Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Solu
The world's smallest general-purpose computer
Solu is a technology and lifestyle content hub covering gadgets, how-to guides, entertainment, digital marketing, and business ideas. The site publishes articles on streaming services, gaming, and technology trends for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Solu launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Kangaroo▲67The world’s smallest, personal, powerful, portable PC.
2015 · kangaroo.net · its alternatives →
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The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab" (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they're not often strongly categorized). Quick blog post here: https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/
Jun 2026 · minipcs.zip · its alternatives →
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A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation. - pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · urubu.jandecaluwe.com · its alternatives →
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Hercules▲115The world's smallest camera motion control system
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Powerful computer built into lightweight see-through glasses
Jun 2026 · specs.com · its alternatives →
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Transforms any TV into a cross-platform communication device
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Iris mini▲116Software for eye protection, health and productivity
2016 · iristech.co · its alternatives →
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JustPano▲93A platform for exploring the world in virtual reality
2017 · justpano.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we just released the 1.0 of the MonTana Mini Computer (MTMC-16), a virtual teaching computer to help students understand how low level computing works. It is a 16 bit computer with only 4k of ram, but we've made some design choices that help maximize what you can accomplish with the limited hardware https://mtmc.cs.montana.edu/ It is written in java (sorry) and provides a web interface that has: - a blinken-lighten display for registers - a memory view with different filters you can apply - a Gameboy-like game pad - a console you can use to interact with the computer…
2025 · mtmc.cs.montana.edu · its alternatives →
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MiniCPM5-1B▲96A new SOTA for compact open models on the edge
May 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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