Reviews, Tutorials, Hardware hacks

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1. Pinned topics

2. ArmbianIO API proposal 1 2 3 4

   By Larry Bank, November 15, 2017
   • 97 replies
   • 46.5k views
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   • Technicavolous
   • April 23, 2020

3. Take control of your data with Nextcloud on Armbian! Set up your personal content collaboration platform for seamless file sharing and management.

4. User Space IO is Python 3 and Java 8 bindings for user space GPIO, SPI, I2C, PWM and Serial interfaces 1 2

   By sgjava, February 18, 2018
   • 36 replies
   • 33k views
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   • sgjava
   • September 12, 2020

5. pyGPIO - A 'more general' python GPIO library 1 2

   By chwe, November 16, 2017
   • 33 replies
   • 41.9k views
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   • user5c
   • April 5, 2024

6. Other topics

7. Review Banana Pi M3 1 2 3 4 8

   By tkaiser, December 1, 2015
   • 216 replies
   • 175k views
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   • RES
   • September 27, 2024

8. Tutorial Docker on armbian! 1 2 3 4

   By MathiasRenner, December 8, 2015
   • 111 replies
   • 121.2k views
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   • TRS-80
   • July 27, 2024

9. Review Quick review of Orange Pi PC 1 2 3 4

   By tkaiser, December 13, 2015
   • 96 replies
   • 152k views
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   • Magnets
   • January 29, 2017

10. Review Quick review of NanoPi Fire3 1 2 3 4

    By tkaiser, May 18, 2018
    • 96 replies
    • 46.7k views
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    • alexeyDZ
    • February 24, 2021

11. Research SD card performance 1 2 3 4

    By tkaiser, April 5, 2016
    • 95 replies
    • 140.4k views
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    • Magnets
    • November 10, 2018

12. Tutorial I2S on Orange Pi H3 1 2 3

    By Da Alchemist, February 29, 2016
    • 80 replies
    • 107.1k views
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    • gounthar
    • September 10, 2020

13. Research sbc-bench 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, July 28, 2018
    • 80 replies
    • 33k views
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    • Werner
    • January 4, 2021

14. Review NanoPi M4 performance and consumption review 1 2 3

    By hjc, September 2, 2018
    • 73 replies
    • 67.6k views
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    • TCB13
    • June 13, 2020

15. Review Quick review of Solidrun's Clearfog 1 2 3

    By Igor, January 9, 2016
    • 72 replies
    • 46.9k views
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    • Pontus Jon Jensen Karlsson
    • August 31, 2016

16. Review ODROID HC1 / HC2 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, August 23, 2017
    • 72 replies
    • 133.1k views
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    • Igor
    • March 9, 2018

17. Review Quick review of Banana Pi M2+ 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, April 8, 2016
    • 69 replies
    • 38k views
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    • Tido
    • August 30, 2018

18. Tutorial h3disp: change display settings on H3 devices 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, February 28, 2016
    • 67 replies
    • 110.7k views
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    • giri@nwrk.biz
    • February 16, 2018

19. Repository for v4l2request hardware video decoding (rockchip, allwinner) 1 2 3

    By jock, December 10, 2023   

    • Tutorial
    • 66 replies
    • 23k views
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    • going
    • Tuesday at 05:25 PM

20. Review H3 devices as NAS 1 2

    By tkaiser, June 18, 2016
    • 57 replies
    • 56.2k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 20, 2019

21. Full root filesystem encryption on an Armbian system (NEW, replaces 2017 tutorial on this topic) 1 2

    By MMGen, October 18, 2020   

    • Tutorial
    • 56 replies
    • 41.6k views
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    • MMGen
    • January 21

22. Tutorial Orange Pi One - adding USB, analog audio out, TV out, mic and IR receiver 1 2

    By cbm801, February 28, 2016
    • 47 replies
    • 98.2k views
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    • ag123
    • September 5, 2018

23. Tutorial OPI ONE wireless success 1 2

    By rodolfo, May 19, 2016
    • 47 replies
    • 60.5k views
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    • Pop Andrei Lucian
    • July 16, 2017

24. Tutorial Running H3 boards with minimal consumption 1 2

    By tkaiser, July 12, 2016
    • 44 replies
    • 76.1k views
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    • Igor
    • January 29, 2019

25. Tutorial OrangePi as iTunes server with forked-daapd 1 2

    By sweetpotatoe, January 10, 2017
    • 40 replies
    • 14k views
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    • Bernie_O
    • August 17, 2017

26. Review Orange Pi One Plus 1 2

    By Igor, December 26, 2017
    • 38 replies
    • 34.9k views
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    • Werner
    • February 16, 2020

27. Tutorial Remote Desktop Fun with Armbian 1 2

    By rodolfo, April 22, 2016
    • 35 replies
    • 51.6k views
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    • fpl
    • December 27, 2020

28. Research Wi-Fi performance and known issues on SBC 1 2

    By tkaiser, March 7, 2017
    • 35 replies
    • 21.8k views
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    • sfx2000
    • September 23, 2018

29. Tutorial OctoPrint on armbian 1 2

    By ldiaz, June 16, 2020
    • 35 replies
    • 24.2k views
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    • NickBR
    • June 16, 2023

30. Review ODROID N1 -- not a review (yet) 1 2

    By tkaiser, February 15, 2018
    • 34 replies
    • 26.2k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 25, 2018

31. Research Marvell based 4 ports mPCI SATA 3.0 1 2

    By Igor, August 1, 2017
    • 33 replies
    • 26.2k views
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    • Technicavolous
    • February 20, 2018

32. Review Quick review of Orange Pi One 1 2

    By tkaiser, February 21, 2016
    • 31 replies
    • 51.7k views
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    • beic
    • September 13, 2016

33. Research SBC consumption/performance comparisons 1 2

    By tkaiser, August 4, 2016
    • 31 replies
    • 56.4k views
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    • tkaiser
    • July 13, 2017

34. Tutorial [Info] FriendlyARM PCM5102A-Hat with NanoPi Neo under mainline 4.x.x and dev 5.x.x 1 2

    By guidol, December 8, 2018
    • 31 replies
    • 20.4k views
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    • RaymondDay
    • September 22, 2024

35. Research Some storage benchmarks on SBCs 1 2

    By tkaiser, August 30, 2016
    • 30 replies
    • 62.4k views
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    • williamv
    • March 29, 2020

36. Tutorial Moderator duties

    By Igor, June 18, 2017
    • 29 replies
    • 6.3k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • June 28, 2017

37. Tutorial Motioneye (OPI)

    By Keno, September 27, 2016
    • 28 replies
    • 26.6k views
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    • malaga
    • January 11, 2020

38. Review [preview] Generate OMV images for SBC with Armbian

    By tkaiser, April 3, 2017
    • 28 replies
    • 56.5k views
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    • tkaiser
    • November 21, 2017

39. Tutorial Kerberos.io video surveillance installation on Armbian

    By makama80, January 17, 2017
    • 24 replies
    • 16.2k views
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    • scaevola
    • July 23, 2018

40. Review [Mini review] ROCK64 SATA cable

    By tkaiser, September 6, 2017
    • 23 replies
    • 36.3k views
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    • S_R
    • February 5, 2019

41. hardware hack Adafruit CircuitPython

    By TonyMac32, December 5, 2018
    • 23 replies
    • 16.2k views
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    • chwe
    • January 20, 2020

42. Tutorial Configuring Orange PI PC to receive IR/InfraRed

    By AnonymousPi, September 3, 2016
    • 22 replies
    • 58.5k views
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    • guidol
    • November 29, 2017

43. Review Video : Testing KDE Plasma desktop on Armbian / RK3399

    By NicoD, January 8, 2022
    • 22 replies
    • 6.8k views
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    • balbes150
    • February 10, 2022

44. Video : Comparing RK3588 SBCs / NanoPi R6S - Khadas Edge2 - Radxa Rock5B - Mekotronics R58 mini + R58X-4G - Orange Pi 5

    By NicoD, February 1, 2023   

    • Review
    • 22 replies
    • 9.7k views
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    • Bas
    • April 12, 2023

45. Tutorial Build Armbian with Panfrost (outdated)

    By NicoD, August 20, 2019
    • 21 replies
    • 20.1k views
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    • NicoD
    • January 3, 2021

46. Review ASUS Tinker Board

    By TonyMac32, June 30, 2017
    • 19 replies
    • 21.9k views
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    • JMCC
    • May 15, 2018

47. Review Quick Review of NanoPi K1 Plus

    By tkaiser, September 5, 2018
    • 19 replies
    • 7.6k views
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    • nradulovic
    • June 13, 2019

48. hardware hack Thermostat with orange Pi zero .

    By FRANK333, May 12, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 4.4k views
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    • martinayotte
    • May 20, 2019

49. Research Question: ssh/vnc from rockpi 4b to iPad over usbc

    By MEMEs, October 6, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 4.5k views
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    • Igor
    • October 10, 2019

50. Tutorial XFCE in Spanish or any other language

    By manuti, April 12, 2016
    • 17 replies
    • 29.4k views
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    • manuti
    • December 16, 2016

51. Tutorial Orange Pi PoE

    By hmartin, December 24, 2016
    • 17 replies
    • 40.3k views
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    • elegant.sand8729
    • May 8, 2017

52. Review Banana Pi M2 Berry

    By tkaiser, August 5, 2017
    • 16 replies
    • 21.9k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 26, 2018

53. Tutorial BananaPi Pro 7" TouchLCD with Debian Buster and Mainline-Kernel 5.XX.XX

    By sgei, May 15, 2018
    • 16 replies
    • 15.4k views
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    • Cyryllo
    • February 22, 2023

54. Tutorial My most useful Linux terminal commands for Ubuntu/Debian

    By NicoD, September 21, 2019
    • 16 replies
    • 29.4k views
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    • gleam
    • December 25, 2019

55. hardware hack RAM Upgrade - Orange Pi PC

    By SBC-Fan, May 4, 2020
    • 16 replies
    • 10.3k views
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    • SBC-Fan
    • May 4, 2020

56. Review Quick Review of Rock960 Enterprise Edition AKA Ficus

    By tkaiser, September 29, 2018
    • 15 replies
    • 9.9k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • October 8, 2018

57. Tutorial Full root filesystem encryption on an Armbian/Orange Pi PC 2 system

    By MMGen, May 2, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 19.3k views
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    • MMGen
    • October 18, 2020

58. hardware hack OrangePi Zero, mainline kernel, SPI LCD + touchscreen

    By adrb, July 5, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 24.2k views
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    • jonokoi
    • June 24, 2020

59. hardware hack Guide: How to use Touchscreen + LCD on H3 devices

    By kutysam, July 31, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 33.9k views
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    • locki
    • February 9, 2021

60. Review Video : All my SBCs - Specs, why I got them, what the're good/bad for. What's the best for your goal. +30SBCs

    By NicoD, October 24, 2020
    • 14 replies
    • 4.8k views
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    • xwiggen
    • October 29, 2020

61. Testing hardware video decoding (rockchip, allwinner?)

    By jock, November 10, 2021   

    • Tutorial
    • 13 replies
    • 15.6k views
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    • jock
    • December 10, 2023

62. Tutorial Configuring Orange PI PC for analogue Line-Out jack audio output (and Simultaneous HDMI output with Software Mixing)

    By AnonymousPi, September 5, 2016
    • 12 replies
    • 51.7k views
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    • Armnlegs
    • October 5, 2017

63. Tutorial (Serial) console access via 'USB-UART/Gadget mode' on Linux/Windows/OSX

    By chwe, September 19, 2018
    • 12 replies
    • 29.3k views
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    • Joe Nice
    • August 10, 2023

64. hardware hack Home assistant

    By TonyMac32, January 8, 2019
    • 12 replies
    • 11.1k views
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    • rufik
    • January 17, 2019

65. ZFS "just works" now on Armbian (2 step instructions if you are thick like me)!

    By TRS-80, March 22, 2021
    • 12 replies
    • 16.1k views
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    • Clark McCauley
    • February 27, 2024

66. Tutorial IoT with an OrangePi Zero: Node-Red + Mosquitto + ESP8266/NRF24l01

    By chwe, June 4, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 21.4k views
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    • chwe
    • January 28, 2018

67. Review AMD Threadripper 3990X Armbian Build Server Review

    By NicoD, November 20, 2020
    • 11 replies
    • 7.3k views
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    • johanvdw
    • April 11, 2021

68. Research H3 board buyer's guide

    By tkaiser, June 6, 2016
    • 10 replies
    • 54.5k views
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    • tkaiser
    • December 1, 2017

69. Tutorial Install OpenHab on Armbian

    By Igor, January 8, 2020
    • 10 replies
    • 9.4k views
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    • Igor
    • May 14, 2020

70. Research Benchmarking CPUs (not yet a research article)

    By tkaiser, July 22, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 5.9k views
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    • chwe
    • July 23, 2018

71. Research Swap on SBC

    By tkaiser, September 9, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 15.2k views
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    • botfap
    • September 11, 2018

72. Tutorial Using different desktop environments on Armbian

    By NicoD, June 2, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 65.1k views
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    • ioncube
    • August 8, 2024

73. hardware hack Adding enc28j60 ethernet on orange pi pc

    By Cache, July 9, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 5.4k views
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    • Cache
    • July 18, 2019

74. Videos : Armbian instructions for beginners - Install, Network access, What is Armbian...

    By NicoD, October 11, 2020
    • 9 replies
    • 9.5k views
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    • NicoD
    • June 23, 2021

75. Review Review of the PineBook Pro with Armbian

    By NicoD, June 30, 2021
    • 9 replies
    • 6.4k views
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    • Werner
    • September 28, 2022

76. [How-To] Internet Source from WIFI To Ethernet [Bridge WiFi to Ethernet]

    By MR01, April 29, 2022   

    • Tutorial
    • 9 replies
    • 8.2k views
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    • Werner
    • May 8, 2024

77. Tutorial Clone/backup bootable microsd card - make as small as possible image

    By peter12, October 25, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 12.5k views
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    • WarHawk_AVG
    • June 30, 2018

78. Tutorial CoovaChilli and Freeradius for a Wifi Hotspot with captive portal

    By Valery Rezvyakov, October 8, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 9.4k views
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    • ayyeah
    • November 18, 2017

79. hardware hack ILI9488 display patch for SKU: MSP3520, MSP3521, MSP4020, MSP4021

    By yam1, April 24, 2020
    • 8 replies
    • 10.3k views
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    • Coby Levy
    • September 26, 2020

80. Research fbtft with device tree overlay on mainline

    By Nuha Arina Rafiuddin, March 1, 2020
    • 8 replies
    • 11.2k views
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    • tuanphan
    • October 22, 2021

81. Upgrading Armbian from bullseye to bookworm

    By joekhoobyar, March 1, 2024   

    • Tutorial
    • 8 replies
    • 16k views
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    • Dawid Furman
    • July 27, 2024

82. Tutorial Emby Server with hardware transcoding in XU4/HC1/HC2 Armbian Stretch

    By JMCC, October 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 14.4k views
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    • JMCC
    • November 19, 2020

83. hardware hack Small monochrome displays

    By TonyMac32, December 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • Tido
    • February 18, 2019

84. Review Official Asus Tinker Board Case

    By TonyMac32, January 16, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 6.5k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • March 21, 2019

85. Tutorial Video : How to install Armbian on a SBC + Set up of Destkop + install on external device

    By NicoD, August 13, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 20, 2019

86. hardware hack SPI NOR chips, what to buy for a ZeroPi?

    By stut, March 16, 2020
    • 7 replies
    • 3.2k views
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    • martinayotte
    • April 7, 2020

87. Tutorial How to enable RDP (xrdp) with Armbian so you can login from a Windows PC

    By AnonymousPi, April 14, 2020
    • 7 replies
    • 50.5k views
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    • laconis
    • December 26, 2023

88. armbian-gaming : A tool to install Box86, Box64 and Wine on Armbian Hirsute

    By NicoD, September 14, 2021
    • 7 replies
    • 8.1k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 28, 2024

89. Research Java UIO

    By sgjava, December 11, 2021
    • 7 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • sgjava
    • April 4, 2023

90. Tutorial [DEPRECATED] zRAM in Armbian Stretch (mainline 4.14.yy)

    By Moklev, June 5, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 11.2k views
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    • sfx2000
    • September 23, 2018

91. Tutorial Orange PI PC - How to use GPIO for push buttons : Tutorial

    By Schmurtz, April 25, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 78.8k views
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    • JRD McLAREN
    • October 1, 2020

92. Tutorial Orange Pi Zero NTP Stratum 1 PPS GPS Server with Armbian OS, Hardware and Software Tutorial

    By schwar3kat, March 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 11.5k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • March 18, 2022

93. Tutorial Samba shares

    By clarkss12, May 24, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • clarkss12
    • June 1, 2019

94. hardware hack lirc on Armbian Buster

    By Alexey Woronov, August 4, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 6.5k views
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    • Alexey Woronov
    • August 5, 2019

95. Research Video : NanoPi M4 storage speed tests

    By NicoD, September 30, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 5.4k views
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    • mar0ni
    • January 20, 2020

96. Review Comparison : NanoPi M4 - Rock Pi 4B - Odroid N2 - Khadas VIM3

    By NicoD, October 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 7.6k views
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    • NicoD
    • November 15, 2019

97. Research Some experiences with Odroid-N2+ on Debian Bullseye

    By qwr, December 29, 2021
    • 6 replies
    • 8k views
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    • usual user
    • March 5, 2022

98. Tutorial Setting onboard LEDs with rc.local or systemd

    By Schwemmlandebene, March 6, 2016
    • 5 replies
    • 17.1k views
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    • op1tjaap
    • June 30, 2017

99. Tutorial CircuitPython On OrangePi

    By lanefu, March 14, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 3.5k views
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    • adafruit
    • March 14, 2019

100. Tutorial [Info] check/start manually "apt update" because of buster-repository value changes

     By guidol, July 8, 2019
     • 5 replies
     • 6.6k views
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     • lanefu
     • July 15, 2019

101. hardware hack 5.5inch HDMI AMOLED, 1080x1920

     By Charly, September 8, 2019
     • 5 replies
     • 3.3k views
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     • luntik2012
     • March 19, 2020

102. Review Review videos : NVIDIA Jetson Nano

     By NicoD, December 2, 2019
     • 5 replies
     • 8.2k views
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     • balbes150
     • March 11, 2021

103. 32-core 3.3Ghz ARM Server Review

     By NicoD, November 9, 2020   

     • Review
     • 5 replies
     • 9k views
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     • TRS-80
     • November 12, 2020