ODroid - Oh Boy!

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Former Member — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:38:06 GMT

Hello Mconners,
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Former Member — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:23:38 GMT

Thanks for the review! Sounds like a better option for a inexpensive genuine Linux computer compared to the Raspberry Pi. Minor sacrifices in add-ons (camera interface, composite video out) grant you more processing power and memory; gives you the ability to run Ubuntu for nearly the same cost as the Pi. Glad to know there's all of these options to raise my kid on!

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johnbeetem — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:58:17 GMT

Another tidbit for your amusement. Under v1.2 and v1.3, some X11 windows are rendered strangely with black backgrounds and blurred text. This turns out to be a problem with the alpha blending bits, which aren't implemented properly for X11. Work-around is to change the bits per pixel (BPP) from 32 to 24 in boot.ini and reboot. This may break other applications, but at least your X11 windows will look nice.

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johnbeetem — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 23:39:30 GMT

Another subtopic: when I move windows around the desktop with v1.1 or v1.2, it's very slow with lots of inertia: that is, the window slowly follows the mouse and catches up after I stop moving. I couldn't find any preference option to change this behavior.

Are others having the same behavior? Otherwise the graphics are pretty quick.

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Robert Peter Oakes — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 19:11:21 GMT

Droid-C1 ordered, along with PSU, Serial Cable and HDMI adapter, now the few days of waiting begins [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-e7ba5f4b-e89d-4d55-827e-c74b41afcb2a/5482.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16], Oh and an LCD display (Why not)

I looks like your all getting this thing to perform quite nicely so I hope to rapidly get up to speed once it arrives, I did not order the rather expensive flash card and will opt for the uSD option for now which I already have a few of that where purchased for my PI, high speed 16GB.

Ill let you know when there here and ive got it running the first time... [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-e7ba5f4b-e89d-4d55-827e-c74b41afcb2a/5482.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

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Robert Peter Oakes — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:50:42 GMT

Im in the mood for getting one, you guys cant have all the fun, I don't see it on Newark so where are you getting them from, or am I just not finding them ?

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mconners — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:03:58 GMT

This evening I finally got around to hooking up my SainSmart 3.2 inch LCD( as discussed here) to the odroid. After downloading and building the latest kernel and following the instructions here it worked right away. Now to come up with a purpose.

Mike

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clem57 — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:18:54 GMT

Mike,

Have you flashed the eMMC? Wondering how hard?

Clem

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amgalbu — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:20:05 GMT

Hi Michael

very interesting!

Is it running a full version of Ubuntu? With full Gnome/KDE window manager?

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johnbeetem — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:54:45 GMT

In case anyone is interested, user mlinuxguy at the ODROID Forum got LOGI-Pi to work with ODROID-C1.

Here's his thread from early January 2015: ODROID Forum • View topic - Logi-PI (FPGA board) on Odroid-C1

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johnbeetem — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:25:00 GMT

Mike, have you noticed how hot your ODROID-C1 is getting? Does it need that heat sink?

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johnbeetem — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:15:12 GMT

Great 'blog Mike. Thank you for posting it -- I'm definitely considering the C1 as a possible desktop replacement and/or backup. The GPIO connector is probably electrically compatible with the LOGI-Pi FPGA board, which would be a fun thing to try out.

For desktop applications, I'd probably want to use a real 2.5" USB 2.0 hard drive for the file system.

Mike wrote: If you need a console, buy their USB UART module, they have a goofy Molex connector for serial.

Yeah, I looked up the connector. 2.50 mm pin pitch (0.098"). That is pretty goofy. I wonder if they can plug into 25 mil square posts if you flex them a little?

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fvan — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:06:59 GMT

Cool! I've got one on the way as well, but tracking info hasn't been updated since the 17th.

I'm curious about the quad core and extra RAM (as opposed to the Pi) and how much this will improve overall performance.

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Problemchild — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:53:38 GMT

That serial connector is a standard Molex I did find it in Farnell some time ago.

The important thing to note is that the serial to USB has 1.8V VIO since all the SOCs operate at this voltage, same for the Samsung parts used on the Other Odroids

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mcb1 — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:07:15 GMT

Nice work Mike.

I'll definately put that on the shopping list for next year.

It's great they have ADC, so I'd be keen to see some example of that, which is the one thing missing from RPi.

Thanks for sharing and the hints.

Mark