YC-CDA19Q is an 8-Port Quick Charge 3.0 Capable USB Charger with a Display...
USB charger doctor is a cheap and easy way to monitor the voltage and current from a USB 2.0 port or charger, but you may have more than one device to monitor, and USB 3.0 type C ports as well as…
View ArticleWi-Fi EasyMesh is a Standard for WiFi Mesh Networking
It’s been possible for add multiple WiFi routers and/or WiFi repeaters in order to provide good coverage in a house / building for years, so this required some manual configuration. So in…
View ArticleAlfawise T1 Mini PC Powered by Intel Celeron N4100 Gemini Lake Processor is...
It’s been a long wait, but it appears it’s now possible to purchase Gemini Lake mini PCs and get them shipped within a few days. One example would be Alfawise T1 mini PC based on Intel…
View ArticleMT3620 Development Board for Azure Sphere is Up for Pre-order for $84.90
Microsoft unveiled Azure Sphere solutions last month in order to provide a complete secure IoT solution from the hardware to the cloud with three main components: a secure MCU, Linux based Azure…
View ArticleULEWELL Z28 MINI is a $40 RK3328 TV Stick with 2GB RAM, 16GB Storage, and a...
While we’ve already covered many Rockchip RK3328 TV boxes and development boards, if you want a TV stick form factor the choice becomes much more limited. So far I was only aware of Rikomagic…
View ArticleArduino Introduces Two New IoT Boards – MKR WiFi 1010 (ESP32) and MKR NB 1500...
Arduino introduced its MKR family of breadboard compatible maker boards with MKR1000 featuring an Atmel SAMD21 microcontroller combined with a Microchip WINC1500 WiFi module. The board was followed…
View ArticleRunning out of RAM in Ubuntu? Enable ZRAM
Whenever I ran out of RAM on a Linux system, I used to enable swap memory using the storage device to provide an extra bit of memory. The main advantage is that it’s does not require extra…
View ArticleHow to Run Chrome OS in Android Emulator
While it’s possible to run the open source Chromium OS in your computer or a virtual machine, AFAIK there was only was way to test Chrome OS: purchasing an actual Chromebook, or other device…
View ArticleHow to Get Started with OpenCL on ODROID-XU4 Board (with Arm Mali-T628MP6 GPU)
Last week, I reviewed Ubuntu 18.04 on ODROID-XU4 board testing most of the advertised features. However I skipped on the features listed in the Changelog: GPU hardware acceleration via OpenGL ES 3.1…
View ArticleNeTV2 Open Video Development Board Works with Encrypted and Unencrypted Video...
Chumby NeTV was an open source hardware Linux IPTV media player based on a Xilinx Spartan FPGA and a Marvell Armada 166 processor, and unveiled in 2011. Many years have passed since then, and now…
View ArticleAstro Design HDMI Test Equipment Supports 8K @ 120 Hz
8K media players and 8K TVs are coming, but if you develop one of those products how do you test them since 8K players/TVs are not available just yet. Answer: Test equipment. Astro Design offers just…
View ArticleLenovo IdeaPad 330 Gemini Lake Laptops Sell for $250 and Up
We’ve previously seen companies unveil Gemini Lake laptops but at price points ($400 to $600) that did not seem right, considering Gemini Lake (GLK) processors should cost about the same as the…
View ArticleNewport GW6400/GW6404 Arm SBC Comes with 5 Gigabit Ethernet Ports, 2 SFP...
Gateworks introduced their Newport SBC family based on Cavium Octeon TX Dual/Quad Core Arm processors at the end of last year, and the company has now announced the availability of the higher end…
View ArticleCrowPi is a Portable Learning Kit for Raspberry Pi 3 B+ / Zero Boards...
We have an embarrassment of choices for Raspberry Pi accessories from touchscreen displays, HAT add-ons boards, sensors, breadboard, and so on, as well as good software and support from Raspberry Pi…
View ArticleWear OS by Google Developer Preview 2 Adds Actions on Google (AoG) Support...
Google has released the second developer preview of Wear OS by Google – previously known as Android Wear – that adds support for Actions on Google (AoG) and power-related enhancements…
View ArticleToradex Launches Apalis iMX8 Computer-on-Module based on NXP i.MX 8QuadMax SoC
Toradex Apalis iMX8 is another system-on-module powered by NXP i.MX 8QuadMax hexa core Arm Cortex A72 + 53 processor, which comes with 4GB LPDDR4 RAM, up to 16GB flash, and an on-board dual-band…
View ArticleTwo Interesting Projects on Github: Zigbee to MQTT bridge &“Deep Painterly...
Hey Karl here. I thought I would try and showcase some GitHub projects that I run into that seem interesting or fun. This week I will start out with 2 projects. Zigbee to MQTT bridge The first one…
View ArticleVorke V5 Plus Kaby Lake Mini PC Review with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04
The Vorke V5 Plus mini PC just goes to show how initial impressions can be very misleading. Arriving in a plain manila-coloured box with the protection film on the top of the device starting to…
View ArticleMicrosoft Introduces Project Kinect for Azure
Kinect started as as motion sensing input device for Xbox 360 & One game consoles with an integrated webcam, infrared projector, and a microphone array, which enabled it to detect depth, motion,…
View ArticleGoogle ADT-2 is an Android TV Dongle for Developers
You may remember we covered a “4K ATV Stick” last month, as a mostly unknown manufacturer (Shenzhen SEI Robotics) applied for FCC certification, with the device featuring a large G…
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