USB-C, myths and nonsense.
An article about USB-C was published on HN, and I simply have to respond. Besides a few inaccuracies, there has also been a wave of nonsense and myths on social media. The article on HN is behind a paywall, so I will try to address certain parts of the text without needing to copy it.
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OrangePi R1 – two ethernet interfaces and H2+ processor
Maybe you saw strange board by OrangePi with two RJ45 connectors. This board is called OrangePi R1.The processor is Allwinner H2+ and amount of RAM is 256 MB. The ethernet…
OrangePi Zero Plus – Allwinner H5 (quad-core), 512 MB RAM, gigabit ethernet, WiFi
Shenzhen Xunlong is comming with a new version of ZERO board. Instead of Orange Pi Zero, OrangePi Zero Plus 2 a Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H5 now we have…
The board for weather station (meteostation) with ESP12E module (ESP8266, NodeMCU)
After my experiences with ESP12E (NodeMCU, ESP8266) and SHT75 temperature/humidity sensor I decided to make second version of board used for weather station. The first version is available on https://time4ee.com/articles.php?article_id=33.…
Banana Pi M2 Berry – unboxing, boot, thermal imaging pictures
Video about Banana Pi M2 Berry. Unboxing, downloading of Raspbian OS, the first boot and pictures from thermal imaging camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQO6R_WGaPI
PICO: the smallest Arduino board (0.6×0.6″)
Meet the smallest Arduino board (or not?) on the world called PICO. What is the best feature of board? The dimension – 0.6″ x 0.6″ (15.2 x 15.2 mm). The…
BananaPi has own ZERO version of SBC
BananaPi released info about a new single-board computer called ZERO (BPI-M2 ZERO). It is other Zero board which we can buy – Raspberry Pi ZERO (and ZERO W) and OrangePi…
Watering system with NodeMCU (ESP8266, ESP12E)
If you follow me on social networks (facebook, twitter and google plus) maybe you saw a few posts which I shared. My the latest project is watering system with popular…
STM32Cube Low-Layer API
STMicroelectronics released Low-Layer API for programming of all STM32 microcontrollers (except STM32H7). API is known like LL API, expert oriented set of APIs. The LL API can be easily combined…
NanoPi NEO Plus2: quad-core, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB eMMC, Gbps ethernet
The latest single-board computer by Friendlyelec – NanoPi NEO Plus2. The powerful and small single-board computer with quad-core, eMMC on-board as well as AP6212 -WiFi (802.11 b/g/n) and Bluetooth (4.0…
ESP32-PRO – IoT board with 4MB RAM and FLASH and external crypto unit
Olimex develops new devices and development boards. The focus of Olimex got ESP32 (WiFi&BT), Olimex released article on their website about a new IoT (Internet of Things) board called ESP32-PRO.…