espressif released esp-aliro, an open SDK implementing the CSA's Aliro credential standard on ESP32-C and ESP32-H chips — phone-as-key, no lock-in.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for M5Stack Core2 Firmware Clones a $230 Codex Macro Pad
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M5Stack Core2 Firmware Clones a $230 Codex Macro Pad

Open-source firmware turns a roughly $50 M5Stack Core2 into a working equivalent of OpenAI's $230 Codex Micro control pad, using its touchscreen.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for reCamera Pro Runs LLMs and Vision on a $300 AI Camera
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reCamera Pro Runs LLMs and Vision on a $300 AI Camera

Seeed Studio's reCamera Pro packs a 3 TOPS NPU to run vision, LLMs, speech-to-text, and TTS fully on-device with no cloud, from $299.90.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 18, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Beelink EQi Brings 10GbE Networking to a $509 Mini PC
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Beelink EQi Brings 10GbE Networking to a $509 Mini PC

Beelink's EQi mini PC pairs Intel's new 5-core Wildcat Lake chip with 10GbE and dual Thunderbolt 4, starting at $509 — a first at this price.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 18, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Jetson T3000 Brings Blackwell Edge AI to Small Robots
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Jetson T3000 Brings Blackwell Edge AI to Small Robots

NVIDIA's Jetson T3000 packs 865 FP4 TFLOPS and 32GB LPDDR5X into a module half the size of the T5000, with both new modules shipping Q1 2027.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 16, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for RK3576 NPU Support Lands in Mainline Linux Via Rocket
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RK3576 NPU Support Lands in Mainline Linux Via Rocket

A developer reverse-engineered the RK3576's hidden NPU registers to bring open-source acceleration to mainline Linux — and documented what still fails.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 16, 20264 min read