n-finit-tree – Agoston Nagy

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How I make thumbnails for YouTube

How I make thumbnails for YouTube

Over on the 2nd channel, I posted a video detailing my process for making thumbnails for my YouTube channel:

My videos target a more technical audience—and often deal with subjects crowds like those on HN might find interesting.

Technical audiences don't often enjoy the feeling of being 'bamboozled', especially in subtle ways that feels like...

ESPHome 2025.6.0 adds ESP32-P4 and OpenThread support

The ESPHome 2025.6.0 open-source firmware was released on June 18, 2025, with ESP32-P4 support and an initial OpenThread implementation for ESP32-C6 and ESP32-H2 SoCs, thanks to an upgrade to the ESP-IDF framework to version 5.3.2. The developers note that support for ESP32-C6, ESP32-H2, and ESP32-P4 is still being refined, and some components may not yet be fully compatible with these chips, but additional component updates are planned for ESPHome 2025.7.0 next month. That still means that ESPHome devices can connect to Thread networks and communicate with Home Assistant through the Native API as long as you have an OpenThread border...

Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2 is an AMD Zynq 7010/7020-based board for measurement, control, and signal processing

The Red Pitaya board was first introduced in 2013 as an Xilinx Zynq 7010 SoC FPGA board designed as a high-performance tool acting as an oscilloscope, spectrum analyser, waveform generator, and more. I hadn’t heard about the company much this then, but they must have been doing alright, since Red Pitaya has just started taking pre-orders for the STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2 Starter Kit based on the same AMD Zynq-7010 SoC FPGA, and the STEMlab 125-14 PRO Z7020 Gen 2 Starter Kit with a more powerful Zynq-7020 device. STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2 specifications: SoC FPGA (one or the...

AAEON UP TWL and UP TWLS – Two credit card-sized, wide temperature Twin Lake SBCs

AAEON UP TWL and UP TWLS are two new credit card-sized single board computers (SBCs) based on the Intel Twin Lake processor family and operating in a wide -20°C to 70°C temperature range. Both models feature a Gigabit Ethernet port, three USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and an HDMI video output. The UP TWL SBC also comes with a 40-pin GPIO header, and the processor is underneath the board. The UP TWLS board has a thinner design once cooling is taken into account, similar to the UP 710S released late last year, with the processor positioned on top of the...

Banana Pi Puts RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU into Embedded Platform with Jetson-Like Form Factor

Banana Pi has shared hardware details about an embedded platform built around the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU. Designed for applications such as smart cameras, industrial vision, and embedded AI systems, the BPI-AI2N combines a compact SoM with a versatile carrier board. The BPI-AI2N Core is a 260-pin SO-DIMM module measuring 45 by 69.6 millimeters. […]

ST’s Human Presence Detection (HPD) solution tracks head and posture with AI and VL53L8CP ToF sensor

Back in 2022, we first saw STMicro launch the VL53L5CP ToF presence detection sensor for the PC market with features like user detection, gesture recognition, and intruder alert. Building upon that, the company has recently released its 5th‑generation Human Presence Detection (HPD) solution, built around the VL53L8CP 8×8 multizone Time‑of‑Flight sensor family with edge AI features offered as a turnkey solution for laptops, PCs, monitors, and accessories. We have seen and even tested earlier ToF sensors like the VL53L0X and VL53L1X, which used a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) for single-zone ranging. After that, we saw ST release the VL53L5, which was...

War – Confronting conflict as it is spoken

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War is a near real-time, physical manifestation of the language of conflict. It delivers quotes from news coverage of wars around the world, stripping away context and narrative to present war as it is: familiar, messy, and contradicting.

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GEEKOM Mini IT12 2025 Edition Review – Part 1: Intel Core i7-1280P mini PC specifications, unboxing, and teardown

GEEKOM Mini IT12 2025 Edition is a mini PC with three 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake CPU options: Core i5-12450H, Core i7-1280P, and Core i9-12900HK. It supports up to 64GB of RAM, up to 2TB NVMe SSD, offers various ports such as HDMI 2.0, USB4, and 2.5GbE, and comes with WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity. GEEKOM sent us a review sample of the Mini IT12 with an Intel Core i7-1280P processor, 32GB DDR4, and a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because we previously reviewed the Mini IT12 with an Intel Core i7-12650H in December...

Airgain introduces plug-and-play NimbeLink Skywire Cat 1bis embedded modem for industrial IoT applications

Airgain has recently launched the pre-certified NimbeLink Skywire Cat 1bis Embedded Modem, which it claims is the “industry’s first plug-and-play Cat 1bis modem for end-application use in industrial IoT”. We’ve already seen several Cat 1bis modules for industrial IoT applications such as the u-blox SARA-R10001DE and Cavli C17QS, among others. What Airgain highlights here is its module’s plug-and-play ability through the Skywire interface (two headers), while other modules typically need to be soldered on the PCB. Airgain NimbeLink Skywire Cat 1bis modem specifications: Based on Quectel EG916Q-GL module Cellular 4G LTE Bands LTE-FDD: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B7, B8,...