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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Particle: RedBear Duo (Wi-Fi + BLE)
Hardware that has missed your attention. Particle.io – RedBear DUO. The device combines WiFi and Bluetooth Low Energy. Microcontroller is STM32F205 (Cortex-M3 @120MHz, 128 KB SRAM and 1MB Flash) the…
Uno Dock v2.0 for NanoPi NEO/Air/NEO2
New version of dock for single-board computer NanoPi NEO/Air/NEO2. It combines power of NanoPi NEO/Air/NEO2 and fast development of arduino on one board. The board contains headers compatible with arduino…
Wemos with ESP32 – LoLin32
Popular Wemos D1 with WiFi chip ESP8266 has other member of Wemos family, now with ESP32. On aliexpress is available a new development board with ESP32 $6.90 + shipping by…
Arduino MKRFOX1200 – Sigfox IoT
Arduino.cc released a new Arduino board called MKRFOX1200. The main components are Microchip SAMD21 (32bit ARM Cortex M0+) and IoT chip ATA8520 (Single-chip Sigfox @ 868 MHz – EU) on…
LEDUNIA – WiFi IoT development board
LEDUNIA – the name of new development board and campaing on kickstarter.com. The main component of LEDUNIA is ESP8266 WiFI chip (used on e.g. NodeMCU). The designers used ESP8266, so…
STM32L4 and IoT development board
STMicroelectronics released a new IoT development board with STM32L475 microcontroller, B-L475E-IOT01A. Someone could see it on Embedded World 2017. Photo gallery on https://time4ee.com/news.php?readmore=229 The development board contains a lot of…
NanoPi K2 – penta core GPU, 2GB RAM, WiFi, BT, Gb ethernet
Friendlyarm released a new version of single-board computer (SBC) called NanoPi K2. NanoPi K2 contains Amlogic S905 processor. This quad core 64bit processor can be clocked up to 1.5GHz. GPU…
Mobillyo: Arduino + BLE + solar panel
Arduino compatible board with Bluetooth Low Energy which can be powered by Li-Ion battery and solar panel. The goal is CA$ 5,000. Mobillyo contains ATmega32u4, nrf52 BLE, USB, connector and…
Hornbill – ESP32 development platform
Other interesting campaign on crowdsupply.com called Hornbill. Development platform based on popular ESP32 . You can buy Hornbill ESP32 Dev for $12. The main component ESP32 module ESP WROOM 32…
Orange Pi Prime and WIN Plus
Two new Orange Pi boards – OrangePi Win Plus and OrangePi Prime Thanks plesi. Orange Pi Win Plus – quad-core 64bit A64, 2GB RAM (OrangePi WIN only 1 GB), WiFi…