Banana pi $29.99 computer

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headfound · #21 Post by **headfound** » Tue 12 Aug 2014, 18:25

I bought a couple of similar tablet from Amazon along with separate usb keyboard/cases for around £40 each in total.
Only a single core rockchip, 7inch screen, 512mb ram and 4gb storage.
They work quite well especially with the keyboards but they are a little too slow especially from a cold boot you can't really use them for the first couple of minutes.

don570 · #22 Post by **don570** » Mon 15 Sep 2014, 22:36

The latest news from banana pi

-now supports BERRYBOOT
i.e. multiple operating systems on card or USB drive

-camera module is available similar to Raspberry pi

- lemaker has written a STATEMENT explaining who they are
'about 30 people'. Well worth reading....

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Q13: WHO IS LEMAKER? COULD YOU PROVIDE SOME GENERAL INFORMATION ON YOUR TEAM?
A13: LeMaker consists of passionate and creative young PhDs and Masters students who are focusing on Education, Robotics, the Internet, smart homes, LEDs, and many other exciting science and engineering projects. It was founded earlier this year. LeMaker hopes to become a new and great manufacturing team, an open source community and a sharing platform. The name LeMaker, is a combination of Le + Maker. “Le

greengeek · #23 Post by **greengeek** » Tue 16 Sep 2014, 19:20

don570 wrote:- lemaker has written a ***** url=file:///D:/FAQ%20-%20Banana%20Pi.htm] STATEMENT[/url***** explaining who they are

Hi Don, the STATEMENT url appears to be a link to your hard drive.

don570 · #24 Post by **don570** » Wed 17 Sep 2014, 19:04

OOOps

Fixed.
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Mr. Hughes · #25 Post by **Mr. Hughes** » Thu 09 Oct 2014, 21:17

I just bought my first arm board, a raspberry Pi B+, but it hasn't even arrived and i'm already starting to regret it a little. This Banana Pi or the $45 Hummingboard-i1 is a much better option.

Before I became interested in these boards I knew nothing about arm processors. Now that i've done some research i'm wondering why on earth the Pi foundation skimped on the most important piece, The CPU. It contains an outdated Armv6 processor when they should have used an armv7 cpu like the Banana.

Most OS's that are being ported to ARM are being ported with the armv7 standard in mind.

I'm sure I'll still have some fun toying with it though, and I can always buy the other boards later

EDIT: The most bang for the buck appears to be the Odroid U3
http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php

don570 · #26 Post by **don570** » Thu 16 Oct 2014, 23:20

Lemaker has developed a 'Pro' model with built-in wifi chip however they can't begin to sell it until they solve a stability problem.

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don570 · #27 Post by **don570** » Sat 18 Oct 2014, 20:43

Someone at lemaker is apparently developing a touch sensitive screen for Android OS

however Ubuntu has a touch project as well that might work.

don570 · #28 Post by **don570** » Mon 20 Oct 2014, 18:49

A month ago Stéphane Guerreau (ArcadiaLabs) was able
to use a touch screen with the banana pi board.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq5Es2s1mrc

He is using the development work of raspberry pi. This is shown in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILBcgpWClD8

Note that raspberry pi can't be used with Android OS whereas Banana pi can.

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don570 · #29 Post by **don570** » Wed 22 Oct 2014, 20:51

A small Chinese seller has put together a kit to attach a display to
banana pi board, however only in Italian

http://it.aliexpress.com/item/Banana-Pi ... 56418.html

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gcmartin · #30 Post by **gcmartin** » Thu 23 Oct 2014, 00:18

This has some great promise in being able to take advantage of the small form-factor in manners consistent with the development of the smartDevice technology showing up everywhere from our hands to our cars to our homes ...

You can now, touch your ARM ... Officially.

Useful information for any projected use.

don570 · #31 Post by **don570** » Thu 23 Oct 2014, 20:03

A German web retailer (innet24) says that it will have a router version available
October 31 , but nearly doubling the price 40 Euros to 77Euros

http://www.innet24.de/Entwicklung-DIY/E ... 14153.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb8T67TU4Pc

gcmartin · #32 Post by **gcmartin** » Fri 24 Oct 2014, 02:42

Thanks @Don570. Seems like a port of DDWRT firmware to the ARM platform.

Maybe this may inspire a Puppy packaged solution for a lower cost one from Puppyland. @Rcns51 has a "closed looped" one but it is not made public to community for developer distro builds.

Maybe a full routing-firewall solution might present itself in coming months coming from this community. I think most every forum member sees advantage.

don570 · #33 Post by **don570** » Tue 11 Nov 2014, 20:30

There's a warning message by the factory that produces the banana pi board
called sinovoip. They obviously don't want anything to do with the Banana pro.

http://sinovoip.com.cn/exw_view.asp?id=335

The clarification of Banana PI fake news:About The Banana PRO in the market
2014-10-30 14:58:50 view：200

1, About The Banana PRO in the market , it is not authorized by Banana PI team, not produced by SinoVoip. It is SinoVoip previous agent Lemaker private Copy Banana PI. Banana Pro not the updated version of Banana PI, SinoVoip have no involvement and support it, we have no produce such related product, we only produce Banana PI, only responsible for the quality and after-sales of Banana PI.

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SinoVoip has listed on it's website 3 products

banana pi board
camera module
router Apparently it will
begin to ship this on Nov 12 2014
http://sinovoip.com.cn/exw_list.asp?xwlb_id=1

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gcmartin · #34 Post by **gcmartin** » Wed 12 Nov 2014, 04:36

Haven't seen pricing just yet, but, this looks rather interesting. A router from the RasPI people that is using Android (old 4.2) for it OS.

Gigabit on ALL wired ports
2.4Ghz Wifi up to "N" speed

Looking forward to it GA announcement and any support documentation on management. This router is also labeled as "Open Source" (for those who know Android programming? Android programming is JAVA, XML, and system's database)

Puppus Dogfellow · #35 Post by **Puppus Dogfellow** » Fri 14 Nov 2014, 00:05

[quote="don570"]The latest news from banana pi

[...]

[quote]
Q13: WHO IS LEMAKER? COULD YOU PROVIDE SOME GENERAL INFORMATION ON YOUR TEAM?
A13: LeMaker consists of passionate and creative young PhDs and Masters students who are focusing on Education, Robotics, the Internet, smart homes, LEDs, and many other exciting science and engineering projects. It was founded earlier this year. LeMaker hopes to become a new and great manufacturing team, an open source community and a sharing platform. The name LeMaker, is a combination of Le + Maker. “Le

slavvo67 · #36 Post by **slavvo67** » Fri 14 Nov 2014, 06:13

Is there a puppy that will run on the Banana Pi?

darkcity · #37 Post by **darkcity** » Sat 15 Nov 2014, 11:21

slavvo67 wrote:Is there a puppy that will run on the Banana Pi?

The processor is the A20 which is ARMv7. This is the newer and more commonly supported instruction set compared to the Raspberry Pi which uses a chip with ARMv6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A7_MPCore

In theory versions of Puppy for these ARM chips will run. Not sure what hoops will need to be jumped through to get it to boot up though.

don570 · #38 Post by **don570** » Sat 15 Nov 2014, 18:47

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/arm/releases/alpha/

Barry Kauler made a distro that works on the melee TV box which uses
the A10 processor.

It would take only a little change with the method of booting to allow this
distro to run on the Banana Pi. However he wasn't able to get the SATA
hard drive to work, so that would need to be looked into as well.

Puppy Linux for Mele A1000, may 9, 2012

The Mele A1000 is an Internet Set Top Box, with ARM CPU, running Android 2.3.

This release is Puppy Linux built from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) armel binary packages, plus some custom compiled applications.

This file: mele-sd-4gb-lui-5.2.90.img.xz

Is a SD-card image, for a 4GB card. Unfortunately, "4GB" means whatever the manufacturer can get away with in case of the cheaper cards.
This image file expands to 3,956,359,168 bytes (3773.078MB, 3.684646GB), and the SD card must be at least that.

don570 · #39 Post by **don570** » Fri 28 Nov 2014, 01:19

Banana Pro will begin production Dec 16 by a new company
that appears to be Hong Kong based.

http://www.lenovator.com/

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don570 · #40 Post by **don570** » Wed 24 Dec 2014, 01:35

Another Chinese company has jumped into the fray
and is driving down the price of Banana pi clones.

This is good news for the consumer.

http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/12/22/orange-pi-board/

I should mention that Allwinner 31s support for Linux OS may not
be as good as Allwinner A20 support.

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