Direct MP3 Download: MiniPC Show #90 – Atomic Pi, Mozilla WebThings and Not Just Door
$35 Atomic Pi Cherry Trail Linux SBC is now available worldwide
At the very end of last year, I covered Atomic Pi single board computer powered by an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 processor which was mostly interesting because of its incredibly low price: $34 and up.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/04/26/buy-atomic-pi-cherry-trail-sbc/
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PINE64 Plans to Move their Website on a 24-node RockPro64 Cluster
Boards’ clusters are always fun to see, and PINE64 has shared pictures of two RockPro64 clusters with respectively 48 and 24 boards neatly packed into partially custom enclosures.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/29/pine64-website-rockpro64-cluster/
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Raspberry Pi selected as one of six British engineering products on commemorative stamps
Why it matters: Being selected as one of six innovations across half a century of engineering achievements is a serious honor, especially considering the first Raspberry Pi was only released just a little over seven years ago.
https://www.techspot.com/news/79858-raspberry-pi-selected-one-six-british-engineering-products.html
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Mozilla IoT
An open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web.
https://iot.mozilla.org
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Mozilla relaunches open source IoT platform Project Things as WebThings
For the better part of two years, the folks at Mozilla have been chipping diligently away at Project Things, an open implementation of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web of Things standard for monitoring and controlling connected devices, and today, they reached a major milestone.
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/18/mozilla-relaunches-open-source-iot-platform-project-things-as-webthings/
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Domoticz
Domoticz is a Home Automation System that lets you monitor and configure various devices like: Lights, Switches, various sensors/meters like Temperature, Rain, Wind, UV, Electra, Gas, Water and much more. Notifications/Alerts can be sent to any mobile device.
https://www.domoticz.com
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FreedomBox – Personal Server at Home
FreedomBox provides file sharing like Dropbox. Your data stays with you. Your family and friends also benefit. FreedomBox provides a secure, decentralized replacement for WhatsApp. Do group chats and audio/video calls from any device.
http://freedombox.org/
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freedombox/freedom-maker
These scripts build images for FreedomBox for various support hardware that can then be copied to SD card, USB stick or Hard Disk drive to boot into FreedomBox.
https://github.com/freedombox/freedom-maker
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Docker developers can now build Arm containers on their desktops
Docker and Arm today announced a major new partnership that will see the two companies collaborate in bringing improved support for the Arm platform to Docker’s tools.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/24/docker-partners-with-arm/
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Intel to Support Hardware Ray Tracing Acceleration on Data Center Xe GPUs
In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, tucked inside of a larger blog post about announcements relating to this week’s FMX graphics conference, Intel has made its first official comments about hardware ray tracing support for their upcoming Xe GPUs.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14289/intel-to-support-hardware-ray-tracing-acceleration-on-data-center-xe-gpus
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Rockchip’s roadmap reveals 8nm, octa-core RK3588
Rockchip has released more details on its dual-core -A35 “RK1808” neural processor SoC. It also teased future SoC’s including an 8nm, octa-core -A76 and -A55 Rockchip RK3588 with NPU and 8K video.
http://linuxgizmos.com/rockchips-roadmap-reveals-8nm-octa-core-rk3588/
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Make with Snips
Join the largest community of makers and developers building open-source voice assistants. Start building with Snips, the first Private by Design voice assistant that runs on your Raspberry Pi. Step-by-step walkthroughs of all the new capabilities and things you can do with Snips.
https://makers.snips.ai/
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Western Digital touts tiny flash card with massive write cycles for video surveillance
Western Digital has unveiled a microSD format flash card for video cameras that can sustain 3,000 write cycles and pump out data at 30MB/sec. WD said the WD Purple QD312 is also suited for intelligent edge devices that need access to large amounts of data.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/04/12/tiny-purple-flash-card-with-massive-write-cycles-for-video-surveillance/
