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June 14, 2026June 14, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Creality Sermoon S1 review – Part 3: 3D scanning with Khadas Mind 2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB dock

Creality Sermoon S1 3D scanner review with Khadas Mind Graphics 2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB dock

At the end of last year, I received a Creality Sermoon S1 high-end 3D scanner for review. After checking the specifications and going through an unboxing in the first part of the review, I used the 3D scanner with an Intel Core i5-13500H laptop with 16GB of RAM running Creality Scan 4 software on Windows 11. The laptop specs were below the minimum hardware requirements (NVIDIA GPU, 32GB RAM), and while I managed to scan a face and bust using infrared mode, it was a struggle with 4 to 5 FPS scanning, and I wasn’t able to use Blue light scanning at all. Luckily, shortly after the review, Khadas informed me they planned to send a Khadas Mind Graphics 2 dock featuring an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 560 Ti 16GB graphics card and a Mind 2 mini PC with 32GB of RAM and an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 16-core Meteor […]

June 4, 2026June 4, 2026 by Debashis Das - No Comments

Avalue EPC-WCL fanless Edge AI mini PC features Intel Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake processor

Avalue EPC WCL Wildcat Lake Fanless Edge AI System

Avalue Technology EPC-WCL is an Intel Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake-powered fanless Edge AI mini PC with up to 40 TOPS of AI performance to handle tasks like real-time inference, vision processing, and speech recognition locally. It ships with up to 48GB DDR5-6400 memory via a single SO-DIMM slot and offers M.2 expansion for NVMe storage, Wi-Fi 7, and 4G LTE/5G cellular modules. Display outputs include HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB Type-C with DP Alt Mode, supporting up to three displays. The USB Type-C port also supports 45W Power Delivery, enabling power, data, and video over a single cable. Avalue EPC-WCL specifications: SoC – Intel Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake processors with five or six cores, Intel Xe3 Graphics, and up to 40 TOPS of combined AI performance. TDP: 15W Memory – Up to 48GB DDR5 6400MHz via 262-pin SO-DIMM socket Storage – M.2 Key-M 2280 slot for NVMe SSD Display HDMI 2.0b […]

May 31, 2026June 2, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 14 Comments

ODROID-H5 Review – Part 2: A dual 10GbE mini PC tested with Ubuntu 26.04

ODROID-H5 review dual 10GbE Ubuntu 26.04

I received a kit for review last week with an ODROID-H5 SBC, a Type1 case, an M.2 10GbE module, and other accessories. In the first part of the review, I went through an unboxing, assembled the kit, and tested whether it could boot an M.2 NVMe SSD with Ubuntu 24.04 and Windows 11. I’ve now updated the system to Ubuntu 26.04, run a few benchmarks, tested the two 10GbE RJ45 ports, as well as other features. I’ll report my experience about all that today. Upgrading from Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04 The 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD I use in the ODROID-H5 comes from a laptop, which I upgraded with a 2TB SSD. That means the operating systems were not upgraded for a few months. While Ubuntu 24.04 could boot, it would not show the two 10GbE interfaces. That’s because the required drivers were not available in the version of Ubuntu […]

May 28, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

AAEON MIX-PTLWV1 Panther Lake industrial mini-ITX motherboard offers quad DisplayPort, dual 10GbE, and more

Industrial Panther Lake mini ITX motherbaord

AAEON MIX-PTLWV1 is an industrial mini-ITX motherboard based on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors with up to two 10GbE and two 2.5GbE RJ45 jacks, and four 4K-capable DisplayPort video outputs. The motherboard also supports up to 128GB DDR5 C/SO-DIMM memory, M.2 NVMe SSD storage, optional WiFi and Bluetooth, and/or 4G LTE/5G cellular via M.2 modules, a PCIe Gen4 x8 slot for expansion, six serial interfaces, 12V-24V wide DC input, and more. AAEON MIX-PTLWV1 specifications: SoC – Intel Panther Lake processor (PTL-H404/PTL-H484 families) with Intel Xe LPG graphics; TDP: 15 to 25W System Memory – Up to 128GB via 2x 262-pin DDR5 C/SO-DIMM sockets up to 6400MHz (H404 SKU) or 7200MHz (H484 SKU) Storage – M.2 2280 M-Key (PCIe Gen4 x4) socket for NVMe SSD Display Interfaces 4x DisplayPort 1.4 up to 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz 40-pin LVDS/eDP co-layout connector for Default: 18/24 bit dual-channel LVDS up […]

May 27, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 4 Comments

ODROID-H5 SBC Review – Part 1: Unboxing, Type1 case assembly, and first boot

ODROID H5 Review Type 1 case Ubuntu 24.04

Hardkernel has sent me a kit with the ODROID-H5 10GbE SBC for review. In addition to the Intel Core i3-300 board itself, the kit also comes with an ODROID-H5 Type-1 case, an M.2 card for a second 10 Gbps Ethernet port, and other accessories. I’ll start the review with an unboxing, my experience assembling the kit, and first boot using an M.2 NVMe SSD with Ubuntu 24.04 and Windows 11 in a dual-boot configuration. In a few weeks, I’ll continue the review after upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04 and perform thorough testing of all features and performance. ODROID-H5 kit unboxing An advantage of the ODROID family is that it’s highly flexible, and you can build your own customized system. For this review, Hardkernel sent me a package with the following items: External LED power button H5 Case Type 1 enclosure ODROID-H5 16GB DDR5 SO-DIMM (Crucial) 15V/4A PSU with US plug adapter […]

May 25, 2026June 14, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Khadas Mind Graphics 2 review – A powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti eGPU dock for the Mind 2 mini PC

Earlier this month, I received the Khadas Mind 2 (Intel Core Ultra 7 155H) mini PC with two accessories connecting through the Mind Link (PCIe x8) connector: The Mind xPlay Display and Keyboard combo, and the Mind Graphics 2 dock, adding a range of interfaces and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU with 16GB of VRAM. After going through the specifications, an unboxing, and a partial teardown in the first part of the review, I tested the Mind xPlay using the Mind and Mind 2 mini PCs running Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04. I’ve now had time to test the Khadas Mind Graphics 2 dock with the Mind 2 mini PC running Windows 11, so I’ll report my experience with the NVIDIA GPU (3D graphics and AI), and test all features, including 2.5GbE networking, the built-in speakers, microphone array, and so on. A few gremlins and system info When […]

May 20, 2026May 20, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 24 Comments

ODROID-H5 – A $250 Intel Core i3-N300 SBC with 10GbE networking, four M.2 PCIe slots

Hardkernel ODROID-H5 is an affordable Intel Core i3-N300 octa-core Alder Lake-N SBC providing a 10GbE RJ45 networking jack, and four M.2 PCIe slots for storage, wired/wireless networking, or AI accelerator expansion. It relies on the same SoC as in the earlier ODROID-H4 Ultra SBC, but trades a single PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 slot and four SATA ports for four M.2 slots, and upgrades from dual 2.5GbE to single 10GbE. It still features four USB ports, but only one USB 3.0 port, and three USB 2.0 ports. ODROID-H5 specifications: SoC- Intel Core i3-N300 CPU – Octa-core “Alder Lake-N” processor @ up to 3.8 GHz (Turbo single-core) or 2.3 GHz (Turbo multi-core) with 6MB cache GPU – 32EU Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.25 GHz TDP: 7W System Memory – Up to 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM memory Storage Up to 4x 2280 NVMe SSDs via M.2 slots (See Expansion section) eMMC flash […]

May 10, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 11 Comments

My experience upgrading the BIOS of a Windows 11 mini PC (with BitLocker) in 2026

I don’t always update the BIOS of my system, but when I do, I always make sure to waste several hours doing so. Last time I did that was in 2020, but this happened again when I updated the BIOS for the Khadas Mind 2 to test it with the Mind xPlay display and Mind Graphics 2 dock. Khadas provides the BIOS with instructions to update the Mind 2 mini PC, and it’s supposed to take five minutes, but I ended up wasting two about hours… The first step is to download and extract a zip file (mind-2-bios-v1.07-260122.zip), then start the Flash_BIOS upgrade program, and finally wait for the upgrade to complete. That part went great. No problem, but when the system rebooted, I was greeted by a BitLocker window asking me to enter a recovery key to carry on with the boot process. There’s no way to avoid this, […]