A-13 OlinuXino: Just another development board?

RE: A-13 OlinuXino: Just another development board?

Former Member — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:14:39 GMT

I'm Tsvetan from OLIMEX Ltd and I can tell you what makes the difference between A13-OLinuXino and "others"

- true open source hardware, you have access to everything - cad files, sources, so you can build derivates by yourself, this also give you security for your design and this is what our customers appreciate most

- Cortex A8 @ 1Ghz (x4 times faster from one popular board manufactured by e14)

- lot of GPIOs to interface to phisical world

- wide range of LCDs which connects directly and work out of the box with 4.3", 7.0", 10.1" and soon 15.6" with touchscreen options

- UEXT connector to which you can connect Bluetooth, Zigbee, temperature sensors, magnetometers, accelerometers, RFID readers, with demo examples on GitHub

- works out of the box with any power supply from 6 to 16VDC i.e. you can plug it to your car 12V system for instance

- have LiPo charger and can work hours on LiPo battery which acts as UPS

- Android 4 with access to all hardware features like GPIO, I2C, UART etc

- Debian Linux with access to all hardware features

not least - noise immune design, the TQFP package have large heat dessipation pad on bottom which is connected to large ground plane, this way A13 working at 1Ghz do not heats more than few degrees above ambient temperature, none of our competitors in BGA package have this advantage

so if you want toy board to play with your choice indeed is big, if you want reliable board which to work in wide temperature range in the field A13-OLinuXino is your board [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-5f6228ec-2d40-40a1-92d3-bb31bf092e61/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

RE: A-13 OlinuXino: Just another development board?

Former Member — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:52:00 GMT

I am afraid you are missing the point here. OLinuXino boards (and there are many versions of those) are meant more for work than for play. And community around Allwinner chips is growing, check here http://linux-sunxi.org so these are not "me too" boards.

RE: A-13 OlinuXino: Just another development board?

DAB — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:17:40 GMT

Hi Cabe,

I agree with you. I do not see enough WOW factor to buy and use this board.

I wonder where they came up with their requirements list. I saw nothing in there capability list that I could not satisfy with any one of a dozen other boards with larger followings and support.

If you are going to bring out a new board, then you need to use it for attacking a market where the community finds unserved.

This one smacks of being a "me too" board.

DAB