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September 2, 2025September 2, 2025 by Sponsored Post - No Comments

ACMER X1 – A large 3-in-1 120W & 4W IR water-cooled Laser engraver & CNC router (Sponsored)

ACMER X1 3-in-1 laser engraver and CNC router

ACMER X1 Ultra is a DIY maker’s dream, featuring a large 3-in-1 120W diode, 4W IR laser engraver, and CNC router with a large work area of around 2.5 x 1.2 meters, catering to the needs of most users. However, the company is fully aware that different users have different needs, so they create different versions of the machine: the X1 with a work area of 76.7 x 76.7 cm and no CNC support, the X1 Plus with a work area of about 1.2 x 1.2 meters, and the aforementioned X1 Ultra. You’ll find the key specifications for all three variants of the ACMER X1 machine in the table below. The 120W diode in the professional-grade laser system supports speeds of up to 3,0000mm/min. It’s 3-4 times faster and can cut workpieces twice as thick compared to a traditional 40W laser engraver, and delivers 6 times higher energy efficiency compared to […]

September 2, 2025September 1, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

RIMU modular IoT controller features 4.3-inch touchscreen display, stackable design for expansion (Crowdfunding)

DENGTEC RIMU is a modular ESP32-S3-powered IoT controller with a 4.3-inch touchscreen display and magnetic pogo pins to add a range of stackable modules for I/Os, RGB LED and DMX512 lighting control, power monitoring, and more. The RIMU host is equipped with 32MB NOR flash for the firmware, either 4GB or 8GB SD NAND flash for data storage, an I/O port for expansion, a buzzer, a gyroscope, a vibration motor, and more. It can be mounted using its tripod thread or on a DIN rail with an adapter. It features a 1,050 mAh battery that can be charged through the device’s USB Type-C port. RIMU specifications: SoC – Espressif Systems ESP32-S3R16V dual-core MCU @ 240 MHz with Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth LE Storage 32MB NOR flash (MX25UM25645GXDI00) 4GB or 8GB NAND flash (CSNP32GCR01-AOW or CSNP64GCR01-AOW) Display – 4.3-inch capacitive touch TFT LCD with 800 × 480 resolution USB – USB […]

August 28, 2025 by Debashis Das - 3 Comments

Xerxes Pi – A Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5 carrier board with a rack-friendly design (Crowdfunding)

Xerxes Pi A cross vendor compute module carrier board

Designed by Rapid Analysis in Australia, the Xerxes Pi is a cross-vendor compute module carrier board that fits into a 1U rack and supports Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5, Radxa CM5, Banana Pi CM4/CM5, and Orange Pi CM4/CM5 compute modules. Designed at just one-third the size of a Nano-ITX board (120 × 40 mm), it’s ideal for home lab and small business servers looking for a low-cost way to run Docker containers and other open-source software. For storage, the carrier board includes a microSD card, and an M.2 E-Key slot enables support for accelerators or peripherals. Additionally, it features an I²C/SPI header and optional PoE via add-on boards or splitters. The design is well thought out and comes with a thermally efficient design with ventilated enclosures, optional PLA or metal heatsinks, and open-source 3D printable rack cases (single or multi-board). With open schematics, 3D files, Xerxes Pi targets DIY electronics, clustered computing, edge servers, […]

August 27, 2025August 28, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 3 Comments

GL.iNet Comet Pro Remote KVM over WiFi 6 solution offers 2.2-inch touchscreen display, HDMI loop support (Crowdfunding)

GL.iNet Comet Pro (GL-RM10) is a remote KVM over WiFi 6 or Ethernet with a built-in touchscreen display for easy configuration, and support for 4Kp30 with a low latency of 30-60 ms with H.264 hardware encoding. Like other KVM solutions, it allows users to control a computer or board remotely, even when it’s turned off or when accessing the BIOS. It’s built upon the Comet (GL-RM1) KVM over IP solution, adding WiFi 6, HDMI pass-through, and a touchscreen display for easy configuration. It still features a USB-C port for keyboard and mouse emulation, and a USB-A port for ATX power control or a Fingerbot device. The new model also relies on a more powerful quad-core Cortex-A53 SoC and is equipped with 32GB eMMC flash, overcoming the 8GB flash limitation of the low-cost model. Comet Pro (GL-RM10) specifications: SoC – Quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU @ 1.5 GHz; potentially a Rockchip RV1126B, since […]

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 9 Comments

VisionFive 2 Lite low-cost RISC-V SBC launched for $19.90 and up (Crowdfunding)

StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite is a low-cost, credit card-sized RISC-V SBC powered by a 1.25 GHz JH7110S quad-core 64-bit processor and equipped with 2GB to 8GB RAM, and a microSD card slot for storage. It’s the little brother of the VisionFive 2 Pico-ITX SBC introduced in 2022, but in a more compact Raspberry Pi-like form factor with an M.2 2242 socket for storage, Gigabit Ethernet, optional WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4, four USB ports, HDMI 2.0, MIPI DSI and CSI connector, and a 40-pin GPIO header. VisionFive 2 Lite specifications: SoC – StarFive JH7110S (a low-cost version of the JH7110 clocked up to 1.25 GHz) CPU – Quad-core 64-bit RISC-V (SiFive U74 – RV64GC) processor @ up to 1.25 GHz GPU – Imagination BXE-4-32 GPU supporting OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan 1.2 VPU 4Kp60 H.265/H.264 video decoder 1080p30 H.265 video encoder JPEG encoder/decoder System Memory – 2GB, 4GB, or […]

August 5, 2025August 5, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 5 Comments

Argon ONE UP – A Raspberry Pi CM5-powered 14-inch laptop (Crowdfunding)

Argon 40 is better known for its Argon ONE Raspberry Pi enclosures, but the company has now launched a crowdfunding campaign for the Argon ONE UP 14-inch laptop powered by the Raspberry Pi CM5 module. We’ve already covered a range of Raspberry Pi 4/5 laptops, but existing models are either rather thick or the Raspberry Pi 5 is placed on the side of a laptop shell, not ideal for portability. The Argon ONE UP looks like a proper laptop, as thin as a typical consumer laptop, while keeping Raspberry Pi features such as access to the GPIO pins. The description is rather garbage, like on all recent Kickstarter campaigns we’ve covered, with low-resolution GIF animations and text in photos (instead of actual text), but I did my best to reconstruct the Argon ONE UP specifications: SoM – Raspberry Pi CM5 (included or BYO) SoC – Broadcom BCM2712 CPU – Quad-core […]

July 30, 2025July 31, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 3 Comments

ALPON X5 – A Raspberry Pi CM5 Edge AI computer with 25 TOPS accelerator, 4G LTE connectivity (Crowdfunding)

The Raspberry Pi CM4-powered ALPON X4 was introduced last April, but SixFab has now upped the ante with the ALPON X5 Edge AI computer based on a Raspberry Pi CM5, and equipped with a 25 TOPS DeepX DX-M1 AI accelerator capable of competing against NVIDIA Jetson solutions. The fanless mini PC still offers dual Ethernet, WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and global 4G LTE connectivity, an HDMI video output, a GPIO RJ11 jack, and USB PD and 9V-30V DC power options. The new model also adds a camera input connector and features two USB 3.0 ports instead of USB 2.0 ones. ALPON X5 specifications (“reverse-engineered”, because SixFab could not bother to list the specs…): SoM – Raspberry Pi CM5 AI Accelerator – M.2 module based on DeepX DX-M1 25 TOPS (200 eTOPS) AI accelerator Storage – M.2 NVMe SSD support Video Output – HDMI output Camera – Micro HDMI (TBD) camera […]

July 3, 2025July 2, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

OpenWheely is a 4WD robot car based on ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 WiFi and BLE module (Crowdfunding)

Sanket Garg’s OpenWheely is a 4WD robot car based on Espressif ESP32-S3-WROOM WiFi and Bluetooth LE module that is equipped with a 2-inch display, a 5MP camera, and various sensors. The robot car can drive upside down, follow sound and light, stream live video, and operate in a swarm. It can be controlled from a Phone, a PC, or an infrared TV remote, but Sanket also designed an ESP32-S3 gamepad with a 2.0-inch display and two joysticks to control the car. We’re also told OpenWheely can be used by students, educators, developers, gamers, and robotic enthusiasts. OpenWheely robot car specifications: Wireless Module – ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 SoC – Espressif Systems ESP32-S3 CPU – Dual-core Tensilica LX7 up to 240 MHz with vector extension for AI/ML workloads RAM – 512KB SRAM Storage – TBD Wireless – WiFi 4 and Bluetooth LE 5 Antenna – PCB antenna Display – 2.0-inch LCD screen Camera – […]