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
   • 62.1k views
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   • Technicavolous
   • April 23, 2020

3. Want an ad-free browsing experience? Install Pi-hole on your SBC and enjoy a faster, cleaner internet for all your devices. Setup is simple!

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

   By chwe, November 16, 2017
   • 33 replies
   • 52.5k 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
   • 44.5k views
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   • sgjava
   • September 12, 2020

6. Other topics

7. Review Banana Pi M3 1 2 3 4 8

   By tkaiser, December 1, 2015
   • 216 replies
   • 191.8k views
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   • RES
   • September 27, 2024

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

   By tkaiser, December 13, 2015
   • 96 replies
   • 160.8k views
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   • Magnets
   • January 29, 2017

9. Research SD card performance 1 2 3 4

   By tkaiser, April 5, 2016
   • 95 replies
   • 154.1k views
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   • Magnets
   • November 10, 2018

10. Review ODROID HC1 / HC2 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, August 23, 2017
    • 72 replies
    • 140k views
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    • Igor
    • March 9, 2018

11. Tutorial Docker on armbian! 1 2 3 4

    By MathiasRenner, December 8, 2015
    • 111 replies
    • 135.1k views
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    • TRS-80
    • July 27, 2024

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

    By tkaiser, February 28, 2016
    • 67 replies
    • 115.2k views
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    • giri@nwrk.biz
    • February 16, 2018

13. Tutorial I2S on Orange Pi H3 1 2 3

    By Da Alchemist, February 29, 2016
    • 80 replies
    • 114.1k views
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    • gounthar
    • September 10, 2020

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

    By cbm801, February 28, 2016
    • 47 replies
    • 103.9k views
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    • ag123
    • September 5, 2018

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

    By Schmurtz, April 25, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 85.9k views
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    • JRD McLAREN
    • October 1, 2020

16. Tutorial Running H3 boards with minimal consumption 1 2

    By tkaiser, July 12, 2016
    • 44 replies
    • 79.7k views
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    • Igor
    • January 29, 2019

17. Tutorial Using different desktop environments on Armbian

    By NicoD, June 2, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 77.8k views
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    • ioncube
    • August 8, 2024

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

    By hjc, September 2, 2018
    • 73 replies
    • 73.8k views
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    • TCB13
    • June 13, 2020

19. Research Some storage benchmarks on SBCs 1 2

    By tkaiser, August 30, 2016
    • 30 replies
    • 67.5k views
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    • williamv
    • March 29, 2020

20. Tutorial OPI ONE wireless success 1 2

    By rodolfo, May 19, 2016
    • 47 replies
    • 63.3k views
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    • Pop Andrei Lucian
    • July 16, 2017

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

    By AnonymousPi, September 3, 2016
    • 22 replies
    • 61.9k views
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    • guidol
    • November 29, 2017

22. Research SBC consumption/performance comparisons 1 2

    By tkaiser, August 4, 2016
    • 31 replies
    • 61.4k views
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    • tkaiser
    • July 13, 2017

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

    By tkaiser, April 3, 2017
    • 28 replies
    • 61.3k views
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    • tkaiser
    • November 21, 2017

24. Repository for v4l2request hardware video decoding (rockchip, allwinner) 1 2 3 4 5

    By jock, December 10, 2023   

    • Tutorial
    • 129 replies
    • 61k views
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    • robertoj
    • October 16

25. Review H3 devices as NAS 1 2

    By tkaiser, June 18, 2016
    • 57 replies
    • 60.5k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 20, 2019

26. Research H3 board buyer's guide

    By tkaiser, June 6, 2016
    • 10 replies
    • 59.1k views
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    • tkaiser
    • December 1, 2017

27. Full root filesystem encryption on an Armbian system (NEW, replaces 2017 tutorial on this topic) 1 2 3

    By MMGen, October 18, 2020   

    • Tutorial
    • 61 replies
    • 58.3k views
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    • fxkl47BF
    • September 22

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

    By AnonymousPi, April 14, 2020
    • 7 replies
    • 57.2k views
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    • laconis
    • December 26, 2023

29. Tutorial Remote Desktop Fun with Armbian 1 2

    By rodolfo, April 22, 2016
    • 35 replies
    • 56.1k views
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    • fpl
    • December 27, 2020

30. Review Quick review of Orange Pi One 1 2

    By tkaiser, February 21, 2016
    • 31 replies
    • 55.9k views
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    • beic
    • September 13, 2016

31. 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
    • 54.8k views
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    • Armnlegs
    • October 5, 2017

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

    By tkaiser, May 18, 2018
    • 96 replies
    • 54.7k views
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    • alexeyDZ
    • February 24, 2021

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

    By Igor, January 9, 2016
    • 72 replies
    • 50.8k views
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    • Pontus Jon Jensen Karlsson
    • August 31, 2016

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

    By tkaiser, April 8, 2016
    • 69 replies
    • 44.1k views
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    • Tido
    • August 30, 2018

35. Tutorial Orange Pi PoE

    By hmartin, December 24, 2016
    • 17 replies
    • 44k views
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    • elegant.sand8729
    • May 8, 2017

36. Review [Mini review] ROCK64 SATA cable

    By tkaiser, September 6, 2017
    • 23 replies
    • 39.8k views
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    • S_R
    • February 5, 2019

37. Research sbc-bench 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, July 28, 2018
    • 80 replies
    • 39.8k views
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    • Werner
    • January 4, 2021

38. Review Orange Pi One Plus 1 2

    By Igor, December 26, 2017
    • 38 replies
    • 37.5k views
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    • Werner
    • February 16, 2020

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

    By kutysam, July 31, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 36.1k views
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    • locki
    • February 9, 2021

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

    By NicoD, September 21, 2019
    • 16 replies
    • 34.8k views
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    • gleam
    • December 25, 2019

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

    By chwe, September 19, 2018
    • 12 replies
    • 34.3k views
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    • Joe Nice
    • August 10, 2023

42. Tutorial Using 16x2 ('1602') LCD with I2C connector with Orange Pi PC

    By AnonymousPi, May 28, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 31.8k views
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    • EvgeniK45
    • September 25, 2017

43. Tutorial XFCE in Spanish or any other language

    By manuti, April 12, 2016
    • 17 replies
    • 31.7k views
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    • manuti
    • December 16, 2016

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

    By tkaiser, February 15, 2018
    • 34 replies
    • 29.9k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 25, 2018

45. Tutorial Motioneye (OPI)

    By Keno, September 27, 2016
    • 28 replies
    • 29.7k views
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    • malaga
    • January 11, 2020

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

    By Igor, August 1, 2017
    • 33 replies
    • 28.9k views
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    • Technicavolous
    • February 20, 2018

47. Tutorial OctoPrint on armbian 1 2

    By ldiaz, June 16, 2020
    • 35 replies
    • 27.8k views
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    • NickBR
    • June 16, 2023

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

    By adrb, July 5, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 26.2k views
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    • jonokoi
    • June 24, 2020

49. Upgrading Armbian from bullseye to bookworm

    By joekhoobyar, March 1, 2024   

    • Tutorial
    • 8 replies
    • 26.2k views
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    • Dawid Furman
    • July 27, 2024

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

    By tkaiser, March 7, 2017
    • 35 replies
    • 25.8k views
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    • sfx2000
    • September 23, 2018

51. Review ASUS Tinker Board

    By TonyMac32, June 30, 2017
    • 19 replies
    • 24.3k views
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    • JMCC
    • May 15, 2018

52. Review Banana Pi M2 Berry

    By tkaiser, August 5, 2017
    • 16 replies
    • 23.9k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 26, 2018

53. 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
    • 23.8k views
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    • RaymondDay
    • September 22, 2024

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

    By chwe, June 4, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 23.1k views
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    • chwe
    • January 28, 2018

55. Tutorial Build Armbian with Panfrost (outdated)

    By NicoD, August 20, 2019
    • 21 replies
    • 23.1k views
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    • NicoD
    • January 3, 2021

56. Tutorial Remote Desktop with X11VNC

    By NicoD, May 8, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 21.7k views
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    • shaddow501
    • June 24, 2019

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

    By MMGen, May 2, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 21.5k views
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    • MMGen
    • October 18, 2020

58. Tutorial Running 32 bit applications on Aarch64

    By James Kingdon, July 22, 2017
    • 0 replies
    • 21k views
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    • James Kingdon
    • July 22, 2017

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

    By cligonegui, March 20, 2023   

    • Tutorial
    • 0 replies
    • 20.2k views
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    • cligonegui
    • March 20, 2023

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

    By TRS-80, March 22, 2021
    • 12 replies
    • 19.5k views
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    • Clark McCauley
    • February 27, 2024

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

    By Schwemmlandebene, March 6, 2016
    • 5 replies
    • 19.5k views
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    • op1tjaap
    • June 30, 2017

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

    By jock, November 10, 2021   

    • Tutorial
    • 13 replies
    • 18.7k views
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    • jock
    • December 10, 2023

63. Tutorial Kerberos.io video surveillance installation on Armbian

    By makama80, January 17, 2017
    • 24 replies
    • 18.2k views
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    • scaevola
    • July 23, 2018

64. hardware hack Adafruit CircuitPython

    By TonyMac32, December 5, 2018
    • 23 replies
    • 17.6k views
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    • chwe
    • January 20, 2020

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

    By sgei, May 15, 2018
    • 16 replies
    • 17.3k views
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    • Cyryllo
    • February 22, 2023

66. Research Swap on SBC

    By tkaiser, September 9, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 16.7k views
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    • botfap
    • September 11, 2018

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

    By sweetpotatoe, January 10, 2017
    • 40 replies
    • 15.7k views
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    • Bernie_O
    • August 17, 2017

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

    By JMCC, October 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 15.7k views
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    • JMCC
    • November 19, 2020

69. Tutorial Video : How to install OMV on Armbian Buster and set up a SMB share with it

    By NicoD, January 17, 2021
    • 4 replies
    • 14.6k views
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    • TRS-80
    • February 26, 2022

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

    By peter12, October 25, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 14k views
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    • WarHawk_AVG
    • June 30, 2018

71. 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
    • 13.9k views
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    • Bas
    • April 12, 2023

72. Research fbtft with device tree overlay on mainline

    By Nuha Arina Rafiuddin, March 1, 2020
    • 8 replies
    • 13.2k views
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    • tuanphan
    • October 22, 2021

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

    By schwar3kat, March 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 13.1k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • March 18, 2022

74. Review Review : Khadas VIM3

    By NicoD, July 11, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 12.7k views
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    • Richard.Kang
    • September 12, 2019

75. hardware hack RAM Upgrade - Orange Pi PC

    By SBC-Fan, May 4, 2020
    • 16 replies
    • 12.4k views
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    • SBC-Fan
    • May 4, 2020

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

    By tkaiser, July 16, 2016
    • 3 replies
    • 12.3k views
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    • Klym
    • August 27, 2016

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

    By Moklev, June 5, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 12.2k views
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    • sfx2000
    • September 23, 2018

78. hardware hack Home assistant

    By TonyMac32, January 8, 2019
    • 12 replies
    • 11.9k views
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    • rufik
    • January 17, 2019

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

    By Igor, November 24, 2021
    • 5 replies
    • 11.7k views
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    • luisfmrosa
    • August 2, 2022

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

    By Valery Rezvyakov, October 8, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 11.6k views
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    • ayyeah
    • November 18, 2017

81. Review Quick Review of Rock960 Enterprise Edition AKA Ficus

    By tkaiser, September 29, 2018
    • 15 replies
    • 11.4k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • October 8, 2018

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

    By yam1, April 24, 2020
    • 8 replies
    • 11.4k views
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    • Coby Levy
    • September 26, 2020

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

    By NicoD, October 11, 2020
    • 9 replies
    • 11.1k views
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    • NicoD
    • June 23, 2021

84. Tutorial S/PDIF output on NanoPI M1

    By AndrewK, August 23, 2016
    • 2 replies
    • 10.5k views
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    • nowy1
    • June 4, 2017

85. Tutorial Install OpenHab on Armbian

    By Igor, January 8, 2020
    • 10 replies
    • 10.4k views
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    • Igor
    • May 14, 2020

86. Canon printer drivers (cnijfilter)

    By Azq2, May 4, 2021   

    • Tutorial
    • 2 replies
    • 10.3k views
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    • gscokart
    • November 16, 2023

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

    By MR01, April 29, 2022   

    • Tutorial
    • 9 replies
    • 10.3k views
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    • Werner
    • May 8, 2024

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

    By NicoD, September 14, 2021
    • 7 replies
    • 10.1k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 28, 2024

89. 32-core 3.3Ghz ARM Server Review

    By NicoD, November 9, 2020   

    • Review
    • 5 replies
    • 10.1k views
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    • TRS-80
    • November 12, 2020

90. Review Armbian running Skype

    By Igor, February 17, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 10k views
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    • buratino
    • May 9, 2017

91. Review Review videos : NVIDIA Jetson Nano

    By NicoD, December 2, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 9.8k views
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    • balbes150
    • March 11, 2021

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

    By qwr, December 29, 2021
    • 6 replies
    • 9.5k views
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    • usual user
    • March 5, 2022

93. Tutorial PWM on H3 (and H2+) with mainline kernel

    By zador.blood.stained, March 25, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 9k views
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    • jbuzar
    • April 18, 2017

94. Review Quick Review of NanoPi K1 Plus

    By tkaiser, September 5, 2018
    • 19 replies
    • 8.9k views
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    • nradulovic
    • June 13, 2019

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

    By NicoD, January 8, 2022
    • 22 replies
    • 8.8k views
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    • balbes150
    • February 10, 2022

96. Tutorial 4G USB modem with Armbian

    By TonyMac32, February 22, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 8.8k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 22, 2019

97. Review AMD Threadripper 3990X Armbian Build Server Review

    By NicoD, November 20, 2020
    • 11 replies
    • 8.7k views
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    • johanvdw
    • April 11, 2021

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

    By _r9, April 23, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 8.6k views
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    • _r9
    • April 23, 2020

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

    By NicoD, October 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 8.4k views
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    • NicoD
    • November 15, 2019

100. hardware hack Waveshare e-Paper on Orange Pi Zero LTS

     By Cumulus, March 23, 2020
     • 4 replies
     • 8.3k views
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     • CysLic
     • January 20, 2022

101. 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
     • 8k views
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     • schwar3kat
     • September 20, 2019

102. Tutorial Moderator duties

     By Igor, June 18, 2017
     • 29 replies
     • 7.8k views
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     • TonyMac32
     • June 28, 2017

103. Review Review of the PineBook Pro with Armbian

     By NicoD, June 30, 2021
     • 9 replies
     • 7.5k views
     • 
     • Werner
     • September 28, 2022