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1. Pinned topics

2. ArmbianIO API proposal 1 2 3 4

   By Larry Bank, November 15, 2017
   • 97 replies
   • 48.3k views
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   • Technicavolous
   • April 23, 2020

3. Get the easiest installation and the best features of Home Assistant, all powered by Armbian. Smarter home, simpler setup.

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

   By chwe, November 16, 2017
   • 33 replies
   • 43.5k views
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   • user5c
   • April 5, 2024

5. 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
   • 34.7k views
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   • sgjava
   • September 12, 2020

6. Other topics

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

   By chwe, September 19, 2018
   • 12 replies
   • 30.3k views
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   • Joe Nice
   • August 10, 2023

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

   By Moklev, June 5, 2018
   • 6 replies
   • 11.3k views
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   • sfx2000
   • September 23, 2018

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

   By MR01, April 29, 2022   

   • Tutorial
   • 9 replies
   • 8.6k views
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   • Werner
   • May 8, 2024

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

    By guidol, July 8, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 6.8k views
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    • lanefu
    • July 15, 2019

11. 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
    • 20.9k views
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    • RaymondDay
    • September 22, 2024

12. Review [Mini review] ROCK64 SATA cable

    By tkaiser, September 6, 2017
    • 23 replies
    • 36.8k views
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    • S_R
    • February 5, 2019

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

    By tkaiser, April 3, 2017
    • 28 replies
    • 57.4k views
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    • tkaiser
    • November 21, 2017

14. 32-core 3.3Ghz ARM Server Review

    By NicoD, November 9, 2020   

    • Review
    • 5 replies
    • 9.2k views
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    • TRS-80
    • November 12, 2020

15. Tutorial 4G USB modem with Armbian

    By TonyMac32, February 22, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 8.1k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 22, 2019

16. hardware hack 5.5inch HDMI AMOLED, 1080x1920

    By Charly, September 8, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • luntik2012
    • March 19, 2020

17. hardware hack 64x32 LED MATRIX with Allwinner H3 / Orange PI PC

    By AnonymousPi, September 17, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 5.5k views
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    • AnonymousPi
    • September 17, 2020

18. hardware hack Adafruit CircuitPython

    By TonyMac32, December 5, 2018
    • 23 replies
    • 16.4k views
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    • chwe
    • January 20, 2020

19. hardware hack Adding enc28j60 ethernet on orange pi pc

    By Cache, July 9, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 5.5k views
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    • Cache
    • July 18, 2019

20. Adventures with Armbian (XFCE) on Pinebook Pro

    By NOBL, March 17   

    • Review
    • Tutorial
    • 0 replies
    • 406 views
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    • NOBL
    • March 17

21. Review AMD Threadripper 3990X Armbian Build Server Review

    By NicoD, November 20, 2020
    • 11 replies
    • 7.5k views
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    • johanvdw
    • April 11, 2021

22. hardware hack Armbian / Buster on C2 fully supports Mali GPU ?!

    By Alexey Woronov, August 8, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.3k views
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    • Alexey Woronov
    • August 8, 2019

23. Armbian on Odroid HC4 without erase Petitboot

    By Andrea Giovine, June 14, 2022   

    • Odroid HC4
    • 0 replies
    • 2.4k views
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    • Andrea Giovine
    • June 14, 2022

24. Review Armbian running Skype

    By Igor, February 17, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 9.6k views
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    • buratino
    • May 9, 2017

25. Review Armbian Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy with ZFS 2.1.1 for Odroid HC4

    By Igor, November 24, 2021
    • 5 replies
    • 9.9k views
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    • luisfmrosa
    • August 2, 2022

26. armbian-desktop: LibreOffice screen artifact fix & additional tips

    By Willy Moto, September 19, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 3k views
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    • Willy Moto
    • September 19, 2021

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

    By NicoD, September 14, 2021
    • 7 replies
    • 8.5k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 28, 2024

28. Review ASUS Tinker Board

    By TonyMac32, June 30, 2017
    • 19 replies
    • 22.2k views
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    • JMCC
    • May 15, 2018

29. Automatic Kernel Control of NanoPi M4 / M4V2 Metal Case Fan

    By tparys, February 12, 2021
    • 3 replies
    • 3.2k views
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    • usual user
    • February 13, 2021

30. Review Banana Pi M2 Berry

    By tkaiser, August 5, 2017
    • 16 replies
    • 22.2k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 26, 2018

31. Review Banana Pi M3 1 2 3 4 8

    By tkaiser, December 1, 2015
    • 216 replies
    • 177.4k views
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    • RES
    • September 27, 2024

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

    By sgei, May 15, 2018
    • 16 replies
    • 15.7k views
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    • Cyryllo
    • February 22, 2023

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

    By tkaiser, July 22, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 6k views
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    • chwe
    • July 23, 2018

34. hardware hack Better hacking shield for OPi Zero

    By apla, December 20, 2018
    • 3 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • December 20, 2018

35. Tutorial BPI_M64 With 5" HDMI LCD & Touchscreen how to..

    By shaddow501, June 11, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 3.6k views
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    • shaddow501
    • June 11, 2019

36. Tutorial Build and install filebeat on arm and arm64 devices using Armbian

    By _r9, April 23, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 7.9k views
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    • _r9
    • April 23, 2020

37. Tutorial Build Armbian with Panfrost (outdated)

    By NicoD, August 20, 2019
    • 21 replies
    • 20.6k views
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    • NicoD
    • January 3, 2021

38. Building Armbian using Ubuntu (jammy) in a systemd-nspawn container

    By ag123, November 22, 2023   

    • Tutorial
    • 3 replies
    • 2.6k views
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    • ag123
    • January 16, 2024

39. Canon printer drivers (cnijfilter)

    By Azq2, May 4, 2021   

    • Tutorial
    • 2 replies
    • 9.1k views
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    • gscokart
    • November 16, 2023

40. CH340-fan-control - USB fan control script

    By Dan MacDonald, June 9, 2021
    • 4 replies
    • 4.2k views
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    • MR01
    • January 1, 2023

41. Tutorial CircuitPython On OrangePi

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

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

    By peter12, October 25, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 12.7k views
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    • WarHawk_AVG
    • June 30, 2018

43. hardware hack Comedi driver/kernel module for Armbian

    By pi967, September 11, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 4.2k views
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    • pi967
    • September 12, 2020

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

    By NicoD, October 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 7.8k views
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    • NicoD
    • November 15, 2019

45. Complete headless Armbian and Orange Pi installation tutorial connecting via Windows Remote Desktop (xrdp).

    By cligonegui, March 20, 2023   

    • Tutorial
    • 0 replies
    • 15.7k views
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    • cligonegui
    • March 20, 2023

46. Configuring MPD audio_output on Allwinner A20 (BananaPi M1)

    By SomeArmbianForumUser, April 5, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 2.2k views
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    • SomeArmbianForumUser
    • June 16, 2024

47. 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
    • 52.3k views
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    • Armnlegs
    • October 5, 2017

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

    By AnonymousPi, September 3, 2016
    • 22 replies
    • 59.2k views
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    • guidol
    • November 29, 2017

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

    By Valery Rezvyakov, October 8, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 9.7k views
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    • ayyeah
    • November 18, 2017

50. Crude NAS with local caching

    By Werner, February 28, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • Werner
    • February 28, 2021

51. Tutorial cryptsetup - supporting no_read_workqueue/no_write_workqueue on SSDs

    By beni0664, March 14, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • beni0664
    • March 14, 2021

52. hardware hack Cubietruck Allwinner A20 SPIDEV - no such device

    By fri40, May 2, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 2.5k views
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    • fri40
    • May 7, 2020

53. Tutorial Debian-installer for OrangePi Zero/R1 Buster/Sid

    By lrrr, October 8, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • lrrr
    • October 8, 2018

54. hardware hack DHT22 using python and OrangePi.GPIO

    By lanefu, July 19, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.5k views
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    • lanefu
    • July 19, 2019

55. Tutorial Django CMS on Armbian

    By chwe, September 7, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 4.4k views
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    • chwe
    • March 9, 2019

56. Tutorial Docker on armbian! 1 2 3 4

    By MathiasRenner, December 8, 2015
    • 111 replies
    • 123.6k views
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    • TRS-80
    • July 27, 2024

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

    By JMCC, October 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 14.6k views
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    • JMCC
    • November 19, 2020

58. Tutorial Enable Lima on headless devices

    By gamelaster, July 8, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • gamelaster
    • July 10, 2020

59. Tutorial Enable PPS-GPIO on Rock64 with legacy kernel

    By mill1000, March 27, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • mill1000
    • March 27, 2020

60. Enabling Infrared IR Receiver on NanoPI NEO

    By m9aertner, February 10, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • m9aertner
    • February 10, 2021

61. Tutorial Enrypted rootfs using whole sd

    By Igor, May 8, 2016
    • 0 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • Igor
    • May 8, 2016

62. Extensions tutorial

    By PavloT, August 24, 2024   

    • Tutorial
    • 2 replies
    • 903 views
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    • PavloT
    • August 26, 2024

63. Research fbtft with device tree overlay on mainline

    By Nuha Arina Rafiuddin, March 1, 2020
    • 8 replies
    • 11.5k views
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    • tuanphan
    • October 22, 2021

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

    By MMGen, October 18, 2020   

    • Tutorial
    • 57 replies
    • 43k views
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    • MMGen
    • April 12

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

    By MMGen, May 2, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 19.7k views
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    • MMGen
    • October 18, 2020

66. hardware hack GPIO documentation for SBC's

    By TonyMac32, December 5, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 2.1k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • December 21, 2018

67. Tutorial GPIO keys Mainline Linux

    By ua3nbw, March 13, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 4.7k views
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    • ua3nbw
    • March 13, 2018

68. Tutorial Guide to adjust armbian configuration

    By LucasM, January 1, 2022
    • 3 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • LucasM
    • January 4, 2022

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

    By kutysam, July 31, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 34.3k views
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    • locki
    • February 9, 2021

70. Research H3 board buyer's guide

    By tkaiser, June 6, 2016
    • 10 replies
    • 55.3k views
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    • tkaiser
    • December 1, 2017

71. Review H3 devices as NAS 1 2

    By tkaiser, June 18, 2016
    • 57 replies
    • 56.9k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 20, 2019

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

    By tkaiser, February 28, 2016
    • 67 replies
    • 111.5k views
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    • giri@nwrk.biz
    • February 16, 2018

73. hardware hack Home assistant

    By TonyMac32, January 8, 2019
    • 12 replies
    • 11.2k views
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    • rufik
    • January 17, 2019

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

    By AnonymousPi, April 14, 2020
    • 7 replies
    • 52k views
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    • laconis
    • December 26, 2023

75. How to put 2 NVMe m.2 disk on a NanoPC-T6

    By fever_wits, June 15, 2024   

    • Tutorial
    • 0 replies
    • 894 views
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    • fever_wits
    • June 15, 2024

76. Tutorial How to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple SBC's with Barrier

    By NicoD, October 1, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3k views
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    • NicoD
    • October 1, 2019

77. Tutorial How to speedup your Orange Pi 4 / RK3399 with moving your root to USB3

    By haajee, October 11, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 5.5k views
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    • haajee
    • October 11, 2020

78. Tutorial How to use a console SIP client on your Armbian device to send text messages to a SIP client on your phone or PC.

    By schwar3kat, September 20, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 7.3k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • September 20, 2019

79. How to: Automatically start armbianmonitor on serial terminal

    By djurny, June 24, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 4.3k views
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    • djurny
    • June 24, 2021

80. Tutorial I2S on Orange Pi H3 1 2 3

    By Da Alchemist, February 29, 2016
    • 80 replies
    • 108.4k views
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    • gounthar
    • September 10, 2020

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

    By yam1, April 24, 2020
    • 8 replies
    • 10.5k views
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    • Coby Levy
    • September 26, 2020

82. Tutorial Install OpenHab on Armbian

    By Igor, January 8, 2020
    • 10 replies
    • 9.6k views
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    • Igor
    • May 14, 2020

83. Intelligent access control based on ESP32 and LCD

    By Aaron87, September 28, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 2k views
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    • Aaron87
    • September 28, 2021

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

    By chwe, June 4, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 21.7k views
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    • chwe
    • January 28, 2018

85. hardware hack Is GPIO on H3 SoC really this slow?

    By turtius, November 26, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 5.4k views
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    • AnonymousPi
    • September 17, 2020

86. Research Java UIO

    By sgjava, December 11, 2021
    • 7 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • sgjava
    • April 4, 2023

87. Tutorial Kerberos.io video surveillance installation on Armbian

    By makama80, January 17, 2017
    • 24 replies
    • 16.6k views
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    • scaevola
    • July 23, 2018

88. hardware hack KiCad templates

    By TonyMac32, February 28, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 28, 2019

89. Tutorial Le Potato - LibreElec & Netflix s905x, Kernel 5.1

    By Tido, June 16, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 5.6k views
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    • Tido
    • October 27, 2019

90. hardware hack Le Potato max power draw on GPIO pins?

    By V10lator, September 8, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 4k views
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    • martinayotte
    • September 8, 2020

91. hardware hack Legacy kernel 2k HDMI LCD

    By prenex, December 13, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 1.9k views
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    • prenex
    • December 13, 2018

92. hardware hack lirc on Armbian Buster

    By Alexey Woronov, August 4, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 6.6k views
    • 
    • Alexey Woronov
    • August 5, 2019

93. Tutorial Make your own Nanopi M4V2 image

    By NicoD, November 16, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • TCB13
    • December 3, 2019

94. Tutorial Marriage between A20 and H3, UPS mode, sunxi-pio utility

    By tkaiser, July 16, 2016
    • 3 replies
    • 11.6k views
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    • Klym
    • August 27, 2016

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

    By Igor, August 1, 2017
    • 33 replies
    • 26.6k views
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    • Technicavolous
    • February 20, 2018

96. Tutorial matrix multiplication benchmark

    By ag123, September 25, 2018
    • 2 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • Sergei Steshenko
    • October 26, 2018

97. MMDVM PI-STAR

    By albatroz, January 28, 2022
    • 1 reply
    • 2.1k views
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    • Werner
    • January 29, 2022

98. hardware hack Mobile data - update

    By zlobni, June 26, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 2.7k views
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    • Igor
    • June 27, 2019

99. Tutorial Moderator duties

    By Igor, June 18, 2017
    • 29 replies
    • 6.6k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • June 28, 2017

100. Tutorial Motioneye (OPI)

     By Keno, September 27, 2016
     • 28 replies
     • 27.2k views
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     • malaga
     • January 11, 2020

101. hardware hack mpcie 4g with sim

     By Technicavolous, August 16, 2019
     • 3 replies
     • 2.6k views
     • 
     • Technicavolous
     • December 8, 2019

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

     By NicoD, September 21, 2019
     • 16 replies
     • 30.5k views
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     • gleam
     • December 25, 2019

103. my ordeal with rockpi4 and Penta Sata Hat + Tower

     By tony013, May 24, 2021
     • 5 replies
     • 5.7k views
     • 
     • tony013
     • June 26, 2021