CNX Software reviewed the GEEKOM IT13 Max mini PC running Ubuntu 26.04 on an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor, testing features, benchmarks, storage, USB, 2.5GbE, WiFi 6/7, stress, fan noise, and pow…
Researchers at Northwestern University introduced EITWatch, an open-source ESP32-S3-based smartwatch that uses planar Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) with eight electrodes on the back of the cas…
Google engineers built Gemma Translator, an open-source project that runs a fully offline multilingual voice translator on a Raspberry Pi 5 using Google Gemma 4 E2B (2.3B effective / ~5.1B total param…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon C entry-level Arm SoC outperforms Intel's Processor N250 Twin Lake CPU by up to 67 percent in unplugged benchmarks, according to a new 'Snapdragon C Platform Overview' document r…
WCH released the CH32V407 and CH32V467 RISC-V microcontrollers, featuring a 200 MHz QingKe V3V core with RVV vector extensions, integrated 10/100 Mbps Ethernet MAC + PHY, a USB 2.0 high-speed (480 Mbp…
NXP introduced the FRDM-IMX95-PRO development board based on the i.MX 95 processor, featuring 10GbE, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, 802.15.4, dual M.2 Key-M slots, 16 GB LPDDR5-6400 memory, and 32 GB eMMC fl…
GEEKOM's IT13 Max mini PC, powered by the 16-core Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor, delivered strong performance in Windows 11 Pro testing, with AI benchmarks, 4K/8K video playback, and 2.5GbE/WiFi 6…
Makerfabs released the Nomad Terminal, a handheld development platform built around an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module with a dual-core Tensilica LX7 CPU up to 240 MHz, a Semtech LR1121 LoRa transceiver, and …
Makerfabs released the MaTouch ESP32-S3 MaUWB development board, which combines an ESP32-S3 wireless MCU, a 3.95-inch touchscreen, and a UWB module for indoor positioning and ranging. The board uses a…
GEEKOM sent CNX Software its IT13 Max mini PC with an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU, 24 GB LPDDR5 memory, and a 500 GB SSD for review. The Meteor Lake mini PC offers up to 35 TOPS, sixteen cores up to 5…
Fractal Manifold launched a crowdfunding campaign for the Token Monitor, a 4-inch ESP32-S3 desktop display that tracks AI coding assistant usage in real time. The device shows quota consumption, sessi…
CNX Software reported that the CtrlVibe AI Console, a programmable desktop keypad designed for AI workflows, is now crowdfunding. The device features nine programmable mechanical keys, a rotary encode…
ZecTrix Lab in China has launched the Note 4, an ESP32-S3-based AI smart note with a 4.2-inch e-paper display and built-in voice input, designed for displaying reminders, notes, clocks, weather, image…
Seeed Studio released the reComputer Mini J501, an Edge AI computer powered by the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB or 32GB module, delivering up to 275 TOPS of AI performance. Designed for robotics, it in…
Slava S. (slvDev) has optimized a 28.9M-parameter LLM to run locally on an ESP32-S3 development board at about 9 tokens/s, generating short stories on an I2C display. The project, called 'esp32-ai', r…
ASUS launched the $299.99 UGen300 USB AI accelerator, which combines a 40 TOPS Hailo-10H AI processor with 8GB LPDDR4 memory to support large language models, vision language models, and AI vision wor…
Creality's Falcon T1, described as the world's first 5-in-1 modular laser engraver, supports five interchangeable laser modules (20W diode, 40W diode, 20W fiber, 60W MOPA, and 5W UV) with tool-free sw…
Seeed Studio's reTerminal Sticky, a 3.97-inch magnetic touch ePaper display powered by an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, is supported by four open-source firmware projects, according to CNX Software. The d…
NightRun, an experimental open-source UEFI application written in Rust, boots a local large language model directly into RAM on 64-bit x86_64 PCs (with Secure Boot disabled) and Raspberry Pi 5, bypass…
Luxonis introduced a prototype M8 Controller Box, an industrial I/O expansion module for its OAK4 AI vision edge AI cameras powered by a Qualcomm DragonWing QCS8550, adding 16 GPIOs, four 16A relays, …