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.
Category: FriendlyArm
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Fantastic Day
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…
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…
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…
Coming up this week
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 –…