Giorgio Mendoza

6 days ago | lxer.com | Giorgio Mendoza

The ESP32-P4 Smart 86 Box is a compact development board with a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen, designed for HMI, smart control panels, and edge processing. Its 86 mm form factor allows it to be easily installed in wall-mounted enclosures for use in embedded automation and smart terminal applications. As the name implies, this board is built around the ESP32-P4 SoC, which integrates RISC-V 32-bit dual-core and single-core processors.

1 week ago | lxer.com | Giorgio Mendoza

Olimex has recently highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project aimed at creating a €20 smart home server. The initiative was introduced during a lightning talk at TuxCon 2025, a community-driven open-source conference held earlier this month in Bulgaria. The project aims to deliver a compact, easy-to-use smart home server that prioritizes local control, privacy, and minimal setup.

1 week ago | linuxgizmos.com | Giorgio Mendoza

The ESP32-P4 Smart 86 Box is a compact development board with a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen, designed for HMI, smart control panels, and edge processing. Its 86 mm form factor allows it to be easily installed in wall-mounted enclosures for use in embedded automation and smart terminal applications. As the name implies, this board is built around the ESP32-P4 SoC, which integrates RISC-V 32-bit dual-core and single-core processors.

1 week ago | lxer.com | Giorgio Mendoza

BeagleBoard.org has released an updated revision of the PocketBeagle 2 featuring the Texas Instruments AM6254 processor. The new Rev A1 replaces the earlier AM6232-based Rev A0, offering a significant performance boost with no change in pricing. The upgraded AM6254 brings a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and an integrated GPU, targeting more demanding embedded applications.

1 week ago | lxer.com | Giorgio Mendoza

Banana Pi has revealed early details about the BPI-R4 Pro, an upcoming router board powered by the MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880). Designed as a successor to the BPI-R4, it targets high-speed wireless and wired networking for applications such as Wi-Fi 7 access points and multi-gigabit gateways. The BPI-R4 Pro features a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 CPU running at 1.8GHz, with either 4GB or 8GB of DDR4 RAM.