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Microchip Announces New PIC32MX3/4 32-bit MCUs Based on MIPS M4K Core
Microchip Technology has just announced a new family of PIC32MX3/4 MCUs featuring a MIPS M4K core @ 80 MHz, coupled with 16 to 128KB RAM, 64 to 512KB flash, that are designed to be used in...See it on...
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP Benchmarks
A few days ago, I saw some benchmark results showing Xiaomi M3 smartphone powered by Snapdragon 800 SoC getting a ridiculous score above 80,000 points in Antutu, but thought it was really odd, and...
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Mele M9 Android Set-top Box Powered by AllWinner A31
After Mele A1000G Quad, Mele has just launched another model called M9, still based on AllWinner A31 quad core processor, with an external Wi-Fi antenna, but no SATA support. Mele M9...
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Linor Technology Fargo are Ethernet Boards with 4 to 8 Relays
There are more and more “IoT” solutions for home or industrial automation which allow you to control your lights or other equipments remotely with your smartphone or tablet. Many of them...See it on...
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Beyond Semiconductor Announces BA21 Processor Core for Embedded MCUs
Beyond Semiconductor, a Ljubljana, Slovenia based company, has recently announced BA21, a 32-bit processor core, with 2.5 Coremark per megahertz, and clocked up to 125 MHz, that’s roughly...See it on...
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Kaiboer F4 Rockchip RK3188 Powered Set-top Box with Two External Wi-Fi Antennas
We’ve got a another full-sized Android set-top box featuring Rockchip RK3188 quad core processor, this time with not one, but two external Wi-Fi antennas, as well as the usual 2GB RAM, and...See it on...
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$25 Babuino Stick & Board Let You Control Your Devices with Your Smartphone...
Babuino Stick and Babuino Board are tiny low cost Arduino-compatible USB dongle and board featuring Atmel AVR MCU, and Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR connectivity. Both have basically the same hardware,...
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Rockchip RK3066 is Now Part of Mainline Linux Kernel
After AllWinner A10/A13 SoCs, it’s time for another Chinese SoC to be included into mainline kernel, with Rockchip RK3066(a). A few hours ago, Heiko Stuebner’s commit for basic support in...See it on...
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Samsung Unveils ATIV Q Android & Win8 Convertible Tablet, Galaxy NX DSLR...
Samsung Premiere 2013 took place yesterday in London, and the company announced 9 new products at the event. But 2 devices really stood out for me: ATIV Q – A 13.3″ tablet convertible to...See it on...
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GEAK Watch is an Android 4.1 Smartwatch Packed with Features
Smartwatches have been available since 2011, in different formats, most of the time as a smartphone companion such as Pebble, or sometimes with slightly more powerful hardware running Android...
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$70 Cubot GT72 Android “4.2″ Smartphone Powered by Mediatek MT6572
Mediatek MT6572 is a new dual core Cortex A7 processor with a Mali-400 GPU, as well as a HSPA+/TD-SCDMA modem. This SoC announced last month, is now starting to show up in low cost smartphones...
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$34 BLEduino Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy Arduino-Compatible Board
After RFDuino, here’s another tiny low cost Bluetooth 4.0 SMART development board compatible with Arduino. BLEduino board is the merger of Arduino Leonardo and Bluetooth module, features Atmel...See...
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HP Unveils Slate 21 AIO Android PC and Tablet with a 21.5″ Touchscreen
Hewlett Packard has announced an all-in-one desktop PC in Beijing featuring a 21.5″ touch screen that ships with Android 4.2.2 instead of the usual (for dekstop PCs) Windows 8 operating system....See...
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Open Source Prosthetic Arm Controlled By Muscle Movements
Gustavo Brancante is working on a very interesting project that let you control a prosthetic arm with your muscle movement using open source technology with InMoov Hand (which can be 3D...See it on...
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Xiph Daala Codec Aims to Better H.265/HEVC Video Codec
H.265 (aka HEVC) video codec will eventually supplement H.264 over the years as it offers better compression at the same bitrate, or better quality for the same compression ratio. There’s a...See it...
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Cubietruck Development Board Features AllWinner A20 SoC, 2GB RAM, and Gb...
When Cubietech announced the availability of the Cubieboard2 last week, a few people seemed disappointed it only came with 1GB RAM and no Gigabit Ethernet. We already knew a board called...
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Ethernet & USB Hub Combo for Android Mini PCs
The first time I saw a USB & Ethernet hub was the one that comes with SmartCandy mini PC, but I never thought of checking if they sold such item separately until this morning, as I’ve...See it on...
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Android Now Comes to Exercise Bikes thanks to The Peloton Bike
Beyond smartphones and tablets, Android is now running in a number of others devices such as cars, watches, set-top boxes and more, but Android should soon enter the gym, or rather bring the gym...
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MINIX MINI HD PC Based on Intel Atom D2550 Sells for $119
MINIX MINI HD PC is a barebone x86 computer without RAM or hard disk that has been announced last year, and it has just come to my attention that the system sells for just $119 on Geekbuying...See it...
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$199 Minnowboard is an Open Source Embedded Board Powered By Intel Atom E640...
Minnowboard is a development board designed by Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, powered by Intel Atom E640 processor @ 1GHz with 1GB RAM, SATA2 and Gigabit Ethernet support, and several...See it...
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