Several attempts have been made over time at cloning the Raspberry Pi with different look-alike (both in outlook and features) boards in the market but one brand that has always stood out is Radxa with it's Rock Pi board series. As a way of stating they are taking their game to the next...

There are quite a number of USB development boards available that can be utilized for any number of projects, with the most popular being the ATtiny85 and the Teensy line from PJRC. However, UK-based Webtronics have recently announced their entrant into the USB development board into...

congatec – a leading vendor of standardized and customized embedded computer boards and modules – today introduces a new SMARC 2.0 Computer-on-Module with NXP i.MX 8M Mini processor. The conga-SMX8-Mini offers higher performance at significantly fewer watts¹ due to the new 14nm...

A team of researchers reports on a dynamically tuneable lens capable of achieving almost any complex optical function. Camera performance on mobile devices has proven to be one of the features that most end-users aim for. The importance of optical image quality improvement, and the...

ADLINK Technology recently announced the release of its latest COM Express Compact Size Type 6 module, the cExpress-WL which follows the same path with earlier modules like the cExpress-SL and the cExpress-AL with a 95 x 95mm form factor. The cExpress-WL features the new 8th...

After the official birth of commercial EDA since 1981, different design software as been produced from the EDA industry. Printed Circuit Boards, also known as PCBs, are the foundation of any hardware-based product. Before EDA software, Engineers usually designed electronics circuitry and...

NXP Semiconductors i.MX RT106A Crossover Processor is a solution specific variant of the i.MX RT1060 family of MCUs, targeting cloud-based embedded voice applications. It features NXP’s advanced implementation of the Arm® Cortex®-M7 core, which operates at speeds up to 600MHz...

Since the launch of the ESP-01, the ESP series of WiFi modules and WiFi-enabled microcontrollers have endeared themselves to the heart of both hobbyist and electronics design professionals. They have been used for all sorts of projects and while users are still praising the impressive...