Interesting "Competitors" for the Raspberry Pi

It is interesting to see what people are comparing to the "An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!" to these days.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-touted-in-kickstarter-project/

This article is talking about a $99 dollar supercomputer that has 16 cores @ 700MHz each.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/28/09/2012/54676/raspberry-pi-gets-a-competitor.htm

This article is about an ARM board, not that different to the Raspberry Pi but with more power and RAM.

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jamodio over 13 years ago

Got a quick email update from the Cubieboard folks ...

Intial 200 prototypes sold out. 1,000 users in the forum, 4,000 subscribed to the notification list, growing about 100 per day.

To meet demand they are crowd funding via http://www.indiegogo.com/cubieboard

Estimated shipping was end of Nov.

-J
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to jamodio

Hey jamodio
I liked the sound of cubieboard's specs - so I just "contributed". It could be fun since I have several sata drives.
Peg
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GeorgeIoak over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Peg Wagner wrote:

Hey jamodio
I liked the sound of cubieboard's specs - so I just "contributed". It could be fun since I have several sata drives.
Peg
I totally agree, SATA is very attractive as well as having LVDS +HDMI so I'll probably throw something at them but I think I'll watch for a little bit to see what happens since the campaign isn't ending for another month. To be honest though, I'm a little nervous about something coming out of Shenzhen and what the support or dare I say quality, will be like.
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GeorgeIoak over 13 years ago in reply to GeorgeIoak

just read this news post which is a little concerning http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/01/freescale-layoffs-target-one-particular-product/
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to GeorgeIoak

Well (gulp) it won't be the first time I've jumped at something like this - won't be the last I'm afraid. I do get lucky though - so we'll see what happens. That video was the deal maker, for sure )!!
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to GeorgeIoak

Well (gulp) it won't be the first time I've jumped at something like this - won't be the last I'm afraid. I do get lucky though - so we'll see what happens. That video was the deal maker, for sure )!!
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GeorgeIoak over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

I was just looking at the schematic of the Cubieboard (http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard) and one thing I see that I like is that there's direct access to a 2-channel LVDS interface which means you can connect a FHD LDC Panel. That's the good news, the bad news is that the only I/O I see is a single SPI, I don't se any free GPIO pins.
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johnbeetem over 13 years ago in reply to GeorgeIoak

George Ioakimedes wrote:

I was just looking at the schematic of the Cubieboard (http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard) and one thing I see that I like is that there's direct access to a 2-channel LVDS interface which means you can connect a FHD LDC Panel. That's the good news, the bad news is that the only I/O I see is a single SPI, I don't se any free GPIO pins.
I would think that if you're using LVDS, the unused LCD pins would be available as GPIOs.
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GeorgeIoak over 13 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

John Beetem wrote:

I would think that if you're using LVDS, the unused LCD pins would be available as GPIOs.
I was kind of thinking that might be possible they aren't listed as an optional GPIO but other pin functions are listed with dual choices. I don't need/want parallel RBG LCD connection but if you were to use that you wouldn't be left with free pins.
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