reComputer Mini J501 Provides Jetson AGX Orin Connectivity in a Reduced Footprint

The reComputer Mini J501 is Seeed Studio’s upcoming carrier board for NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Orin module. Its 110mm × 110mm design offers a compact platform for robotics while retaining the connectivity needed for perception and control. The board supports the Jetson AGX Orin module, which integrates an Arm-based CPU cluster, Ampere GPU architecture, and dedicated […]

Name that Ware, November 2025

The Ware for November 2025 is shown below.

This one is hopefully a bit easier to guess compared to last month’s ware! Pictured is just one board of a two board set, but the second board is a bit too much of a dead give-away so it’s been omitted. Thanks to Sam for thinking on her feet and snatching this board so that it could be donated to the contest!

Winner, Name that Ware October 2025

Last month’s ware is an ADAS1010, described on the Analog devices website as a “15 Lead ECG Vital Signs Monitor Module with Respiration, Temperature and Blood Pressure Measurement”. It advertises a “robust, with electromagnetic interference (EMI), shock, and vibration resistant packaging”.

This is one of the more over-engineered solutions I’ve seen. I’m guessing that the middle layer of the three-layer stack is probably hollowed out, such that the surrounding boards create a Faraday cage. This would allow sensitive ECG front-end circuitry to be placed inside a shielded “container” that also doubles as a connector between the front and back boards.

This one...

SMHUB Nano Mg24 compact Linux-based Zigbee/Thread Smart Hub combines SG2000 RISC-V SoC with MG24 wireless MCU

SMLight’s SMHUB Nano Mg24 may look like the company’s earlier SLZB-06p Zigbee to Ethernet/WiFi/USB coordinators, but it’s a more powerful Linux-based Zigbee/Thread Smart Hub that pairs SOPHGO SG2000 RISC-V SoC with Silicon Labs MG24 multi-protocol wireless MCU. Unlike traditional Zigbee/Thread adapters that connect to a host through USB or Ethernet, the SMHUB Nano Mg24 is an all-in-one solution that runs all major automation apps directly on the device, eliminating the need for a Raspberry Pi, Mini PC, or other hardware server. SMHUB Nano Mg24 specifications: SoC – SOPHGO SG2000 CPU cores 1x C906 64-bit RISC-V core @ 1GHz or 1x Arm Cortex-A53...

Dual-Radio T-Lora Dual Supports LoRa at 150–960 MHz and 2.4 GHz

LILYGO has introduced the T-Lora Dual LR, a compact board that integrates an ESP32-S3R8 microcontroller with two LR1121 transceivers, combining Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, and LoRa across sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz bands. The module uses the ESP32-S3R8 as its main processor. It features a dual-core LX7 architecture and includes integrated wireless connectivity for Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n […]

DIN-rail mountable LoRaWAN control terminal offers RS485, analog input, and digital I/Os

The DFRobot LoRaWAN Control Terminal is a compact, DIN-rail mountable industrial IIoT terminal that features long-range LoRaWAN connectivity with local sensing and control capabilities. It’s designed for industrial, agricultural, and building-automation scenarios that need reliable, low-power wireless communication up to 4 km. The terminal supports the standard LoRaWAN protocol (OTAA/ABP, Class A/C) with up to 4 km line-of-sight range and works with private gateways or public networks like TTN. It integrates a 0–10V analog input, optically isolated digital inputs, and RS485/Modbus sensor support, along with a built-in relay output for direct actuation. There’s also support for visual rule-based automation for...

Easily create an ESP32-C5 dual-band Wi-Fi analyzer

Chen Liang (陳亮) has found an interesting use case for the Espressif ESP32-C5: a dual-band Wi-Fi analyzer showing the signal strength of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi access points in your area. It works like one of the Wi-Fi analyzer apps on your phone, except it relies on an ESP32-C5 board and a display support for the Arduino_GFX libraries, for example, based on the ILI9341 driver, as it’s easier for beginners since the code does not need to be changed. Here’s what it looks like. You can follow the instructions provided by Chen to reproduce the setup. It’s fairly straightforward....

Кустарные вакуумные триоды Клода Паяра. Часть 3. Установка ТВЧ

Продолжим обзор оборудования французского коллеги-энтузиаста Клода Пайяра, с его самодельным кустарным мини-производством триода ТМ [1] — первого серийного высоковакуумного прибора 1920-х годов, с невысокими (относительно прежних «ионных» газонаполненных ламп), но так нужными пользователю, стабильными параметрами. В части №1 мы познакомились с самим Клодом и его огневым оснащением, в части №2 рассмотрели простую технологическую мини-печь для отжига стеклянных деталей и аппарат для контактной сварки. Здесь же, мы взглянем на его установку ТВЧ — её создание и настройку.

COM Express Type 6 module targets Edge AI applications with an up 99 TOPS Intel Core Ultra 9 “Arrow Lake” CPU

AAEON COM-ARHC6 is a COM Express Type 6 Compact module powered by a choice of Intel Arrow Lake processors up to the 16-core Core Ultra 9 285H processor, delivering up to 99 TOPS for high-performance Edge AI applications such as diagnostic imaging equipment and automated optical inspection. The Computer-on-Module features two SO-DIMM sockets for up to 128GB DDR5 at 6400MHz, an optional 256GB NVMe SSD BGA chip, a 2.5GbE controller, two MIPI CSI connectors, and two standard 220-pin board-to-board connectors exposing SATA, display (HDMI, DP, LVDS/eDP, VGA), SATA, and USB interfaces, as well as several PCIe and PEG interfaces. COM-ARHC6...

Программирование для Windows 1.0 в 2025 году

"...Одним из примеров громоздкой и, по мнению авторов, бесполезной надстройки является интегрированная система WINDOWS фирмы Microsoft. Эта система занимает почти 1 Мбайт дисковой памяти и рассчитана на преимущественное использование совместно с устройством типа "мышь"." - вы точно знаете, откуда это

Приветствую всех! Буквально неделю назад прошло сорок лет с момента выхода первой релизной версии Windows. Именно в тот день в 1985 году началась история ныне повсеместно распространённой ОС.

И вот, узнав об этом, я подумал: а что, если попробовать запустить эту ОС и узнать, как предполагалось писать софт для неё? Именно этим мы сейчас и займёмся. Заодно и узнаем, насколько это было...