diy sbc

thank you for the in for i am wanting to do something like what ypu sugested a laptop but would like to have a bit more power and capability behinde it eg bester display output onboard video decoding and compatability with usb 3 to name a fue

Two excellent communities are available in terms of user support, available hardware projects, and (open) source code:

• Beagle - BeagleBoard.org - community supported open hardware computers for making
• Raspberry Pi - https://www.raspberrypi.org/
• Adafruit/Arduino - https://www.adafruit.com/

There are other links all over Element14.

First, what do you want to do with your first SBC?

• Electronics project?
• Inexpensive desktop?
• Inexpensive laptop?
• Carry something around sewn into clothing?
• Astronomy/weather/radio data gathering or processing or both?
• Build a robot?
• Combinations of the above?
• Something else?

If you are heading in the direction of a desktop or a laptop kit project (E.g. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3065 or https://www.adafruit.com/product/3116 ), I would point you at the Raspberry Pi simply based on RAM (2x Beagle products, in general) and the CPU advantage.  You'll probably be running a Unix or Linux on an SBC and I highly recommend Raspbian due to is huge popularity and, therefore, notable support opportunities.  Note that the LaptopOS for the 2 Adafruit kits that I mentioned is based on Raspbian.

I am not the right person to talk about Windows 10 [read into that what you wish! ].

Of course, there are other SBC manufacturers offering more RAM on more powerful CPU/GPU for more $$$.  Shop and research if you so desire.

Keep in mind, if you learned electronics, then you can learn Unix or Linux, command-line operations, `ssh`, bash shell, Python version 3 programming, and system administration.  Divide and conquer.  Keep at it.

hi therre i am looking to do something like a rasbery pi but more powerfull and fully custem

What kind of SBC are you looking to build… Something like a Raspberry PI or something like an Arduino. To ask a different way, what is it your planning to do with it ?