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On 12/14/2018 at 4:56 PM, WarHawk_AVG said:
Neat...definitely liking the boards...and with the chips on the bottom a large HS can be placed
Can't wait till these hit the streets..what is the cost for these?
Wait...I see em in India too?!?!???
http://charetech.com/subcategorys/60/65Same company, Indian branch under a different name.
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16 hours ago, sfx2000 said:
Hey - I know you
I think the old adage applies here - good artists copy, great artists steal - keep in mind that many of the AW H-series boards are very similar, so uBoot and Device Tree is really the challenge, and there, it's probably not as hard as trying to bring up a completely new SoC from an outside vendor.
BTW - Nice board, clean layout - if one could bump up the RAM and eMMC (let's say 2GB/32GB), it could be a compelling little board...
Small world...
The H5 boards will get a bump to 2GB of RAM for the crowd funding campaign, but still only 8GB of eMMC. I was pushing for a bit more, but alas.
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On 12/5/2018 at 11:24 PM, chwe said:
at least on your photos for those boards there's a axp8036 on it. This one can't regulate so it will stay at 1.2V.
Yes, you're correct.
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3 hours ago, chwe said:
likely none cause axp8036.. same as libre uses in their boards.
Possible, I'm afraid I'm still waiting on an answer.
I'm afraid I'm not the engineer so...
We didn't exactly copy their board layout though, so let's wait and see.
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16 minutes ago, Tido said:
I am not familiar with this. How does it differentiate from Kickstarter ?
How do you control the voltage of the SoC, just two steps like 1,1V and 1,3V or is there a nice regulator in place ?
What about cooling, the SoC sits on the other side and on the picture PCB is mounted to an Aluminum plate. Is this meant for cooling with a pad in between ?
CrowdSupply is a smaller crowd funding site, mainly focusing in open source in some way. It seemed like the right platform for what we're trying to do.
Good question, let me check, as that's actually something I should know.
The aluminum plate doubles as the heatsink, there will a thermal pad provided that goes between the two. The idea is to use the housing as the cooler. Not that the AllWinner chips get all that hot.
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1 hour ago, Tido said:
Does your team have a contract with ALLWINNER (to support SW development) or do you buy their SoC's of the shelf and try your best like everybody else here ?
PS: lovely, you use a barrel jack to supply power
Sorry, did I see AllWinner and support in the same sentence? I think we've done a bit better than try our best, but no, we don't have any official support with regards to Linux.
We've tried to do some solid boards, the input is 9-17V as well, so no skimping there either.
59 minutes ago, guidol said:and Form-Factor: Pico-ITX 100x72mm
Yeah, trying to stick to industry standards, it makes it much easier for everyone to work with.
The boards will be available on CrowdSupply later this month - https://www.crowdsupply.com/actpower/project-x-development-boards
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Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, so moderators, please feel free to move my post.
I'm involved in getting some new development boards onto the market and we've based our software as so many others, on Armbian.
What would be needed to get official support from Armbian?
We're currently on a mix of Armbian with Ubuntu 18.04 and kernel 4.18.x.
A bit of information about the hardware can be found here https://project-x.com.tw/
We haven't opened up our git as yet, but it'll be done soon.
I understand that there might be quite a few things we have to do, but we're willing to do it and will provide hardware to developers as well.
New development board, how to add it to Armbian?
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The good thing is that this project didn't start out as a crowdfunding project, it's just something we're doing to make the hardware more easily available. If we end up selling zero boards, it doesn't really matter, as we have other customers for the boards.
You're right though, documentation is important and it's something we're still working on. We're not going to get to the level that the RPi is, as we're far too small to do that. However, I hope we'll do better than most of the Chinese board guys in terms of documentation and support.
You're absolutely right that software is key, as there's nothing too unique about the hardware, but I do believe we put a bit more thought into the boards than most of our competitors.
Let's see how things goes, I'm not going to make any promises here, but I hope we can deliver something a bit different.