The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

Post by pknopf » Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 12:52 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #70

For something called the "Tinker Board" you'd expect there to be lots of documentation, and for the RK3288, it does not disappoint: Datasheet: http://opensource.rock-chips.com/images/4/4e/Rockchip_RK3288... Technical Reference Manual: http://rockchip.fr/RK3288%20TRM/ This is on par with what TI offers for its OMAP series, and a great deal better than anything Broadcom has ever released for its RPi SoCs. I remember ar…

Post by Gibbon1 » Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 1:03 AM UTC

xienze wrote: post #35

bsder wrote: post #23

Is there a reason why everybody just HAS to stick to the RPi's when the BeagleBone Black/Green/Blue/etc. are: 1) Far more open (you can get documentation and chip supply to build your own BeagleBone) 2) No more expensive 3) Mainline Debian

Well, they are more expensive, though by just a little. The low price really seems to be the deciding factor for most people. I’m likewise baffled by the lack of popularity of some of these other boards. Thr RPi is honestly getting quite long in the tooth and just $10-15 more can get you a way better board.

Post by TheCycoONE » Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 1:11 AM UTC

StudentStuff wrote: post #55

stefan_ wrote: post #28

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Not for any of the GPUs. If all you want is a terminal, you can pretty much buy anything..

You can run Gnome just fine, hardware accelerated video decoding/encoding works, HDMI with a few features is mainline, the only thing left is the Mali GPU, which is a fairly simple GPU as far as that kind of hardware goes, as compared to AMD or Nvidia GPUs. On that note, there has been a fair bit of activity on Lima as of late, which is a big change from a few years ago: https://github.com/yuq/linux-lima/tree/lima-4.…

Post by oceanman888 » Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 1:15 AM UTC

geerlingguy wrote: post #65

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #56

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"Used Core i5" is not buying a NUC. At least, I don't think there's a huge aftermarket of NUCs at this point. I don't think they sell in the volume that leads to large aftermarkets, like your average Dell business machine. A five year old OptiPlex SFF PC though is available for around $100 or so, and capable of much more than any single-board PC.

> A five year old OptiPlex SFF PC This is more what I'm talking about; I needed a faster option with much more RAM and a proper SATA SSD for one project. I bought a used Lenovo ThinkCentre for about $80, put in a small SSD I had on hand, upgraded the RAM to 8 GB for $20 (one 4GB stick on eBay), and had an i5 with about 100x better overall performance than a Pi 3 B+ (and maybe 10x more power consumption, so not a bad…

Post by ggg9990 » Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 1:44 AM UTC

pknopf wrote: post #71

userbinator wrote: post #70

For something called the "Tinker Board" you'd expect there to be lots of documentation, and for the RK3288, it does not disappoint: Datasheet: http://opensource.rock-chips.com/images/4/4e/Rockchip_RK3288... Technical Reference Manual: http://rockchip.fr/RK3288%20TRM/ This is on par with what TI offers for its OMAP series, and a great deal better than anything Broadcom has ever released for its RPi SoCs. I remember ar…

4k60p too! I'm working on a simply Yocto image that will autoplay a music video. It will serve as a nice test camera source for the medical device recorders I develop. https://github.com/pauldotknopf/rockchip-camera-source I still got to work out some kernel panics, but when it's done, I can just dd an image to an SD card. It beats the $10,000 medical camera I currently use :) I am currently using a Yocto image for R…