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Asus Tinker Board

Post by BenOfTheNorth » Wed Jan 25, 2017 12:10 am

A new interesting alternative for those looking at something more powerful than a Pi 3 - http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/ ... rd-asus-4k

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Post by abrugsch » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:21 am

Of course with any of these other Pi-alike boards, it's not the speed of the hardware but the quality of the support... typical example will be if there are drivers to utilise the GPU for graphics and/or video acceleration. Allwinner has been particularly bad at getting drivers available for C.H.I.P. to be able to use the GPU, and even then only for GL ES, not (AFAIK) video decoding... as of course it was over a year after the Pi being released before a binary GPU driver was made available.

Now this tinker is a rockchip and I'm not familiar how well they support 3rd party devs, but most rockchip android devices rarely get any updates from their manufacturers after initial release, even when they promise to do so (Tesco Hudl... I'm looking at you)
If asus is going to be any different about it remains to be seen. definitely worth watching, but I'm not early adopting one at £55...

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Post by moosepr » Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:24 am

the biggest issue i have seen with all the posts on this board (other than the price) is the 5 amps power requirements!!!
Get a small cheep LCD in your project https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2312
Wrap it all round a battery https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2292
Or use a custom PCB to make it really small https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2512
or make it really really really really tiny!! https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2919

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Re: Asus Tinker Board

Post by BuToNz » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:09 am

moosepr wrote:the biggest issue i have seen with all the posts on this board (other than the price) is the 5 amps power requirements!!!
Where did you read that? It's 2A/5v.

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Post by moosepr » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:15 am

BuToNz wrote: Where did you read that? It's 2A/5v.
I found it on here

http://hexus.net/ce/news/gadgets/101686 ... erry-pi-3/

one of the random pages that appeared in my google now feed. Altohugh the more i look now, everywhere else claims it is only 2 amps. maybe they got it wrong on that page?
Get a small cheep LCD in your project https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2312
Wrap it all round a battery https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2292
Or use a custom PCB to make it really small https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2512
or make it really really really really tiny!! https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2919

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