Radxa Rock Lite Board Price Drops to $39
When the new Radxa Rock Lite was announced for $59 in September 2014, it was one of the most inexpensive quad core ARM Linux development board available on the market. But ODROID-C1 board in...
View ArticleGiveaway Week – HD18T DVB-T2 Android Set-top Box
HD18T is an Android media player powered by Amlogic AML8726-MX dual core Cortex A9 processor and featuring a DVB-T2 tuner, and that’s the device I’m giving away to a lucky commenter...See it on...
View ArticleExperimental Android 5.x Lollipop Port for Raspberry Pi 2?
When Raspberry Pi 2 was announced, I was quite hopeful Android would be ported to the board since it now had the processing power and memory requirements to run Android. But members of the...
View ArticleRikomagic MK80LE (Linux Edition) Octa-core Ubuntu mini PC
Allwinner A80 based Rikomagic MK80 Android TV box, now has a Linux sibling with Rikomagic MK80LE (Linux Edition) running Ubuntu 14.04, and allegedly supports 2D/3D graphics acceleration, and...
View ArticleGiveaway Week – SoundMate WM201 Wireless Audio Streamer
All good things must come to an end, and this is the last day of Giveaway Week on CNX Software with Uyesee SoundMate WM201 wireless audio streamer that adds Wi-Fi connectivity to your speakers or...
View ArticleUnuiga Game PC U1 mini PC Powered by Nvidia Tegra K1 Sells for $145 and Up
We’ve seen a few Nvidia Tegra K1 mini PCs from China with Warchief and MC8718 game consoles, but both are pretty hard to source outside China, and the latter may just be vapor-ware. Unuiga Game...See...
View ArticleIocean M6752 Octa-core Cortex A53 Android Smartphone Unboxing, First Boot,...
I’m quite interested in testing 64-bit ARM platform, but since mini PCs and development boards are not quite there yet, GearBest give me the opportunity to check out Iocean M6752 smartphone...See it on...
View ArticleTechNexion Introduces Intel Edison Compatible PICO-iMX6 SoM and DWARF Board
Intel Edison is a board made for wearables featuring an SoC with Intel Atom and Quark CPU cores. TechNexion, an embedded systems company based in Taiwan, has decided to make a mechanically and...See it...
View ArticleNeptune Suite Includes a Smartphone, Tablet, and HDMI Stick Powered by a...
The makers of Neptune Pine smartwatch have unsurprisingly decided to make another smartwatch which they called Neptune Hub. Why Hub? Because although this smartwatch can be used standalone, its...See...
View ArticleGiveaway Week Winners Announced (March 2015)
The latest Giveaway week has come to an end, and I’m just coming back from the post office, having sent a few Android based TV boxes, a Linux development board, and one wireless audio streamer...See it...
View ArticleMarch 2015 Discounts – GearBest, GeekBuying, DX and WeTek Play
A few companies have started or planned discounts for April’s fool, Father’s day, and maybe even March Madness, the basketball tournament currently taking place in the US. GearBest...See it on...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code 2015 is Now Open for Student Applications
Google has now announced that students applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) are now open. Students can get paid up to $5,500 to work on various open source projects selected for the...
View ArticleMeLE F10 Lite is an Air Mouse with Keyboard using 2x AAA Batteries
MeLE has several models of air mouse, and they are great to use with Android mini PCs, and sometimes I also use these with my regular PC. I started with the original MeLE F10, but then switched...
View ArticleAsus C201 Chromebook to be Powered by Rockchip RK3288 Processor
If you’ve been following this blog, you should know that Rockchip is working with Google on Chrome OS, so it was just a matter of time before a Rockchip powered Chromebook or Chromebox sees the...See...
View ArticleCubieboard4 (CC-A80) Unboxing and Getting Started Guide
A few samples of Cubieboard4 board may have been available in China in October 2014, but Cubietech only officially launched their Allwinner A80 development board about ten days ago, and you can...
View ArticleXilinx Zynq-Z7015 FPGA + ARM based System-on-Modules Include High Speed...
There’s a fair amount of low cost boards powered by Xilinx Zynq Z-7010 and Z-7020 with dual core Cortex A9 processor and Artix-7 FPGA, but those who wanted to have PCIe ports or high speed...See it on...
View ArticleCloudsto Embed+ RK3288 is a Rockchip RK3288 Board for Digital Signage and...
As Rikomagic launched their MK80LE (Linux Edition) mini PCs on Cloudsto a few days ago, I also noticed a new page entitled embed+ RK3288, which described what should be the first board sold by...See it...
View ArticleOrange Pi 2 Allwinner H3 Quad Core Development Board Sells for $35
After Orange Pi Plus development board powered by Allwinner H3 quad core cortex A7 processor, the company has decided to launch a lower cost version of their Allwinner H3 board with Orange Pi 2,...
View ArticleAcer Shamelessly Sells Aspire E5 Laptops with a Crippled UEFI Setup Utility
Yesterday, I bought an Acer Aspire E5-421G-45L0 laptop powered by AMD A4-6210 “Beema” processor and after some effort I managed to install Ubuntu 14.04 and make it mostly work, but more...See it on...
View ArticleFirefly introduces FireBLE Bluetooth Low Energy Board
So just as today I wrote about XBAND BLE Sensor board, the makers of Firefly-RK3288 also announced their own Bluetooth Low Energy board aptly named FireBLE, and also integrating a 6-axis...
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