OLinuXino A20-Lime2 ?

selsinork wrote:

 

I'm sure that will catch the interest of various people here

Woohoo!

Even the plain base-level 30-euro A10-OLinuXino-LIME is already interesting because of its SATA and ready LiPo socket, which aren't common in this price range.  Each extra facility just adds more interest, and this could be seen as the basis for an entire range of boards from Olimex:

• Base LIME model, A10 Cortex-A8, SATA, LiPo -- 30 euro
• + 4GB on-board flash -- probably +5 euro
• + 1 GB RAM
• + A20 dual core Cortex-A7
• + Gigabit Ethernet

Come to think of it ... are Olimex basing their business plan on my posts?

This is great news.

Morgaine.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

• + 4GB on-board flash -- probably +5 euro

If you look at the A20-OLinuXino-Micro, then the 4GB nand flash seems to add 10 euro. I'm not sure I think that's worth it.

morgaine wrote:

 

This is great news.

Great news for ARM users, that is.

It's not great news for Raspberry Pi Foundation nor for BeagleBoard.org --- the pressure is on owing to the march of progress.  BeagleBone Black still has some clear functional advantages such as its PRUs.  Raspberry Pi is left with no on-board advantages at all, since the base LIME has full media functionality  and BBB already vanquished Pi in all other hardware areas.  The Pi camera is an off-board advantage for Pi though, owing to its very low price.

It's not great news for Farnell group either, whose buyers are still totally out to lunch on listing A10 and A20 OLinuXinos.  Oh well, it's their choice if they don't want my money.

Morgaine.

selsinork wrote:

 

If you look at the A20-OLinuXino-Micro, then the 4GB nand flash seems to add 10 euro. I'm not sure I think that's worth it.

I agree, if it turns out to be +10 euro, this would be pushing the price envelope far beyond the limit of reasonable on a 30-euro product.  Flash chips don't cost that much.  Hell, BBB managed to fit 2GB eMMC into its very small price budget, and that was a long time ago in this industry.

I hope Olimex recognize that before the 4GB model appears and shave some euros off.  +10 would undermine their highly attractive LIME pricing.

Morgaine.

Further kudos for Olimex, from an entirely different angle.

They're a progressive and forward-looking outfit, and so their shop (link to A10-OLinuXino-LIME) is on IPv6.

All my Firefox's multiple 6's light up nicely:

Olimex is getting there through a Hurricane Electric tunnel, which demonstrates how anyone can get onto IPv6 even if their ISP doesn't support it natively.

Morgaine.

You know, I never even noticed they were on IPv6... I just take it for granted these days that IPv6 works seamlessly.

So how many did you order then ?

selsinork wrote:

 

You know, I never even noticed they were on IPv6... I just take it for granted these days that IPv6 works seamlessly.

It does indeed work seamlessly.  I only keep a deckful of IPv6 indicator lights because I'm an IPv6 advocate.

So how many did you order then ?

Hehe, none yet, because only the 50 developer boards were put in the shop.  As Olimex wrote, the first production batch won't be available for a fortnight, so any order placed now could end up as a pre-order and/or may hit the Xmas postal chaos which is already starting.  You know me, I hate pre-orders, and international pre-orders even more.  (I guess I'll have to use Olimex's vendor on eBay UK.)

But 2014 will see Olimex getting my money, and I'll probably end up with as many base-model LIMEs as I have BBBs.  Their later A20 models will add to the family here.  2014 is looking to be a fun year.

Morgaine.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

Hehe, none yet, because only the 50 developer boards were put in the shop.  As Olimex wrote, the first production batch won't be available for a fortnight, so any order placed now could end up as a pre-order and/or may hit the Xmas postal chaos which is already starting.  You know me, I hate pre-orders, and international pre-orders even more.  (I guess I'll have to use Olimex's vendor on eBay UK.)

 

I looked at the uk ebay stuff, not too impressed, missing some recent stuff and I didn't think the prices were that great.

At this time of year, those 50 might last a while as lots of people will be thinking about other things..  When I read the bit about the run of 2K happening in two weeks I was somewhat confused since they're closed from the 23rd right through, so they're being built while they're closed?  Doesn't really matter I suppose, unless you get one of the 50, it'll be next year anyway.

Talking of postal chaos, my Wandboards were delivered last week in approx 33 hours from leaving their warehouse in the US to being with me in the UK, while stuff sent through the post from farnell in leeds took three days...

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

so any order placed now could end up as a pre-order and/or may hit the Xmas postal chaos which is already starting.  You know me, I hate pre-orders, and international pre-orders even more. 

Next day delivery from Olimex HQ in Bulgaria to me in the UK      Xmas is early this year !

I'd not read the post about there only being 50 available when I placed the order, so wasn't hopeful when I did read it. Checked my email at that point and I'd already got the shipping confirmation. So thanks to both Olimex and UPS for a very painless experience!

Isn't 'Micro' supposed to mean small though ?

The LIME is marginally larger than the Pi.

I'm going to have to order a load of uSD cards now. I'll bet it ends up with those getting lost in the xmas post chaos

They look great! The microSD is nice, you could use the one for programming the BBB temporarily!

Did you get any LiPo for it too? Actually personally I'd desolder the connector and either replace with vertical type, or place the existing one on the underside so it is oriented in the reverse direction so it was facing in if the battery will be in the enclosure but that's an easy mod!

My xmas gift to myself is just some tools. I badly need a magnifier for all the tiny SMDs so I've purchased a couple of handheld ones until I can stomach the cost of a decent desk version.