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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 Circuit★Jul 24, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 23, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 23, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 21, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Jul 21, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 21, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 20, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 20, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 20, 2026★8 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 Circuit★Jul 19, 2026★8 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 Circuit★Jul 19, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Jul 19, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Jul 19, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Jul 19, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 19, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 18, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Jul 18, 2026★5 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 Circuit★Jul 16, 2026★4 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 Circuit★Jul 16, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB Wi-Fi Adapter for $6
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Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB Wi-Fi Adapter for $6

An open-source firmware turns the $6 Raspberry Pi Pico W into a USB Wi-Fi adapter that needs no drivers on Linux, macOS, Windows, or mobile.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 16, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for Forgix Board Pairs an RP2354 MCU With an FPGA for $50
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Forgix Board Pairs an RP2354 MCU With an FPGA for $50

The $50 Forgix board pairs a Raspberry Pi RP2354 MCU with an Efinix Trion T8 FPGA in a 36x18mm Teensy footprint, with open KiCad design files.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 15, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Moddo Pinch Is the Smallest 32-Bit Arduino Board Yet
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Moddo Pinch Is the Smallest 32-Bit Arduino Board Yet

The Moddo Pinch fits a 32-bit SAMD11 Arm chip into a 10.9x10.5mm body — the smallest Arduino-compatible board, with pre-orders open at $15.90.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 15, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for ESP32 wM-Bus Gateway Links Meters to Home Assistant
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ESP32 wM-Bus Gateway Links Meters to Home Assistant

IoTLabs' open-source ESP32 wM-Bus Gateway reads 868 MHz utility meters and feeds the data to Home Assistant via ESPHome — no cloud, about $50.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 15, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for MINISFORUM MS-03 Packs Panther Lake and a GPU Slot
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MINISFORUM MS-03 Packs Panther Lake and a GPU Slot

The MINISFORUM MS-03 mini PC pairs Intel Panther Lake, 128GB DDR5, dual 10GbE SFP+, and a PCIe x16 slot for a low-profile GPU — a homelab dream box.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Jul 15, 2026★6 min read