Author: Emmanuel Odunlade
MIT CSAIL’s SwingBot learns the physical properties of an object to swing it into nearly any desired pose
Being a human is far easier than being an artificial machine. The things we take for granted sometimes are some of the toughest tasks to give robots. Take, for instance, something as simple and mundane as handling objects of different sizes and weights. We as humans really do not care...
Continue ReadingArduino Portenta Vision Shield — New Portenta Add-on For Edge Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Earlier this year, Arduino in an attempt to launch something more suitable for industrial use and the Internet of Things, unveiled the Portenta H7 module, which is designed to run high-level code and real-time tasks simultaneously. As the first in a new family of boards, the Portenta...
Continue ReadingHardkernel Odroid-HC4 is a low-cost dual-bay NAS that sells for $65 and up
Hardkernel has announced an open-spec, “ODROID-HC4” Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device that runs Linux on a quad -A55 Amlogic S905X3 and offers 4GB DDR4, HDMI 2.0 and two PCIe-driven 2.5- or 3.5-inch SSD/HDD slots for just $65 to $75. This follows after the company updated its...
Continue ReadingASRock NUC 1100 BOX Series – Tiger Lake UP3 compact mini PCs that Offer WiFi 6, 2.5GbE And Quad 4K Output
After the introduction of Intel's Tiger Lake U-series processors that have support for TDPs up to 28W, notable vendors started adopting the Tiger Lake-U series to launch interesting systems that give a twist to the original NUC's 100mm x 100mm ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF), and one of...
Continue ReadingMercury 2 – Breadboard-Friendly FPGA development board
FPGAs are great and there are a number of cool things you can do with them. But as we come across more and more FPGA development boards, we realize that only a few of them are actually designed to be inserted into a breadboard. The new Mercury 2 development board by MicroNova is a...
Continue ReadingFeatherS2 – ESP32-S2 based development board in Adafruit Feather form factor
So far, there have been quite a number of development boards following Adafruit Feather format with products, like the QuickFeather Cortex-M4 + FPGA board and nRF9160 Feather providing LTE IoT & GPS connectivity. Added to the list now is the new FeatherS2 that is based on...
Continue ReadingMango-DVK features WiFi 6, 2.5GbE SoM based on IPQ6000/IPQ6010 from Qualcomm
As technology changes from time to time, the need to deliver networks with high throughput and high efficiency becomes a major necessity. The latest generation of wireless network technology, WiFi 6 or 802.11ax offers not just faster speeds as generational changes, but higher-efficiency...
Continue ReadingTuring Pi launches its 7-slot Raspberry Pi CM3 cluster board
Turing Machines Inc. has finally opened preorders for the last $1000-unit run of its mini ITX cluster boards after a while of being sold in the market. The Mini-ITX form factor board simply referred to as "Turing Pi", is a compact solution that leverages the Raspberry Pi Compute...
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