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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
