Articles Tagged “Microcontroller”
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Silicon Labs BG2B Sleeps at 1.1uA on Bluetooth 6
Silicon Labs' BG2B is its lowest-power Bluetooth LE part yet, holding 1.1uA deep sleep with RAM retention and cutting active MCU current by around 15%.
ESP32-S3 Runs a 28.9M-Parameter LLM at 9 Tokens/s
A developer got a 28.9M-parameter language model generating 9 tokens per second on an $8 ESP32-S3, using 4-bit weights and per-layer embeddings in flash.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ELM11-Feather Makes FPGAs Lua-Simple for $39
The $39 ELM11-Feather puts a Gowin FPGA and a 75 MHz soft-core into a Feather board you program in Lua, with MIT-licensed firmware coming.
RP2350B 'Bells & Whistles' Board Packs a Debugger and HDMI for $30
The $30 RP2350B 'Bells & Whistles' dev board bundles an onboard debugger, HDMI video out, and microSD into one open-source maker board — removing friction for RP2350 projects.
Waveshare's $11 RP2350B-Plus-W Packs Wi-Fi and 41 GPIOs Into a Pico-Sized Board
Waveshare's RP2350B-Plus-W puts 41 GPIOs, 16MB flash, USB-C, and official Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi into a Pico 2 W form factor for under $12 — a maker's dream.
Waveshare RP2350B-Plus-W: A Pico 2 W-Sized Board With WiFi and 41 GPIOs
The Waveshare RP2350B-Plus-W packs WiFi, dual ARM/RISC-V cores, and 41 GPIOs into a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W-sized maker board for around $10.99.