NicoD

Here one with straight lines, and one smoothened. Let me know what you like more.
I made it look cute with the round big eyes, but the original looks a bit more though than this. Do I need to change that?
All tips are welcome.

I like both, but maybe a bit more the smoothened one ...

I almost think you should maintain some hard angularity to it, as the 2D.  Very nice though!

Check top for load. With 3.10.65 image it stabilizes at 3 which means three of four cores are permanently under full load which also explains the temperature issues. Did not test on OPi3 though as I do not have one but on OPi1+ which comes with H6 as well. 4.17 with initial support for H6 fixed this for me.

Even with a heat sink and a fan I encountered thermal throttling under load as well, using the Debian image. Worse transcoding performance than a Raspi Pi 3B+ but that's probably unrelated 

I installed Ubuntu and was able to upgrade to 18.04.2 LTS keeping the 3.10.65 kernel
Basically you have to replace the mirrors provided in /etc/apt/sources.list and resize the /boot partition (added another 50MB: originally it's only 50MB and the script "do-release-upgrade" fails), did the resizing on my main computer.
I can mount a USB3 pen drive but the I/O performance are appalling. Gigabit ethernet works fine.
I agree about overheating, I'll have to mount a heat sink...

There is little I can do here. We hardly manage forum settings, while any coding in this area is not possible ... in case anyone have ideas that are generally usable, https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/forum/499-feedback-and-ideas/, but there are a lot of them 

BTW 

Hi all. 
Since I wanted a 3D intro for my Youtube Channel I started working with Blender again. Now the intro is finished I've got time to try to make a 3D Armbian Logo.
 

I'll show some of the progress here for those who are interested. And if anybody else wants to do the same, go  ahead. We can then compare the results.
I've only just begun. But I needed a break so I started writing this.
Here's how it begins... create a side view ... 


Then put those pictures in Blender, add a cube, position it right on both pictures, and start modeling....

All done with the NanoPi M4 on Armbian Bionic.

I'll slowly keep working on it. I can't promise it will look great, but nothing is lost if it doesn't... Someone once asked me to do this, I can't remember who it was. I think Chwe or jmcc or tido. Could also have been a ghost in my sleep.
Cheers, NicoD

ps: @Igor It would be nice if we could easily resize images in our posts. Maybe with a dropdown box and % would be easiest to do. I know this isn't a priority, just a suggestion. 
 

Hi all. 
Since I wanted a 3D intro for my Youtube Channel I started working with Blender again. Now the intro is finished I've got time to try to make a 3D Armbian Logo.
 

I'll show some of the progress here for those who are interested. And if anybody else wants to do the same, go  ahead. We can then compare the results.
I've only just begun. But I needed a break so I started writing this.
Here's how it begins... create a side view ... 


Then put those pictures in Blender, add a cube, position it right on both pictures, and start modeling....

All done with the NanoPi M4 on Armbian Bionic.

I'll slowly keep working on it. I can't promise it will look great, but nothing is lost if it doesn't... Someone once asked me to do this, I can't remember who it was. I think Chwe or jmcc or tido. Could also have been a ghost in my sleep.
Cheers, NicoD

ps: @Igor It would be nice if we could easily resize images in our posts. Maybe with a dropdown box and % would be easiest to do. I know this isn't a priority, just a suggestion. 
 

Hi all. 
Since I wanted a 3D intro for my Youtube Channel I started working with Blender again. Now the intro is finished I've got time to try to make a 3D Armbian Logo.
 

I'll show some of the progress here for those who are interested. And if anybody else wants to do the same, go  ahead. We can then compare the results.
I've only just begun. But I needed a break so I started writing this.
Here's how it begins... create a side view ... 


Then put those pictures in Blender, add a cube, position it right on both pictures, and start modeling....

All done with the NanoPi M4 on Armbian Bionic.

I'll slowly keep working on it. I can't promise it will look great, but nothing is lost if it doesn't... Someone once asked me to do this, I can't remember who it was. I think Chwe or jmcc or tido. Could also have been a ghost in my sleep.
Cheers, NicoD

ps: @Igor It would be nice if we could easily resize images in our posts. Maybe with a dropdown box and % would be easiest to do. I know this isn't a priority, just a suggestion. 
 

Hi all. 
Since I wanted a 3D intro for my Youtube Channel I started working with Blender again. Now the intro is finished I've got time to try to make a 3D Armbian Logo.
 

I'll show some of the progress here for those who are interested. And if anybody else wants to do the same, go  ahead. We can then compare the results.
I've only just begun. But I needed a break so I started writing this.
Here's how it begins... create a side view ... 


Then put those pictures in Blender, add a cube, position it right on both pictures, and start modeling....

All done with the NanoPi M4 on Armbian Bionic.

I'll slowly keep working on it. I can't promise it will look great, but nothing is lost if it doesn't... Someone once asked me to do this, I can't remember who it was. I think Chwe or jmcc or tido. Could also have been a ghost in my sleep.
Cheers, NicoD

ps: @Igor It would be nice if we could easily resize images in our posts. Maybe with a dropdown box and % would be easiest to do. I know this isn't a priority, just a suggestion. 
 

https://github.com/leeboby/OrangePiH6_Linux4.9

I have one in the mail, was told the Armbian H64 image works except for Ethernet, I'm guessing there's a small hardware difference that needs reflected in DTS.  Or I'm completely wrong, until I can see, I cannot know.

i think the problerm is in this files these are coiming wiht the overlay, cbecuase forme the schematic its not PA oit is PD6 for the gmac
 
since you say v0.06 was working i changed back the usb settings i will upload a ne image
 
&usb2phy {
usb0_vbus-supply = <&reg_usb_vbus>;
+ usb1_vbus-supply = <&reg_usb_vbus>;
- usb3_vbus-supply = <&reg_usb_vbus>;
status = "okay";
};
 
sun50i-h6-spi-add-cs1.dts
and
 
sun50i-a64-spi-add-cs1.dts
 
 
v0.11 released and available for download

MrFixit made his Kernel available, im guessing it should help, kernell does 3d, 2d, nvme, wifi, bt etc...
 
link here

If you would read this thread you'd know that these people are working on getting a good OS working for it.
So no, there is no useable and stable os for it, no you can't use PCIe on it. This will take time.
There are other sbc's that can do what you want. I'd go for the NanoPi M4. It now has got a hat with 4xSATA.
https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&amp;product_id=254
 
A lot more work has been done for the RK3399's. It's also still a work in progress. But for what you want it's more than ready.

I wish everybody working on it good luck, I'm following this thread for a while, and have been testing a lot of @krachlatte images. I hope you're going to find the problem and may receive your unit quickly. I also had to wait a very long time for it(+1 month).
I can say that Orange Pi uses different images for the eMMC version vs without eMMC. I've tried a non-eMMC image and this didn't work on my eMMC version. So this could also be a factor to keep in mind.
Cheers.

@martinayotte sun50i-h6-emac is already gone dropped in the newest driver, and upstream DT now uses
```
            compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-h6-emac",
                     "allwinner,sun50i-a64-emac";
```
 
If someone needs me to do hack on OPi3, I can consider to purchase one. Shipment from Shenzhen to Guangzhou (where I live) usually cost <24h.

@Igor can probably arrange things so that Steven from Xunlung can ship you one for free ...

Please note, my build farm is used for cross-compiling only. I used to do native builds 20 years ago, and after having been hit several times by accidental dependencies on the build host, I stopped and am always cross-compiling nowadays, even when doing x86 on x86. That's why I can use whatever host is available for the build farm. My build farm at home is heterogeneous, it's made of the armv8 boards above, one armv7 board (odroid xu4) and sometimes some x86 hosts when the devices are up. So yes, I'm a huge proponent of cross-compiling.

Yes, and believe me, total time difference is not that big compared to a core i7 cross-compiling on a VM (we're talking about the high-end ARM SoC's, the ones with A15's, A17's and A72's). Plus, it saves you the time and boredom of setting a cross-compiling environment. And it's funny to do anything on a small $50 device made with random TV box pieces soldered to a cramped PCB

You probably should link to the original post cause the Register tends to be a bit....
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=183440&amp;curpostid=183486
 
His statements in the whole context sound a way more reasonable:
besides a few SBCs, ARM SoCs are 'only' found in Android, where power-consumption matters a way more (it matters for servers as well but it's not the 'main' thing, whereas for mobiles it is).. Routers etc. are mostly driven by MIPS. Intel tried once (with throwing a bunch of money into it) to enter the android world but they horribly failed and canceled more or less their low consumption small chips...
 
and that is actually true, Armbians buildscript is also x86 only, cause it might be hard to find good build servers to natively build our images on ARM.
Price matters.. The more volume, the lower the price.. See (android) TV-boxes.. where intel has no chance to enter the market..
well, I quoted this one just cause it's funny.
I programmed once my calculator, it was painful cross-platform an on itself.. But that's more related to the capabilities of it.. I think @JMCC is one of the few here who compiles debian packages on the SBCs itself (except @wtarreau)..
 
and followup:
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=183440&amp;curpostid=183500
 
make a nice case and don't tell him that there's a pinheader on it, maybe he don't see a difference..
 
Don't get me wrong, willy's buildfarm (https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/01/07/nanopi-neo4-build-farm-rk3399-overclocking/) is great, but not everyone wants to build such a farm just to avoid cross-compiling.
 
besides merging he probably never contributed a single bit to ARM development on Linux (I could be wrong here, I don't have record on which sub-systems he contributed in the beginnings). But as he stated multiple times, he's more 'kernel manager' and gate-keeper than programmer.. Just read through a few speaks from him to get a clue about his job in kernel development.
 
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-would-like-to-see-an-arm-laptop-but-he-doesnt-expect-it/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-still-wants-the-linux-desktop/
 
It's not that he dislikes arm.. There are multiple statements where he was in favour for an arm based machine (especially during the spectre/meltdown phase he made some of them). But where others try to be as polite as possible, he prefers a rather strong wording to make his points clear. And I would say he has enough valid arguments to point out why arm is nowhere on server at the moment.
 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/21/192
 
IMO not at all, development of linux on arm won't stop cause Linus says that he doesn't think that arm will make it on the server market.. All our SBCs (except maybe the SolidRun) aren't server SoCs. We deal mostly with TV-box SoCs here.. As long as they push their stuff upstream and the code quality is good, he will merge it.. He just points out clearly why (in his opinion) arm won't enter the server market.. There aren't (m)any affordable workstations nor notebooks nor simple desktop computers based on arm, so that people deploy stuff on ARM. Even on bigger distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Suse etc.) arm is only the side-kick of x86 or AMD64. I don't think that this will change soon. Just look at commercial binary only software... If there's Linux support for it, it's mostly x86 only.. More or less nobody provides arm64 or armhf packages of their binaries..

Thanks for sharing, dude. That is super cool!

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Hi @lanefu.
I took some pictures of all my tech gear I take with me on trips.

The most important thing is my solar panels(I've got 2). It's a RavPower 24W 5V solar panel with 3 usb ports. Each USB can load up to 2.4A, and a total of 4.8A over all 3 the ports. In a nice sunny day it's quickly at it's maximum power.
Then the RavPower power banks(also 2). These are beasts of 26 800 mAh. With this I can work for 15 hours with my Odroid C2 + 7" display. It does take a bit more than a day to fully charge it with my solar panels. I always use one, while charging the other.

For video editing and rendering I used the Odroid C2(on the right) with a 7" display. This because it's the only one that's fast, and doesn't need active cooling. When it's cold and wet you don't want to sit in a tent with a fan blowing.
The Odroid also has it's own 3.5" HDMI display to watch video that I've filmed on it. So it's also a handheld. The C2 I'll replace with a RK3399 board. I still need to make a new metal case for everything. I also got a 13.3" 1080p display with speakers for the new "laptop"
The one on the left is my Raspberry Pi 2B with a 3.5" gpio display. This has a usb audio adapter, and a Sony lavalier microphone. This uses only 0.25A idle with the display included. So I can leave that on the whole day. It's totally protected with rubber on the sides, and a plexi glas in front of the display. So I can throw it arround and nothing happens. The same for my 7" display. Plexiglass, and then a rubber layer between the glas and the display.
 

For entertainment I've got the Raspberry Pi 3B+ also with a 3.5" hdmi display, and a PS3 controller. That fills up the rainy days when I ain't got anything better to do. Or when my Odroid C2 is bussy rendering new videos.

I often travel with my bycicle, and go wild camping everywhere in Europe. With this I film everything, I edit it in the evening. And when I go to a camping I upload everything to Youtube. 
Many people would not want to travel like this. But for me it's my heaven.

I couldn't do all that with my laptop. The thing is heavyer, a lot more power consumption, battery only lasts about 1,5hours, ... So SBC's are the greatest pieces of tech ever for me.
I used to carry around a lot of thick books while traveling. I'm happier with all this.
I love to watch a movie with a beer while the sun goes down on a beautiful spot. I can't wait to leave again.

In daily life I also use them, I don't have a smart phone. So these replace that.

I made a quick video on my last trip about it all. Also about my new 13.3" display.
But I didn't do any video editing on that trip since it was not a long trip(less than 2 weeks)

I hope that fulfills your curiosity.
I use my SBC's for a lot more than that alone. But it's because of this I fell in love with sbc's.
I was a giant tech nerd when I was young. I started working as a programmer when I turned just 15, but lost my job at 19(bankruptcy of the company I worked for) and didn't have a school degree. So I then lost all interest in computers for almost 15 years. SBC's have brought me back that joy of the early days. I just love them....
Greetings.

 

@nicod I saw it on the other thread. It’s worthy of its own post. That rig captures the essence of what makes hacking on SBCs so great.
 
Lane
 
 
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