Banana pi $29.99 computer

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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

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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

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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wboz · #41 Post by **wboz** » Wed 24 Dec 2014, 02:53

It isn't good news, though. $35 is a really, really low price point already. Driving it down with hardware piracy (it's too strong a term though - maybe "manufacturing emulation"), only destroys the ability of the inventor to provide user support.

Now, if for some reason you need like 300 rpi clones to .. do ... something in parallel very slowly ... then maybe it is good news

. But otherwise, I wish the cloners would clone like a Lenovo ultrabook or something else I can't afford, rather than a cheap open-source computer I'd prefer to support.

Note I don't own a rpi. I do have an Arduino. They are very different

don570 · #42 Post by **don570** » Sat 03 Jan 2015, 20:13

It looks like mele's competitor 'PIPO' has been able to get a Windows model
into the market faster. $100 including Ram and storage. It's listed for sale
unlike mele's barebone model PCG03

http://www.geekbuying.com/item/PIPO-X7- ... 39668.html

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don570 · #43 Post by **don570** » Fri 09 Jan 2015, 00:04

Apparently the people of lemaker have been promised a mali grapics driver
by Allwinner that will work with linux.

http://forum.lemaker.org/thread-11532-2-1-2.html

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Here is the banana pi layout scheme

http://forum.lemaker.org/forum.php?mod= ... Q1Nw%3D%3D
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don570 · #44 Post by **don570** » Sat 24 Jan 2015, 19:24

Price has fallen to $39 US + heatsink included and free shipping

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shi ... 9.html?s=p
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don570 · #45 Post by **don570** » Sat 13 Jun 2015, 17:48

There is a site now advertising the banana pi board for $29.95
(no power supply or cables)

http://ameridroid.com/products/banana-pi
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snayak · #46 Post by **snayak** » Sun 08 Nov 2015, 04:22

Is there any such low priced board with x86 core? which will run normal puppy linux...

rokytnji · #47 Post by **rokytnji** » Sun 08 Nov 2015, 05:05

snayak wrote:Is there any such low priced board with x86 core? which will run normal puppy linux...

Not yet but in the works

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/80 ... i2-form-fa

But you'd be better off with

http://www.tinydeal.com/Wintel-Windows- ... fgodtksDWg

for a few pesos more.

snayak · #48 Post by **snayak** » Mon 09 Nov 2015, 12:44

Wow...really?

Many thanks rokytnji, for your info.

snayak · #49 Post by **snayak** » Mon 09 Nov 2015, 12:57

But they all use HDMI? no VGA interface? And wintel has windows 8 with it? Linux can't run on it?

starhawk · #50 Post by **starhawk** » Mon 09 Nov 2015, 17:17

Wintel and Wintel clones will run Linux. Google it

For HDMI, you need a converter box. In the US they run about $10 at most...

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