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Where are the GPIO breakouts on the 1001PX?
This one I found using Google: [0], but there should be more out there. [0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanteckltd/rtkgpio-a-u...
You better be right!
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Do the Foundation make money when you purchase a Pi?
In 2015 they had a net income of £2.8m (it's a registered charity so they can't distribute profits) [0]. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06758215/filing-h...
Charities can make "investments" too.
AFAIK the RPi foundation is completely straight in this respect, just worth mentioning the general position for UK Charities IMO.
I use Asus 1001PX subnotebooks that way. They're available for about $40 on eBay. You get a keyboard, screen, WiFi, Ethernet, 250GB hard drive, and USB ports. Usually a power adapter, too. (Only use the real ASUS power adapters; the no-name 3rd party units overheat, don't provide enough power, or in at least one case, catch fire.) When I get one in, I put in the Xubuntu USB stick and run the memory diagnostic for an…
i have eeebox from asus, it has a dual core atom inside. i run docker on it. so it has my nexcloud, plex ,etc on it.
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Are you using accelerated video decode? 1080P should be no problem for just about any Intel iGPU made in the last 5 years or so when using vaapi.
How do I check? I'm using stock ubuntu and VLC. Edit: looks like it's not. Maybe I'll try to fix it later, but probably not. That should really work out of the box. The hardware definitely supports it, per vainfo.
For people interested in building a firewall or just boards with multiple GbE ports I can recommend a swiss company PC Engines https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm They make really nice x86 boards with AMD chips.
The Dell is a complete computer in a box.
Contrast to PC engines, which sell a collection of parts. A motherboard, a case, an AC adapter. Etc.
Oh, and btw careful how you mount the motherboard. I.e.: Conductive cooling from the CPU to the enclosure through a 3 mm alu heat spreader. Please contact us for advice if you want to integrate this board in your own enclosure.
Not that the PC Engines stuff is bad; it's just that I usually prefer to have the manufacturer screw things together and then test the final product.
Interesting for other uses, surely not for HD video playing, which to me is the only strong selling point for a RPi now that the Orange, Nano PIs and other SBCs surpassed it nearly in every other aspect.
It is supposed to have GBit Ethernet now: http://www.banana-pi.org/r2.html
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Arduinos cost more than a lot of Pis, though. And the network interface of a Pi enables some really interesting capabilities that don't exist, or are harder to obtain, with a device that doesn't have one.
I think ESP8266 boards (running something NodeMCU) are becoming the more popular replacements for Arduino. They're super cheap, and have integrated Wifi. Cool thing about them is that you can write in C-like AVR code (like Arduino), or micro versions of Lua, Python, and other choices.
btw ESP32 are reaching the 6-7$ range for module + serial board.