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Vivid Unit Now in Stock and Start Shipping!

We have good news: Vivid Unit is now in stock, and we start shipping those back-orders TODAY!

The day comes earlier than we thought, and TODAY is the day 😀

We are Seeking for Reviewers for Vivid Unit!

Are you passionate about trying out innovative products and sharing your honest opinions with your audience? We’re on the lookout for enthusiastic content creators (e.g. bloggers, YouTubers etc.) to review our newly announced product Vivid Unit. We currently do not have the final product in stock, however we have limited amount of Vivid Unit beta prototypes that are almost indentical to the final product, and we would like to give them away for honest reviews.

Vivid Unit is palm-sized single board computer with 5.5″ touch screen. We believe your unique perspective and engaging content would be a perfect fit for showcasing the benefits of Vivid Unit to your audience.

Vivid Unit on hand

If you’re interested in featuring Vivid Unit on your platform, please reach out to us at . Since we only have limited number of beta prototpe for this giveaway, we could only choose some of you as reviewers of Vivid Unit. If you have been chosen, we will send you a Vivid Unit beta prototype and provide you any additional information you may need.

Thank you for your kind consideration, and we look forward to the possibility of collaborating with you!

New Product & New Milestone: Vivid Unit!

We have not released any new product for a long time, and today we finally can announce proudly that we have a new product: Vivid Unit!

Vivid Unit

This is a brand new product line, and we have invested so much on it. Vivid Unit is a palm-sized single board computer with 5.5″ touch screen. It is our first fully open sourced product: schematic, software, mechanical designs are all open sourced.

Vivid Unit

This lovely little device features RK3399 CPU, 4GB RAM, 32GB eMMC storage, 5.5″ 1280×720 touchscreen, speaker, microphone, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, USB (3&2), HDMI, headphone jack, M.2 NVME connector, MIPI CSI and various other interfaces.

Oh, did I mention it is also a PoE device?

Vivid Unit PoE

Full technical specification of Vivid Unit can be found on its product page.

Retail Price

Vivid Unit has a very friendly retail price tag: €99!

We hope more people can have it 🙂

How to Buy

At the moment we do not have Vivid Unit in stock yet. However it is possible to place back-order of Vivid Unit in our e-shop. We expect to start shipping Vivid Unit orders in about 3 weeks.

Soon you may also be able to order Vivid Unit via our resellers/distributors.

More Information

We have created a dedicated website for Vivid Unit. This is a wiki based website and we hope the community will contribute more content about Vivid Unit there!

Product Price Adjustment in 2024

Dear customer, in light of the increasing costs associated with our business operations, including raw materials and other essential expenses, we find it necessary to make some adjustments to our product prices. Starting in 2024, most of our products will have a small price increasing (3.39%~5.56%). In the list below you can find the new price for our products. If a product is not listed, that means its price will not change.

RasPiKey 16GB €21.50
RasPiKey 32GB €29.50
MOSWITCH-SPDT €4.80
Zero4U €8.30
Zero4U No Pogo €4.80
BIG7 €19.50
MEGA4 €29.00
Zero2Go Omini €19.00
Witty Pi 4 €28.50
Witty Pi 4 Mini €19.00
Witty Pi 4 L3V7 €24.00

These new price will start to take effect on 2024.01.01. If you place order before that date, you use the current pricing.

We value your trust and want to express our gratitude for your understanding. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this price adjustment, our customer service team is here to assist you. We believe that, with your continued support, we can navigate these changes and continue to provide you with the excellent products and service you deserve.

The pricing for resellers/distributors will be adjusted accordingly, we will send email notifications about such change.

Witty Pi 4 Package Content Change

Starting from the first generation of Witty Pi, a CR2032 Lithium battery (usually in IKEA brand) is included in Witty Pi’s package. This convention is changed now: Witty Pi (4) no longer come with a CR2032 battery, instead it comes with a 22AWG 30cm XH2.54 cable (the same as this one).

The reason for such a change, is the restrictions of Lithium battery from more and more carrier companies. Nowadays even a small Lithium battery like CR2032 in package can be considered “dangerous” and the whole package needs to be specially processed. Considering CR2032 battery is very easy to buy locally, we replace it with a 22AWG 30cm XH2.54 cable, which we believe is more useful to most of Witty Pi 4 users. You may use this cable to connect Witty Pi 4 to power supply up to 30V, and the DC/DC converter on Witty Pi 4 will provide 5V to power Raspberry Pi.

By the way, that CR2032 battery is also not necessary for Witty Pi 4 usage. In case of not putting any battery in the battery holder, the worse situation is the RTC loses the time when power supply is disconnected, and it can be fixed by synchronising the time with Internet again. If Witty Pi 4 connects to power supply all the time, which is suppose to be the case for normal usage, its RTC will not forget the time.

The unit price for Witty Pi 4 remain the same after such change. If you ordered Witty Pi 4 during the end of February, you may receive either the old or new package. Starting from March we are sure we only send out Witty Pi 4 with new package content.

 

New Product: Witty Pi 4 L3V7

Today we hereby announce the new member of Witty Pi 4 family: Witty Pi 4 L3V7. This is the first Witty Pi product that integrates the battery charging circuit and hence can be used directly as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).

Witty Pi 4 L3V7 has the same shape factor as Witty Pi 4 Mini, but it includes more functionalities. The table below shows the comparison between Witty Pi 4, Witty Pi 4 Mini and Witty Pi 4 L3V7.

The diagram below demonstrate how Witty Pi 4 L3V7 will get connected.

Witty Pi 4 L3V7

After connecting a chargeable 3.7V Lithium ion/polymer battery to Witty Pi 4 L3V7, you can use it as an UPS.  If 5V power supply is connected, the device will be powered by USB power and the battery will also be charged. If the 5V power supply is off, the battery will immediately take the palace and power the device. When its voltage drops under the preset threshold, it will shut down your Raspberry Pi.

Witty Pi 4 L3V7

More information bout this new product can be found on its product page.

Witty Pi 4 L3V7 ’s retail price is 23.00 EUR (about 19.58GBP  /  23.54USD  /  30.34CAD), and you can order it here.

You may be able to order them from our distributors soon.

 

New Product: Witty Pi 4 Mini

After we announced Witty Pi 4, there is no surprise that Witty Pi 4 Mini is also on its way. Today is the day, and we now announce our new product Witty Pi 4 Mini.

Witty Pi 4 Mini has same shape factor as Witty Pi 3 Mini, and the connector locations are not changed. This make Witty Pi 4 Mini and Witty Pi 3 Mini physically exchangeable.

What’s New?

Comparing to Witty Pi 3 Mini, Witty Pi 4 Mini uses USB type-C connector instead of micro USB connector, and it has another unpopulated 7-pin header in the middle of the board.

Comparing to the full-sized Witty Pi 4, Witty Pi 4 Mini uses super capacitor instead of CR2032 battery for off-power time keeping. Witty Pi 4 Mini doesn’t come with an on-board DC/DC converter.

Similar to the full-sized Witty Pi 4, Witty Pi 4 Mini also uses the “single I2C device” design. Instead of exposing the realtime clock and temperature sensor directly to Raspberry Pi, it uses micro-controller (MCU) to emulate one I2C device (with address 0x08), and only exposes this I2C device to Raspberry Pi. On the other hand, it implement its internal I2C bus to communicate with the realtime clock and temperature sensor.

 

Witty Pi 4 Mini’s firmware is basically the same with the one in Witty Pi 4 Mini, except that it has a different firmware ID. Just like Witty Pi 4, Witty Pi 4 Mini’s firmware also maps all I2C registers in realtime clock and temperature sensor into its own I2C device, and you can access all I2C registers in realtime clock and temperature sensor via single I2C device.

Since the address of the single I2C device is configurable, you can always avoid the I2C address conflicting.

Same as full-sized Witty Pi 4, Witty Pi 4 Mini can also turn your Raspberry Pi into a temperature controlled device. You can put it into sleep when temperature is rather high, or the other way around.

Migrate from Witty Pi 3 Mini to Witty Pi 4 Mini

If you are using Witty Pi 3 Mini in your project, you may want to know more details about the the difference between Witty Pi 3 Mini and Witty Pi 4 Mini.  In the user manual, you can find a chapter (chapter 13) about how to migrate from Witty Pi 3 Mini to Witty Pi 4 Mini.

How about Witty Pi 3 Mini?

Witty Pi 3 Mini is discontinued. We unfortunately do not offer the possibility to continue producing Witty Pi 3 Mini, due to the shortage of DS3231SN chip.

We will do our best to help our customers to migrate from Witty Pi 3 Mini to Witty Pi 4 Mini.

Price and Where to Buy?

Witty Pi 4 Mini ’s retail price is 18.00 EUR (about 15.32GBP  /  18.42USD  /  23.74CAD), and you can order it here.

You may be able to order them from our distributors soon.

 

New Product: Witty Pi 4

Today we are very proud to announce our new product: Witty Pi 4!

This is the 4th generation of Witty Pi. Comparing with Witty Pi 3, it has same shape factor and same connector locations, and have some interesting new features.

Witty Pi 4

What’s New?

Witty Pi 4 uses a new structure to organise its hardware resources. Instead of exposing the realtime clock and temperature sensor directly to Raspberry Pi, it uses micro-controller (MCU) to emulate one I2C device (with address 0x08), and only exposes this I2C device to Raspberry Pi. On the other hand, it implement its internal I2C bus and connect the realtime clock and temperature sensor to that internal I2C bus.

Witty Pi’s firmware also maps all I2C registers in realtime clock and temperature sensor into its own I2C device, so you can access all I2C registers in realtime clock and temperature sensor via single I2C device.

Because the address of this single I2C device is also configurable, you can always avoid the I2C address conflicting.

A new feature of Witty Pi 4 is to turn your Raspberry Pi into a temperature controlled device. You can put it into sleep when temperature is rather high, or the other way around.

In Witty Pi 3, you cannot specify the “seconds” in scheduled shutdown time, and that was due to the limitation from the realtime clock hardware. In Witty Pi 4, the alarms for startup and shutdown are implemented by the firmware, and hence you can specify the “seconds” in both scheduled times.

There are other differences between Witty Pi 3 and 4, and you can find a chapter about how to migrate from Witty Pi 3 to Witty Pi 4 in the user manual (chapter 13).

How about Witty Pi 3?

Witty Pi 3 is discontinued. We understand it is not good for ongoing projects who use Witty Pi 3, and we wanted to continue producing Witty Pi 3 for a while. Unfortunately due to the shortage of DS3231SN chip, we can not do so and have to discontinue Witty Pi 3.

We will do our best to help our customers to migrate from Witty Pi 3 to Witty Pi 4.

Price and Where to Buy?

Witty Pi 4’s retail price is 25.00 EUR (about 21.48GBP / 29.80USD / 36.77CAD), and you can order it here.

You may be able to order them from our distributors soon.

New Product: PiGear Nano and Case Kit

Dear visitors, today we are happy to announce our first new product in year 2022: PiGear Nano!

This is a NanoITX (12 x 12cm) carrier board for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. It comes with eight USB 3.0 ports, NVME SSD M.2 interface, Mini PCIE LTE/4G/GPRS interface, four 18-bit ADC channels, digital inputs/outputs, RS232, RS485, CAN bus, HDMI, Ethernet, realtime clock etc. With so many resources on-board, PiGear Nano is competent for industrial applications and all kinds of home projects.

PiGear Nano

PiGear Nano is also supported by UWI (UUGear Web Interface), and you can easily access your PiGear Nano via mobile phone, tablet or PC.

You can find more detailed information about PiGear Nano in its user manual.

At the same time we also announce a case kit for PiGear Nano.  The design of this black case will be open and we will publish the STL files soon. Meanwhile this case kit can also be ordered in our e-shop.

PiGear Nano in the Case

Price and Where to Buy?

PiGear Nano’s retail price is 169.00 EUR (about 145.20 GBP / 201.45 USD / 248.59 CAD), and you can order it here.

The black case kit’s retail price is 15.00 EUR (about 12.89 GBP  /  17.88 USD  /  22.06 CAD), and you can order it here.

You may be able to order them from our resellers soon.

New Product: MEGA4 – USB 3.1 PPPS Hub for Raspberry Pi 4!

Dear visitors, today we are proudly announcing a brand new product: MEGA4! This is a USB 3.1 hub designed for Raspberry Pi 4B, and it supports PPPS (per-port power switching)! It adds 4 more USB 3.1 ports to your Raspberry Pi 4B, and the power on each port can be turned ON or OFF separately via software.

MEGA4

MEGA4 is also fully supported by UWI (UUGear Web Interface), so you can use your web browser to monitor and control your MEGA4 device(s).

MEGA4 @ UWI

MEGA4 on the Phone

 

The advantage of being able to control power for each port is that you can turn OFF specify USB device(s) when they are not needed, to save energy. Also it is possible to fully reset a USB device by doing a full power cycle when it doesn’t function well after a long run. All these turning OFF/ON operations can be done remotely (either via SSH section or via UWI).

MEGA4 has the same board size with Raspberry Pi 4B and can be mounted underneath. It can also be daisy-chained like other USB hubs. The picture below shows an example to stack 3 MEGA4 devices together and that Raspberry Pi 4B eventually has 11 USB 3.1 ports.

You can find more information about MEGA4 on MEGA4 product page, or in MEGA4 user manual.

Price and Where to Buy?

MEGA4’s retail price is 28.00 EUR (about 24.06GBP / 33.38USD / 41.19CAD).

You can order it from our e-shop or you may be able to order it from our resellers soon.

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