microcontrollers
Seeed XIAO SAMD21 Plus and RP2040 Plus Double the GPIO Count
Seeed kept the postage-stamp footprint but pushed the XIAO SAMD21 to 30 GPIO and the RP2040 to 29, with onboard battery charging from $4.90.
microcontrollers
Olimex’s Neo6502kbd Hides a Real MOS 6502 Inside a 50-Euro Keyboard
Olimex put a genuine WDC W65C02 under a wedge-shaped keyboard, paired it with an RP2040 for video and USB, and priced the Apple II…
diy projects
Seeed’s reComputer RK3576 Kit Runs YOLO11 at 80 FPS for $219
Seeed's new RK3576 dev kit packs a 6 TOPS NPU, a Pi-compatible 40-pin header and an optional 20 TOPS accelerator. Here's whether your build…
arduino
Arduino’s Zephyr RTOS Core Hits 1.0.0: What Changes for Makers
Arm killed MbedOS, so Arduino rebuilt on Zephyr. The 1.0.0 core adds Nicla Vision camera support, Zephyr 4.4.1, and VENTUNO Q silicon.
news & releases
Raspberry Pi’s CM5 Programming Jig Flashes Modules in One Press
Raspberry Pi's new $600 Programming Jig writes an OS, secure-boot keys and disk encryption to a CM5 in one clamp press. Here's how to…
news & releases
Banana Pi’s BPI-AI2N Packs 15 TOPS of Vision AI Into a Module
Banana Pi's BPI-AI2N runs vision models on-device: a Renesas RZ/V2N module with 15 TOPS, 8 GB of RAM, dual GbE and two MIPI CSI…
news & releases
Microduck: A $399 Open-Source Biped Robot for Physical AI Labs
A 25 cm biped with 15 degrees of freedom, an 8x8 ToF LiDAR and a $399 preorder price. Here is what Microduck offers student…
news & releases
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 Packs 78 TOPS Into a 15-Watt Board
Double the inference of the Orin Nano Super at 78 TOPS, plus 40 percent less power in 15-watt mode. What NVIDIA's new Jetson means…
arduino
Arduino VENTUNO Q: 8-Core Dragonwing SBC With an STM32 Sidekick
Arduino's VENTUNO Q pairs an 8-core Dragonwing with an STM32, 16GB of LPDDR5 and a 40 TOPS DSP for $299. Here's what to have…
microcontrollers
RFGEN44: An Open 4.4GHz RF Signal Generator on a PIC16
CircuitValley's RFGEN44 pairs a PIC16 with an ADF4351 to sweep 35MHz to 4.4GHz from a 65g box. Here's how to breadboard the same idea…
news & releases
NVIDIA Retires Jetson Xavier: What ECE Students Should Buy Now
NVIDIA set a July 2027 end of life for every Jetson Xavier module. Here is what that means for your capstone build, and which…
news & releases
Adafruit GP8403 I2C DAC Pushes Analog Output All the Way to 10V
Most DACs cap out at 5V. The GP8403 breakout boosts to a real 0-10V analog output over I2C, which unblocks fan drivers, bias rails…