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Category: FriendlyArm

The New FriendlyARM K1 PLUS Board

May 15, 2018August 26, 2018 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, K1 PLUS31 Comments on The New FriendlyARM K1 PLUS Board

In today’s postbag, a pair of the new NanoPi K1 PLUS boards from FriendlyARM. These powerful H5-based boards look interesting and in this case came complete with heatsinks, Pi-size transparent case and handy FTDIs for programming.

NanoPi Duo

September 26, 2017September 27, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, Linux, NanoPi Duo, Ubuntu34 Comments on NanoPi Duo

The FriendlyArm NanoPi Duo turned up for me today – well, in fact, more than that, a complete kit comprising motherboard, heatsink, SSD and more turned up – read all about it below:

NanoPi Neo PLUS2

July 24, 2017July 26, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, NanoPi Neo Plus218 Comments on NanoPi Neo PLUS2

No, I’d not heard of this one either until a couple of weeks ago. With a small form factor, 2 USB sockets and a $25 price tag it has to be worth a second glance. I’ve used the NEO and this is definitely an improvement – H5 processor,  the Ethernet…

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NanoPi M3

July 1, 2017July 31, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, NanoPi M325 Comments on NanoPi M3

This is a July 2017 update to the blog entry about the FriendlyArm NanoPi M3 board. Smaller than a Raspberry Pi but with a boat-load of facilities, the board includes: A3 Octa-Core processor (handy for multimedia) S5P6818 1GB Ram 3.5mm audio jack 1GBPS Ethernet port WIFI Bluetooth MicroUSB for power…

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NanoPi K2

May 21, 2017December 23, 2018 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, K272 Comments on NanoPi K2

What, not ANOTHER board from FriendlyArm? And yes, you’d be right to wonder why I’m doing a bunch of articles on them right now – well, it just so happens I got a box of stuff all at once so I thought I’d get them all out of the way…

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NEO REBOOT

May 19, 2017June 13, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, Neo, Neo214 Comments on NEO REBOOT

I have covered the FriendlyArm NEO and NEO2 boards here before now and generally been in favour – but for one little item in common with many other boards – little or no IO support – well, that just changed. Read on… With no apparent way to get to the…

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Thoughts on RAM

May 2, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, Log2RAM, power supplies, RamDisk, ramlog, Raspberry Pi36 Comments on Thoughts on RAM

These are just thoughts – hopefully someone is going to write in and tell me I have it all wrong. As regular readers will know I have reviewed (and messed with) MANY small Pi-type boards including the Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, NanoPi etc etc.  I’ve also had a go with…

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NanoPi Neo 2

April 29, 2017May 9, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, Nanopi Neo 2109 Comments on NanoPi Neo 2

You may well have read my review of the NanoPi NEO back in August 2016 – a nice little H3 unit available in two versions, 256Meg and 512Meg RAM. Well, the new unit has an H5 64-bit processor and comes with 512MB RAM and although there is only one USB…

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Enter the NanoPi M1+

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, Nanopi M1+60 Comments on Enter the NanoPi M1+

Today must be my day for easy installs. The FriendlyArm NanoPi M1+ turned up this morning along with spare heatsink and antenna. So first of all what is it? – this is a small SBC, a development from the Nanopi M1 which I’ve reviewed here before.  So is this worth…

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FriendlyArm S430

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, NanoPi M3, S430, S430 LCD20 Comments on FriendlyArm S430

This could be one of the shortest reviews I’ve ever done!  The S430 is a low-cost  4.3” capacitive touch-display designed to work with FriendlyArm boards such as the NanoPi S2, M2, M3, the NanoPC T2 and T3 and finally the Smart4418. When I think of the HASSLE I’ve had getting…

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FriendlyArm NanoPi A64

January 12, 2017January 16, 2017 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, NanoPi A6483 Comments on FriendlyArm NanoPi A64

Don’t you love reviews that tell you all about a new product, print out all the specs then leave you to discover the horrors all on your own because they didn’t ACTUALLY test the thing? Well, this isn’t one of those reviews. But I will give you the spec. Even…

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A Fantastic Day

January 11, 2017January 13, 2017 Peter ScargillA64, FriendlyArm, Sol, solar power, Xenial

It’s been a good day today. Let me clarify that – a good day considering I’m in the Northeast of England, wishing I was in the south of Spain and currently freezing to death. I got up far too early with ideas in my head about the Thermostat – to…

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A Brighter Node Red

June 20, 2016June 21, 2016 Peter ScargillDebian, FriendlyArm, Node, Node Red, Raspberry Pi22 Comments on A Brighter Node Red

Just today  – an upgrade notice for Node-Red appeared in my in-box. Upgrade details are here. What is Node-Red?  Details here – if you’re not using it or at least investigating it – you may be missing out. Now, the support guys (Google groups here) are VERY clear about required…

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Cheap IOT Solution and the M1

June 19, 2016August 22, 2016 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, NanoPi M132 Comments on Cheap IOT Solution and the M1

Recently I blogged about an update to pricing for the Sonoff mains control units – now down to £3.50 ($4.85) and our readers even reminded us of some potentially great software for those units (as well as my own but then mine is more of a kitchen sink approach and…

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Coming up this week

June 13, 2016June 13, 2016 Peter ScargillFriendlyArm, nanoPC-T3, nanoPi-M1

Coming up, reviews of FriendlyArm’s latest offerings – the NanoPC-T3 and the little M1. I’ll cover both of these later in the week with testing etc.. but for now a taster of the more powerful unit. You may recall I have the older NanoPC-T2 running Debian as user PI –…

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