Hardware

CalDigit has created a small pocket sized dock and charger capable of providing up to 100w of power. The SOHO Dock has been launched by a Kickstarter and supports 4K resolutions up to 60hz. Special early bird pledges are now available for the recently launched project from roughly $59 or £46, offering a considerable discount of approximately 60% off the retail price, while the … [Read more...] about CalDigit SOHO Dock USB-C 4k hub and 100W charger

Climbers looking to practice their skills and strengthen their holds while at home may be interested in a new modular climbers hangboard launched via Kickstarter this month. The project is already close to securing its required pledge goal with still 24 days remaining. Special early bird pledges are now available for the innovative project from roughly $142 or £109, offering a … [Read more...] about Deltaboard modular climbers hangboard

  If you are in the market for a powerful mini PC you may be interested to know that Chinese PC manufacturer TOPTON has equipped a small computer measuring just 5.9″ x 5.7″ x 2.6″ inches in size with a powerful Intel 8-core, 16-thread Core i9-10880H Comet Lake processor. The CPU is supported by two SODIMM slots enabling owners to install up to 64GB of dual channel … [Read more...] about TOPTON Core i9-10880H 4K mini PC from $342

A new Raspberry Pi compute module has been officially launched by the Raspberry Pi town foundation team providing a small flexible form factor available with a range of storage capacities and optional wireless connectivity. Priced from just $25 the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 follows on from the launch of the larger Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC 16 months ago. "Built on the … [Read more...] about New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 launches from $25

Cherry has launched a new wireless keyboard and mouse set in the form of the Cherry Gentix Desktop, offering an affordably priced, all-round wireless set. Connectivity is provided by support for wireless 2.4 GHz technology, and the keyboard is equipped with 10 multimedia keys and offers three status LEDs for Caps, Num, and Scroll lock. The symmetrical 6-button mouse also … [Read more...] about Cherry Gentix Desktop wireless keyboard and mouse set €45

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts interested in running the free and open source CentOS, may be interested in a tutorial available over on the PiMyLifeUp website. Providing full instructions on how you can install the free and open-source version of its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "The long term support means you can continually run the same operating system for an … [Read more...] about Install CentOS on your Raspberry Pi mini PC

If you are looking for a pocket-sized portable SSD storage solution for your media, files and documents you may be interested in the credit card-sized skyBOX SSD. Offering 4 TB of storage and read and write speeds up to 2200 Mb per second, the skyBOX has this month launched by Indiegogo and already raised twice as required pledge goal thanks to early bird backers. Early bird … [Read more...] about skyBOX 4TB pocket wireless SSD storage

Adafruit has this week launched their new FeatherS2, a "powerhouse" of a development board, equipped with 16 MB of Flash memory for firmware and file storagen and 8 MB of QSPI-based external PSRAM providing users with massive storage buffers. Together with a 32-bit 240 MHz single-core processor and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi - 802.11b/g/n connectivity. "This Feather comes with two 3.3V … [Read more...] about FeatherS2 ESP32-S2 development board launches for $21.95

Synology has this month unveiled a new AMD Ryzen 6-Bay NAS offering dual M.2 2280 slots, allowing NVMe SSD caching to boost performance by 20x or more for commonly accessed data. The DS1621+ also supports an optional 10 GbE NIC3 for faster network environments and more concurrent users. The DS1621+ can also be used to protect data from other sources and Active Backup for … [Read more...] about Synology 6-Bay AMD Ryzen DS1621+ NAS

Musicians and music makers may be interested in a new "expressive" music controller called the Erae Touch created by Embodme. Providing keys, drumpads, sliders, sequencer, launchpad, polyphonic and ultra sensitive reactive music controller. Early bird pledges are now available for the novel project from roughly $692 or £533, offering a considerable discount of approximately 13% … [Read more...] about Erae Touch music controller hits Kickstarter