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December 8, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

NestDisk – An Intel N150 NAS, mini PC, and AI Box with four M.2 PCIe slots

Youyeetoo NestDisk in an Intel N150 mini PC that can be used as a mini NAS or AI box, thanks to four M.2 PCIe slots that can be fitted with NVMe SSDs or AI accelerator cards and two 2.5GbE network ports. The computer features 12GB LPDDR5 of memory, a 64GB eMMC flash, two HDMI 2.1 ports, a headphone jack, WiFi 6 connectivity, a full-function USB-C port, and three USB 3.2 ports. It’s not a fanless design, since it’s actively cooled with a 30mm internal “silent fan”, and an external USB dual fan accessory is available as an option. NestDisk specifications: SoC Intel Processor N150 (default) Quad-core “Twin Lake” processor @ up to 3.6 GHz (Turbo) with 6MB cache GPU – 24EU Intel UHD graphics @ 1000 MHz Options for Processor N250, N350, or N350 CPUs (but not for sale yet) Memory – 12GB LPDDR5 (option for 6GB, 16GB); note: soldered […]

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 by Debashis Das - No Comments

Nordic nRF7002 EBII adds dual-band Wi-Fi 6 to nRF54L series development kits

Nordic has introduced the nRF7002 EBII as an updated Wi-Fi 6 expansion board for its nRF54L series development kits. The earlier nRF7002 WiFi 6 board was a low-cost add-on for the Thingy:53, mainly for basic prototyping. The new EBII is designed for the newer nRF54L series of SoCs with dual-band Wi-Fi 6 support, power-profiling options, and more. Built around the nRF7002 Wi-Fi Companion IC, it supports Wi-Fi 6 features such as TWT, OFDMA, and BSS coloring for power efficiency and reduced interference. The EBII communicates with nRF54L15 and nRF54LM20 DKs through SPI/QSPI host interfaces, and includes headers for power profiling. Additionally, it features an onboard chip antenna, supports both STA and SoftAP modes, and maintains backward compatibility with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac. These features make it suitable for low-power multiprotocol IoT devices in smart homes, Matter, industrial sensing, wearables, and connected health applications. nRF7002 Expansion Board II specifications: Wi-Fi Companion IC – Nordic nRF7002 […]

December 6, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 5 Comments

ESP32-C6-Devkit-Lipo – A small, open-source hardware ESP32-C6 board with battery support, UEXT connector

Olimex ESP32-C6-DevKit-Lipo board is a small open-source hardware board based on the ESP32-C6 WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 LE, and Zigbee/Thread SoC with support for LiPo batteries and UEXT expansion modules. It’s the second announcement from the company this week, and comes after they introduced the MOD-ESP32-C5 to add wireless connectivity to boards equipped with a UEXT connector. The ESP32-C6-DevKit-Lipo adds to the list of small ESP32-C6 USB-C boards, such as the 01Space ESP32-C6 board and Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C6, among many others. It’s actually larger than most similar boards, but differentiates itself with its open-hardware design, dual USB-C design, breadboard compatibility, LiPo battery circuitry, and a UEXT connector. ESP32-C6-Devkit-Lipo specifications: Wireless module – ESP32-C6-WROOM-1-N4 module Espressif Systems ESP32-C6 SoC CPU – Single-core 32-bit RISC-V processor @ 160 MHz Memory – 512KB SRAM, 16KB low-power SRAM Wireless 2.4 GHz WiFi 6 1T1R with Target Wake Time (TWT) support Bluetooth LE 5.0 […]

December 5, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Rikomagic DS08 – A Rockchip RK3588-powered 8K digital signage player with RTC and watchdog support

Rikomagic DS08 is a Rockchip RK3588-powered Android 13 digital signage player with 8K and 4K HDMI video outputs, RTC and watchdog support, and support for portrait and landscape orientation. It looks to be an update to the Rockchip RK3288-powered Rikikomagic DS02 introduced in 2020. The new model appears to have the same enclosure, but with a slightly different port layout, and much better specifications. Besides an octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 SoC, the system ships with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB eMMC flash, and features a Gigabit Ethernet port, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, optional 4G LTE, and a few USB ports. Rikomagic DS08 specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3588 CPU – Octa-core 64-bit Armv8 SoC with 4x Cortex-A76 cores @ 2.4GHz, 4x Cortex-A55 cores @ 1.8 GHz GPU – Arm Mali-G610 MP4 with support for OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.2, Vulkan 1.1 NPU – Up to 6 TOPS, supports INT4/INT8/INT16, compatible […]

December 5, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 2 Comments

Edgi-Talk machine learning development kit features Infineon PSOC Edge E84 Edge AI SoC (Crowdfunding)

Edgi-Talk is a machine learning platform/development kit powered by an Infineon PSOC Edge E84 Arm Cortex-M55/M33 SoC featuring Arm Helium, an Arm Ethos-U55 micro NPU, and an ultra-low-power NNLite neural network accelerator, all of which enable AI/ML processing at varying power/performance levels. The devkit also comes with 128 MB PSRAM, 128MB QSPI flash, a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen display, two digital microphones, a speaker, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth LE 6.0 wireless connectivity, motion and environmental sensors, as well as a 40-pin Raspberry Pi header and two PMOD connectors for expansion. Edgi-Talk specifications: SoC – Infineon PSOC Edge E84 CPU Arm Cortex-M55 @ 400 MHz with FPU, MPU, Arm Helium support, 256KB i-TCM, 256KB D-TCM, and 5MB SRAM Arm Cortex-M33 @ 200 MHz with 1MB SRAM, 64KB ROM GPU – Low-power 2.5D GPU NPU – Dual architecture Arm Ethos-U55 NPU + NNLITE NPU System Memory – 128 MB PSRAM Storage 128 MB […]

December 4, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 18 Comments

MetaComputing AI PC with Framework Laptop 13 features CIX P1 12-core Arm processor with up to 45 TOPS

MetaComputing, a Switzerland-based company founded in 2024, has announced the “MetaComputing AI PC with Framework Laptop 13” featuring the same CIX P1 12-core Cortex-A720/A520 SoC with 45 TOPS found in SBCs like the Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus, or the MINISFORUM MS-R1 mini PC. As far as I know, it’s the first laptop based on CIX P1. It features 16GB or 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD and ships with the Framework Laptop 13 chassis (Pro model). There’s also a “Standard” model with a co-branded Framework and Cooler Master Case. MetaComputing AI PC specifications (preliminary): SoC – CIX P1 (CP8180) 12-core DynamIQ processor 4x Cortex‑A720 big cores @ up to 2.6 GHz 4x Cortex‑A720 medium cores 4x Cortex‑A520 LITTLE cores Cache – 12MB shared L3 cache GPU – Arm Immortalis G720 MC10 with hardware ray-tracing support, graphics APIs: Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0 VPU Video […]

November 28, 2025November 28, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Easily create an ESP32-C5 dual-band Wi-Fi analyzer

Chen Liang (陳亮) has found an interesting use case for the Espressif ESP32-C5: a dual-band Wi-Fi analyzer showing the signal strength of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi access points in your area. It works like one of the Wi-Fi analyzer apps on your phone, except it relies on an ESP32-C5 board and a display support for the Arduino_GFX libraries, for example, based on the ILI9341 driver, as it’s easier for beginners since the code does not need to be changed. Here’s what it looks like. You can follow the instructions provided by Chen to reproduce the setup. It’s fairly straightforward. He specifically used an ESP32-C5-DevkitC-1 board (or one of the clones) along with an ILI9341 display (not sure about the exact model, but any should do) and wired them together using a breadboard as shown in the photo below. You’ll then need to fire up the Arduino IDE, install Arduino […]

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 by Debashis Das - 8 Comments

Waveshare ESP32-P4 + ESP32-C6 PoE development board targets HMI and IoT applications

Waveshare has recently launched ESP32-P4-WIFI6-POE-ETH, a compact development board with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 (LE), OTG, Ethernet, and PoE support, for various HMI and IoT applications. The board supports 100Mbps Ethernet with PoE, MIPI-CSI, MIPI-DSI, USB 2.0 OTG, audio codec + amplifier, microphone, MicroSD card slot, and 40-pin GPIO expansion. Other peripherals include I2S, I2C, SPI, UART, PWM, MCPWM, RMT, ADC, and TWAI, alongside security features like secure boot, flash encryption, crypto accelerators, TRNG, and privilege separation. These features make it suitable for HMI terminals, smart panels, multimedia control interfaces, local edge AI, and IoT gateways. Waveshare ESP32-P4-WIFI6-POE-ETH specifications: Wireless module – ESP32-P4-Core Microcontroller – ESP32-P4NRW32 MCU Dual-core RISC-V microcontroller @ 400 MHz with AI instructions extension and single-precision FPU Single-RISC-V LP (Low-power) MCU core @ up to 40 MHz GPU – 2D Pixel Processing Accelerator (PPA) VPU – H.264 and JPEG codecs support Memory – 768 KB HP L2MEM, […]