31–40 of 205 posts
I wish luck to everyone buying these things. You'll need it to run any modern distro in a few years.
What are the use-cases for a GPU-accelerated single board computer?
No WiFi kills it for me
What are the use-cases for a GPU-accelerated single board computer?
What is exactly the point of such devices? If you create something worthwhile with it, you cannot exactly include it in your product. I get that you can create something like a one off garage opener based on face recognition, but you won't learn any real world knowledge of developing a product and if you later on decide that this is something for you, you'll have to learn a whole new ecosystem. These devices remind m…
And if you just do CUDA experiments with it, those transfer at least partially to other environments (e.g. desktop/server hardware with GPUs) too.
Where do you get the idea this isn't transferable?
What are the use-cases for a GPU-accelerated single board computer?
No WiFi kills it for me
What are the use-cases for a GPU-accelerated single board computer?
Same as it's always been: Gaming. I bet even this $59 computer can play games surprisingly well. Obviously not modern AAA titles or anything like that, but there's many decades' worth of games it can play (including ones originally released for non-PC platforms). There's lot of interesting Pi-powered handhelds and mini-arcade setups running emulated games; this seems like it'd be significantly better at that.
I booted mine Radxa Rock (rk3188) with BareBox, ArchLinux ARM and a mainline kernel. It just took me few hundred hours to figure out all the problems on my way there. And it's one of the most open source friendly ARM SOCs. I wish luck to everyone buying these things. You'll need it to run any modern distro in a few years.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on your usecase. If you try to connect it to something like a battery or a generator, USB C is definitely a downgrade.
I guess that's true, but many projects I see use USB power banks for arduinos and I don't think this is too different.