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Cover illustration for NanoPi R28S Puts Dual GbE and Wi-Fi 6 in a $20 SBC
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 31, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for reTerminal Sticky ePaper Runs Four Open Firmwares
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 31, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for ESP32-C5 Relay Board Adds RS-485 and Wi-Fi 6 for $21
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 31, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for NightRun Boots a Local LLM on a Pi 5 With No OS
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 31, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for ESP-KVM Turns an ESP32-P4 Board Into a $45 IP KVM
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 31, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Edge AI SBCs From InHand Pack 2 or 8 TOPS on TI
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 31, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for NXP RW610FML Module Packs Wi-Fi 6 and BLE 5.4 in 25mm
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 29, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for SensWear Open-Source Wearable Kit Ships With 4 Sensors
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 29, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for ESP32 Web Browser Loads Real Web Pages in Text Mode
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 29, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for DFI X6X-ORN Packs 157 TOPS Into an IP67 Edge AI Box
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 28, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Waveshare RP2350 Board Adds Ethernet and PoE for $14
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 28, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for LILYGO T-Display C5 Adds Wi-Fi 6 and Battery for $12
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 28, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi Storage Guide: microSD vs eMMC vs NVMe
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 28, 2026★9 min read
Cover illustration for Open RC Spotter Logs RC Car Telemetry at 100 Hz on ESP32
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 27, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Orange Pi 5B Ubuntu Images Fix an 8-Year Bluetooth Bug
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 27, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Jetway SMC-ARK1 Module Puts 6 TOPS RK3588 on SMARC 2.1
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 27, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Low-Power Wireless MCU Guide: nRF54L, ESP32, RP2350
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 27, 2026★9 min read
Cover illustration for nRF54L15 Discovery Board Snaps Into Two Usable Boards
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 27, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Beelink ME Pro 2 Hybrid NAS Adds 10GbE and Thunderbolt
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 27, 2026★5 min read
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 Circuit★Jul 26, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 26, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Jul 26, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Jul 24, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 24, 2026★5 min read