Beijing Betavolt New Energy Technology Co.Ltd., also known as Betavolt, has announced the BV100, a 3V "nuclear battery" for everyday use. This 15 x 15 x 5mm battery has a max output capacity of 100 microwatts (µW) and can last for 50 years without the need for a recharge. The company...

At CES2024, AONDevice unveiled its new on-device machine learning chip, the AON1120. It features a RISC-V core, two NPU coprocessors, and a DSP, and operates at a remarkably low power consumption of just 260μW for full-load audio classification tasks. The AON1120 is a system-on-chip...

Espressif Systems recently launched the ESP32-C61, an advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE). Building on its predecessors like ESP32-C2 and ESP32-C3, it shares similar specifications but adds support for BLE Mesh 1.1 protocol and faster Quad SPI PSRAM,...

The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-C6 is a compact and energy-efficient IoT development board that features the ESP32-C6 microcontroller and supports advanced connectivity options like Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, Zigbee 3.0, and Thread 1.3. Solar-powered charging and Target Wake Time technology for low...

Waveshare has released their new PCIe to M.2 HAT+, designed for the Raspberry Pi 5. This module is compatible with M.2 SSDs of sizes 2230 and 2242 and features a compact design at an affordable price.  Update: After careful observation, I figured that there is a Design Flaw in this...

Juan Flores' Solar Buck-Boost Module is designed to charge a lithium-polymer battery using either a solar panel or USB power, providing a constant output voltage for noise-free power management for low-power applications. This board is designed to automatically switch between solar and...

AAEON COM-R2KC6 is a new COM Express module based on the Ryzen Embedded R2000 series of processors. The device comes in a Type 6 form factor and features four 4K displays and additional graphics via a PEG x4 slot, leveraging its AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics. Previously we have covered...

Introduction For anyone with a knack for DIY projects, precision maintenance, or professional inspections, a thermal camera has become an invaluable addition to their tool collection. Looking back just a few years, they were very expensive and could only be found in military equipment....