4-inch round HDMI display offers USB touchscreen for Raspberry Pi, AIDA64, Smart Home, Art projects

VIEWE has launched a 4-inch round HDMI display with 720×720 resolution, and a USB touchscreen function suitable for SBCs like the Raspberry Pi, PCs running AIDA64, Smart Home applications, and Art projects. It looks to build upon the company’s 4-inch square HDMI display using the same control board with a MIPI DSI display interface, HDMI 1.4 input, and a USB Type-C port for power and touch input. VIEWE 4-inch HDMI round display specifications: Display 4-inch round HDMI IPS display with 720×720 resolution ST7703 display driver Brightness – 300 cd/㎡ Active area – 101.52mm ∅ Touchscreen – 5-point capacitive touch screen...

Auvidea X242 – An NVIDIA Jetson Thor T5000 industrial carrier board with dual 10GbE, PCIe x16, CSI-2 camera support

Auvidea X242 is an industrial carrier board for NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor T5000 module, targeting edge AI, robotics, vision, and high-bandwidth embedded systems, mainly in industrial and high-performance commercial applications. The board supports dual 10GbE, PCIe x16 expansion, NVMe storage, 4G LTE/5G M.2, up to four displays through HDMI and DisplayPort Alt Mode over USB-C (rev 3), and multiple cameras through a 16-lane CSI-2 camera connector. The carrier board supports a wide 24–48 V power input with power modes up to 120 W. Industrial features include hot-swap control, reverse and over-voltage protection, and backward compatibility with earlier Auvidea Jetson platforms. Auvidea...

HackyPi 2.0 hacking tool gets ESP32-S3 for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity (Crowdfunding)

HackyPi 2.0 is an ESP32-S3-based USB hacking and automation tool designed for both coders and non-coders. It features AI-assisted control, HID keystroke injection, BadUSB, and a no-code interface for learning, automation, ethical hacking, and overall system interaction. Compared to the original Raspberry Pi RP2040-based HackyPi, the HackyPi 2.0 adds Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, remote access, AI integration, and automatic OS detection, making it far more flexible. It keeps support for BadUSB and HID keystroke injection and also adds features such as mouse jiggler mode, child-safety website blocking, RGB status lighting, and LVGL-based UI support. Everything can be controlled through a...

CrowPanel Advanced 7inch Review – Part 1: ESP32-P4 HMI AI display hands-on with LVGL factory firmware

Elecrow has sent us a sample of the “CrowPanel Advanced 7inch” ESP32-P4 HMI display for review. It is designed for high-performance AI and IoT (AIoT) applications with a 2MP camera module, an ESP32-C6-MINI-1 module for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, and 802.15.4 (Zigbee, Thread, Matter) connectivity. Our kit also shipped with three wireless modules, namely an ESP32-H2 wireless module for an additional Thread, Zigbee, and Matter radio, an SX1262 module for LoRa low-power long-range connectivity, and an nRF2401 2.4 GHz wireless module. In the first part of the review, we will take you through an unboxing of the CrowPanel Advanced 7-inch,...

NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut

NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut

If you were 5 microseconds late today, blame it on NIST.

Their facility in Boulder Colorado just had its power cut for multiple days. After a backup generator failed, their main ensemble clock lost track of UTC, or Universal Time Coordinated.

But even if you used the NTP timing servers they run, they were never off by more than 5 microseconds.

5 μs might seem insignificant. But it is significant for scientists and universities who rely on NIST's more specialized timing...

ESP-Scope is a web-based oscilloscope built using the ESP-IDF framework and Gemini 3 LLM

ESP-Scope is an open-source firmware transforming any ESP32 board into an oscilloscope using one of the ADC pins up to 83,333 Hz sample rate (on the ESP32-C6) and visualizing the results over Wi-Fi in a web browser, be it Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or others. It’s not the first ESP32 oscilloscope project we’ve seen, as last year, we covered Bojan Jurca’s “Esp32_oscilloscope” Arduino sketch doing something very similar. The ESP-Scope is a little different, since it’s based on the ESP-IDF framework, and was used to test AI code generators, specifically “Google Antigravity using Gemini 3, with refinements, hints and tips...

GigaDevice GD32VW553-UNIFI – A $2+ WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 LE wireless IoT module

GD32VW553-UNIFI is an inexpensive wireless IoT module based on GigaDevice GD32VW553 RISC-V microcontroller featuring 2.4 GHz WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 LE connectivity, and offered with a PCB antenna or IPEX antenna connector. The GD32VW553 MCU integrates 320KB SRAM and 4096KB on-chip flash, and supports link rates of up to 114.7 Mbps over WiFi and 2 Mbps over Bluetooth LE. The UNIFI module exposes 18 GPIOs from the microcontroller and is available in two different temperature ranges: -40 to +85°C or -40 to +105°C. GD32VW553-UNIFI specifications: SoC – GigaDevice GD32VW553 CPU – 32-bit RISC-V processor up to 160 MHz with...

Разбираемся с новой мощной платой Orange Pi 6 Plus на базе Armv9 Cix P1 CD8160

Компания Shenzhen Xunlong Software выпустила новую open-source плату на базе 12-ядерного высокопроизводительного процессора Armv9 Cix P1 CD8160. Плата предыдущего поколения Orange PI 5 построена на Rockchip RK3588. Новый процессор Cix P1 состоит из 8 ядер Cortex‑A720 и 4-х Cortex‑A520, и обещает прирост производительности на 300% по сравнению с последним Rockchip RK3588. Ядро Cortex‑A720 было впервые представлено публике в 2023 году и через два года уже готова плата на новых процессорных ядрах. Из коробки работает UEFI/TianoCore EDK II (ED2) с запуском Debian, Android, Windows 11. Под катом разберемся с новой архитектурой Armv9, рассмотрим процессор Cix P1, оценим производительность новой платы и...

Auvidea X242 Carrier Board Brings Dual 10GbE and PCIe Gen 5 to Jetson T5000

Auvidea has released the X242, a high-performance carrier board designed for NVIDIA Jetson T5000 (Jetson Thor) modules. The board targets edge systems that require high-bandwidth I/O, multi-display support, and upgrade paths from earlier Jetson AGX Xavier and Orin platforms. The X242 is designed as a scalable, industrial-grade carrier board intended for commercial deployment volumes. It […]

Luxonis OAK 4 CS Edge-Inference Camera with CS-Mount Optics and PoE

Luxonis has announced the OAK 4 CS, a standalone edge-inference camera designed for industrial and machine-vision deployments that require interchangeable optics, on-device processing, and environmental protection. The OAK 4 CS is built around Luxonis’ RVC4 vision compute platform, combining a 6-core ARMv8 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of onboard storage. The product […]