The power of 4 Raspberry Pi dev boards and an Adruino... Seems like win-win board (via UDOO) To add to the mix of technological innovation engendering microprocessing boards, SECO US and Aidilab have teamed up alongside professors from the US an...
Utilite concept render. Micro-PC set to fill a niche void..Ubuntu on the big screen. (via Compulab) Micro-PCs have flooded the market as of late and include offerings from Raspberry Pi, FXI Technologies Cotton Candy (PC-on-a-stick) and Texas Ins...
"Brix" device for size reference, and PR shot (via Gigabyte) Buying a PC doesn’t mean you have to find room for it on your cluttered desk. Gigabyte’s BRIX shows how wrong the tech predictions of the 1950’s were. Their powerful mini PC is now ava...
Arno board. A all in one kit is available. Hand-holding all the way to proficiency. (via Olymiacircuits) Learning how to program and wire-up an Arduino board can be a daunting and frustrating task for novices and experts alike. Sure, there are m...
ALIX board. Just from a quick glance, expansion is a big feature of the platform. But.. VGA out? (via PC Engines) As cyber-attacks continually increase against companies and corporations (even home offices) around the globe, the issue of network...
Ninja Block, part of the home automation kit (via NinjaBlocks) The plethora of open-source hardware and software devices now available for purchase provides designers, software developers, and engineers of all sorts flexibility in developing the...
Upper atmosphere images from Dave Akerman's Pi in the Sky (via Dave Akerman) At this day and age, a man by himself can send something into near space and have proof that he did it, along with visual evidence the of our beautiful bright blue plan...
Arduino Robot top board. "First official Arduino on wheels." (via Arduino.cc) It is that time of year again when technology enthusiasts gather to behold new and interesting devices. Of course, it would not be Maker Faire if Arduino in one form o...
Gooseberry board. Simply a tablet PCB without the screen. (via Gooseberry) As an answer to the question of which is more popular in the mini-PC world, it all depends on what you’re using their respective boards. Sure, there are dozens more curre...
Rikomagic MK802 "pocket pc." A fairly impressive platform. Let's see how fast it gets opened up. (via Rikomagic) Mini Android-based PCs like the Raspberry Pi and VIA’s APC are flooding the consumer market and the tiny trend shows no signs ...
Neo-ITX running at 800Mhz... (via VIA) Mini PCs have been gaining momentum in popularity since Raspberry Pi made it easy for hobbyists to develop home projects with relative ease and on the cheap. VIA Technologies has jumped on the mini PC bandw...
Forum member Phame’s entry into Bit-Tech’s Raspberry Pi case competition results in a detail oriented water-cooling system design for the mini PC.(via Bit-Tech forum) The Raspberry Pi, the Linux box sporting a 700 MHz ARM processor, safely opera...
The tiny Gumstix IronSTORM COM provides developers a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 board capable of running smart electronics devices in extreme temperatures (via Gumstix) The ubiquitous deployment of miniaturized intelligent devices powering mos...
The MarsBoard joins the line-up of cheap and affordable dev boards based on the AllWinner A10 SOC. (via Marsboard) It’s time to add another board into the rapidly expanding line-up of AllWinner A10 based development boards - the MarsBoard. This ...
For me, it started with a weekend trip to the cottage that was going to be an opportunity to be secluded while laying out a board in EAGLE. I had everything well planned to be able to complete the task without an internet connection: al...
ODROID-U2 on the left... Hardkernel's corporate card on the right? (via Hardkernel) Hardkernel Co, the open-source hardware company from Korea, has achieved quite a bit of success over the years with the release of several of the world’s first A...
The concept combination. (via UDOO's Kickstarter) Currently, the two most popular development boards among students, hobbyist, and professionals have to be the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Both can take on some serious projects and likewise, bo...
The Cubieboard, a familiar size, packed with more features. (via cubieboard) The hackers and makers of the world present in many online design communities have a steadily increasing pool of boards to choose from for their build projects. Here, w...
The A13-OLinuXino - The touchscreen interface, Zigbee, expanded GPIO (via Olimex) To add to the quickly expanding group of cheap, open-source, Linux-based microprocessing boards, Olimex has introduced a product of their own: the A13-OLinuXino. U...
Parallella Main-board (via Adapteva & Kickstarter) The company Adapteva is currently testing one of their last prototypes of a tiny parallel computer board they are calling Parallella, which you are surely to hear about. This mini computer h...
Drumroll, please.....Today through April 25th in San Jose element14 is pleased to kick off a celebration of the birth of the newest member of the BeagleBone family, the BeagleBone Black. The fun starts today with Texas Instruments’ unveiling det...
Kepler-class GPU unit, providing CUDA powered graphics on ARM platforms (via Nvidia) Founded in 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, NVIDIA has been constantly busy revolutionizing computing technology. In 1999, NVIDIA es...
(Left) Apple Lightening Digital AV. (Right) Inside, an ARM processor. Now, how can this chip be used for something useful.... (via panic) The secret behind the inner-workings of Apple’s Lightning Digital AV adapter has been compromised. The folk...
The SparkFun Inventor Kit (via SparkFun) It is no surprise that kids are among the people most enthralled by electronics. Sometimes, I still think they are magical. Although their function can appear mystical to uneducated, they work because the...
PepGuard prototype (via http://digitaldichotomy.wix.com/pepguard) Taking pictures using a digital camera or a smartphone is all the rage with today’s mobile technology. Taking those pictures in crime-ridden locations can give a completely ...