Reviews, Tutorials, Hardware hacks

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

   By yam1, April 24, 2020
   • 8 replies
   • 12.6k views
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   • Coby Levy
   • September 26, 2020

2. Immich is an open-source photo and video management tool that helps you organize, share, and access your media easily. Enjoy seamless syncing, quick search, and secure storage for all your memories.

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

   By _r9, April 23, 2020
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   • 9.6k views
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   • _r9
   • April 23, 2020

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

   By AnonymousPi, April 14, 2020
   • 7 replies
   • 62.8k views
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   • laconis
   • December 26, 2023

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

   By mill1000, March 27, 2020
   • 0 replies
   • 3.7k views
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   • mill1000
   • March 27, 2020

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

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

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

   By stut, March 16, 2020
   • 7 replies
   • 4.2k views
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   • martinayotte
   • April 7, 2020

8. Research fbtft with device tree overlay on mainline

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

9. Tutorial Terminal recording on the OrangePi Zero

   By gounthar, January 8, 2020
   • 0 replies
   • 3.3k views
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   • gounthar
   • January 8, 2020

10. Tutorial Install OpenHab on Armbian

    By Igor, January 8, 2020
    • 10 replies
    • 11.5k views
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    • Igor
    • May 14, 2020

11. Review Review videos : NVIDIA Jetson Nano

    By NicoD, December 2, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 12.1k views
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    • balbes150
    • March 11, 2021

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

    By turtius, November 26, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 6.3k views
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    • AnonymousPi
    • September 17, 2020

13. Tutorial Make your own Nanopi M4V2 image

    By NicoD, November 16, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 4.7k views
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    • TCB13
    • December 3, 2019

14. Review Review video : NanoPi M4V2

    By NicoD, November 15, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • Stuart
    • November 19, 2019

15. hardware hack Orange Pi Zero (512MB) heatsink

    By gurabli, November 8, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 6.6k views
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    • DIYprojectz
    • November 22, 2019

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

    By NicoD, October 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 9.2k views
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    • NicoD
    • November 15, 2019

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

    By MEMEs, October 6, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 6.2k views
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    • Igor
    • October 10, 2019

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

    By NicoD, October 1, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.7k views
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    • NicoD
    • October 1, 2019

19. Research Video : NanoPi M4 storage speed tests

    By NicoD, September 30, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 6.7k views
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    • mar0ni
    • January 20, 2020

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

    By NicoD, September 21, 2019
    • 16 replies
    • 41.3k views
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    • gleam
    • December 25, 2019

21. 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
    • 8.8k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • September 20, 2019

22. hardware hack 5.5inch HDMI AMOLED, 1080x1920

    By Charly, September 8, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 5.2k views
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    • luntik2012
    • March 19, 2020

23. Tutorial Tinker board - DS1621 temperature sensor

    By zeekoe, September 7, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • zeekoe
    • September 7, 2019

24. Tutorial Video : How to build your own Armbian image

    By NicoD, August 23, 2019
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    • 3.3k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 23, 2019

25. Tutorial Build Armbian with Panfrost (outdated)

    By NicoD, August 20, 2019
    • 21 replies
    • 25.5k views
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    • NicoD
    • January 3, 2021

26. hardware hack Rock64 Audio DAC add-on board ethernet port problem [SOLVED]

    By Dysmas, August 19, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • Dysmas
    • August 19, 2019

27. hardware hack mpcie 4g with sim

    By Technicavolous, August 16, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • Technicavolous
    • December 8, 2019

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

    By NicoD, August 13, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 4.2k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 20, 2019

29. Tutorial Use Puppeteer on node.js in Armbian (for web automation)

    By schwar3kat, August 11, 2019
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    • 6.4k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • August 11, 2019

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

    By Alexey Woronov, August 8, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • Alexey Woronov
    • August 8, 2019

31. hardware hack lirc on Armbian Buster

    By Alexey Woronov, August 4, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 8.1k views
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    • Alexey Woronov
    • August 5, 2019

32. hardware hack DHT22 using python and OrangePi.GPIO

    By lanefu, July 19, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • lanefu
    • July 19, 2019

33. Review Review : Khadas VIM3

    By NicoD, July 11, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 14.4k views
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    • Richard.Kang
    • September 12, 2019

34. hardware hack Adding enc28j60 ethernet on orange pi pc

    By Cache, July 9, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 7k views
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    • Cache
    • July 18, 2019

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

    By guidol, July 8, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 8.8k views
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    • lanefu
    • July 15, 2019

36. hardware hack Mobile data - update

    By zlobni, June 26, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • Igor
    • June 27, 2019

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

    By Tido, June 16, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 6.6k views
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    • Tido
    • October 27, 2019

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

    By shaddow501, June 11, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 4.8k views
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    • shaddow501
    • June 11, 2019

39. hardware hack Overlays

    By TonyMac32, June 9, 2019
    • 4 replies
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    • TonyMac32
    • June 9, 2019

40. hardware hack Using the pins on pine a64

    By MikeAP23, June 3, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 2.9k views
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    • Igor
    • June 4, 2019

41. Tutorial Using different desktop environments on Armbian

    By NicoD, June 2, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 87.8k views
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    • ioncube
    • August 8, 2024

42. Tutorial Samba shares

    By clarkss12, May 24, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 4.6k views
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    • clarkss12
    • June 1, 2019

43. hardware hack Thermostat with orange Pi zero .

    By FRANK333, May 12, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 6.5k views
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    • martinayotte
    • May 20, 2019

44. Tutorial Remote Desktop with X11VNC

    By NicoD, May 8, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 24.3k views
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    • shaddow501
    • June 24, 2019

45. Review Review Video : Odroid N2

    By NicoD, May 2, 2019
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    • 3.5k views
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    • NicoD
    • May 2, 2019

46. Review Review Video : Pine H64 model B

    By NicoD, April 12, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • NicoD
    • April 12, 2019

47. Review Review Video : Orange Pi 3

    By NicoD, April 2, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 4.9k views
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    • NicoD
    • April 2, 2019

48. Tutorial Pine64 Clusterboard

    By AZClusterboard, March 20, 2019
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    • AZClusterboard
    • March 20, 2019

49. Tutorial CircuitPython On OrangePi

    By lanefu, March 14, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 4.5k views
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    • adafruit
    • March 14, 2019

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

    By schwar3kat, March 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 14.5k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • March 18, 2022

51. hardware hack So close (yet still far) from getting the OV5640 camera working on an Orange Pi PC

    By purple_fish, March 12, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 4.4k views
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    • purple_fish
    • March 23, 2019

52. hardware hack KiCad templates

    By TonyMac32, February 28, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 4k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 28, 2019

53. Tutorial 4G USB modem with Armbian

    By TonyMac32, February 22, 2019
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    • 11.2k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 22, 2019

54. hardware hack RPi DAQ boards

    By TonyMac32, January 30, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 2.6k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 6, 2019

55. Review Official Asus Tinker Board Case

    By TonyMac32, January 16, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 8k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • March 21, 2019

56. hardware hack Need help on GPIO power button

    By znoxx, January 8, 2019
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    • 2.6k views
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    • znoxx
    • January 8, 2019

57. hardware hack Home assistant

    By TonyMac32, January 8, 2019
    • 12 replies
    • 13k views
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    • rufik
    • January 17, 2019

58. hardware hack Better hacking shield for OPi Zero

    By apla, December 20, 2018
    • 3 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • December 20, 2018

59. hardware hack OPI Zero Plus H5 and GPIO library

    By JRD McLAREN, December 14, 2018
    • 4 replies
    • 4.6k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • December 24, 2018

60. hardware hack Legacy kernel 2k HDMI LCD

    By prenex, December 13, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 2.6k views
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    • prenex
    • December 13, 2018

61. hardware hack Small monochrome displays

    By TonyMac32, December 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 4.5k views
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    • Tido
    • February 18, 2019

62. 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
    • 26.5k views
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    • RaymondDay
    • September 22, 2024

63. hardware hack Adafruit CircuitPython

    By TonyMac32, December 5, 2018
    • 23 replies
    • 19.1k views
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    • chwe
    • January 20, 2020

64. hardware hack GPIO documentation for SBC's

    By TonyMac32, December 5, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 2.8k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • December 21, 2018

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

    By JMCC, October 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 16.8k views
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    • JMCC
    • November 19, 2020

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

    By lrrr, October 8, 2018
    • 0 replies
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    • lrrr
    • October 8, 2018

67. Review Quick Review of Rock960 Enterprise Edition AKA Ficus

    By tkaiser, September 29, 2018
    • 15 replies
    • 12.8k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • October 8, 2018

68. Tutorial matrix multiplication benchmark

    By ag123, September 25, 2018
    • 2 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • Sergei Steshenko
    • October 26, 2018

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

    By chwe, September 19, 2018
    • 12 replies
    • 40k views
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    • Joe Nice
    • August 10, 2023

70. Research Swap on SBC

    By tkaiser, September 9, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 18.5k views
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    • botfap
    • September 11, 2018

71. hardware hack SD communication electrical considerations

    By TonyMac32, September 8, 2018
    • 4 replies
    • 4.9k views
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    • PDP11
    • March 21, 2019

72. Review Quick Review of NanoPi K1 Plus

    By tkaiser, September 5, 2018
    • 19 replies
    • 10k views
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    • nradulovic
    • June 13, 2019

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

    By hjc, September 2, 2018
    • 73 replies
    • 80.1k views
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    • TCB13
    • June 13, 2020

74. Research sbc-bench 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, July 28, 2018
    • 80 replies
    • 46k views
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    • Werner
    • January 4, 2021

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

    By tkaiser, July 22, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 8.2k views
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    • chwe
    • July 23, 2018

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

    By Moklev, June 5, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 13.2k views
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    • sfx2000
    • September 23, 2018

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

    By tkaiser, May 18, 2018
    • 96 replies
    • 60.8k views
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    • alexeyDZ
    • February 24, 2021

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

    By sgei, May 15, 2018
    • 16 replies
    • 19.3k views
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    • Cyryllo
    • February 22, 2023

79. hardware hack Need help in using 4x4 matrix Keypad on Orangepi Zero GPIO

    By blprasad, May 1, 2018
    • 3 replies
    • 4.7k views
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    • martinayotte
    • January 17, 2020

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

    By Schmurtz, April 25, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 93.2k views
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    • JRD McLAREN
    • October 1, 2020

81. Tutorial GPIO keys Mainline Linux

    By ua3nbw, March 13, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 5.6k views
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    • ua3nbw
    • March 13, 2018

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

    By tkaiser, February 15, 2018
    • 34 replies
    • 33.7k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 25, 2018

83. Review Orange Pi One Plus 1 2

    By Igor, December 26, 2017
    • 38 replies
    • 40.3k views
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    • Werner
    • February 16, 2020

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

    By peter12, October 25, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 16.2k views
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    • WarHawk_AVG
    • June 30, 2018

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

    By Valery Rezvyakov, October 8, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 13.5k views
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    • ayyeah
    • November 18, 2017

86. Tutorial Django CMS on Armbian

    By chwe, September 7, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 5.2k views
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    • chwe
    • March 9, 2019

87. Review [Mini review] ROCK64 SATA cable

    By tkaiser, September 6, 2017
    • 23 replies
    • 43.9k views
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    • S_R
    • February 5, 2019

88. Review ODROID HC1 / HC2 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, August 23, 2017
    • 72 replies
    • 147.3k views
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    • Igor
    • March 9, 2018

89. Tutorial OPi Zero GPS ntpserver

    By Guest, August 17, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 7.9k views
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    • Bingo
    • April 19, 2018

90. Review Banana Pi M2 Berry

    By tkaiser, August 5, 2017
    • 16 replies
    • 26.1k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 26, 2018

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

    By Igor, August 1, 2017
    • 33 replies
    • 32k views
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    • Technicavolous
    • February 20, 2018

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

    By kutysam, July 31, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 38k views
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    • locki
    • February 9, 2021

93. Research The dogafu experiment (DS18b20, unreliable SD-Card & power source)

    By chwe, July 27, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 5.8k views
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    • chwe
    • August 22, 2017

94. Tutorial Running 32 bit applications on Aarch64

    By James Kingdon, July 22, 2017
    • 0 replies
    • 22.1k views
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    • James Kingdon
    • July 22, 2017

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

    By adrb, July 5, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 28.3k views
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    • jonokoi
    • June 24, 2020

96. Review ASUS Tinker Board

    By TonyMac32, June 30, 2017
    • 19 replies
    • 26.7k views
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    • JMCC
    • May 15, 2018

97. Tutorial Moderator duties

    By Igor, June 18, 2017
    • 29 replies
    • 9k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • June 28, 2017

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

    By chwe, June 4, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 24.7k views
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    • chwe
    • January 28, 2018

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

    By AnonymousPi, May 28, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 34.9k views
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    • EvgeniK45
    • September 25, 2017

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

     By MMGen, May 2, 2017
     • 14 replies
     • 23.5k views
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     • MMGen
     • October 18, 2020

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

     By tkaiser, April 3, 2017
     • 28 replies
     • 66.1k views
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     • tkaiser
     • November 21, 2017