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LinuxCon North America 2013 Schedule
LinuxCon (North America) 2013 will take place on September 16 – 18, 2013 in New Orleans, LA. The event will be co-located with several other conferences: the Linux Plumbers Conference, the Xen...See...
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NI myRIO is an Education Platform Powered by Xilinx Zynq-Z7010
National Instruments has been working on a device called NI myRIO, an hardware & software platform that aims at giving engineering students the ability to design real systems quickly for...See it...
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$199 MicroZed is a Low Cost Version of Zedboard ARM+FPGA Linux Development Board
ZedBoard is a low cost development board based on Xilinx Zynq-7020 SoC featuring two Cortex A9 cores and FPGA fabric, together with lots of ports and expansion I/Os, and running Linux. The problem...
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Miracast Adapters Coming Up with Mediatek MT8636 SoC
It’s already possible to use Android mini-PCs such as T428 as a Miracast adapters, and we’ve also seen low cost HDMI dongles based on Actions Semi ATV6003 and Rockchip RK2928 that should...See it on...
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Emcraft Systems Announces Freescale Vybrid VF6 SoM With Cortex A5 CPU and...
Emcraft Systems has recently announced Vybrid VF6 SoM, a System-on-Module powered by Freescale Vybrid VF6 dual core Cortex A5/Cortex M4 SoC with 128MB DDR3, and 512MB Flash, as well as a starter...
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NVIDIA Releases Source Code, Binaries, and Android Build Instructions for the...
This morning I’ve read bad news for the open source community. Jean-Baptiste Quéru, leader of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has decided to quit the project because AOSP cannot run on...See it...
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MC HCK is a $5 ARM Development Board Powered by Freescale K20 MCU
MC HCK (pronounced McHack) is a tiny and cheap development board powered by Freescale K20 MCU (ARM Cortex M4) that can be easily programmed via USB. The board has been designed with KiCad, is...
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GizmoSphere vs Minnowboard – AMD and Intel x86 Embedded Boards Comparison
The Gizmo Explorer Kit is an embedded kit based on a development board powered by AMD G-Series G-T40E dual core APU that’s available since the beginning of the year. The Minnowboard is another...See...
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Intel Education Tablets Come with a Temperature Probe, a Magnification Lens
Intel has recently announced 2 educational Android 4.x tablets: The 10″ Intel Education Tablet powered by Intel Atom Z2460, and the 7″ Intel Education Tablet based on the newer Intel Atom...See it on...
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$85 Jesurun K8 (Hi720) Android 4.2 STB Powered by Rockchip RK3188
It looks like MK888 (aka CS918 or K-R42-1), or more exactly MK888B (Includes Bluetooth support), is now getting some competition with Jesurun K8, another Rockchip RK3188 set-top box with 2GB RAM,...
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Huawei MediaQ M310 Is Now Available For Purchase
Huawei MediaQ M310 is a media player based on Hisilicon K3V2 quad core SoC, the company unveiled at CES 2013. The company expected the product to be released in Q3 2013 (about now), and the good...
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Developers Are Working on Chromecast Functionality From Any Android Apps via...
If you don’t just come back from (too long) holidays, you should know Google has released the Chromecast, a $35 HDMI TV Stick that uses a protocol called DIAL to let users stream online videos...See...
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MK908 Rockchip RK3188 mini PC Android 4.2.2 SDK Leaked
We’ve had the Linux source code for RK3188 for a little while, which allowed a preliminary Ubuntu image to boot on devices such as Tronsmart T428. But AFAIK, we did not have any Android SDK for...See...
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Fritzing Open Source Software Designs PCB Layouts from Breadboard Drawings
Earlier this year, I’ve tried Gumstix Geppetto, a web-based application that let you easily design and order boards. You can just add some building blocks in Chrome browser, connect them, and...See it...
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CheapCast Chromecast Emulator for Android (Beta) is Available for Download
Yesterday, I wrote developers were working on making any media App and any Android device compatible with Chromecast. Sebastian Mauer has taken care of the former, by publishing CheapCast (Beta)...
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$275 HackRF Open Source Software Defined Radio (SDR) Platform
HackRF is an open source hardware project to build a Software Defined Radio (SDR) supporting a frequency range between 30 MHz and 6GHz in both directions (Tx and Rx, half-duplex) with a maximum...See...
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How to Buy an Arduino Leonardo (Clone) Kit for Less than $20
Borderless Electronics Indiegogo campaign for their $9 electronics kit with an Arduino Leonardo clone went so well that the owner of the campaign decided to limit the total number of boards to...See...
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EZCast Is a Wi-Fi Display Solution (Miracast, DLNA, etc..) to be Used With...
This morning I’ve come across an interesting video via Google+ (in Chinese) that showcases the features of EZCast, an application that can be installed on Android or iOS, and supports screen...See it...
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Lantronix Unveils xPico Wi-Fi Module For the Internet of Things
With Texas Instruments SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3000 and Qualcomm Atheros AR4100P embedded Wi-Fi processors that fully handle Wi-Fi internally, and transfer data to an MCU with an SPI interface, and...See...
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EPICT EPP-100 Android 4.2 Mini Projector
EPICT EPP-100 is a tiny Android 4.2 device with features similar to many Android mini PCs or set-top boxes, and is based on AllWinner A20 SoC with 512MB RAM and 4GB Flash, but the features that...
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