FriendlyElec’s latest tiny computer is really tiny, measuring just about 1.6″ x 1.6″ (40mm x 40mm). The ZeroPi is also cheap, selling for just $13. What you get for that price is a single-board computer with a 1.2 GHz Allwinner H3 quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 procesor, 512MB of RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, and a microSD card reader. It has […]
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Build your own router with a $68 Banana Pi BPI R64 board
A WiFi router is basically a purpose-built computer, which is why some folks just build their own rather than buying an off-the-shelf option, and others replace the firmware that comes on their store-bought router with an open source alternatives such as OpenWrt or DD-WRT. Looking for something in between? There’s the Banana Pi BPI R64. It’s […]
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Orange Pi Zero2 mini PC supports Android & Linux, measures 2.2 inches wide
About three years after launching a tiny single-board computer called the Orange Pi Zero, the folks at Shenzhen Xunlong are introducing a Orange Pie Zero2 with a faster processor, an HDMI port, and other upgrades. It still measures just 2.2″ x 2.2″ across, making it one of the smallest single-board computers I’m aware of to feature […]
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Nano Pi M4 single-board PC gets a price drop following Raspberry Pi 4 launch
The NanoPi M4 is a single-board computer with a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor and at least 2GB of RAM. It launched last year for $65 and up, but recently FriendlyELEC cut the starting price to $50. Why the change? I can think of two reasons. One, it’s been out for almost a year and the […]
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Lilbits 371: AT&T’s first 5G phone is coming… but not for you
When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S10 and S10+ earlier this year, the company also introduced its first 5G-ready smartphone: the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G. You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s basically the same phone with the addition of a 5G modem. But this model also has a bigger screen and a larger battery than its […]
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Banana Pi BPI-M4 is a $38 single-board computer with 4K video support
At first glance, the Banana Pi BPI-M4 looks like a Raspberry Pi 3 clone. And it kind of is — the single-board computer even has a 40-pin connector that lets you attach Raspberry Pi HAT add-on boards. But the Banana Pi BPI-MP4 has a different processor with support for 4K video. Like a Raspberry Pi […]
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UP Xtreme single board PC with Intel Whiskey Lake hits Kickstarter for €249 and up
As expected, the makers of the UP family of single-board computers have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their most powerful model to date. The UP Xtreme is a 4.8″ x 4.7″ computer with support for up to an Intel Core i7-8655UE processor, up to 16GB of onboard RAM, and an expected shipping date of September […]
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Asus unveils Tinker Board single-board PCs with RK3399Pro and i.MX8M processors
Asus is continuing to expand its line of single-board computers aimed at makers and developers. The original Asus Tinker Board launched in 2017 as a Raspberry Pi-like mini PC powered by a Rockchip RK3288 processor. The next year the company unveiled the Tinker Board S with 16GB of eMMC flash storage built in. Now Asus […]
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Gigabyte launches a single-board PC with quad-core Intel Apollo Lake CPU
About two years after releasing a single-board computer with a low-power Intel Celeron N3350 dual-core Apollo Lake processor, Gigabyte is adding a new model to the lineup. The new Gigabyte SBCAP3940 is still a small computer board that measures just 5.7″ a 4″ and which features an Apollo Lake CPU. But the new model has […]
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Lilbits 369: Windows 10 gets cozier with Android phones
Microsoft’s Your Phone app for Windows 10 keeps getting new features. At launch, it was basically a tool for sharing photos and websites between a smartphone and a PC. This year it gained support for mirroring an Android phone screen on your PC and then for displaying smartphone notifications on your computer. Now Microsoft has […]