ALLPCB is a PCB manufacturer founded in Hangzhou in 2015 that has built up a super Electronic Collaborative Manufacturing Service system (ECMS) covering PCB, SMT, Electronic components, and other fields. The company has now launched a promotion to lets hardware designers try out its services for only $1 for up to five pieces of 6-layer PCBs not exceeding 150x100mm in size. The company now has more than 170,000 customers from over 160 countries and processes 5,000 files daily with a 99.15% on-time delivery rate. ALLPCB serves customers in a wide range of sectors that cover consumer electronics, communication equipment, Industrial Control (ISC), electronic instruments and apparatus, intelligent hardware, Internet of Things (IoT) applications, Industry 4.0 solutions, and many more. If you want to give ALLPCB service a try for $1, go to the ordering page, select the number of layers and dimensions within the boundaries of the promotion, and click […]
Buy Arylic smart audio equipment up to 20% off during Mother’s Day sale (Sponsored)
Arylic has just launched a Mother’s Day sale for their smart audio equipment where you can get up to a 20% discount with coupon mother20 on specific products namely Up2Stream Amp Sub multiroom wireless subwoofer amplifier board, SA100 50W wall-mounted amplifier, WBC65 multiroom wireless ceiling speaker, and the new Arylic BK501/BK651 2-way bookshelf speakers that were introduced last month. The company also offers up to 15% off with the coupon mother15 on a wider range of Smart Audio products that include the S10 WiFi music stream, Arylic A30+ 30W WiFi mini stereo amplifier, Arylic A50+ streaming amplifier (See Arylic S50+ review for details), and the Qualcomm QCC3350-based B50 Bluetooth stereo amplifier with a built-in audio transmitter. Other discounted smart audio products that qualify for the 15% discount part of the Mother’s Day sale include several Up2Stream boards for DIY connected speakers, Arylic S50+ pre-amplifier, and various speakers. Arylic products ship […]
GEEKOM AS 6 AMD Ryzen 6000 mini PC takes on Intel NUC 13 Pro “Arena Canyon” (Sponsored)
GEEKOM AS 6 is an AMD Ryzen 6000 mini PC developed in collaboration with ASUS that aims to provide a cost-effective alternative to the Intel NUC 13 Arena Canyon mini PC powered by an Intel Core i7-1360P Raptor Lake-P hybrid SoC. The mini PC is equipped with either an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX or Ryzen 7 6800H processor, supports up to 64GB DDR5 memory, three storage options with two NVMe sockets and one 2.5-inch SATA drive bay, and can drive up to four independent displays thanks to two HDMI 2.1 ports, one DisplayPort 1.4 output, and two Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 ports. Networking is the same as on the NUC with 2.5GbE, WiFi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2. Here’s how GEEKOM AS 6 specifications compare the ones of the Intel NUC 13 Pro “Arena Canyon”. The performance of the selected AMD Ryzen 9 and Intel Raptor Lake processor is comparable, but […]
Using ChatGPT for Robotics – Programming myCobot 280 robotic arm with natural language (Sponsored)
ChatGPT AI chatbot can help engineers write programs, and we recently tested it by letting it write a Python program to read data from an I2C accelerometer. But it can be used for more advanced programs and Microsoft Autonomous Systems and Robotics Group used ChatGPT for robotics and programmed robot arms, drones, and home assistant robots intuitively with (human) language. The long-term goal is to let a typical user control/program a robot without having an engineer write code for the system. Microsoft explains that the current robotics pipelines begin with an engineer or technical user that needs to translate the task’s requirements into code for the system. That’s slow, expensive, and inefficient because a user needs to write code, skilled workers are not cheap, and several interactions are required to get things to work properly. With ChatGPT or other large language models (LLM), a user could “program” the robot with […]
Easter Promotion – GEEKOM Mini IT11 mini PC with Intel Core i7-11390H CPU offered for $549 (Sponsored)
GEEKOM has launched an Easter promotion for its Mini IT11 Tiger Lake mini PC powered by a 5 GHz Intel Core i7-11390H processor and equipped with 16GB RAM and 512 GB NVMe SSD storage. The promotion runs until April 25 on the GEEKOM website, where you can purchase the GEEKOM Mini IT11 i7-11390H 16+512 for $549 instead of the usual $779 recommended price. Additionally, there’s also a “special event” where anyone who spends over $399 will receive one of the following free gifts, each worth $40: Carrying Case Additional RAM 10-in-1 USB Hub Splitter Keyboard and mouse combo GEEKOM Mini IT11 specifications: SoC – Intel Core i7-11390H quad-core/8-thread Tiger Lake processor @ up 2.9 GHz / 5.0 GHz (Turbo) with 12MB cache, 96EU Intel Iris Xe graphics @ 1.40 GHz; TDP: 28W/35W System Memory – 16GB DDR4 SO-DIMM dual-channel memory, upgradeable up to 64GB Storage 512GB SSD (2280 M.2 PCIe), […]
Arylic BK501/651 bookshelf speakers integrate high-end AMT tweeters (Sponsored)
Arylic is better known for its connected audio devices such as the Arylic A50+ wireless amplifier or S50 Pro+ wireless stereo pre-amplifier, but the company has now launched its first passive speakers with the Arylic BK501 and BK651 bookshelf speakers that integrate high-end Heil AMT (Air Motion Transformer) tweeters. The BK501 is a pair of 5-inch speakers with 80W peak power, while the BK651 is a pair of 6.5-inch stereo speakers delivering up to 100W peak power. The specifications table below shows how both models compare. Both speakers support Treble up to 40kHz to feel detailed treble clarity and brightness, 180° wide soundstage, feature a fiberglass mid-woofer and received FSC Environmental Certification. Both designs include an MDF (medium-density fiberboard) cabinet with 15mm thick walls for the KB501 and 18mm thick walls for the BK651. Arylic says the Heil AMT tweeter found in its speakers uses a folded Kapton ribbon diaphragm […]
NVIDIA Jetson powered SmartCow Ultron controller targets Smart Cities and autonomous infrastructure deployments (Sponsored)
SmartCow, an AI engineering company specializing in video analytics, AIoT devices, and smart city solutions, and an NVIDIA Metropolis partner, has released a new version of the Ultron controller. Smartcow Ultron is an AI-enabled controller with sensor fusion capabilities that empowers industrial applications of vision AI at the edge. Powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX system-on-module and compatible with Jetson Orin NX, Ultron is suitable for smart traffic and manufacturing that can leverage its high computing power and low latency for vision AI applications in various configurations. It is also applicable in smart factories, smart cities, smart buildings, and smart agriculture. Ultron takes automation a step further than traditional PLC solutions with vision analysis. Based on powerful NVIDIA Jetson modules, Ultron can handle demanding visual AI processing workloads, with model architecture such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation. The new version of Ultron enhances the flexibility of its […]
Geekom Mini IT11 Core i7-11390H Mini PC sold with $180 discount (Sponsored)
GEEKOM is currently offering a $180 discount on its Mini IT11 Tiger Lake mini PC powered by an Intel Core i7-11390H processor clocked at up to 5 GHz, and equipped with 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD storage. The promotion is taking place exclusively on Amazon between March 13, 2023 at 00:00 am GMT -7 and March 19, 2023 at 11:45 pm GMT-7, and you can purchase the Mini IT11 for $599.99 instead of its original $779.99 price tag. GEEKOM Mini IT11 i7 specifications: SoC – Intel Core i7-11390H quad-core/8-thread processor @ up 2.9 GHz / 5.0 GHz (Turbo) with 12MB cache, 96EU Intel Iris Xe graphics @ 1.40 GHz; TDP: 28W/35W System Memory – 32GB DDR4 SO-DIMM dual-channel memory expandable up to 64GB Storage 1TB SSD (M.2 2280 M.2 PCIe), expandable up to 2TB 2.5-inch SATA HDD bay (up to 7mm thick), expandable up to 2TB Full-size SD card reader […]