Author: Saumitra Jagdale

Yet another development featuring Espressif Systems’ powerful ESP32-S2 SoC. Unexpected Maker has launched the TinyS2 ESP32-S2 development board. We have seen many boards with this SoC. This includes Olimax’s USB development board and Adafruit’s Wi-fi feather board harnessing the...

We saw Pokit Pro’s second Kickstarter campaign in late 2019. It was a crowdfunding project with AU$30,000 and counting in the November end of 2019. The company’s current press release in 2021 says Pokit PRO has raised over AU$1.66 million from nearly 10,000 backers. Pokit...

Power consumption is a crucial factor for the Internet of Things  (IoT) applications, as it relies on a battery, which has a limited capacity and short service life, to carry out the device’s operations. IoT devices are often deployed in places that are physically difficult to reach...

In December 2020, we saw iBase unveiled the release of the 10th generation intel core Mini ITX motherboard. Now, the company has announced its compact 3.5-inch iBase IB386 SBC featuring Elkhart Lake SoC. There was another 3.5-inch ECM-EHL SBC which had a similar Elkhart Lake SoC but, it...

Detection through cameras and lidar could be efficient but it has some drawbacks. As it requires visibility of the object within its range, thus detection is difficult for invisible and hidden objects. Radar could be an ideal choice for overcoming these drawbacks but it struggles with...

We saw Orange Pi board, a clone of a Raspberry Pi featuring almost all functionalities similar to Raspberry Pi 2. At present, Shenzhen LC Technology has launched a clone of Orange Pi PC known as Cherry Pi PC V7 featuring the same quad-core processor. That is Allwinner’s quad-core H3...

There has been a lot of discussion about the new Raspberry Pi Pico, as it comes with a powerful RP2040 chip and costs just $4 USD. Hence, Pico is an ideal choice for beginners due to its variety of applications at a very low cost. So, the applications have to be first prototyped before...

Computer vision applications have tremendously increased since the progress in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. These applications come at the cost of high-end hardware or cloud support for advanced computations and processing. Hence, STMicroelectronics has...