Three high-performance RISC-V processors to watch in H2 2025: UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, and SpacemIT K3

Some high-performance RISC-V processors are in the pipeline for the rest of the year 2025, namely UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, and SpacemIT K3. We currently have limited information about each of those processors, but let’s see what information we can gather from the web, mostly as a result of the recent RISC-V Summit in China. UltraRISC UR-DP1000  – Octa-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC The first SoC is the UR-DP1000 octa-core from UltraRISC (the website loads slowly, and I could not find anything about the UR-DP1000 there). It will be used in Shenzhen Milk-V Technology’s Titan mini-ITX motherboard, and Sipeed also posted...

Luckfox Lyra Pi – A Raspberry Pi-like SBC with Rockchip RK3506B triple-core SoC, two Ethernet ports

The Luckfox Lyra Pi is a compact, Raspberry Pi-sized SBC built around the Luckfox Core3506 core board with a Rockchip RK3506B triple-core Cortex-A7 processor with an additional Cortex-M0 core for IoT, edge computing, and industrial control applications. The board features 512MB DDR3L RAM, optional 8GB eMMC flash, a microSD card slot, dual 10/100Mbps Ethernet with optional PoE, MIPI DSI, USB Type-A and Type-C ports, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a 40-pin GPIO header for Raspberry Pi HATs. The SBC also supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, includes an M.2 slot for an optional 4G LTE module, and offers RS-485 and...

RP2350pc now have Plastic Box

RP2350pc is all in one computer with RP2350B microcontroller from Raspberry pi. It have 4 USB hosts, USB-C for programming, USB-C for power supply, ON/OFF switch, Two UEXT connectors, DVI/HDMI output and Audio input and output including Audio amplifier. The board have internal LiPo charger and step up converter and can work on Lipo battery […]

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit to Launch in Mid-August with 2070 TFLOPS AI Performance, Priced at $3499

The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit is an upcoming high-performance platform built for next-generation humanoid robotics, real-time sensor fusion, and generative AI at the edge. It delivers up to 2070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI performance, includes 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and supports high-throughput, low-latency connectivity for deploying large transformer and vision-language models in real-time […]

Core1121 sub-GHz, S-Band, and 2.4GHz LoRa module features through holes and castellated edges

The Waveshare Core1121 is a compact, multi-band LoRa module based on the Semtech LR1121 transceiver with support for Sub-GHz (150–960MHz), S-band (1.9–2.1GHz), and 2.4GHz ISM bands, and exposing GPIOs through both through and castellated holes. Key features include support for LoRa, (G)FSK, and LR-FHSS modulation schemes, AES-128 encryption, and compatibility with the SX126X/SX127X series for easy migration. We just noted Seeed Studio’s Wio-LR1121 last week with a very similar, yet more compact design with only castellated holes, and before that, the LR1121 was used in the MuRata Type-2GT module and a LILYGO module as an option for the T-Eth Elite board. Core1121...

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

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Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-style lights caught his eye—the "AGC Confirm" light suggested a connection with the Apollo Guidance Computer. Disappointingly, the box was just an empty chassis and the circuit boards were all missing. He continued to poke around the warehouse when, to his surprise, he found a bag on the other side of the warehouse that contained the missing boards! After reuniting the box with its wayward circuit cards, he brought it to us: could we make this undocumented unit work?

Common – An experimental typography project by Ian Mitchell

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A meta-hybrid font derived from four of the most common sans-serif typefaces – Akzidenz Grotesk, Helvetica, Univers and Arial. Could this font, eponymously named Common, be seen as a shared resource for collective benefit?

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The Seventy Degree Route – Mobility, infrastructure, and media in a climate-altered landscape

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The Seventy Degree Route follows climatologist Brian Brettschneider’s proposal—a year-long road trip across the U.S., always maintaning a constant 70°F (21°C). The project uses this route to explore how mobility, infrastructure, and media intersect in a climate-altered landscape.

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Transparent Flex Boards by JLC

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Transparent Flex ESP32 Development Board, manufactured by JLC. Features integrated NeoPixels, 2 Bosch sensors, and a LiDAR proximity sensor. See also their Arduino UNO (transparent) range.

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Pico-ITX SBC features Intel Processor N150 or Core 3 N355 Twin Lake CPU, DDR5 SO-DIMM memory slot

Want a Twin Lake Pico-ITX SBC? That’s what AAEON offers with the PICO-TWL4 single board computer equipped with either an Intel Processor N150 quad-core CPU or an Intel Core 3 N355 octa-core SoC, and available in either commercial or industrial temperature grade. The board features a SO-DIMM socket for DDR5 memory, a SATA and mSATA storage, two display interfaces (HDMI and eDP/LVDS), 2.5GbE and GbE RJ45 ports, USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and M.2 and mPCIe sockets for expansion. By default, the board supports 12V DC power, but AAEON offers a 9V to 36V DC input option. AAEON PICO-TWL4 specifications:...