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Raspberry Pi Bird Logger Identifies 11,000 Species
A Raspberry Pi and a USB microphone run BirdNET to identify over 11,000 bird species by sound, then render the day's visitors as an e-ink collage.
ChronoWatch X2040 Is a DIY RP2040 Round-Screen Watch
The ChronoWatch X2040 turns a $23 Waveshare RP2040 board into a DIY wearable with a 1.28-inch round touchscreen, a 3D-printed case, and a 950mAh battery.
LILYGO T-Echo Card Puts Solar LoRa Mesh in an IP66 Shell
The LILYGO T-Echo Card packs nRF52840, SX1262 LoRa, GPS and a solar panel into a 9.5mm IP66 card, starting around $60 with Meshtastic support.
PICOTTY Turns Pi Picos Into a Networked Serial Console
PICOTTY pairs a Pi Zero 2 W hub with Ethernet-connected Pico nodes to give four headless machines a browser-based serial console for under $100.
Meshtastic vs MeshCore vs LoRaWAN Explained for 2026
A plain-English guide to the three LoRa networking options: which one suits hikers, which scales to a city, and which needs gateway infrastructure.
Proxmox VE 9.2 Brings Official Arm64 Virtualization
Proxmox VE 9.2 adds official 64-bit Arm builds, with full support for NVIDIA Grace and Vera platforms and best-effort support for UEFI Armv8-A hardware.
Token Monitor Shows AI Coding Usage on a 4-Inch Screen
Token Monitor is an ESP32-S3 desktop display tracking Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Antigravity quota, starting at 99 euros with an Apache-2.0 local broker.
ESP RainMaker Neo Open Sources the Full IoT Stack
Espressif released ESP RainMaker Neo under Apache 2.0, handing makers the cloud backend, firmware SDK, and phone app to self-host on their own AWS account.
ZecTrix Note 4 Puts an AI Voice Notepad on E-Paper
ZecTrix Note 4 pairs a 4.2-inch E-Ink display with an ESP32-S3, NFC, and a 2,000 mAh battery for $54.99 — and a four-color variant lands near $30.
CtrlVibe AI Console Keypad Starts at $109 on Kickstarter
CtrlVibe AI Console packs nine hot-swappable keys, a rotary encoder, and a three-way permission toggle into a CNC aluminum keypad starting at $109.
LoRaWAN QR Codes Replace Manual Key Entry at Scale
Three new LoRa Alliance specs turn LoRaWAN device onboarding into a QR scan and add relay guidance for coverage underground and behind thick walls.
reComputer Mini J501 Puts 275 TOPS in a 119mm Cube
Seeed's reComputer Mini J501 pairs a Jetson AGX Orin module with 10GbE, dual CAN-FD and eight GMSL2 cameras in a 1.35kg box, from $2,399 early-bird.
Espressif ESP32-C61-MINI Puts Wi-Fi 6 in a $2 Module
Espressif's ESP32-C61-MINI-1 brings 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE 5.3 to a RISC-V module costing about $2 each in five-packs, with a $9 dev board.
Silicon Labs BG2B Sleeps at 1.1uA on Bluetooth 6
Silicon Labs' BG2B is its lowest-power Bluetooth LE part yet, holding 1.1uA deep sleep with RAM retention and cutting active MCU current by around 15%.
Octopus 16 Puts 16-Channel EEG on a $250 Open Board
The $250 Octopus 16 packs 16 EEG channels into a 26mm board and turns brain signals into BLE gamepad input, with fully open Arduino and Python code.
Stream32 Builds an Open-Source Stream Deck on ESP32
Stream32 pairs an ESP32 with a 4-inch or 10.1-inch touchscreen to make a fully customizable open-source Stream Deck alternative you can reflash yourself.
VIEWE 7.6-Inch Square HDMI Touch Displays Start at $85
VIEWE's 7.6-inch square HDMI panels reach 1200x1200 at 1,000 nits and plug into a Raspberry Pi or Jetson over mini HDMI, starting at $85.29.
ESP32-S3 Runs a 28.9M-Parameter LLM at 9 Tokens/s
A developer got a 28.9M-parameter language model generating 9 tokens per second on an $8 ESP32-S3, using 4-bit weights and per-layer embeddings in flash.
ASUS UGen300 Puts 40 TOPS of AI on a USB-C Stick
The $299.99 ASUS UGen300 pairs a Hailo-10H chip with 8GB LPDDR4 to deliver 40 TOPS over USB-C at 2.5W, adding local AI to Windows, Linux or Android hosts.
Aliensense NXS Sends Robot Camera Data 15m on One Cable
The $199 Aliensense NXS carries camera video, power and CAN-FD control over a single GMSL2/3 coax up to 15 meters, with a mikroBUS socket for expansion.
AI Accelerator Sticks Compared: Hailo, Coral, Jetson
A practical guide to bolting AI acceleration onto hardware you already own — Hailo-8L at $70, Coral USB at 4 TOPS, and when a Jetson is the better buy.
Thingino Open Firmware Now Supports 166 IP Cameras
Thingino replaces the stock firmware on Ingenic-based IP cameras with open-source Linux, adding RTSP, MQTT, VPN and Home Assistant on 166 supported models.
Luxonis M8 Controller Box Adds Relays and CAN to OAK4
The $249 Luxonis M8 Controller Box gives OAK4 edge AI cameras 16 GPIOs, four 16A relays, CAN 2.0 and RS232 so vision systems can drive machinery directly.
TongDou Desktop Robot Sees You Coming With 24GHz Radar
TongDou is an open-source desktop companion robot built on an ESP32-S3 with a brass chassis, OLED face, IMU and 24 GHz radar for presence detection.