Author: Debashis Das

Laird Connectivity has launched new BL54L15 and BL54H20 Bluetooth LE modules. These are based on Nordic Semiconductor's nRF54 and support Bluetooth LE 5.4, 802.15.4, and NFC.  The BL54L15 series, using Nordic's nRF54L15 SoC, improves on the nRF52 series with more power and memory. The...

The DFRobot Gravity is an offline voice recognition module, that can process up to 121 fixed and 17 customizable command words without internet connectivity. Designed for integration with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32 platforms, it supports I2C and UART communication for diverse...

The Vivid Unit is an RK3399-based Single Board Computer (SBC) featuring a 5.5-inch touchscreen display, 4GB LPDDR4 RAM, and 32GB eMMC storage along with Ethernet, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), and Bluetooth 4.1, USB 3.1 Gen1, HDMI, and a 40-pin GPIO harder. They were designed for smart home...

The Radxa ZERO 3W, powered by the Rockchip RK3566, is an ultra-small single-board computer designed for IoT developers and hobbyists, featuring Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and support for various graphics standards including OpenGL and Vulkan 1.1. A few posts back we covered similar SBCs...

The SparkFun ESP32-C6 Thing Plus features the ESP32-C6 WROOM-1-N16 module, supporting WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, Zigbee, and Thread for diverse wireless project applications. Equipped with a microSD slot, Qwiic connector, and Feather-compatible footprint, it's designed for seamless...

The LILYGO T-FPGA development kit consists of two components: an M.2 module and a carrier board. The M.2 module features an ESP32-S3 SoC and Gowin GW1NSR-4C FPGA with 4,608 LUTs along with USB-C OTG for ESP32-S3, a USB-C port for FPGA, four Pmod interfaces, a STEMMA Qt/Qwiic connector,...

The Experiential Robotics Platform (XRP) integrates a Raspberry Pi Pico W and a 6-axis motion sensor with Blockly, Python, and WPILib for educational robotics development. Designed for tool-free assembly, it enables progression from basic to advanced robotics projects for students and...

The Rockchip RK3568 features a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU running at up to 2.0 GHz, a Mali-G52 EE GPU, an NPU with 0.8 TOPS, and supports 4Kp60 video decoding for H.265/H.264/VP9, plus 1080p100 video encoding for H.265/H.264. We've previously explored several single-board computers...