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Lernstift Digital Pen Hits Kickstarter for $150
Lernstift is a digital pen running Linux that aims at helping children learning how to write by vibrating when they’ve made calligraphy or orthography errors. I’ve covered the overall...See it on...
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Hacking MK908 mini PC for Serial Console Access
Thanks to Omegamoon (and this brother) we already have instructions to connect the UART pins on MK808 in order to access the serial console. He’s done it again with MK908 mini PC featuring...See it on...
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Play HEVC/H.265 Videos and Embed HEVC Streams into MP4 and TS Files with...
I wrote an introduction to H.265 (aka HEVC) at the end of last year, including instructions showing how to encode videos to HEVC using the reference implementation. It worked but since it was...
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Systena Tizen Tablet Hands-on Video
Systena, a Japanese company, is currently developing a Tizen tablet with a quad core Cortex A9 processor at 1.4Ghz, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. The tablet features a 10.1″display...See it on...
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Firmware Update for CS868 mini PC Version 2.06 (Android 4.1.1)
If you’ve got a Rockchip RK3188 mini PC, there’s usually no issue with finding firmware updates, or even custom ROMs. But if you’ve bought an AllWinner A31 mini PC, such as CS868,...See it on...
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big.LITTLE Processing Update – In-Kernel Switcher vs Global Task Scheduling
big.LITTLE processing is a new technology announced by ARM in 2011 that allows an SoC to feature low power cores (e.g. Cortex A7) together with high performance cores (e.g. Cortex A15) in order...
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Control your DSLR Camera via Wi-Fi using an Android mini PC and a Tablet
DSLR Controller is a paid Android app (beta) that uses your Canon EOS DSLR camera USB port in order to control it and access the camera live view with a tablet or smartphone. That may be useful,...
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Reko QT800 mini PC Based on AllWinner A20 Comes with Dual Band 300Mbps Wi-Fi...
In an HDMI TV stick market now dominated by Rockchip RK3066 and RK3188 based devices, Reko QT800 is one of the rare AllWinner A20 mini PCs. It comes with 1 GB RAM, 4 to 8 GB flash, as well as...
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Linux-Rockchip Developers Community Up, Rockchip Development Boards Coming Soon?
Companies like Freescale and Texas Instruments provide good software support, and documentation, which is why they can be found in many embedded devices, because without documentation or source...
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Juice Extreme 2 Android TV Home Gateway Features 4 DVB Tuners for Multiscreen...
Antik Technology, a Slovakia based company, has developed a Android set-top-box powered by STMicro StiH416 SoC.See it on Scoop.it, via Embedded Software
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$79 Plug Makes Creating Your Own Cloud Easy
The “Plug” is a device with an Ethernet connection, and a USB port that allows you to connect up to 8 USB drives, and access those in a unified fashion from all your devices. It’s a...See it on...
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$99 (and up) Compulab Utilite ARM based Computer Runs Ubuntu or Android
If you’re ready to tinker it’s possible to run Linux in one of the low cost ARM based set-top boxes or mini PCs currently available, although if you need Linux with 3D acceleration and...See it on...
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Freescale SABRE Lite i.MX6 Development Board Unboxing, Wandboard Quad...
Freescale SABRE Lite is a development board powered by i.MX6 Quad processor with 1GB RAM, SATA, GbE Ethernet, and more. You can get SABRE Lite specifications in my first post about the board. I...See...
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Risun D05 is an Android TV Stick Powered by Rockchip RK3068 SoC
I’ve just discovered another dual core Rockchip SoC called RK3068, but it may not be new, as I can find some references as far back as September 2012. Amazingly, I can’t seem to find any announcement,...
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Waxberry Pi2 Development Board Based on Rockchip RK3066
The other days I announced CubieTech and Olimex were working on low cost Rockchip development boards, but it turns out there’s already one on the market called Waxberrry Pi2, or WB-RK3066, made...See...
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Enter Wearable Tech Innovation World Cup 2013 for Cash Prizes and Free...
The Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup is a yearly competition open worldwide, with prizes worth a total of $200,000, “designed to inspire and stimulate excellent next generation...See it on...
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Nuvola NP-1 Android Media Player Powered by Nvidia Tegra 4
NanoTech Entertainment is preparing to launch Nuvola NP-1, and its commercial version Nuvola MP-C, an Android 4.2 set-top box powered by Nvidia Tegra 4 SoC with 2GB RAM and 16GB Flash, and capable...
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$10 Rockchip RK2928 Miracast/DLNA Adapter Video Demo
Rockchip showcased an ultra low cost Linux-based Miracast adapter at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair in April, and we learned the device was powered by Rockchip RK2928 with just 16 MB RAM, a small...
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DIY Stripboard/Veroboard Enclosure for Raspberry Pi (Part 2)
Following up my previous post entitled “DIY Modular Stripboard / Perfboard Casing for Raspberry Pi (Part 1)” where I explained how I created an modular enclosure made of perfboard, or the...See it on...
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A Preliminary XBMC Image is now Available for Wandboard, GK802
Yesterday, Stephan Rafin left a message on Wandboard mailing list saying he had released a preliminary (Linux) XBMC image that can run on Wandboard Quad development board. GPU and VPU...
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