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M5Stack Brings Back Its Faces Platform to Turn Cores Into Modular, Battery-Backed Handheld Gadgets

M5Stack has relaunched its Faces modular development platform, providing a battery-powered expansion platform for Core-series development boards to turn them into compact handhelds with keyboard, gamepad, and calculator input options.

"Faces Bottom 3 is a functional panel expansion base for the Faces series, connecting to the host via the M5-Bus," the company explains of the new launch, which replaces the discontinued second- and first-generation Faces families. "The base provides a 2.54-22P input panel bus, which can be used to connect function panels such as keyboards, calculators, and game controllers."

The "Bottom" board is designed to host the user's choice of Core module at the top, where it provides the driving force and display, while providing connectivity for add-on input panels below — with, at launch, the choice of Keyboard Panel, Gamepad Panel, and numerical Calculator Panel. Using these, the company explains, it's possible to turn a Core module into a...

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I tried to ignore this compact stereo speaker system's background hiss and focus on the spacious and punchy sound, but I couldn't forgive the low-rent control options

I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptop

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