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Mini Computers

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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 6, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 6, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

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.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 4, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

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 CircuitJul 27, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

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 CircuitJul 26, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

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 CircuitJul 23, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

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 CircuitJul 21, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

M5Stack Stamp-C5 Puts Wi-Fi 6 in a $6.50 Module

The tiny M5Stack Stamp-C5 packs dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5, and Thread into a 19mm ESP32-C5 module with up to 19 GPIO and USB-C — all for just $6.50.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 14, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

KKSB Rack Panels Tidy Your Raspberry Pi Cluster

KKSB's new 10-inch and 19-inch rack panels mount up to 10 Raspberry Pis per shelf, with room for HATs and active coolers in a homelab rack.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 11, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

ESP32-C5 Devkits Bring Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 to Cheap Maker Boards

The ESP32-C5 is Espressif's first dual-band Wi-Fi 6 chip, and fresh touchscreen devkits are putting 5 GHz connectivity in makers' hands for under $40.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 9, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

This $12.99 RISC-V Camera Board Ships USB 3.0 and Dual Cores

AnalogLamb's $12.99 Petros RISC-V camera board pairs dual cores with USB 3.0 SuperSpeed and an OV2640 module for cheap, plug-and-play embedded vision.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 31, 20264 min read