Hi everybody,
what do you think of this new toy? http://www.lemaker.org/
I must admit their communication is a bit "ambigious", especially when they're talking about the Raspberry Pi compatibility..
if it's about pinout compatibility, I would say great. but on some of their sentences/phrases, we could almost think you could run the same "images" (sdcard) or binaries... from the Raspberry Pi on their "Banana Pi"....
They're saying they support Debian, Ubuntu, Android (4.4) but they don't give URL where to find all of these distros..
Caracteristics: CPU A20 ARM® Cortex™-A7 Dual-Core GPU ARM Mali400MP2 Complies with OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 Memory (SDRAM) 1GB DDR3 (shared with GPU)
Onboard Storage SD (Max. 64GB) / MMC card slot UP to 2T on SATA disk
Onboard Network 10/100/1000 Ethernet RJ45 (optional USB WIFI Dongle)
Camera Input A CSI input connector allows for the connection of a designed camera module
Sound Input Mic
Video Outputs HDMI, CVBS , LVDS/RGB
Audio Output 3.5 mm Jack and HDMI
Power Source 5 volt via MicroUSB(DC In Only) and/or MicroUSB (OTG)
USB 2.0 Ports 2 (direct from Allwinner A20 chip)
Buttons Reset button: Next to MicroUSB connector
Power button: Next to Reset button
UBoot button (optional): Behind HDMI connector
GPIO(2X13) pin: GPIO,UART,I2C bus,SPI bus with two chip selects, CAN bus,ADC,PWM,+3.3v,+5v,ground.
LED Power Status LED (Red)
Ethernet Status LED (Blue)
User Define LED (Green)
Remote IR
good things: LAN 10/100/1000, Sata, HDMI, CVBS , LVDS/RGB, Camera...
Why not? I saw the price around 57/60$ + delivery if I remember well.
Will see.
Bye bye for now Regards Erix
Erix wrote:
if it's about pinout compatibility, I would say great. but on some of their sentences/phrases, we could almost think you could run the same "images" (sdcard) or binaries... from the Raspberry Pi on their "Banana Pi"....
You certainly aren't going to run an unmodified raspberry Pi image on the thing. It's a completely different SoC and will need a different kernel and bootloader.
Userland binaries that don't depend on Pi specific stuff should run though. I suspect the screenshot I saw of it running pistore is real.
The page you linked doesn't seem to have any links to actually buy the thing and I saw another page about it at http://www.bananapi.org/ which appears to have buying links but when you actually click them they don't go anywhere. The pictures on the two sites also seem to have slightly different connector arrangements.
Overall it seems to be being run by a group who haven't quite got their shit together, if I'd designed a system arround the raspberry Pi form factor and then realised I needed more CPU power I might consider it, otherwise i'd probablly go for a product from a vendor who seem more competant.
2014-04-23 12:59 GMT+02:00 peter green plugwash@p10link.net:
Erix wrote:
if it's about pinout compatibility, I would say great. but on some of their sentences/phrases, we could almost think you could run the same "images" (sdcard) or binaries... from the Raspberry Pi on their "Banana Pi"....
You certainly aren't going to run an unmodified raspberry Pi image on the thing. It's a completely different SoC and will need a different kernel and bootloader.
Userland binaries that don't depend on Pi specific stuff should run though. I suspect the screenshot I saw of it running pistore is real.
The page you linked doesn't seem to have any links to actually buy the thing and I saw another page about it at http://www.bananapi.org/ which appears to have buying links but when you actually click them they don't go anywhere. The pictures on the two sites also seem to have slightly different connector arrangements.
Overall it seems to be being run by a group who haven't quite got their shit together, if I'd designed a system arround the raspberry Pi form factor and then realised I needed more CPU power I might consider it, otherwise i'd probablly go for a product from a vendor who seem more competant.
Something like the HummingBoard: http://imx.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=HummingBoard_Hardware
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mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
Something like the HummingBoard: http://imx.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=HummingBoard_Hardware
The impression I got was that they weren't planing to sell the thing, only make a handful to give to developers.
Has that changed?
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