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If you need a Mini PC that is both cheap and insanely powerful, look no further. The UDOO X86, live on Kickstarter, is both The Most Powerful Maker Board Ever and an Arduino 101-compatible platform, and all of this for the astonishing starting price of $89.

A few months after the introduction of the Arduino/Genuino 101 Intel has now released the source code of the operating system that makes this board work. The package contains the Board Support Package (BSP) for the Curie system-on-chip (SoC). The firmware is intended to be built only on 64-bit Ubuntu systems.

Announced a few months ago at the Rome Maker Faire 2015, the new Intel Curie-based Arduino/Genuino 101 board is now finally shipping. One of these boards landed on my desk, so I gave it a try.

Over the past months Google has been busy downsizing its Android operating system (OS) to make it suitable for the Internet of Things (IoT). The new OS, Brillo, is intended to run on small connected embedded devices that will be all over the place in the next few years (if we may believe the experts). An OS without a hardware platform to run on is not worth a lot but luckily Intel and Imagination have closed that gap.

New Arduino-compatible platform Arduino/Genuino 101 by Intel features an accelerometer, gyroscope and Bluetooth Smart connectivity to enable the development of smart, connected devices. With a form factor identical to the popular Arduino Uno the board will retail for about $30.

One of the privileges of working at a publishing house is that you get sneak previews of things in manufacturers’ pipelines. Recently we were delighted to have a look at the new Galileo-Arduino. Here’s some intel on a new board.

At the Makers Faire conference in Rome Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced an alliance with the makers of Arduino to gain a toehold in the growing hardware hacker community currently dominated by ARM or Atmel-powered platforms. The Galileo uses a 400MHz Intel Quark X1000 system-on-a-chip ...