Sipeed NanoKVM Pro – A 4K IP-KVM with ATX and Desk versions, PiKVM/NanoKVM firmware support

The Sipeed NanoKVM Pro is a compact 4K IP-KVM with PiKVM/NanoKVM firmware support and is designed for BIOS-level remote management of servers and desktop PCs. It is primarily used in data centers, IT administration, and home labs for remote power cycling, system installation, and secure batch management. It comes in two variants, where the desk variant adds user-facing controls similar to the GL.iNet Comet Pro KVM over WiFi solution, and the ATX version is built for internal chassis or rack installation. Both modules come with 4K video capture with HDMI loopout, ultra-low 50–100 ms latency, USB keyboard/mouse emulation, GbE LAN,...

CAD, From Scratch: MakerCAD

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It’s likely that many of you use some form of CAD package, but how many of you have decided you didn’t like the software on offer? [Marcus Wu] did, and instead of griping, he wrote his own CAD software. It’s called MakerCAD, it’s published under an MIT licence, and you can try it yourself.

It’s written in Go, and it’s superficially similar to OpenSCAD in that the interface is through code. The similarity is skin deep though, as it provides the user with constraint solving as described in the video below the break.

As it stands it’s by no means feature complete,...

Fusion Chime Vision – An ESP32-powered smart doorbell system (Crowdfunding)

Fusion Chime Vision is an open-source smart doorbell system comprised of three items, each powered by an ESP32 WiFi and Bluetooth MCU: a doorbell based on the ESP32-CAM board, a 2.4-inch display, a microphone, and a speaker; a smart chime with a 0.96 OLED and a speaker; and an indoor display with a 3.5-inch IPS LCD,  a speaker, and a microphone. Fusion Chime Vision doorbell Specifications: ESP32-CAM board SoC – ESP32 microcontroller CPU – Dual-core Tensilica LX6 @ up to 240 MHz Memory – 520 KB SRAM Wireless 802.11 b/g/n WiFi 4, Bluetooth 4.2 Memory – 4MBit PSRAM Storage –...

OnLogic Karbon 521 Rugged Industrial PC Powered by Intel Core Ultra

OnLogic has announced the Karbon 521, a rugged, low-profile industrial computer powered by Intel Core Ultra processors. Designed for edge deployments, automation, and in-vehicle systems, the unit combines Intel Arc graphics, up to 96 GB of DDR5 memory, and vPro support for remote management in a fanless chassis tested for extreme conditions. The Karbon 521 […]

Why Super Mario 64 Wastes So Much Memory

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The Nintendo 64 was an amazing video game console, and alongside consoles like the Sony PlayStation, helped herald in the era of 3D games. That said, it was new hardware, with new development tools, and thus creating those early N64 games was a daunting task. In an in-depth review of Super Mario 64’s code, [Kaze Emanuar] goes over the curious and wasteful memory usage, mostly due to unused memory map sections, unoptimized math look-up tables, and greedy asset loading.

The game as delivered in the Japanese and North-American markets also seems to have been a debug build, with unneeded code everywhere. That...

AAEON MIX-MTLD1 Delivers Intel Core Ultra and OOB Management to Mini-ITX

AAEON has released the MIX-MTLD1, a Mini-ITX motherboard featuring Intel Core Ultra processors, Intel Arc graphics, and an on-chip AI Boost NPU. Built on Intel’s multi-pillar die architecture, the design combines CPU, GPU, and NPU resources to accelerate inference workloads and expand deployment potential across AI-driven and edge applications. The platform is powered by Intel […]

NXP MCX A34 mixed-signal Cortex-M33 MCU delivers 17x faster math acceleration for motor control and HVAC systems

NXP has launched the MCX A34 mixed-signal Arm Cortex-M33 industrial MCU, an upgrade of the MCX A14x and MCX A15x MCUs, which were introduced in 2024. While the A14x/A15x offered Cortex-M33 cores up to 96 MHz, 128 KB Flash, 32 KB SRAM, a 12-bit ADC, the A34 scales up with a 180 MHz core, up to 1 MB Flash, 256 KB SRAM, four 16-bit ADCs (3.2 Msps), four OpAmps, a 12-bit DAC, and FlexPWM with enhanced quadrature decoding. It also features a dedicated Math Acceleration Unit (MAU) that executes trigonometric, reciprocal, and square root operations up to 17x faster than...

GIGAIPC 3.5-inch Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake SBCs target smart parking, medical devices, and smart retail solutions

GIGAIPC QBiP-155UB and QBiP-125UB 3.5-inch Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake SBCs are designed for power-constrained edge applications such as smart parking systems, precision medical devices, and intelligent retail solutions. They are powered by either an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H or Core Ultra 7 155H SoC, support up to 96GB DDR5, SATA and NVMe storage, three video interfaces through two HDMI ports and an LVDS connector, and feature two 2.5GbE ports, an M.2 E-Key socket for WiFi and Bluetooth, a mini PCIe socket for 4G LTE or 5G cellular connectivity, and a few USB and serial interfaces. GIGAIPC QBiP-155UB/QBiP-125UB specifications:...

How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I'd give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi.

I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My configuration for these Arm NASes is up on GitHub.

Ugoos AM9 Android 14 TV box features Amlogic S905X5 Armv9 SoC, supports H.266 and AV1 codecs

Ugoos AM9 is an Android 14 TV box powered by an Amlogic S905X5 quad-core (Armv9) Cortex-A510 SoC, which supports features such as H.266 and AV1 hardware video decoding and AI Super Resolution (AI-SR) through the built-in 4 TOPS NPU. We first noted the Amlogic S905X5 SoC in an upcoming SEI Robotics TV box about two years ago. Details were sparse at the time, and in the meantime, Amlogic introduced the similarly named S905X5M, which is still a “regular” Armv8 SoC with four Cortex-A55 cores, and found in products such as ODROID-C5 SBC and Ugoos X5M Pro. However, I had not...