I wanted to do timelapse video of some plants growing in a pot on my window sill so I wrote Windows 10 IoT Core Universal Windows Platform (UWP) background task to capture images and store them to the local file system of a Raspberry Pi or DragonBoard 410C devices. The first version was pretty rough so for the next one I moved all the…
If you are searching for a more powerful Raspberry Pi alternative, maybe this new ATOMIC Pi by Team IoT might be just the thing. The mini PC powered by a Intel Atom x5-Z8350 quad core processor with 2M Cache has launched via Kickstarter and is now available to back with early bird pledges from $34. The board…
GIGABYTE has recently upgraded his first Apollo Lake sbc – the GA-SBCAP3350- launched one year ago, introducing the new GA-SBCAP3450 which features a Celeron N3450 quad core processor. The SBC comes with an integrated SoC heat spreader to help transfer the SOC’s heat from its die surface and keep everything cool. The company provides drivers with Windows 10…
Dutch developer Bas Timmer revealed images of his Raspberry Pi 3 running Windows 10 just few days ago. We are not talking about the cutdown Internet of Things version of the Windows 10 operating system, but the full version of Windows 10 desktop edition built for the compact computer’s ARM64 architecture.. Bas didn’t divulge all the details…
Minix has now officially launched the NEO N42C-4, with sales starting at the end of December at $299 on Amazon or GearBest. This new Mini Pc comes equipped with an Intel Pentium N4200 quad-core Apollo Lake processor and is supplied preloaded with Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 64-bit operating system. Other features of the mini PC include Gigabit…
The UP Core is a single-board computer that will run a range of operating systems, including ubilinux (Debian), Ubuntu and Yocto, and seemingly offers better performance than the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. However, that additional power comes at a cost. While the Pi 3 sells for $35, the UP Core is on sale from…
Mouser Electronics announced a global distribution agreement with DFRobot, a leading robotics and open source hardware provider. The agreement brings DFRobot’s robotics and maker-focused products to Mouser’s growing open source lineup. The DFRobot product line available from Mouser Electronics focuses on the Gravity Series plug-and-play toolkit and the LattePanda single-board computer. The open source Gravity…
LattePanda is featured with quad-core 1.8Ghz, 2/4G RAM, 32/64 GB eMMC, WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0 and USB 3.0, plus onboard Arduino processor. LattePanda comes pre-installed with a full edition of Windows 10, including powerful tools such as Visual Studio, NodeJS, Java, Processing, and more! The project has been successfully funded on Kickstarter gathering more than £442K…
Thanks to documentation for Audio Engine Core Test found on Microsoft’s MSDN portal, the company clearly lists Windows 10 for desktop, ARM. Also notable is the support for Windows 10 Mobile ARM64 and Windows 10 Mobile x86, the latter could be used to create an Intel powered smartphone that runs the company’s mobile operating system….
Let’s experiment with the embedded version of Microsoft operating system, by installing it on Raspberry Pi, and by building our first applications. In our previous installment we could see some of the movements that are putting Microsoft in contact with the open source world, and we anticipated the release, by Microsoft, of a…
After the partnership between Microsoft and Arduino announced on Build 2015 conference, here are the latest updates on what the Windows 10 giant is releasing to support Arduino: You can now get the Windows Insider Preview of Windows 10 IoT core with the next four technology investments as part of our Arduino partnership: Windows 10…
A nice report from Microsoft on their Windows 10 IoT Core distribution! We are excited to announce that a new Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview is available bringing support for the DragonBoard 410c, which features the Qualcomm®Snapdragon™ 410 processor. This is a board that includes onboard Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and DirectX graphics and is a…
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