Devices/Open Hardware: AgonLight2 C33, Portenta, and Raspberry Pi
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AgonLight2 Retro SBC available for £58.50
ThePiHut recently featured the redesigned Olimex AgonLight2 which features an 8-bit Z80 processor and an ESP32-PICO-D4 as co-processor for I/O control. The AgonLight2 supports BBC Basic and it’s equipped with flexible I/O peripherals.
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Portenta C33: The high-performance, low-price oxymoron
Case in point: the Portenta C33. The module – which we are introducing at Embedded World 2023 – leverages the R\&D carried out for previous Portenta modules, optimizing every aspect and streamlining features to offer a cost-effective option to users starting out with Industrial IoT or automation, or those who have more specific, targeted needs than the H7 or X8 cater to.
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Portenta C33 is a lower cost Arduino Pro board based on Renesas RA6M5 Arm Cortex-M33 MCU
Arduino Portenta C33 is the latest board from the Arduino Pro family which the company dubs a "high-performance, low-price" solution based on a 200 MHz Renesas RA6M5 Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller and equipped with a ESP32-C3 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy module.
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Giant ride-on spider robot
The Hacksmith was inspired by a video of an auto excavator manoeuvring its own body by using its excavation arm as a leg. An idea struck: why not just bring six excavators together and program all the arms to operate like legs in sync?