Banana Pi BPI-M4 is a Raspberry Pi alternative now available to purchase from online retailers such as AliExpress priced from $38. Offering slightly different features to the Raspberry Pi the Banana Pi BPI-MP4 is capable of supporting 4K video and unlike the Raspberry Pi has 8GB of eMMC flash built-in as well as a microSD…
Nvidia released their next generation of small but powerful modules for embedded AI. It’s the Nvidia Jetson Nano, and it’s smaller, cheaper, and more maker-friendly than anything they’ve put out before. For $99 the Jetson Nano Developer Kit is designed to give everyone from hobbyists to programmers a chance to play with deep learning and…
Over the last week, SinoVoip has posted wiki pages for its open-spec, unpriced Banana Pi BPI-P2 Zero and Banana Pi BPI-R64 SBCs. Both boards support Linux and Android. As noted by the company BPI-P2 Zero has very similar features compared to the earlier BPI-M2 Zero, but is wider due to the addition of an 8GB…
Libre Computer is now on Kickstarter to launch a new hacker SBC with a Raspberry 3-like form factor, layout, and 40-pin expansion interface: The Tritium. It’s available in packages of $9, $19, or $29, depending on whether you want it configured with the Allwinner H2+, Allwinner H3, or Allwinner H5. This is an open hardware…
In the last few years we spoke severl times about this amazing open source camera. It’s very nice to see that this unique open source/open hardware motion picture camera system venture is really moving forward to the point where developers and early adopters alike can now already get their kit (but the operating system of the…
The Raspberry Pi has a new rival, the more powerful but slightly pricier Asus Tinker Board. This is a powerful board highly compatible with current solution and peripherals available in the market and it combines low power consumption with high performance platform. Asus board has a quad-core 1.8GHz Rockchip processor, compared to the quad-core 1.2GHz Broadcom…
Great open source high definition 4K camera, with an interesting update about the new AXIOM Beta: With the AXIOM Beta, we maintained this approach but thought about how we could push the boundaries. Currently, with the HDMI plugin module we are limited to 1080p60 as the highest possible throughput mode (It’s a frequency limitation of…
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