Finally a competitor for both LIFX and Philips Hue bulbs that isn’t going to break the bank – Yeelight

CORRECTION: The newer generation LIFX bulbs no longer make use of a mesh network, instead they all connect directly to the router.

There are several Atom x5-Z8350 development boards on the market — including DFRobot’s $89 LattePanda, and Aaeon’s $99 UP board, which run on the high side price wise. Team IoT recently took to Kickstarter to crowdfund their high-powered Raspberry Pi alternative ATOMIC Pi, which offers the same Intel Cherry Trail-based SoC, only at a significantly reduced price of $34.

Complete with software and API, the Walabot-60GHz evaluation kit provides access to Vayyar’s 3D radio wave-based imaging sensor technology to enable the development of smart home, robotics, medical, and other diverse applications. The short-range mmWave kit delivers both an exceptionally wide field of view and high-resolution imaging

Anavi Technology (software engineer Leon Anavi) already has a series of open source Raspberry Pi HAT modules under their belt, which are geared toward designing IoT applications using a myriad of different sensors. The company is now set to release another development board to their lineup with the Anavi Thermometer — an ESP8266-based board outfitted with a DHT22

https://www.crowdsupply.com/anavi-technology/anavi-thermometer

The Inter-integrated Circuit (I²C) communication standard is widely used throughout the maker community.

Unfortunately the I²C protocol can be somewhat tricky to debug since modern desktop computers just don’t speak it. Which is where the I²CDriver board might prove useful.

Designed to sit in between your laptop and prototype I²C devices, the board lets you access and control I²C “slave” devices directly from your desktop PC 

It works with Windows, Mac, and Linux.

“When an I²CDriver is connected to an existing I²C bus, it ‘snoops’ the traffic and displays it on the screen. This provides an excellent tool for debugging I²C issues

https://www.crowdsupply.com/excamera/i2cdriver

We first heard about the Adafruit “Grand Central” board back in the middle of August. First teased on Adafruit’s “Ask An Engineer,” the new board looks a lot like the old Arduino MEGA and shares the same footprint and pinout of the now venerable board. But that’s where the similarities stop.

If you are in the need for a more powerful Raspberry Pi alternative the new ATOMIC Pi mini PC developed by Team IoT might be worth more investigation. The mini PC powered by a Intel Atom x5-Z8350 quad core processor with 2M Cache has launched via Kickstarter this week and is now available to back with early bird pledges from $34.

Bulgaria-based Olimex recently released their eduArdu development board — an educational platform that packs plenty of sensors, buttons, and LEDs, along with all the tutorials, and source code aspiring makers will need to help them begin their journey with Arduino programming. The board came about when the Digital Children Foundation needed a development board

https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/AVR/eduArdu/open-source-hardware

Ultra-small, ultra-thin, high-capacity and capable to be installed at high temperatures, the EnerCera line of rechargeable Li-ion batteries is looking to change up the market for IoT devices by being adaptable to current manufacturing processes while allowing wireless communication.

The key lies in the usage of ceramic, in the form of Japanese manufacturer NGK Insulators (hereafter NGK) original Crystal Oriented Ceramic Plate as electrodes, allowing for the battery to be composed of just an active material, containing no organic binder or conductive material and making the high energy density and low internal resistance possible.