Dan Kottke pitching a Raspberry Pi-like system
there are many many Raspberry Pi clones. Here are 5 slick commercial-videos for them. Daniel Kottke starts with a pitch for the Pine A64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1l4I2UIw1Q 5 Raspberry-pi alternatives
thanks Jeff. On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
there are many many Raspberry Pi clones. Here are 5 slick commercial-videos for them. Daniel Kottke starts with a pitch for the Pine A64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1l4I2UIw1Q 5 Raspberry-pi alternatives
I believe I have a Pine A64 somewhere. I got in on the Kickstarter, received it, and didn't do anything with it yet. Right now, I'm working with Ultibo for the Raspberry Pi. It's a Pascal based API which compiles to a directly executable runtime application that runs on the Pi without having to boot Linux. Boot times are less than three seconds. https://ultibo.org/ On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
there are many many Raspberry Pi clones. Here are 5 slick commercial-videos for them. Daniel Kottke starts with a pitch for the Pine A64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1l4I2UIw1Q 5 Raspberry-pi alternatives
On 01/12/2017 10:20 AM, Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I believe I have a Pine A64 somewhere. I got in on the Kickstarter, received it, and didn't do anything with it yet.
I haven't seen that one yet. I'm using PocketCHIP boards for instrument control stuff lately. (without the cute little keyboard/display of course) I have a few of them dangling from USB<->GPIB interfaces in stacks of instrumentation. Great stuff.
Right now, I'm working with Ultibo for the Raspberry Pi. It's a Pascal based API which compiles to a directly executable runtime application that runs on the Pi without having to boot Linux. Boot times are less than three seconds.
Whoa. That sounds fantastic. Thanks for the pointer! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
there are many many Raspberry Pi clones. Here are 5 slick commercial-videos for them. Daniel Kottke starts with a pitch for the Pine A64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1l4I2UIw1Q 5 Raspberry-pi alternatives
oh yea, I bought one of these too during their Kickstarter campaign. It packs a lot of hardware per buck just on one board, and it's very price competitive to the RPi3 still. I'm still tinkering around with mine and looking for a homebrew project. This even supports the same physical form factor for the RPi Hats using the same 40pin I/O Plus on top this includes an additional I/O port for their dedicated interfaces and a few others. All the while with minimal additional pcb space. I was very glad to see they were able to expand into a store once they satisfied all of their rewards. I really hope the stick around for the long haul. Because many of these Kickstarter campaigns wind up being a dead-end or one-hit wonders. Dan
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
there are many many Raspberry Pi clones. Here are 5 slick commercial-videos for them. Daniel Kottke starts with a pitch for the Pine A64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1l4I2UIw1Q 5 Raspberry-pi alternatives
oh yea, I bought one of these too during their Kickstarter campaign. It packs a lot of hardware per buck just on one board, and it's very price competitive to the RPi3 still. I'm still tinkering around with mine and looking for a homebrew project. This even supports the same physical form factor for the RPi Hats using the same 40pin I/O Plus on top this includes an additional I/O port for their dedicated interfaces and a few others. All the while with minimal additional pcb space. I was very glad to see they were able to expand into a store once they satisfied all of their rewards. I really hope the stick around for the long haul. Because many of these Kickstarter campaigns wind up being a dead-end or one-hit wonders. Dan
This one is Arduino-like, not RasPi, but still pretty cool: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/795510755/apollo-arduino-compatible-tra... Like Dan says, I hope they stick around and aren't a one hit wonder.
On Jan 12, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
there are many many Raspberry Pi clones. Here are 5 slick commercial-videos for them. Daniel Kottke starts with a pitch for the Pine A64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1l4I2UIw1Q 5 Raspberry-pi alternatives
oh yea, I bought one of these too during their Kickstarter campaign. It packs a lot of hardware per buck just on one board, and it's very price competitive to the RPi3 still. I'm still tinkering around with mine and looking for a homebrew project. This even supports the same physical form factor for the RPi Hats using the same 40pin I/O Plus on top this includes an additional I/O port for their dedicated interfaces and a few others. All the while with minimal additional pcb space. I was very glad to see they were able to expand into a store once they satisfied all of their rewards. I really hope the stick around for the long haul. Because many of these Kickstarter campaigns wind up being a dead-end or one-hit wonders.
Well, Allwinner (who makes the CPU/SoC along with a bunch of other cheap ARM SoCs) isn't going away any time soon, but their support isn't stellar (and their Linux SDKs are full of GPL violations). However, there's EXCELLENT community support amongst the Armbian distribution, which pays close attention to the Pine64. Really neat stuff; check out all the really cool super-cheap ARM SBCs based on Allwinner chips out there! A lot of them are Raspberry Pi I/O compatible, but a lot of them go in completely different directions (like the aforementioned CHIP from NextThingCo). - Dave
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