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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a cheap robotics platform with BrickPi

The Raspberry Pi is a small, cheap device designed to make computers accessible to students, hobbyists and others. The BrickPi is a small, cheap device designed to build on that concept by letting you use a Raspberry Pi as the brains of a programmable robot. You can pick up a Raspberry Pi for just $35, […]

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Intel NUC mini-computers with Haswell chips coming in Q3, 2013

Intel’s NUC platform takes a recent Intel processor and crams it into a tiny PC that’s about 4″ x 4″ x 1.5″. NUC stands for Next Unit of Computing, and it sort of takes a laptop-class processor and turns it into a reasonably powerful, compact desktop computer. Up until now most NUC systems have featured […]

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Gigabyte Brix mini-computer to come in AMD Kabini, Intel Haswell flavors

The Gigabyte BRIX is a tiny desktop computer that measures about 4.5″ x 4.2″ x 1.2″. But it’s a full-fledged desktop computer, with support for an Intel Core i7 processor, up to 16GB of RAM, and as much storage as you can fit on an mSATA solid state drive. Gigabyte has been showing off  versions […]

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Kingnovel K-R42-1 Android TV box with RK3188 CPU, Ethernet jack

A growing number of companies are using the powerful Rockchip RK3188 ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core processor in small boxes designed to run Android apps on your TV. But many of those small boxes are so small that there’s only room for a few USB ports, a microSD card slot,  HDMI output, and not much else. The Tronsmart […]

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Wandboard’s Android, Linux-friendly mini PC now available in quad-core

The Wandboard is a tiny computer or developer board which looks a bit like a Raspberry Pi, but which has a starting price about three times as high and which packs significantly more power. That’s because while the Raspberry Pi has an ARM11 single-core processor, the Wandboard features a faster Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 processor. […]

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Gigabyte BRIX packs a full-fledged desktop PC into a 4.5 inch case

Gigabyte’s BRIX computer measures just 4.5″ x 4.2″ x 1.2″. But the company seems to be out to prove that big things can come in small packages. The little computer supports up to an Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processor. The company first started showing off its small form-factor desktop PC in January, and now […]