NicoD

Thanks for pointing it out. I will have out engineer look at it and clean the device tree. We would like to contribute to Armbian and get some decent support on ROCk Pi 4. Apparently, we should do it in the right way.

Sweet.. I installed Blender on my frankendell and doing a 4k on terracota...  Sadly CPU rendering is faster i was hoping my Quadra K620 would make things interested.... but i think its not in an optimal PCI slot anyway.. oh well.

Yes. I've got a big heatsink on the way for my Rock Pi4B. That one has 4GB ram vs 2GB of my M4. So with that I can do 4K or higher renders during a week/month of all of them.
I've added all the original .png renders + all the blender files as attachment file. Everyone can do a higher resolution render (8K, 16K, 32K???) if they want. Or play with it a bit.

Here are all of them. These are 1440p but converted to jpg.
Armbian transport

Snowy Armbian

Old school Armbian

Armbian in space

Empire of Armbian

Armbian @ the beach

Armbian__Backgrounds.7z

Armbian as transportation company (of 1's and 0's)...

This will be my last submission. I've got too many other things to do. Otherwise I would never stop. Cheers.

I have just received my SATA HAT, it is recognized and working on Armbian out of the Box  (4.4.176-rk3399).  

That seems a very paradoxical question. To ask that question you have to first start writing a question, but the question you ask can't be written before you start asking a question.  It's like a new big bang is happening in my head.
Welcome to the forum.

That is because it is your first build.
Redoing almost the same build later, it can take less than 30 mins, thanks to "ccache" ...

When I did start I also did think I need every bullet-point - you are not alone
In the future if you want to be a bit more risky, then you could use
./compile.sh EXPERT="yes"

I didn't have one. I always used prebuild images.
Now this seems a lot easier than what I thought. I had tried multiple times in the past to follow these instructions
https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/
What do I need? x86/x64 machine running any OS; 4G ram, SSD, quad core (recommended), VirtualBox or similar virtualization software (highly recommended with a minimum of 25GB hard disk space for the virtual disk image), Setting up VirtualBox and compile environment is easy following our Vagrant tutorial, Docker environment is also supported for building kernels and full OS images, The only supported compilation environment is Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 x64 (no other releases are supported! It has to be exactly 18.04 otherwise default compiler versions might not match so if you’re on an older Ubuntu release upgrade to 18.04 now, if you use a newer Ubuntu version start with 18.04 from scratch), installed basic system, OpenSSH and Samba (optional), no spaces in full path to the build script location allowed, superuser rights (configured sudo or root shell). I thought you needed every bullet point, and I never could run vagrant right. I didn't know what it did, and didn't know why I needed it.

Even this I had done, I was in the build directory  If only I had typed ./compile.sh
apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/armbian/build cd build Only the last step not. So stupid. Thank you so much, it's clearly a lot more simple than I made it look in my brain. I've now got mini.iso, and started the build process.
It's one of the most simple things, while my autistic brain made it take months just by not wanting to understand it's simple.
Well. Nothing is hard, when you know how to do it.

Didnt you already got a armbian-build-system?
 
If not - why use vagrant and not only the minimal-18.04 Ubuntu in a VirtualBox?
 
I do only use Virtualbox and there there the is installed the mini-iso of 18.04 64Bit.
 
I used this page as information: https://github.com/armbian/build
 
If you got 18.04 minmal 64Bit installed  (including configuring the network) - all you/I had to do is
 
apt-get -y install git git clone https://github.com/armbian/build cd build ./compile.sh @NicoD BTW: The "vagrant"-page seems to be old because of VirtualBox 5.1.12 (now we are up to 6.04) and 
Ubuntu Xenial (we are now using 18.04 Bionic)

Something else I tried. The Armbian Terracotta Army. I need to add textures to the ground.

I've tried to make a build system today. I've gotten so far to get the newest version of vagrant installed and up. But then I clearly forgot about it. I noticed hours later that virtualbox was running. I'm getting closer to building one

I've finished the Armbian Terracotta Army. Here is a HQ render of it.
It's maybe too busy, but it's something different.




 

Then there ain't enough soldiers.

I've just installed it, and first impression is, it isn't much better than before.
It's unstable. Runs at 1.5Ghz, but seems a lot slower than others at the same speed. 1.8Ghz isn't possible anymore.
Temperatures are of course better now.
Here a 7zip benchmark with stock settings.
orangepi@OrangePi:~$ 7z b 7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs) RAM size: 1980 MB, # CPU hardware threads: 4 RAM usage: 850 MB, # Benchmark threads: 4 Dict Compressing | Decompressing Speed Usage R/U Rating | Speed Usage R/U Rating KB/s % MIPS MIPS | KB/s % MIPS MIPS 22: 1667 286 567 1622 | 35573 263 1218 3209 23: 1766 313 575 1800 | 45386 344 1206 4153 24: 1704 315 581 1832 | 44655 345 1200 4142 25: 1547 299 591 1767 | 38169 302 1189 3589 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Avr: 303 578 1755 314 1203 3773 Tot: 308 891 2764 It performs very badly. 2/3 of what it should be at 1.5Ghz.
I've then set the governor to performance and everything starts to lag like crazy. 7-zip results are very bad.
 
orangepi@OrangePi:~$ sudo cpufreq-set -g performance orangepi@OrangePi:~$ 7z b 7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs) RAM size: 1980 MB, # CPU hardware threads: 4 RAM usage: 850 MB, # Benchmark threads: 4 Dict Compressing | Decompressing Speed Usage R/U Rating | Speed Usage R/U Rating KB/s % MIPS MIPS | KB/s % MIPS MIPS 22: 551 85 628 536 | 10925 82 1209 985 23: 566 89 647 577 | 11939 90 1214 1092 24: 506 83 658 545 | 11711 90 1208 1086 25: 529 89 676 604 | 11491 90 1197 1080 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Avr: 87 652 565 88 1207 1061 Tot: 87 930 813  

True ! ... I've just committed one more : the OrangePi3 WIP ...

Ahahah !
Are all those soldiers representing the number of boards that Armbian is supporting ?

I've just installed it, and first impression is, it isn't much better than before.
It's unstable. Runs at 1.5Ghz, but seems a lot slower than others at the same speed. 1.8Ghz isn't possible anymore.
Temperatures are of course better now.
Here a 7zip benchmark with stock settings.
orangepi@OrangePi:~$ 7z b 7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs) RAM size: 1980 MB, # CPU hardware threads: 4 RAM usage: 850 MB, # Benchmark threads: 4 Dict Compressing | Decompressing Speed Usage R/U Rating | Speed Usage R/U Rating KB/s % MIPS MIPS | KB/s % MIPS MIPS 22: 1667 286 567 1622 | 35573 263 1218 3209 23: 1766 313 575 1800 | 45386 344 1206 4153 24: 1704 315 581 1832 | 44655 345 1200 4142 25: 1547 299 591 1767 | 38169 302 1189 3589 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Avr: 303 578 1755 314 1203 3773 Tot: 308 891 2764 It performs very badly. 2/3 of what it should be at 1.5Ghz.
I've then set the governor to performance and everything starts to lag like crazy. 7-zip results are very bad.
 
orangepi@OrangePi:~$ sudo cpufreq-set -g performance orangepi@OrangePi:~$ 7z b 7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs) RAM size: 1980 MB, # CPU hardware threads: 4 RAM usage: 850 MB, # Benchmark threads: 4 Dict Compressing | Decompressing Speed Usage R/U Rating | Speed Usage R/U Rating KB/s % MIPS MIPS | KB/s % MIPS MIPS 22: 551 85 628 536 | 10925 82 1209 985 23: 566 89 647 577 | 11939 90 1214 1092 24: 506 83 658 545 | 11711 90 1208 1086 25: 529 89 676 604 | 11491 90 1197 1080 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Avr: 87 652 565 88 1207 1061 Tot: 87 930 813  

I believe the temperature isn't showing right. It shows it's constantly at 55°C at idle, and above 60°C when in use. But the heatsink isn't even hot to the touch. It feels very cool. This can't be right.
Must be something wrong with the temperature sensor settings.

No auto-resize either. I'll try updating to bionic.

Don't give up ! All those looks nice !
For this latest Space one, could you try to put propeller flames at the bottom of his fleet ?
 

i dig the space one......  anyway keep 'em up...  like its probably not unreasonable to bundle a few of them on the desktop builds..... like Mate comes with like 10 versions of their logo/theme.

When you feel like you're at a stopping point and are feeling comfortable with things, let me know and we can fire up a poll

Last one. Armbian in Space. It's not a high quality render. If you like it, then I can make a high quality one. I'm sick of waiting +1 hour for the render to finish.
I could darken the background a bit more, or maybe choose a better one. But you can get the idea behind it.
If you choose one, then I can make a very high quality 4k render of it.
You can make a choice of which background, and also rounded off or straight lines.
Thank you all. Greetings.
NicoD

I would also go for a pool. Its hard do decide which is the best  

What did you try yet?
Did you connect the camera? Did it show up?
You can check this with : ls -ltrh /dev/video*
If it shows up, download mjpg_streamer. Set it up, and ready.
Here how to set up mjpg_streamer: https://www.acmesystems.it/video_streaming
If it doesn't show up, then....... another story.

In addition to @NicoD's response, there is also a snap package for mjpg-streamer. So, once you get an Ubuntu Bionic running on your board, all you have to do is:
$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install snapd $ sudo service snapd start $ sudo snap install mjpg-streamer $ sudo snap connect mjpg-streamer:camera $ snap run mjpg-streamer You can get some more instructions with "snap info mjpg-streamer"

I will try that, I don't think it's easy to do.
I now done a clear background with the color of the current background image. I like this one too.