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February 2, 2020February 1, 2020

Sania Box Raspberry Pi 4 based DIY Kit is Designed for STEM Education (Crowdfunding)

Sania Box, A Special Kind of DIY RPi4 Based Kit The 13-year-old Sania Jain is a young entrepreneur, published writer and tech aficionado who now offers an embedded computer kit called Sania Box. The Raspberry Pi 4 based embedded system kit comes with an add-on board and has been designed to develop coding skills in anyone 8 years old or more, and for learning IoT, STEM, and for all kinds of DIY fun. Background Some DIY RPi-based kits can be found in our archives, such as the Piper Computer Kit 2 made for children’s education, but there’s now another option thanks to Sania Jain who has been designing, building, and writing in the STEM arena for some time. Sania Jain’s accomplishments are amazing, and look to be just her beginning in STEM-based endeavors. A Concept With Wide Reach The Sania Box was conceived by Sania Jain and built by Moonshot […]

September 23, 2019

Piper Computer Kit 2 is a DIY Raspberry Pi 3 Computer for Kids’ Education

Kids can easily build theirs own computer and then learn more about electronics and programming thanks to Piper Computer Kit 2. The kit is based on Raspberry Pi 3 SBC, a 9″ display, a power bank, and all bits and pieces required for assembly. There’s also a 16GB microSD with the OS and the company’s PiperCode software to learn the basics of programming. The complete kit comes with the following items: SBC – Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Storage – 16GB MicroSD card Display – 9″ 1024 x 600 LCD display with HDMI cable Audio – Integrated speaker 25+ laser-etched wooden and acrylic pieces 50+ hardware pieces 20+ electronic components Battery – 7,800 mAh rechargeable battery/power bank Phillips-head screwdriver 8 square foot laminated blueprint USB Mouse This is whay it looks like after around two hours of assembly time. Kids can then start playing Raspberry Pi Edition Mineccraft and some […]

May 28, 2019

HKCam is a Raspberry Pi Zero W based DIY HomeKit IP Camera

HKCam is an IP camera based on Raspberry Pi Zero W board and compatible with any HomeKit apps. The developer, Matthias Hochgatterer, did not make the hardware himself, and instead purchased a Raspberry Pi Zero W + camera kit sold for around $30 on Aliexpress. His main work was to design a 3D printed case and write the software running in the camera, as well as his own Home 3 smart home automation app for iOS compatible with HomeKit. The only hardware needed is the Raspberry Pi Zero W with a power supply, the official Raspberry Pi camera module with is flat cable, and a microSD card, so you could also get those locally instead of purchasing them from Aliexpress. The firmware is based on Raspbian, FFmpeg to access the camera stream, as well as hc, a lightweight framework to develop HomeKit accessories in Go. You’ll find the documentation, source […]

November 21, 2018November 21, 2018

Diskio Pi 13.3″ DIY Tablet Kit for Raspberry Pi – Take 2 on Kickstarter

Diskio Pi was a DIY tablet kit for Raspberry Pi, ODROID-C2/XU4 and other compatible boards with a 13.3″ Full HD display that launched last year on Kickstarter. But the project failed likely due to the high costs (350 Euros and up for early bird pledges without battery nor SBC) and an elevated funding target of 400,000 Euros. But the team did not give up, worked on reducing costs, improved the design, and recently relaunched Diskio Pi on Kickstarter with a more achievable 52,096 Euros target, and reasonable pricing with rewards starting at 189 Euros including VAT. Diskio Pi “basic” DIY tablet kit content and main specifications: Display – Innolux 13.3″ TFT/IPS display with 1920×1080 resolution, WLED backlight + 10-point touch capacitive panel connected over USB 2.0 Video control board with HDMI 1.4 to eDP converter, stereo amplifier, and 2x 1W speakers Daughter board with Genesys USB hub, 9V to 5V/4A […]

November 3, 2016

Outernet Introduces Standalone & DIY Internet Satellite Kits for C.H.I.P Board, Raspberry Pi 3 Board, and Laptops

Outernet goal is to bring knowledge and/or emergency info to places without Internet either to remote places, or where Internet has been temporary shutdown due to natural disasters or political reasons through a satellite feed. In some ways, it works like a typical FM radio, but instead of receiving audio, you’ll get data. The first hardware was based on WeTek Play TV box, and called Lighthouse, but they now have a DIY kit that will work with Next Thing C.H.I.P, Raspberry Pi, or Laptops running Windows 7/10 or Linux, as well as a standalone Outernet Satellite kit including C.H.I.P Allwinner R8 development board. Let’s first check out “Basic Outernet DIY Kit” comprised of three items: L-Band Antenna Frequency: 1525 – 1559 MHz (Center frequency: 1542 MHz) 8dbi 4″ SMA Male connector Dimensions – 12 cm x 12 cm x 1.5 cm Weight – ~100 grams RTL-SDR Blog Software Defined Radio/Tuner […]

Xerxes Pi A cross vendor compute module carrier board

August 28, 2025

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

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 27, 2025

Prophesee Starter Kit GenX320 camera for Raspberry Pi 5 enables low-latency event detection

The Starter Kit GenX320 is a power-efficient, event-based camera designed for the Raspberry Pi 5 that detects events with a latency of less than 150 μs, or the equivalent of about 10,000 FPS. The Prophesee GenX320 sensor offers a 320×320 resolution and a >140 dB dynamic range. The kit connects to the Raspberry Pi 5 like the official camera modules, through the MIPI CSI-2 connector. Starter Kit GenX320 specifications: Sensor – Prophesee GenX320 1/5 inch format event-based vision sensor Resolution – 320×320 array of 6.3μm contrast detection pixels Event Rate – ~10,000 FPS equivalent Latency – <150 μs at 1,000 lux, <1,000 μs at 5 lux Dynamic Range – >140 dB Host interface – MIPI CSI-2 (D-PHY) connector Power Consumption -<50 mW Camera (two variants) M12 mount Focal length – 1.8 Focal ratio (f-stop) – f/2.8 fixed iris FOV – 76° diagonal, 58° horizontal, 58° vertical IR cut filter – […]

July 30, 2025July 31, 2025

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 […]