[EdLUG] PINE64 - New Raspberry Pi competitor

Sat Jan 30 14:14:38 UTC 2016

That sounds fantastic Dick - I for one would be very interested in knowing how you achieved this setup...! *hint hint* !

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Tai Kedzierski
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/taikedz

On 30 Jan 2016, at 14:12, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:

> On 01/29/16 00:22, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
>> 
>> I'm curious if anyone else has signed up for the PINE64 kickstarter? If so 
>> what you might have planned for this new, more-powerful, Raspberry Pi
>> competitor.
> 
> I've got an R-Pi running asterisk and handling all my phones, POTS and SIP
> lines.  It's been going a couple of years now without bother.  Great for
> blocking spam calls. It runs Debian based FreePBX install.  I actually use an
> iscsi disk for its root because I don't really trust SD cards.  Makes it a bit
> pointless though :-)
> 
> I bought an Odroid a while back which is a quad core similar to R-pi 2.  I run
> 'motion' (the cctv camera controller) on that on Arch Linux. It has a Toshiba
> special flash drive which is faster than SD but basically the same. It was
> quite expensive so I wouldn't recommend it.
> 
> I recently bought an OrangePi on AliBaBa for 30 quid or so.  Nice little
> thing. Quad core, built in wifi and a sata interface.  It also has Pi
> compatible GPIO and a camera interface. Unfortunately the ether interface on
> mine is dead so it's not much use as a server.  I'm running Arch Linux on it
> but it's not doing anything useful at the moment.
> 
> These things are good for little servers.  The quad core ones are quite
> capable but they are overkill for IoT.  I find arduino much more fun.  I've
> got a Due (ARM) running a 5" touch screen showing household info like energy
> use and temperature with little dial gauges.  It's fed from other arduinos but
> more interestingly some ESP8266 wifi based sensors.  These things are amazing.
> You replace the standard firmware with an special arduino version and it runs
> wifi full stack. They have a couple of i/o lines for one-wire or i2c but you
> can get versions with more i/o and even adc.  All for a fiver! Fyi I use mqtt
> (mosquito) on all these things to get consistent communication  between other
> devices and linux, node etc.  It's worth checking out if you want
> inter-process messaging (e.g. sensor to web app).
> 
> There's another thing that's interesting: the ST discovery range of
> development boards.  You can get a board (stm32f4) with a little LCD touch
> screen, joy-stick, leds etc and a gazillion (128) i/o lines. It uses 32bit ARM
> chip like the arduino Due. That's ~17 quid from Farnell (CPC, Element14 etc).
> There's a linux based tool chain available and it connects directly to usb.
> No fuss.
> 
> There's a lot going on out there at the moment.
> 
> Dick
> 
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