Samsung has scrapped its Raspberry Pi 3 competitor called Artik 10 as it moves to smaller and more powerful boards to create gadgets, robots, drones, and IoT devices. A last remaining stock of the US$149 boards is still available through online retailers Digi-Key and Arrow. Samsung has stopped making Artik 10 and is asking users to buy its Artik 7 boards instead. "New development for high-performance IoT products should be based on the Samsung Artik 710, as the Artik 1020 is no longer in production. Limited stocks of Artik 1020 modules and developer kits are still available for experimentation and small-scale projects," the company said on its Artik website. The Artik boards have been used to develop robots, drone, smart lighting systems, and other smart home products.

Samsung's Artik 10 developer board will compete with the Raspberry Pi 3, but not on price. The Artik 10 is priced at US 150, and can be ordered from Digi-Key's website. That's a much higher price than the 35 Raspberry Pi 3, but the Artik 10 offers a better GPU and more storage. The Artik 10 has all its components mashed onto a circuit board, much like Raspberry Pi. The board is targeted at enthusiasts looking to make smart gadgets, appliances, robots, drones, sensor devices, and industrial automation equipment.

Can't reach your smartphone to adjust the lighting in your home theater? Eyesight announced at the Samsung Developers Conference Wednesday that it will embed its computer-vision and deep-learning technology into Samsung's Artik 10 Internet of Things module. The companies say this will enable manufacturers to embed gesture-recognition capabilities directly into products such as smart light bulbs. It will also eliminate the need to grab your smartphone to control a device, and it will significantly reduce response time because the processing power will be on the device itself instead of a server in the cloud. Eyesight said it would demonstrate its technology at the conference by using subtle finger movements to control a set of Phillips Hue LED light bulbs.