Hardware: Star Labs, MeLE, Raspberry Pi, SparkFun
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Star Labs new StarFighter sounds like a great Linux laptop
Star Labs announced their new StarFighter a little while ago, but it seems it only just recently went live on their actual store with the full info on what to expect from it.
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Stick PC available with Gemini Lake or Jasper Lake CPUs
The MeLE PCG02 Pro is a fanless PC compatible with the Celeron J4125 or the Celeron N5105 Intel processors. The device is as big as an iPhone 14 pro, but it packs flexible peripherals such as dual ... HDMI ports, one GbE RJ45, dual UBS 3.2 ports, etc.
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Thin Client And Smartphone Step In For 3D Printer’s Raspberry Pi And Touchscreen
It’s no secret that Raspberry Pi’s are a little hard to come by these days. Unless you had the foresight to stock up before the supply dried up — and if you did, we want to talk to you — chances are good that you’ve got a fair number of projects that use the ubiquitous SBC on indefinite hold. And maybe that’s got you thinking about alternatives to the Pi.
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LED Brightness Standardization
Howdy folks! I'm Dryw, a new engineer here at SparkFun! I joined in March of this year and have already released a handful of products, such as those Bosch pressure sensors and the IoT Redboard - ESP32. I've also been working on some more exciting products that will be coming out soon, stay tuned for those!
As I've been working here, I've noticed a lot of our products use different resistor values for LEDs. Consistent LED brightness hasn't been a critical design requirement for us, which has resulted in different brightnesses across our catalog. The most severe example I saw was on a prototype, where the green and yellow LEDs were barely visible, and the red and blue LEDs felt like staring into the sun! So I made it my mission to find the perfect resistor for each of our LEDs, in order to give a consistent brightness across all our products, and to never need sunglasses ever again!