Reviews, Tutorials, Hardware hacks

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

   By AnonymousPi, April 14, 2020
   • 7 replies
   • 55.7k views
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   • laconis
   • December 26, 2023

2. AdGuardHome DNS Sinkhole blocks malicious sites and ads, enhancing security and privacy with customizable DNS settings. Install AdGuardHome via armbian-config!

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

   By mill1000, March 27, 2020
   • 0 replies
   • 3.2k views
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   • mill1000
   • March 27, 2020

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

   By Cumulus, March 23, 2020
   • 4 replies
   • 7.9k views
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   • CysLic
   • January 20, 2022

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

   By stut, March 16, 2020
   • 7 replies
   • 3.6k views
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   • martinayotte
   • April 7, 2020

6. Research fbtft with device tree overlay on mainline

   By Nuha Arina Rafiuddin, March 1, 2020
   • 8 replies
   • 12.6k views
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   • tuanphan
   • October 22, 2021

7. Tutorial Terminal recording on the OrangePi Zero

   By gounthar, January 8, 2020
   • 0 replies
   • 2.8k views
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   • gounthar
   • January 8, 2020

8. Tutorial Install OpenHab on Armbian

   By Igor, January 8, 2020
   • 10 replies
   • 10.2k views
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   • Igor
   • May 14, 2020

9. Review Review videos : NVIDIA Jetson Nano

   By NicoD, December 2, 2019
   • 5 replies
   • 9.3k views
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   • balbes150
   • March 11, 2021

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

    By turtius, November 26, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 5.8k views
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    • AnonymousPi
    • September 17, 2020

11. Tutorial Make your own Nanopi M4V2 image

    By NicoD, November 16, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 4.2k views
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    • TCB13
    • December 3, 2019

12. Review Review video : NanoPi M4V2

    By NicoD, November 15, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 3.5k views
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    • Stuart
    • November 19, 2019

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

    By gurabli, November 8, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 5.5k views
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    • DIYprojectz
    • November 22, 2019

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

    By NicoD, October 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 8.2k views
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    • NicoD
    • November 15, 2019

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

    By MEMEs, October 6, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 5.2k views
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    • Igor
    • October 10, 2019

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

    By NicoD, October 1, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.2k views
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    • NicoD
    • October 1, 2019

17. Research Video : NanoPi M4 storage speed tests

    By NicoD, September 30, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 5.9k views
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    • mar0ni
    • January 20, 2020

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

    By NicoD, September 21, 2019
    • 16 replies
    • 33.4k views
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    • gleam
    • December 25, 2019

19. 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
    • 7.8k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • September 20, 2019

20. hardware hack 5.5inch HDMI AMOLED, 1080x1920

    By Charly, September 8, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 4k views
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    • luntik2012
    • March 19, 2020

21. Tutorial Tinker board - DS1621 temperature sensor

    By zeekoe, September 7, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
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    • zeekoe
    • September 7, 2019

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

    By NicoD, August 23, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 23, 2019

23. Tutorial Build Armbian with Panfrost (outdated)

    By NicoD, August 20, 2019
    • 21 replies
    • 22.4k views
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    • NicoD
    • January 3, 2021

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

    By Dysmas, August 19, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3k views
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    • Dysmas
    • August 19, 2019

25. hardware hack mpcie 4g with sim

    By Technicavolous, August 16, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 2.9k views
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    • Technicavolous
    • December 8, 2019

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

    By NicoD, August 13, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 3.5k views
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    • NicoD
    • August 20, 2019

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

    By schwar3kat, August 11, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 5.4k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • August 11, 2019

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

    By Alexey Woronov, August 8, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.5k views
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    • Alexey Woronov
    • August 8, 2019

29. hardware hack lirc on Armbian Buster

    By Alexey Woronov, August 4, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 7.2k views
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    • Alexey Woronov
    • August 5, 2019

30. hardware hack DHT22 using python and OrangePi.GPIO

    By lanefu, July 19, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
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    • lanefu
    • July 19, 2019

31. Review Review : Khadas VIM3

    By NicoD, July 11, 2019
    • 3 replies
    • 12.2k views
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    • Richard.Kang
    • September 12, 2019

32. hardware hack Adding enc28j60 ethernet on orange pi pc

    By Cache, July 9, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 6.1k views
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    • Cache
    • July 18, 2019

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

    By guidol, July 8, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 7.2k views
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    • lanefu
    • July 15, 2019

34. hardware hack Mobile data - update

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

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

    By Tido, June 16, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 5.9k views
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    • Tido
    • October 27, 2019

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

    By shaddow501, June 11, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 4k views
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    • shaddow501
    • June 11, 2019

37. hardware hack Overlays

    By TonyMac32, June 9, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • June 9, 2019

38. hardware hack Using the pins on pine a64

    By MikeAP23, June 3, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 2.5k views
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    • Igor
    • June 4, 2019

39. Tutorial Using different desktop environments on Armbian

    By NicoD, June 2, 2019
    • 9 replies
    • 74.8k views
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    • ioncube
    • August 8, 2024

40. Tutorial Samba shares

    By clarkss12, May 24, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • clarkss12
    • June 1, 2019

41. hardware hack Thermostat with orange Pi zero .

    By FRANK333, May 12, 2019
    • 18 replies
    • 5.1k views
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    • martinayotte
    • May 20, 2019

42. Tutorial Remote Desktop with X11VNC

    By NicoD, May 8, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 21k views
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    • shaddow501
    • June 24, 2019

43. Review Review Video : Odroid N2

    By NicoD, May 2, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.2k views
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    • NicoD
    • May 2, 2019

44. Review Review Video : Pine H64 model B

    By NicoD, April 12, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3k views
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    • NicoD
    • April 12, 2019

45. Review Review Video : Orange Pi 3

    By NicoD, April 2, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 4.4k views
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    • NicoD
    • April 2, 2019

46. Tutorial Pine64 Clusterboard

    By AZClusterboard, March 20, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.4k views
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    • AZClusterboard
    • March 20, 2019

47. Tutorial CircuitPython On OrangePi

    By lanefu, March 14, 2019
    • 5 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • adafruit
    • March 14, 2019

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

    By schwar3kat, March 14, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 12.7k views
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    • schwar3kat
    • March 18, 2022

49. 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
    • 3.8k views
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    • purple_fish
    • March 23, 2019

50. hardware hack KiCad templates

    By TonyMac32, February 28, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 3.6k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 28, 2019

51. Tutorial 4G USB modem with Armbian

    By TonyMac32, February 22, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 8.6k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 22, 2019

52. hardware hack RPi DAQ boards

    By TonyMac32, January 30, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 2.1k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • February 6, 2019

53. Review Official Asus Tinker Board Case

    By TonyMac32, January 16, 2019
    • 7 replies
    • 7.1k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • March 21, 2019

54. hardware hack Need help on GPIO power button

    By znoxx, January 8, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2.2k views
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    • znoxx
    • January 8, 2019

55. hardware hack Home assistant

    By TonyMac32, January 8, 2019
    • 12 replies
    • 11.8k views
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    • rufik
    • January 17, 2019

56. hardware hack Better hacking shield for OPi Zero

    By apla, December 20, 2018
    • 3 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • December 20, 2018

57. hardware hack OPI Zero Plus H5 and GPIO library

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

58. hardware hack Legacy kernel 2k HDMI LCD

    By prenex, December 13, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 2.1k views
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    • prenex
    • December 13, 2018

59. hardware hack Small monochrome displays

    By TonyMac32, December 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • Tido
    • February 18, 2019

60. 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
    • 23k views
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    • RaymondDay
    • September 22, 2024

61. hardware hack Adafruit CircuitPython

    By TonyMac32, December 5, 2018
    • 23 replies
    • 17.4k views
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    • chwe
    • January 20, 2020

62. hardware hack GPIO documentation for SBC's

    By TonyMac32, December 5, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 2.3k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • December 21, 2018

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

    By JMCC, October 12, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 15.4k views
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    • JMCC
    • November 19, 2020

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

    By lrrr, October 8, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 3.1k views
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    • lrrr
    • October 8, 2018

65. Review Quick Review of Rock960 Enterprise Edition AKA Ficus

    By tkaiser, September 29, 2018
    • 15 replies
    • 11.1k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • October 8, 2018

66. Tutorial matrix multiplication benchmark

    By ag123, September 25, 2018
    • 2 replies
    • 3.3k views
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    • Sergei Steshenko
    • October 26, 2018

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

    By chwe, September 19, 2018
    • 12 replies
    • 33k views
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    • Joe Nice
    • August 10, 2023

68. Research Swap on SBC

    By tkaiser, September 9, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 16.5k views
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    • botfap
    • September 11, 2018

69. hardware hack SD communication electrical considerations

    By TonyMac32, September 8, 2018
    • 4 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • PDP11
    • March 21, 2019

70. Review Quick Review of NanoPi K1 Plus

    By tkaiser, September 5, 2018
    • 19 replies
    • 8.7k views
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    • nradulovic
    • June 13, 2019

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

    By hjc, September 2, 2018
    • 73 replies
    • 72.6k views
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    • TCB13
    • June 13, 2020

72. Research sbc-bench 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, July 28, 2018
    • 80 replies
    • 38.4k views
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    • Werner
    • January 4, 2021

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

    By tkaiser, July 22, 2018
    • 9 replies
    • 6.7k views
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    • chwe
    • July 23, 2018

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

    By Moklev, June 5, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 12k views
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    • sfx2000
    • September 23, 2018

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

    By tkaiser, May 18, 2018
    • 96 replies
    • 53.1k views
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    • alexeyDZ
    • February 24, 2021

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

    By sgei, May 15, 2018
    • 16 replies
    • 16.8k views
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    • Cyryllo
    • February 22, 2023

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

    By blprasad, May 1, 2018
    • 3 replies
    • 4.1k views
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    • martinayotte
    • January 17, 2020

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

    By Schmurtz, April 25, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 84.4k views
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    • JRD McLAREN
    • October 1, 2020

79. Tutorial GPIO keys Mainline Linux

    By ua3nbw, March 13, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 5k views
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    • ua3nbw
    • March 13, 2018

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

    By tkaiser, February 15, 2018
    • 34 replies
    • 29.2k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 25, 2018

81. Review Orange Pi One Plus 1 2

    By Igor, December 26, 2017
    • 38 replies
    • 37k views
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    • Werner
    • February 16, 2020

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

    By peter12, October 25, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 13.6k views
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    • WarHawk_AVG
    • June 30, 2018

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

    By Valery Rezvyakov, October 8, 2017
    • 8 replies
    • 10.9k views
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    • ayyeah
    • November 18, 2017

84. Tutorial Django CMS on Armbian

    By chwe, September 7, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 4.6k views
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    • chwe
    • March 9, 2019

85. Review [Mini review] ROCK64 SATA cable

    By tkaiser, September 6, 2017
    • 23 replies
    • 39k views
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    • S_R
    • February 5, 2019

86. Review ODROID HC1 / HC2 1 2 3

    By tkaiser, August 23, 2017
    • 72 replies
    • 138.7k views
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    • Igor
    • March 9, 2018

87. Tutorial OPi Zero GPS ntpserver

    By Guest, August 17, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 7.3k views
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    • Bingo
    • April 19, 2018

88. Review Banana Pi M2 Berry

    By tkaiser, August 5, 2017
    • 16 replies
    • 23.5k views
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    • tkaiser
    • June 26, 2018

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

    By Igor, August 1, 2017
    • 33 replies
    • 28.4k views
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    • Technicavolous
    • February 20, 2018

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

    By kutysam, July 31, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 35.5k views
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    • locki
    • February 9, 2021

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

    By chwe, July 27, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 5.1k views
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    • chwe
    • August 22, 2017

92. Tutorial Running 32 bit applications on Aarch64

    By James Kingdon, July 22, 2017
    • 0 replies
    • 20.8k views
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    • James Kingdon
    • July 22, 2017

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

    By adrb, July 5, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 25.7k views
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    • jonokoi
    • June 24, 2020

94. Review ASUS Tinker Board

    By TonyMac32, June 30, 2017
    • 19 replies
    • 23.7k views
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    • JMCC
    • May 15, 2018

95. Tutorial Moderator duties

    By Igor, June 18, 2017
    • 29 replies
    • 7.6k views
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    • TonyMac32
    • June 28, 2017

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

    By chwe, June 4, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 22.8k views
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    • chwe
    • January 28, 2018

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

    By AnonymousPi, May 28, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 31.2k views
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    • EvgeniK45
    • September 25, 2017

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

    By MMGen, May 2, 2017
    • 14 replies
    • 21k views
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    • MMGen
    • October 18, 2020

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

    By tkaiser, April 3, 2017
    • 28 replies
    • 60.3k views
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    • tkaiser
    • November 21, 2017

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

     By zador.blood.stained, March 25, 2017
     • 1 reply
     • 8.8k views
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     • jbuzar
     • April 18, 2017

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

     By tkaiser, March 7, 2017
     • 35 replies
     • 25k views
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     • sfx2000
     • September 23, 2018