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A First Look at Arduino Alvik, Unboxing the unPhone + More 🤖 Unboxing the New Arduino Alvik Robot Arduino's new Alvik robot platform is now available for purchase! Watch Alex Glow unbox this clever little kit, which runs on an Arduino Nano ESP32 and also features an embedded STM32 Cortex-M4 on the chassis. Its many talents include color, light, and distance sensing, a six-axis gyroscope and accelerometer, and seven capacitive touch buttons. For outputs, you have two high-precision DC motors, plus tons of connectors for servos and I2C plug-and-play modules. And while it's plenty expressive on its own – with an RGB LED and an adorable face! – the kit includes LEGO Technic and M3 screw connectors so you can make it your own. [Watch now]( Hardware ⬛ QCS6490 Vision-AI Kit Avnet's powerful yet energy-efficient development kit bundles a SMARC 2.1.1 compliant SOM plus compact carrier board for demanding edge AI tasks. [Read more]( 🟥 Olimex's RVPC Olimex has unveiled the "lowest cost open source hardware all-in-one RISC-V computer" in the world — with a planned retail price of just €1 (around $1.10). [Read more]( Projects of the Week ☎️ Last Call for Landlines The Mockingbird Telephone Exchange emulates the switching hardware at a landline telephone exchange to simulate subscriber and trunk lines. [Read more]( 🚁 Sky-High Efficiency This drone control system uses spiking neural networks and neuromorphic hardware to enable more efficient and human-like perception. [Read more]( What's Happening? 📜 Game Night with AMD Use the knowledge you've gained about AMD technology along your journey to defeat the dragon and get a chance to win a Digilent Arty A7-100T and swag. Deadline to participate is May 27th. [Complete task]( ✨ Beginnings of Small AI? We have reached a tipping point when it comes to AI, with signs that it is getting smaller and moving to the edge. Give a big hello to "Small AI." [Read more]( ☁️ Arduino x Google Home Arduino has announced that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home, making it easy to turn an Arduino "Thing" into a Google Home device. [Read more]( 🔎 Taking a Closer Look at the unPhone The unPhone is not a phone, but that's clear from the name. It is, however, a great ESP32-S3-powered platform for experimenting with phone-like interfaces to the Internet of Things. Read more in Gareth Halfacree's deep dive! [Read more]( [Hackster.io]( Curated weekly by a team of hardware nerds. 2580 Junction Ave San Jose, CA 95134 USA Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from our list.