OLinuXino A20-Lime2 ?

selsinork wrote:

 

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

Awesome!!!

The LIME is marginally larger than the Pi.

Not if you include the Pi's connectors sticking out in all directions and covering half a football pitch.

And yes, the "-MICRO" field in various OLinuXino names was probably a mistake which they're regretting, haha.

Anyway, very cool, and as shabaz suggested, an excellent Xmas self-gift.  I'll just have to survive over Xmas on my BBBs --- I'll manage.

Morgaine.

shabaz wrote:

 

Did you get any LiPo for it too?

I didn't.. figured that with a battery in the package it woud go by road and if I was lucky it'd turn up in about March

Not sure if the one you used between the connectors on your BBB would fit or not. If not it'll be marginal though.

I may get one locally, or just wait to a slightly less insane time of year

Ah, good point, batteries do complicate delivery. I'm sure it is the same connector, because the Olimex page under 'Related Products' shows the same LiPo model I used. It is JST 'PH' series, which is on a 2mm pitch.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

selsinork wrote:

 

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

Awesome!!!

 

Very.  Olimex say it could be up to three days for them to ship something depending on how busy they are, then 2-3 days UPS within Europe.

The reality was that I had the tracking number about 90 mins after placing the order. Took a while to show up on the ups tracking page, and then a while to show the scheduled delivery date.. Very surprised when it said it'd be here today, I'd been expecting the second half of next week.

The downside of course is that the shipping on a single 30 euro part ends up being a significant percentage of the end cost, so you'll want to get a few things to make it worthwhile, not that you should have any problems with that!  But with interesting products and excellent service, I'm liking Olimex more and more

To @e14, you've missed out on a sale, again. Please start stocking more Olimex SBC's. Wandboards too.

shabaz wrote:

 

I'm sure it is the same connector,

Oh, it'll be the same one.. I was more meaning I'm not sure if your battery will fit inside the case, mostly due to the standoff's holding it all together.

selsinork wrote:

 

To @e14, you've missed out on a sale, again. Please start stocking more Olimex SBC's. Wandboards too.

Well now that we know about their MarS board, it's looking like a conflict of interest between Farnell the distributor and E14/Embest the board manufacturer --- they're pushing their own product by omitting others.  When a distributor isn't agnostic to the products it sells, it's no longer working in the best interests of its customers.

Morgaine.

Although it's not an area that sparks our interest much here, OLinuXino is definitely invading the Pi's media consumer territory.  This Olimex blog "QtAV running on A13-OLinuXino-WIFI with hardware acceleration" shows good video performance even while applying effects, and mireq's Github page shows how easy it is to work with that toolkit.

The LIME series is going to be popular for all kinds of reasons.

Morgaine.

PS. A few days ago a related blog post showed "Qt5.2 running on A13-OLinuXino-WIFI OSHW Linux computer", and while the eye candy effects were a bit excessive in my functional view, they certainly demonstrated the power and flexibility of Qt5.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

Well now that we know about their MarS board, it's looking like a conflict of interest between Farnell the distributor and E14/Embest the board manufacturer

That's somewhat to be expected, sell stuff you can make a bigger margin on first....  Stuff you manufacture yourself may also skip the queue and be something you'll have in your catalogue earlier.

If it was that simple, you'd expect the MarS to be a lot more prominent here, but it really isn't. The other problem with MarS is that the community around it is going to be tiny. There's decent enough communities around Boundary/Wand that it may not matter though.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

Although it's not an area that sparks our interest much here, OLinuXino is definitely invading the Pi's media consumer territory.  This Olimex blog "QtAV running on A13-OLinuXino-WIFI with hardware acceleration" shows good video performance

I was watching that earlier...  From what I've been reading, it's still somewhat of a black art to get CedarX and all of the pieces working together. I've not investigated fully yet, but it seems that some parts are binary blobs too.  Very impressive demo anyway!

LIME + sata drive taped to the back of the TV running something like this is going to catch a lot of attention from the media player crowd I'd think.

Maybe the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?

Certainly Embest building a board but Farnell not promoting it for them makes no business sense at all.  And you're totally right that without a community around it, it's going absolutely nowhere, which means that there won't be significant profits from it and so the development costs went down the drain.  And that in turn means that if this were a reason for not selling Wandboard / A20-OLinuXino then they'd be losing on the left hand as manufacturers and losing on the right hand as distributors as well.

The whole thing looks like mismanagement.  Maybe Farnell has gotten too big, and employees now no longer care?

Morgaine.