November was a busy month for me, but for Raspberry Pi too: the company had no fewer than four product launches this month, from a new portrait-format 7″ touchscreen display and an in-house four-port USB hub to the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W and the Compute Module 5 family. It’s the latter that’s the focus of this month’s review, a lengthy piece looking at the computer-on-module’s compatibility with the Compute Module 4 ecosystem, compute and thermal performance, and more, including my usual product photography taken in my in-house studio which is definitely not just an IKEA folding table, white backdrop, and a couple of the cheapest soft lights I could find.
Other highlights of the month include the availability of QNX under a maker-friendly licence, bringing my mind back to the wonder of the Incredible 1.44MB Demo, a project to find a new use for the CarThing devices Spotify has decided to brick, kernel-level pulse-width modulation (PWM) support on the Raspberry Pi range, advanced remakes of the Atari 800XL and Cantab Jupiter Lynx, a 3D-printable macropad design which uses a clever membrane system instead of mechanical switches, and the availability of Milk-V’s Megrez RISC-V single-board computer.
A full list follows – and with that, on to December to bring 2024 to a close!
- Infineon’s Imagimob Edge AI Portfolio Is Now DEEPCRAFT, Including Newly-Launched Ready Models
- Seeed’s Growing XIAO Family Gets Matter Support with New XIAO MG24 Boards, Powered by SiLabs
- The Hornet Nest Alarm Panel Brings Your Wired Alarm System Into Home Assistant with Ease
- Jouke Waleson’s Mid-Century Bakelite Telephone Has Very Modern Bluetooth-Capable Innards
- Terence Eden’s ActivityBot Is a Simple Two-File PHP Project for Creating Mastodon, ActivityPub Bots
- Raspberry Pi Launches Its Portrait-Format 7″ Touch Display 2
- Sine Lab Puts Together a Discrete 14-Bit Digital-to-Analog Converter with “Millivolt Precision”
- DeskThing Aims to Keep Spotify From Trashing the World’s Car Things
- M5Stack Adds Large Language Model Support to Its Offerings with the 3.2 TOPS LLM Module
- Jay Doscher’s New Display Dock PC Design Drops the Arm, In More Ways Than One
- Wolfgang Friedrich’s RP2040 M.2 Pico Puts Raspberry Pi’s RP2040 Microcontroller Onto an M.2 Board
- Questwise Ventures’ 0.49″ OLED Display with Resin Lens Is the Tiny CRT Replacement of Your Dreams
- Murata Goes Flexible with Its Stretchable Printed Circuit Platform
- N-O-D-E Returns with a Gift: Make it Yourself, an eBook Gathering 1,000 Projects From Around the Web
- Elecia White Explains Direct Memory Access — Via Sword-and-Sorcery Maps and Dry Cleaning Assistants
- Deng Dazhong’s RTL-SDR Expansion Board Brings Software-Defined Radio to Clockwork Pi’s uConsole
- Grimdaria’s T-45 Power Armor Helmet Is a Fallout-Inspired Raspberry Pi Pico-Powered Marvel
- Kevin Koster’s PIC24F-Powered USBify Gets Your Vintage Vectrex Talking to Modern USB Controllers
- Userspace WS281x Control on the Raspberry Pi 5 Inches Closer with New Python Library Release
- Linux’s Kernel-Level Software PWM Support Arrives on the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO Pins
- Salil Tembe Walks Through the Design and Testing of a VHF-Band Low-Noise Amplifier
- Renesas Adds Lower-Cost Entry Parts to Its Edge AI RA8 Microcontroller Range: The RA8E1 and RA8E2
- The tinyML Foundation Undergoes an Evolution: Meet the EDGE AI FOUNDATION
- Arduino’s Opta Family Gains a New Industrial Automation Capability: OPC UA Support
- Brian Reifsnyder Designs an “Advanced Remake” of Atari’s 800XL Mainboard
- IBASE’s IB962 Is a Compact Near-Single-Board Computer Packing Intel’s Edge AI Core Ultra Chips
- MYIR Goes After the Artificial Intelligence of Things with Its New MYC-LR3576 System-on-Module
- Raspberry Pi’s Latest Launch Is a Compact, Four-Port, Power-Optional USB 3.0 Hub
- NVIDIA Unveils New Features for Generative AI in Robotics, Isaac Lab, and Humanoid Robots
- Blackiot’s Polverine Is a Compact Bosch-Packing mikroBUS Board for Environmental Monitoring
- Ryan Martin’s Counter SAO Is a Simple Two-Digit Counter — with an Unusual Nine-Segment Display
- Matter 1.4 Brings Support for Solar Power, Battery Storage, Heating Systems, and More
- Nessie Circuits Shows Off Riotee’s Battery-Free Chops with a Solar-Powered Hot-Word Neural Network
- Perseus Looks to Save Us All From AI “Energy Bloat” — Boosting Training Efficiency Through Slowdowns
- Engineering Dad “Aquaman” Makes Meal-Tracking Easier with Raspberry Pi AI Scales
- BlackBerry’s QNX Seeks “Hobbyists and Makers” with Free Non-Commercial License, Raspberry Pi Image
- BOOTHAMMER Aims to Deliver Simple “Intermittent Computing” for Energy-Harvesting Arduino Sketches
- Graham Sutherland’s Script Provides Every JLCPCB Stackup File, for Altium and More
- Quectel Targets Rapid High-Accuracy GNSS Development with New LG290P and RTK Correction Bundle
- SolidRun Unveils “the Ultimate SBC” for the Industrial IoT: The HummingBoard I.MX8M IIoT SBC
- VCC Labs’ Nova Is a Compact, Breadboard-Friendly 70-LED Matrix Board Powered by Raspberry Pi RP2040
- LG Display Showcases a Prototype Soft, Flexible Full-Color Panel — That Stretches By Up to 50%
- Steve DeGroof’s Parametric Macropad Design Drops the Switches for a Clever 3D-Printed Membrane
- Arduino’s New UNO SPE Shield Brings Single-Pair Ethernet, RS485 to the Arduino UNO R4 Family
- Adafruit Revisists the Metro RP2350, Makes the Move to the Bigger and Better Raspberry Pi RP2350B
- NXP’s i.MX 94 SoCs Boast Edge AI Acceleration, Post-Quantum Security, and Time-Sensitive Networking
- Alejandro Valero’s Mercury Ace Is the Tricked-Out Jupiter Ace That Never Was
- Variscite Offers a Cheaper Entry Point for Its DART Pin2Pin SOM Family: The $35 DART-MX91
- Nathan’s DIY Weed-Killing Drone Takes Homebrew Agricultural Automation to New Heights
- Sebastian Soko?owski’s “Omnidirectional Sail” Is a Home Assistant Wind Gauge with a Difference
- Craig Iannello’s WAV2VGM Makes Yamama OPL3-Compatible FM Chips Really Sing — or Speak
- CYOBot v2 Is an Espressif ESP32-S3-Powered Transforming Bot Platform for Education and More
- Aaron Christophel’s Web Flasher Delivers an Easy Path to $2 Apple AirTag-Like FindMy Trackers
- Researchers Highlight Vulnerabilities and Security Concerns in Current Approaches to TinyML
- $7 Bluetooth Beacons, Linked to Apple’s FindMy Network, Could Revolutionize Urban Animal Research
- Qualcomm Unveils the “Micro-Power” QCC730M and Its First RISC-V Part, the QCC74xM IoT Module
- AMD Targets High-Bandwidth, High-Performance Workloads with Its Versal Premium Gen. 2 FPGA
- Jailbreaking LLM-Powered Robots for Dangerous Actions “Alarmingly Easy,” Researchers Find
- DomeCtrl’s Raspberry Pi 5-Powered ControlBox Is a Home Assistant Server for Your Underfloor Heating
- Eric Nam’s Espressif ESP32 Digital Photo Frame Packs a Smart Seven-Color ePaper Display Panel
- Safer, More Sensitive Biohybrid Robots Could Be Created Using 3D-Printed “Soft Ceramic” Nerves
- Arduino Gives Its Alvik Educational Robot mBlock Visual Coding Powers
- Researchers Wave Bye Bye to Dangerous Offshore Maintenance with New Wave-Predicting Robots
- Marb’s Lab Cooks Up an Antimony Electrode Arduino-Driven pH Meter From Scratch
- Bob Alexander’s “Decimal Computer” Adds 1970s Technology to a 1960s Design
- InfiShark’s BLEShark Nano Is a Pocket-Friendly Espressif ESP32-Powered Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Tool
- LILYGO Launches a Dual-Microcontroller Edge AI Smart Camera Slash Tiny Autonomous Car
- Ted Fried’s Teensy-Powered XTMax “Software-Defined ISA Card” Is a Must-Have Add-On for Vintage PCs
- Alan’s Tiny WIZnet W55RP20 Board Hides a Secret Ethernet Connection in Its USB Type-C Connector
- Arduino Gets Loud About Unexpected Downtime with New Arduino Cloud Device Status Notifications
- Orange Pi Launches the Edge AI-Focused Orange Pi 4A Single-Board Computer with Allwinner T527
- “Intrinsic Dynamics” System Delivers “Exceptionally Effortless” Robot Locomotion
- Steve Markgraf Releases a New “hsdaoh” to Give the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, RP2350 High-Speed Data
- AAEON Goes Slimline with Its New Intel Processor N-Powered UP 710S Single-Board Computer Range
- Umar “2E0UMR” Munir’s Blue Dmod Is a Simple, Low-Cost Bluetooth Data Modem for the Ham on a Budget
- Seeed Studio Unveils the reComputer R11 Series of Edge IoT Gateways, Powered by a Raspberry Pi CM4
- FreeCAD Hits 1.0 After Two Decades, Finally Sees an End to the Toponaming Problem
- DFRobot Targets Sensor-Controlled Smart Lighting Projects with the EDGE102-DMX512
- xMEMS Unveils Sycamore, a 1mm-Thin Near-Field Full-Range Speaker for Wearables and More
- Windell Oskay Unveils the Bantam Tools ArtFrame “Art Machine System” Plotter Family
- NILEQ, Advanced Navigation Aim to Give Drones GPS-Free Navigation — By Scanning Earth’s Fingerprint
- Fancy a Brand New Tube Amp? Follow Mike Freda’s Scratch-Build Project, and Make One Yourself
- “Ghost Tap” Relay Attack Makes NFC Payment Fraud Not-So “Near” Field Any More
- Local LLMs and Python Power Chris Fenton’s Grasso, the Yard Robot Built From “a Bunch of Garbage”
- FREE-WILi Brings Its Flexible Development and Debugging Platform to the DEF CON 32 Badge
- Rabbit Brings “Teach Mode” to the R1, Lets You Show Its “AI Agents” How It’s Done
- PINE64 Unveils the PineCam, a More Powerful RISC-V-and-Arm Successor to the PineCube Camera
- Krzysztof Strehlau’s Custom Zigbee Gateway Houses an Espressif ESP32-S3 and SiLabs’ EFR32MG1
- Raspberry Pi Launches the Radio-Equipped Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W for Just $7
- LILYGO’s T5 E-Paper S3 Pro Pairs Espressif’s ESP32-S3 with 4.7″ Display — and Wireless Charging
- Espressif’s Tiny ESP32-H2-WROOM-07 Delivers Minimal-Footprint Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, and More
- Pocuter’s Spectra Smartwatch Finishes Crowdfunding, with iFixit Teasing a Potentially Perfect Score
- Andrew Zonenberg’s Open-Hardware DUMPTRUCK Will Dump Any Flash, NVM Module You Fancy
- A New Take on Polarization Delivers High-Brightness, High-Efficiency LEDs for Future Displays
- NVIDIA Generates Soundscapes in Abundance with Its Fugatto Foundational Gen AI Model for Audio
- Rednexing’s Compact Espressif ESP32-S2 Smart Home Sensor Board Runs for Three Years on AA Batteries
- Arne van Iterson’s Display Upcycles an Analog Multimeter and an ePaper Panel Into Something More
- Power in a Tiny Package: A Hands-On Review of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
- M5Stack’s M5Stamp-Pico Powers This Smart, Wireless Color-Based Plant Health Monitor
- A Sweater That Doubles as a Wi-Fi Booster? Researchers’ Knitting Promises Smart Future Clothing
- Got a Hankering for a Little Swedish Education? Gyorgy Szombathelyi Puts an ABC 80 on Your MIST
- This Osborne-Inspired Cyberdeck Includes a 3D-Printed Homage to a Staple of Denver’s Skyline
- Renesas RRH47000 Evaluation Kit Makes High-Accuracy Carbon Dioxide Monitoring a Cinch
- Phil Weasel’s Low-Side NMOS Driver Is a Soldering Kit with Real Educational Potential
- Michal Zalewski Tracks Down Things That Glow in the Dark — with a Clever Phosphorescence Detector
- Seeed Studio Brings RS-485 to the XIAO, Adafruit’s QT Py Family, for Long-Range Industrial Comms
- AAElectronics’ YULC Is an All-In-One Smart Lighting Controller with USB Power Delivery
- 8086 Consultancy’s PicoIO64 Brings 64 Fully-Functional GPIO Pins to Any Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico 2
- Justin Garrison Walks Through Running Your Own Bluesky Personal Data Server — on a Raspberry Pi
- Benjamin Poilve’s minichord Is a Pocket-Sized Teensy 4.0-Powered Subtractive Synth
- Olimex Unveils Its Beefier Take on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 — and the Ultimate USB-Serial Adapter
- Mukesh Sankhla’s SitSense Checks Your Posture with Edge AI — and Locks Your PC if You Slouch
- Rafa? Gajek Overhauls the Wearable Ring Mouse, Delivers Two Control Modes and Improved Ergonomics
- Lime Microsystems: Orders Open for the LimeFEA Carrier Boards, Extending the LimeSDR XTRX Ecosystem
- MyriadRF Newsletter Over The Air: LimeFEA for the LimeSDR XTRX, Kirigami Antennas, Cheap Coax Hacks, and More
- FOSSi Foundation Newsletter El Correo Libre, Issue 80