Open Hardware and Linux in Devices (Embedded)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2026

• Devices/Embedded

  • Pimoroni ☛ Small Scale, Big Impact: Tiny FX Adds Magic to Model Builds

    Integrating a Tiny FX instead of a Raspberry Pi Pico into a 1:43 scale Land Rover Series 1 is an easy task for him, but he had to get creative in where to store the electronics routing the wires around the model. With a little patience and skill, everything was routed for a test. MicroPython code, written in Thonny, controls a flashing light sequence that emulates an emergency service vehicle of the era. He also coded static headlights and rear lights to sell the effect of a scale vehicle.

  • Collabora ☛ AMD Embedded Computing Summit 2026 in Frankfurt

    We’ll be in Frankfurt this Thursday for the AMD Embedded Computing Summit! See a live demo of our Hey Hi (AI) Magic Mirror for a touchless, real-time experience.

• Open Hardware/Modding

  • CNX Software ☛ ESP32-C5 devkit features 3.5-inch touch LCD, optional camera and battery

    Waveshare ESP32-C5-Touch-LCD-3.5 is another ESP32-C5 devkit with a built-in display, but equipped with a larger 3.5-inch color touch LCD and an optional BF3901 low-resolution (0.08 MP) camera and/or a 500 mAh battery. It also features a speaker connector and a built-in microphone for voice interaction, a 6-axis IMU  and a temperature and humidity sensor, a microSD card slot for additional storage, and a 32-pin GPIO connector for expansion.

  • CNX Software ☛ NXP FRDM-IMXRT1186 development board features i.MX RT1186 crossover MCU, four Ethernet ports

    NXP has just launched the FRDM-IMXRT1186, a development board based on the i.MX RT1186 crossover MCU for industrial automation, robotics, PLCs, and edge computing applications. The MCU uses a heterogeneous architecture with an 800 MHz Arm Cortex-M7 core for application processing and a 300 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core for real-time control and communications. The board includes 64 Mbit HyperRAM, 512 Mbit HyperFlash, and 128 Mbit QSPI Flash, along with two Gigabit Ethernet ports for TSN switching and two Fast Ethernet ports for EtherCAT or TSN switching. It also features a USB Type-C OTG port and a CAN transceiver, while debugging is supported through an on-board MCU-Link debugger and JTAG connector.

  • Linux Gizmos ☛ Dual 2.5GbE and DDR5-6400 across four Wildcat Lake NUC platforms

    ASRock Industrial has announced four compact platforms based on Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake-U” processors. The lineup includes the NUC BOX-320 and NUC BOX-304 mini PCs, alongside the NUC-320 and NUC-304 motherboards, with up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, DDR5 memory, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multi-display support for embedded applications.

  • Linux Gizmos ☛ Forlinx 20-TOPS M.2 AI accelerator supports PCIe cascading for local LLM inference

    Forlinx Embedded has listed an M.2 AI accelerator card based on Rockchip’s RK1820 and RK1828 processors, providing 20 TOPS of INT8 computing performance and up to 5GB of integrated DRAM. The module uses an M.2 2280 interface and is designed to handle local AI inference, including large language models, vision-language models, and computer vision workloads on embedded Linux and Android systems.

  • Raspberry Pi ☛ Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module available now at $30

    Back in January, we introduced the Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module, an adapter board for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 that is designed to deliver high-quality, low-power display experiences for digital signage and other visual applications. Today, we are delighted to announce that the Smart Display Module is available to buy now from our global network of Approved Resellers.

  • Hackaday ☛ This PICO-8 Handheld Is No Fantasy

    At its core, it’s a Raspberry Pi Zero2W. That’s rather overkill for an 8-bit virtual machine, but it’s what he had on hand, and it makes for an easy build. The real hero of the build is the 720 by 720 pixel IPS display that matches the PICO-8’s square aspect ratio and takes up most of the real estate on the handheld. Even better, it has HDMI in and sound support, so with some buttons and a battery the hardware is all there after [UncleStem] designs a handsome 3D printed case, and also has a go milling it out of aluminum before giving up and having a pro do it.

  • Hackaday ☛ The FPGA Chronicles: Exploring The Tang Nano 20K

    Once upon a time, if you wanted to have a custom IC, you went with a wheelbarrow full of money to a semiconductor company. However, some smart person at a semiconductor fab eventually realized they could make a chip with a lot of uncommitted blocks on it and then, for a custom chip, only design the wiring that connected them together. This still required a wheelbarrow full of money, but it was a smaller wheelbarrow.