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Cover illustration for Quectel SE200ZC-AP: What Its 40mm AI Module Can Offer
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Quectel SE200ZC-AP: What Its 40mm AI Module Can Offer

Quectel’s 40mm SE200ZC-AP combines a Rockchip processor, up to 3 TOPS and camera processing for compact vision systems. Here are the design tradeoffs.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 25, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for A Solar Raspberry Pi 5 Counts Traffic on Just 5.6 Watts
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A Solar Raspberry Pi 5 Counts Traffic on Just 5.6 Watts

A student-built Raspberry Pi 5 runs YOLOv8 Nano on solar power, averaging 5.6W and counting vehicles with 96.6% accuracy. No AI accelerator required.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 24, 2026★3 min read
Cover illustration for Ovis Edge AI Camera Module Ships 1.5 TOPS for $59
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Ovis Edge AI Camera Module Ships 1.5 TOPS for $59

The open-source Ovis camera module pairs a CVITEK CV1842H-P with 1.5 TOPS of INT8 compute and 1080p full-colour night vision, from about $59.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 20, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi 5 GMSL2 Camera HAT Reaches 10 Meters
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Raspberry Pi 5 GMSL2 Camera HAT Reaches 10 Meters

BE-IIS built a dual GMSL2 camera HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs two IMX708 sensors over 10-metre coax, priced at $229 plus $79 per serializer.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 18, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Methane-Mapping AI Spots 50% More Plumes From Space
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Methane-Mapping AI Spots 50% More Plumes From Space

Google and NASA JPL released MAPL-EMIT, a vision transformer that found 23,000 extra methane plumes and detects 50% more than human analysts.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Sep 14, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for NeoEyes NE302 Puts 600 GOPS of Vision AI on USB-C Power
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NeoEyes NE302 Puts 600 GOPS of Vision AI on USB-C Power

CamThink's NeoEyes NE302 is a $99 fanless edge AI camera: STM32N6 at 800 MHz, a 600 GOPS Neural-ART NPU, Wi-Fi 6, and USB-C power in a 42 mm cube.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Sep 12, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Edge AI Model Zoo Logs 837 Reproducible NPU Tests
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Edge AI Model Zoo Logs 837 Reproducible NPU Tests

EdgeFirst's new model zoo publishes 837 validation sessions for YOLO models across NXP, Hailo, Jetson, Qualcomm and Apple Neural Engine hardware.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Advantech AOM-6741 Packs 100 TOPS Into a SMARC Module
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Advantech AOM-6741 Packs 100 TOPS Into a SMARC Module

The Advantech AOM-6741 SMARC module runs a 100 TOPS Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 with up to 36GB of LPDDR5 and 16 concurrent camera inputs.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 26, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Aliensense NXS Sends Robot Camera Data 15m on One Cable
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 4, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for Luxonis M8 Controller Box Adds Relays and CAN to OAK4
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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.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Aug 1, 2026★5 min read
Cover illustration for OlmoEarth Cuts Wildfire Risk Mapping to 30 Hours
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OlmoEarth Cuts Wildfire Risk Mapping to 30 Hours

Ai2's OlmoEarth Platform mapped North American wildfire risk in 30.5 hours instead of 4,737, a 155x speedup at fractions of a cent per square km.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Jul 31, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for DEEPX Drops the DX-AIPlayer — A 25 TOPS Intel N97 Mini PC Built for Real-Time Vision AI
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DEEPX Drops the DX-AIPlayer — A 25 TOPS Intel N97 Mini PC Built for Real-Time Vision AI

DEEPX launched the DX-AIPlayer on May 14, 2026 — an ultra-compact edge AI mini PC pairing an Intel N97 SoC with the DX-M1 M.2 AI accelerator for 25 TOPS of vision inference at 1-5 watts.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★May 14, 2026★6 min read
Cover illustration for Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Supercharge Claude's Computer-Use and Visual AI Agent Capabilities
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Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Supercharge Claude's Computer-Use and Visual AI Agent Capabilities

Anthropic's acquisition of Vercept brings specialized computer vision and UI understanding tech to Claude, accelerating the push toward fully autonomous AI agents.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova Chen★Mar 3, 2026★4 min read
Cover illustration for The DshanPi-A1 Is a $70 AI Education Board With a Rare HDMI Input Port
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The DshanPi-A1 Is a $70 AI Education Board With a Rare HDMI Input Port

This Rockchip RK3576-powered SBC packs a 6 TOPS NPU, dual cameras, and both HDMI input and output — perfect for computer vision projects.

Alex Circuit
Alex Circuit★Feb 24, 2026★4 min read