ahull
Thu Jul 07, 2016 7:35 am
Another Alwinner based Pi like SOC board.
martinayotte
Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:07 pm
Interesting !!!
It should even be price competitive against OrangePi-One …
ahull
Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:56 pm
RogerClark
Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:07 pm
Looks like its only really intended to be used as a camera input device.
martinayotte
Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:29 pm
Yes, it is even named ArduCAM …
zoomx
Tue Jul 19, 2016 5:55 am
It lacks the connector for small TFT LCD panels. Maybe it is not important as in the RaspberryPi but without it you can’t build portable cameras, a possible use for this board.
Edit: the main site is here
http://www.arducam.com/
ahull
Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:00 am
zoomx wrote:It lacks the connector for small TFT LCD panels. Maybe it is not important as in the RaspberryPi but without it you can’t build portable cameras, a possible use for this board.
stevestrong
Tue Jul 19, 2016 9:10 am
I wouldn’t wonder when these tiny boards would have problem with power dissipation…
Even with 5W (5V 1A) consumption they would be pretty hot.
Even with 5W (5V 1A) consumption they would be pretty hot.
ahull
Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:48 pm
stevestrong wrote:I wouldn’t wounder when these tiny boards would have problem with power dissipation…
Even with 5W (5V 1A) consumption they would be pretty hot.
Even with 5W (5V 1A) consumption they would be pretty hot.
zoomx
Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:10 pm
ahull wrote:True, but it does appear to have a TV output (presumably composite video), and an unpopulated 16 way GPIO header of some sort. It is also a modular construction, with the SOC on a daughter board, which makes for some other interesting possibilities.
ahull
Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:21 pm
I’m pretty certain the SOC will be capable of driving HDMI, so a micro HDMI connector would be more appropriate for most uses I can think of, having said that a lot of small monitors do still have composite inputs, they are getting pretty rare on larger monitors and TVs though.
zoomx
Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:41 pm
There is a post in hackaday blog.
The interesting thing is that maybe this board will be never produced if Broadcom will refuse to sell the chip as it did with the Odroid-W
It must be noted that this board is not for sale yet, and if Broadcom takes offense to the project, it may never be. That’s exactly what happened with the ODROID-W, and if ArduCAM can’t secure a supply of chips from Broadcom, this project will never see the light of day.
http://hackaday.com/2016/07/18/arducam- … pberry-pi/
The interesting thing is that maybe this board will be never produced if Broadcom will refuse to sell the chip as it did with the Odroid-W
It must be noted that this board is not for sale yet, and if Broadcom takes offense to the project, it may never be. That’s exactly what happened with the ODROID-W, and if ArduCAM can’t secure a supply of chips from Broadcom, this project will never see the light of day.
http://hackaday.com/2016/07/18/arducam- … pberry-pi/
