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Boards, SBCs, peripherals and the gear that runs the lab — reviewed and tracked.
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The 16GB Pi 5 quietly fixes the one thing that always sent me back to a mini PC: headroom. With NVMe over PCIe and real RAM, it's finally a board you can leave running things, not just tinkering on.
A wave of low-cost accelerator HATs and NPU-equipped boards is pushing real on-device inference down to single-board-computer prices. The interesting part isn't the TOPS number — it's where the work moves.
Two weeks of near-silent, hands-off printing. The H2D is fast, frighteningly consistent, and the closest thing yet to a print-and-forget machine — if you can stomach the ecosystem lock-in.