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NanoPi R28S Puts Dual GbE and Wi-Fi 6 in a $20 SBC
FriendlyELEC's NanoPi R28S is a 49.5mm dual gigabit Ethernet router SBC with Wi-Fi 6, RK3528A silicon, and the company's first USB-C console port, from $20.

reTerminal Sticky ePaper Runs Four Open Firmwares
Seeed's $49.90 reTerminal Sticky pairs a 3.97-inch touch ePaper panel with an ESP32-S3 and four open-source firmware options, from e-reader to dashboard.

ESP32-C5 Relay Board Adds RS-485 and Wi-Fi 6 for $21
The Maker Go ESP32-C5-EVB pairs four 10A relays and four opto-isolated inputs with RS-485, dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Zigbee, and Thread, starting around $15.

NightRun Boots a Local LLM on a Pi 5 With No OS
NightRun is a Rust UEFI application that boots straight into a local LLM on Raspberry Pi 5 and x86 PCs, skipping the operating system entirely.

ESP-KVM Turns an ESP32-P4 Board Into a $45 IP KVM
ESP-KVM is an open-source IP KVM built from a $20 ESP32-P4 board and an HDMI capture adapter, delivering 20 fps MJPEG remote control for about $45.

Edge AI SBCs From InHand Pack 2 or 8 TOPS on TI
InHand's credit card-sized Mo 62A and Mo 68A edge AI SBCs pair TI AM62A and AM68A silicon with 2 or 8 TOPS, Debian 13.2, and a 40-pin GPIO header.

NXP RW610FML Module Packs Wi-Fi 6 and BLE 5.4 in 25mm
NXP's RW610FML packs Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth LE 5.4 and a 260 MHz Cortex-M33 into a 25.5 x 18 mm module rated for -40C to 85C industrial operation.

SensWear Open-Source Wearable Kit Ships With 4 Sensors
SensWear is an open-source nRF54L15 wearable platform with four swappable sensor boards, MIT-licensed firmware, and a EUR 849.99 full bundle.

ESP32 Web Browser Loads Real Web Pages in Text Mode
Alun Morris built babe32, an open-source text-mode web browser that fetches and renders real web pages on an inexpensive ESP32 display board.

DFI X6X-ORN Packs 157 TOPS Into an IP67 Edge AI Box
DFI's fanless X6X-ORN pairs an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX with IP67 sealing, up to 157 TOPS, GMSL2 cameras, four M12 ports and a -20°C to 60°C range.

Waveshare RP2350 Board Adds Ethernet and PoE for $14
Waveshare's RP2350-POE-ETH puts hardwired Ethernet and optional 802.3af PoE on a 63mm Raspberry Pi RP2350 board with 20 GPIO, starting at $13.99.

LILYGO T-Display C5 Adds Wi-Fi 6 and Battery for $12
LILYGO's T-Display C5 pairs an ESP32-C5 with dual-band Wi-Fi 6, a 1.9-inch IPS screen, lithium battery management and two Qwiic ports from $11.83.

Raspberry Pi Storage Guide: microSD vs eMMC vs NVMe
A practical 2026 guide to SBC storage: NVMe hits 800+ MB/s random reads versus 42 MB/s on microSD. Pick the right one for your Raspberry Pi build.

Open RC Spotter Logs RC Car Telemetry at 100 Hz on ESP32
An open-source ESP32 data logger fuses GPS and IMU with a 10-state Kalman filter, logging RC car telemetry at 100 Hz to microSD. $169 assembled.

Orange Pi 5B Ubuntu Images Fix an 8-Year Bluetooth Bug
New Pi Desktop and Pi Studio images for the Orange Pi 5B finally land the AP6275P Bluetooth fix Cypress published back in 2018, plus 4K 120Hz.

Jetway SMC-ARK1 Module Puts 6 TOPS RK3588 on SMARC 2.1
Jetway's SMC-ARK1 packs an octa-core RK3588, a 6 TOPS NPU, and up to 16GB LPDDR4x into an 82x50mm SMARC 2.1 module built for edge AI vision.

Low-Power Wireless MCU Guide: nRF54L, ESP32, RP2350
Compare nRF54L15, ESP32-C6, and RP2350 for battery-powered projects: radios, sleep current, memory, price, and which to pick for each build.

nRF54L15 Discovery Board Snaps Into Two Usable Boards
Icy Electronics' $27.19 nRF54L15 Discovery packs a Cortex-M33, a RISC-V coprocessor, and a snap-off CMSIS-DAP debugger you can reuse separately.

Beelink ME Pro 2 Hybrid NAS Adds 10GbE and Thunderbolt
Beelink's $619 ME Pro 2 pairs Intel's Wildcat Lake Core 3 304 with 10GbE, dual Thunderbolt 4, and 24 TOPS of on-board AI compute, shipping in August.

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.
