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Himax WE-I Plus EVB: Computer vision and AI on the Edge
Edge computing has many great advantages. When you take some resource-heavy work from servers and let your less capable but still slightly powerful microcontrollers, you end up freeing server resources. Also, depending on what you are doing, you can get away with not using a server at...
Continue ReadingDownsize Your Bench Power Supply With the R4K-36 Series
In a time where we spend all our time at home, we start looking for ways to enhance our productivity. You may believe that nothing will ever beat your lab at work or college, and let me tell you, you are dead wrong! Today we will take a look at a very convenient palm-sized variable DC...
Continue ReadingAtomstack Cambrian, The Worlds Most Advanced 3D Printer For TPR
Atomstack Technologies has launched a campaign on Kickstarter for their Atomstack Cambrian 3D printer. Explaining the reason behind their 3D printer, the company says: “3D printing is innovative technology that is changing the way products are created. Many of us have purchased a 3D...
Continue ReadingGlasgow Interface Explorer Offers flexible open source multitool for digital electronics
1BitSquared has launched on Crowdsupply it's Glasgow Interface Explorer. The board is said to be designed for hardware designers, reverse engineers, digital archivists, electronics hobbyists, and anyone else who wants to communicate with a wide selection of digital devices with minimum...
Continue ReadingECS GLKD-HTI Intel CPU on Board Cuts the Mini-ATX in Half
So... Odd title, right? Well, not quite! Today we will be analyzing an ambitious idea from Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS, for short), which takes a Mini-ITX board and shrinks it to half its original size. As a cool concept this is, does it have enough "glue" to stick on everyday's...
Continue ReadingWatchy: The Open-Source E-Paper Watch
The good thing about Tindie is that allows all of us to creatively showcase and sell our most promising projects. I cannot stress how awesome it is to have such a market online, for our inventions! As a good example of its usefulness, we will glance today at an e-paper watch that has...
Continue ReadingIsolated, Single-Channel RS232 transceiver (Isolated RS232 to UART)
The project presented here provides an isolated interface between the RS-232 cable network and the connected UART systems to protect against voltage spikes and ground loops within the noisy environment and improve system reliability. The project achieves a robust data communication link...
Continue ReadingAsus Tinker Board 2 receives an RK3399 Upgrade
Asus is looking forward to upgrading their open-spec, community-backed Tinker Board SBC with the new Tinker Board 2. It advances from a quad-core, Cortex-A17 Rockchip RK3288 to a Hexa-core -A72 and -A53 Rockchip RK3399. It comes with support for 4GB LPDDR4, GbE, WiFi/BT, optional 16GB...
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