Enactic's OpenArm 2.0 is a 7-DOF open-source robot arm with QDD backdrivable joints, ROS 2 and MuJoCo support, and full hardware CAD under CERN-OHL-S-2.0, starting at $6,500.
Minisforum's all-AMD AtomMan G1 Pro pairs a Ryzen 9 8945HX with a 16 GB RX 9060 XT in a 3.8-liter chassis, making it a prime SteamOS candidate.
Bazzite 44.20260929 adds native Fanatec force feedback wheel support via the hid-fanatecff driver and bumps Gamescope to 3.16.31.
Igalia is migrating Firefox on the Steam Deck from X11 to native Wayland under Gamescope, fixing touch scrolling, gamepad input, and enabling HDR video support.
Bazzite turns the Legion Go 2 into more than a gaming handheld, with the Z2 Extreme and OLED display making it a genuinely versatile Linux device.
Orange Pi crams an octa-core Allwinner A733 and up to 16GB of LPDDR5 into a Raspberry Pi Zero footprint, with a 10 Gbps USB port and about 4x a Pi Zero 2 W's multi-core grunt.
ASRock Industrial's four Wildcat Lake-U NUC platforms pack dual 2.5GbE, DDR5-6400 with ECC, and 40 TOPS AI inference into a sub-12 cm chassis, with solid upstream Linux support already in place.
Framework's 192 GB Gorgon Halo desktop can allocate 160 GB to its integrated GPU for local LLM inference and ships with a Fedora pre-built option.
Rockchip's RK1828 M.2 AI card packs 20 TOPS and 5GB of 3D-stacked DRAM, hitting 70 tok/s on Qwen2.5-7B with four-card cascading support up to 31B models.
Forlinx's M.2 2280 card packs a Rockchip RK1828 NPU with 5GB stacked DRAM, running 7B LLMs at 70 tok/s on Rockchip SBCs. Four cards cascade for 27B models.
First Allwinner T527 compute module in the CM5 form factor brings octa-core Cortex-A55, a 2 TOPS NPU, WiFi 6, and a RISC-V coprocessor starting at $28.
Bazzite's latest stable image pairs Linux kernel 7.2.7 with Mesa 26.2.2, fresh Nvidia drivers, and updated Gamescope for handheld gaming setups.
GMKtec's Evo-X5 Pro packs 192GB of unified memory with 160GB allocatable as VRAM, enough to run 300B-parameter LLMs locally on a single rackable mini PC.
Minisforum's MS-S1 Max-P495 uses AMD's Gorgon Halo APU with 192GB RAM and 160GB allocatable VRAM, enough to run 284B-parameter models locally.
Bazzite's latest stable adds Anbernic Win600 handheld support, hibernation for portable devices, Waydroid on Nvidia GPUs, and swaps vim for ms-edit as the default terminal editor.
A hackable ESP32-S3 smartwatch with open-source drivers, multi-language firmware support, and three build options from bare PCB to fully assembled.
