Single Board Computers

Octavo has squeezed a 1GHz Arm-based computer into a 27 x 27mm module. Called OSD335x C-SiP, is has an Arm Cortex-A8 Sitara AM335x processor from Texas Instruments, Arm Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1Gbyte of DDR3 ram, 4kbyte of EEPROM, two power supplies, up to 16Gbyte of eMMC flash, a MEMS  clock oscillator and over 100 passive components on the 400 ball ...

The University of Utah turned to Raspberry Pis when it need to equip four homes with smart sensing for clean air research. The Pis controlled the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system in each house, based on data from three off-the-shelf wireless particulate pollution sensors added to each house, two inside rooms and one under cover outside. “With specialised ...

Continuous monitoring of health parameters by wrist-based devices is enabled by Maxim’s Health Sensor Platform 2.0. This  rapid prototyping, evaluation and development platform, delivers ECG, heart rate and body temperature to a wrist-worn wearable. Data can be stored on the platform for patient evaluation or streamed to a PC for analysis later. The data measurements collected by the HSP 2.0 ...

Arduino-compatible MCU boards are available in bright colours, including one with a 32bit ARM core. They come from a firm called What Next. Yellow and Red boards are based on a Microchip ATmega328 microcontroller. Each provides 20 digital IOs – including up to six PWM outputs and six analogue inputs – plus a UART (with shared USB), TWI, and SPI. ...

Logic Supply introduces a fanless ventless industrial PC with an Kaby Lake Intel Core i7 CPU.

Display specialist, Review Display Systems, has opened a branch in the USA. The UK supplier of displays and embedded systems and design solutions, has opened offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Headed by Alan Beale, the company will serve clients in the US. Alan has a business and engineering background, having worked in graphics, computing and renewable energy sectors for several companies in North America, ...

Sunflower Shield adds a touch-enabled 3.5in QVGA TFT LCD to Arduino projects, and demonstrates Bridgetek’s FT813 video controller – which uses the firm’s innovative ‘EVE’ video controller which does away with the need for video ram. Designed by Cowfish Studios, it will render 24bit colour content in either landscape or portrait orientations, plus support smooth 60frame/s animations as well as capacitive five-point multi-touch ...

Long distance cameras in the NileCam series operate up to 15m from the host processor while still supporting low latency and high frame rates, says e-con Systems. The cameras use GMSL technology, a serdes technique, to carry high speed video, bidirectional control data and power over a single coaxial cable. The cameras can be used where long distances are required, for example ...

MintBox Mini 2 (MBM2) is the 4th generation of miniature fan-less PCs from Compulab and the folk behind Linux Mint – of each MBM2 sold, 5% is donated to Linux Mint. Processing comes from a quad-core ‘Apollo Lake’ Celeron J3455, and the machine ships with the Mint 19 ‘Tara’ Cinnamon installed. Other Mint variants, or other Linux variants, or even Windows ...

Coolisys Technologies has announced a line of crypto-mining units, called ‘SuperMiner’. The first of the line, built around a 10nm mining chipset jointly developed by Samsung and Innosilicon, is called ‘AntEater’ and can operate at 17.2T hash/s. “We wanted to push the envelope by developing the AntEater based on a 10nm chip because it was the newest technology available,” said Coolisys ...