All SBCs are useless to me...
How am I supposed to encode vp8 in real time with them?
Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC
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#22there are so many SBCs these days. if you use them for hobby projects, many of them are fine. if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone instead based on software maturity and community support and their ecosystem at large. I really like NXP's i.MX6/8/9 chips, I wish there are some i.MX SBCs as popular as RPi and Beagles, for both hobby and com…
> if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone Last time I checked, Broadcom forced you to integrate their compute modules into your product because there was no way they would sell their CPUs alone, no matter how many of them one would be willing to buy. That is not normal in the industrial world. As an example, the Allwinner H3 used in a lot of…
I will just use SOM modules from RPi for products, carrier board is relatively easy to design
Re: Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC
#23there are so many SBCs these days. if you use them for hobby projects, many of them are fine. if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone instead based on software maturity and community support and their ecosystem at large. I really like NXP's i.MX6/8/9 chips, I wish there are some i.MX SBCs as popular as RPi and Beagles, for both hobby and com…
>if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone instead based on software maturity and community support and their ecosystem at large.
Seconding this for the Beaglebone Black (including the Industrial variant). FreeBSD support and onboard Ethernet set it apart from some alternatives.
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#24Is this available in India? I'd buy but won't risk the customs dance.
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#25Overkill for my keyboard controller, but finally I get 40 GPIOs with native RV64.
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#26This is definitely not the first RISC-V SBC at this size (the Sipeed Nezha SBC[0] launched over two years ago based on the Allwinner D1, and the ARIES FIVEBerry[1] launched almost a month ago based on the Renesas RZ/Five). It's not even the first SBC with that specific SoC, as StarFive (the company behind the JH7110 SoC used by this SBC) launched the VisionFive 2 SBC[2] on KickStarter back in September, and Pine64 had the STAR64 since last year as well.
As for PoE support, the presence of the 4-pin header on the board suggests that it's optional, and requires the help of something like the PoE+ HAT[3], same as on the VisionFive 2 and the RPi.
[0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nezha-your-first-64bit-ri...
[1] https://www.aries-embedded.com/evaluation-kit/cpu/rzfive-ren...
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#27Is this available in India? I'd buy but won't risk the customs dance.
What happens with customs if you buy something like this?
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#28Overkill for my keyboard controller, but finally I get 40 GPIOs with native RV64.
You'd get better latency out of an ESP32-S2 or even a CH569 MCU.
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#30All SBCs are useless to me... How am I supposed to encode vp8 in real time with them?
Not every machine is suited to every usecase. It might not be useful to you for the one specific use you've picked, but it's still useful to a lot of people.