In the age of business Zoom rooms, having a crisp webcam is key for introducing fellow executives to your pet cat. Unfortunately, quality webcams are out of stock and building your own is out of the question. Or is it? [Dave Hunt] thought otherwise and cooked up the idea of using the Raspberry Pi’s USB […]
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[Rowan Patterson] informed us about a recent ticket he opened over at the Raspberry Pi Documentation GitHub repository. He asked about the the lack of updates to the Raspberry Pi 4’s USB-C power schematics for this board. You may recall that the USB-C power issue was covered by us back in July of 2019, yet the current official  Raspberry Pi
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Kobol, the Singapore based manufacturer of Helios4 is set to launch pre-orders for its latest open HW/SW NAS system called the Helios64. The system which was created as an upgrade to the Helios4 NAS system will be available as a Nano-ITX SBC and a complete enclosed system, running the more powerful 64-bit Rockchip RK3399 compared to the
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OnLogic (Formerly Logic supply) recently announced the launch of 4 new industrial SBCs based on Intel’s Apollo Lake Pico-ITX processors. The four boards; EPM163, EPM162, EPM161, and EPM160, combine small size (the Pico-ITX 3.9 x 2.8in form factor) with solid performance, with target use cases being diverse industrial applications. The first board, EPM163, hosts the Quad-Core Intel Apollo Lake
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Barely a week after Lattice semiconductor announced the launch of the CrossLink-NX family of FPGA, Greg Davill, in his amazing way of posting the entire development process in a twitter thread, has announced the launch of a development board based on the Lattice Crosslink-NX 72QFN. The new board which is called the ArcticKoala was created using some of the sources from recent FPGA tools like
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AAEON’s UP project has launched an edge computing enabled kit called the UPX Edge. The system which was developed to power industrial automation, robotics, AI, and IoT applications, is built around the Intel 8th Gen Whiskey Lake-U based UP Xtreme board and comes preloaded with an Ubuntu 18.04 image based on Linux kernel 5.0 It was initially available on Kickstarter
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As the Raspberry Pi grew popular, users began to ask for a more flexible form factor which will allow the use of the Raspberry Pi capacities in products, especially those with industrial applications. The response of the Raspberry Pi’s team to these demands was the Raspberry Pi Compute Module which, now is in its third version, carrying
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AAEON, an industry leader in embedded computing, announces the COM-WHUC6 COM Express module. Built to the Compact Type 6 form factor, the COM-WHUC6 is designed to operate in a range of applications from automation to mobile operations. The COM-WHUC6 is powered by the 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 and Celeron® ULT series processors (formerly Whiskey Lake), providing energy efficient
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The official Raspberry Pi Foundation has today announced the availability of its new RP2040 as single chips from just $1. RP2040 chips are now available from the companies “Approved Reseller” partners in single-unit quantities, allowing you to build your own projects and products on Raspberry Silicon, 2 mm² of 40 nm silicon, in a 7×7
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AMD launched a Ryzen Embedded “open ecosystem” for mini-PCs from multiple vendors, which runs on its Ryzen Embedded V1000 and the newer Ryzen Embedded R1000 system-on-chips. The new line of hardware includes two new Linux enabled mini-PCs from OnLogic, the R1000-based ML100G-40, and V1000-based MC510-40. The systems highlighted in the Ryzen Embedded mini-PC ecosystem are aimed at rugged industrial applications, in exception of ASRock mini-PCs on AMD’s list, which
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