RAK WisCam is a $20 Arduino Compatible WiFi Camera Linux Board Powered by Nuvoton N32905 ARM9 Processor

From www.cnx-software.com 4 years ago in News

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Rakwireless’ RAK CREATOR Pro development board based on Realtek Ameba RTL8711AM Wireless MCU, and part of their Wiskey family of development boards....

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Sony announces Altair ALT1255 5G-ready NB-IoT chipset with 2G fallback

From www.cnx-software.com 12 hours ago in News

Sony Semiconductor Israel, previously known as Altair Semiconductor, has announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255 NB-IoT (NB2) chipset. The 5G-ready chip comes with an integrated SIM, a user MCU, and a GSM/GPRS fallback modem. Sony Altair ALT1255 NB-IoT chipset...

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon XR1 based AR smart glasses reference design

From www.cnx-software.com 15 hours ago in News

Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon XR2 5G VR Reference Design last year based on their latest Snapdragon XR2 virtual/extended reality processor. But the company never designed a reference design for the earlier Snapdragon XR1 that was found in Google Glass Enterprise...

Arduino MKR IoT Carrier embeds display, sensors, and I/Os for IoT projects

From www.cnx-software.com 17 hours ago in News

Arduino Oplà IoT Kit was launched last fall as the first open programmable IoT platform from the company. The kit included everything you need to create your own IoT devices with MKR IoT carrier with a 1.3-inch OLED color display, ...

StereoPi v2 stereoscopic camera is powered by Raspberry Pi CM4 (Crowdfunding)

From www.cnx-software.com 21 hours ago in News

StereoPi stereoscopic camera based on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 was introduced in late 2019 on Crowd Supply. The camera can record 3D video, create 3D depth maps with OpenCV, and benefits from the Raspberry Pi software ecosystem. The developers...

Crowbits magnetic blocks for STEM Education work with Arduino, Micro:bit, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi (Crowdfunding)

From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News

Elecrow develops and manufactures electronics products for the maker market, and in recent years entered the STEM education market with products such as CrowPi2 Raspberry Pi 4 education laptop that I reviewed last year. The laptop integrates plenty of electronics...

Kiwikit Raspberry Pi Pico baseboard takes off-the-shelf modules

From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News

While it’s possible to use Raspberry Pi Pico with a breadboard or Veroboard, we’ve seen the benefits of inserting the board into a baseboard such as Maker Pi Pico providing LEDs, a MicroSD card, audio output, and the ability to...

ZiHintPause is the first RISC-V extension ratified under the Fast Track Architecture Extension Process

From www.cnx-software.com 2 days ago in News

RISC-V open architecture allows designers to implement their own instructions, and some of those may become an official RISC-V extension. But the process to approve a new extension may have been suboptimal, so RISC-V International has just unveiled the Fast...

Advantech Elkhart Lake mini-ITX motherboard offers triple display support, dual LAN, eight USB and six COM ports

From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News

We’ve seen a fair amount of Intel Elkhart Lake platforms including modules, 3.5-inch SBCs, Pico-ITX boards, and embedded mini PCs, but so far, I had not noticed any Elkhart Lake mini-ITX motherboard. Advantech AIMB-218 motherboard offers a choice of low-power...

Encoding and decoding AVIF pictures with open-source software & libraries

From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News

One of the new features of Android 12 is support for the AVIF file format that provides much smaller files at the same level of quality. Jake Archibald has done a great job comparing AVIF format to JPEG, WebP, and...

Fuzix Unix-like operating system ported to Raspberry Pi Pico and ESP8266

From www.cnx-software.com 3 days ago in News

The Raspberry Pi Pico is not compatible with Linux, but now supports another Unix-like operating system known as Fuzix. Alan Cox’s Fuzix is a Unix-like operating system for older devices with less performance capacity. David Given’s two recent posts have...