Orange Pi 3B: Low-cost M.2 ARM SBC

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  • čas přidán 25. 08. 2024

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  • @bsmorgan2
    @bsmorgan2 Před 11 měsíci +86

    With regards to your sysbench results on Debian and Ubuntu I think you will find that the file /etc/default/cpufrequtils is limiting the max frequency to 1296000 when the board is capable of 1800000. With that one change my sysbench result was 6.7982s. The OPi OS image appears use the 1.8GHz frequency without any changes.

    • @ExplainingComputers
      @ExplainingComputers  Před 11 měsíci +42

      Thanks for this, which makes total sense. I'm pinning your comment for others, as it is very helpful.
      I should have thought of something like this going on. I guess I assumed that all of the supplied OS took full advantage of the SoC. :)

    • @BerkayOzdenoglu
      @BerkayOzdenoglu Před 11 měsíci +18

      It possibly can handle 2GHz with a heatsink.

    • @davocc2405
      @davocc2405 Před 11 měsíci +4

      With that higher clock did you still notice the sluggishness in menu responsiveness? That seemed quite at odds with the video decompression in the browser.

    • @v8racerman
      @v8racerman Před 10 měsíci +2

      There is a CPU setting option with the OrangePi. orangepi-config. With this you can set the max/min cpu frequency as well as the governor algorithm (i.e. power, performance etc). I suspect the cpu will need a heatsink if you do this, though.

    • @upsangelhk
      @upsangelhk Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@v8racerman❤

  • @WalterW
    @WalterW Před 11 měsíci +103

    “I disconnected it just so I can have the pleasure of reconnecting it later.” A classic Chris maneuver!

    • @kwacker45
      @kwacker45 Před 11 měsíci +9

      And he used Mr Scissors..we are blessed

    • @WalterW
      @WalterW Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@kwacker45 TWICE!

    • @TAP7a
      @TAP7a Před 11 měsíci +1

      I have only had the privilege of connecting one WiFi card’s antennae in my time.
      If I ever do it again, it’ll be too soon.

  • @RoboNuggie
    @RoboNuggie Před 11 měsíci +25

    That's a pretty crowded board... plenty of features and at a very reasonable price. Thank you Chris, your videos are always appreciated!

  • @SchoolforHackers
    @SchoolforHackers Před 11 měsíci +13

    My wife, listening to Chris every Sunday: “He explains everything in the same pleasant voice, like ‘Now remove the screws and apply the anti-gravity beam...’”

  • @erikl5340
    @erikl5340 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Mr. Scissor has been busy today! Armbian seems the logical choice for this board at this point. Thank you for the video.

  • @ultrafax
    @ultrafax Před 11 měsíci +21

    Great video as always. I bought a OrangePi 3b few months ago to build a home print server. I found the use of armbian more and more performative than the suggested os.

  • @ypat90
    @ypat90 Před 11 měsíci +20

    There is a place price-wise for the RK3566. However, I have grown to love the extra performance of a RK3588S SBC. I still use Raspberrry PIs but as a near-desktop replacement, the RK5388 makes for a leap ahead in UI pleasurability.
    I hope designers and manufacturers focus on the RK3588 or better SOC for power, while keeping costs competitive of course.
    As usual, thank you for the presentation of this product.

    • @impuls60
      @impuls60 Před 11 měsíci +1

      One can get a complete retro handheld with RK3566 with 3.5 Ips screen, battery and microsd card for 50usd. These cards are redicoulously expensive for what they are.

    • @JazzTechie
      @JazzTechie Před 11 měsíci +3

      I think there’s some degree of “everything is a nail” when looked at from the perspective of personal desktop as a benchmark. A more fitting perspective is “what kind of things can I invent with the resources available”.
      Example: With a pico W, I can build a robot with motor control, several sensors, and network connectivity. With a pi 3b, same thing, but with a full blown OS to run services on. Orange 3b, same thing - but without a sketchy slow sd card storage, flexible antenna placement, and can even run AI models.
      Pico: I can build a sign with a flashing marquis; raspberry I can build a sign that has video; orange I can build a sign that shows video based on what ballcap you’re wearing when you look at it lol.
      That sort of thing.

  • @kevinshumaker3753
    @kevinshumaker3753 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Got confused in the title, with the Apple Arm M2 vs the M.2 SSD connection. Had my hopes up there and then to dash them to the ground... Good video as always, Chris, thanks.

  • @Wythaneye
    @Wythaneye Před 11 měsíci +6

    It just wouldn't be a Sunday without a cameo from Mr. Scissors.

  • @abagatelle
    @abagatelle Před 11 měsíci +9

    Aside from anything else Chris, the audio quality of your videos is excellent.

    • @ExplainingComputers
      @ExplainingComputers  Před 11 měsíci +7

      Thanks. :) I spent many hours each week working on the audio.

    • @bobwong8268
      @bobwong8268 Před 11 měsíci +2

      ​@@ExplainingComputersThanks for your unweavering dedications! Looking forward to learning from You, as always😉

    • @SchoolforHackers
      @SchoolforHackers Před 11 měsíci +5

      Add my appreciation, Chris. It’s great not to struggle to hear.

  • @CCoburn3
    @CCoburn3 Před 11 měsíci +4

    This is just the thing for the Christmas presents I’m building this year. Thanks for the video.

  • @danielrichardson5160
    @danielrichardson5160 Před 11 měsíci +14

    Thanks Chris. Enjoyed the video. Wanted to mention Armbian released a version for the 3B. Love Armbian. Also with, my monitor and my eyes, 720P looks as good as 1080P. I'm not picky. On that setting, the Radxa 3A, 3C and OPI 3B are much better at playing video. Even with OPIos not having hardware accelerated playback, it was quite good. Have a great day.
    Dan

  • @DocuFlow
    @DocuFlow Před 11 měsíci +3

    Confession: came to watch the SBC content, stayed for Mr. Scissors. Great review as always, thank you!

    • @KameraShy
      @KameraShy Před 11 měsíci +1

      And were duly rewarded with an encore from Mr. Scissors.

  • @klaustrussel
    @klaustrussel Před 11 měsíci +2

    Some people are naturally born teachers. Chris is the best! Cheers from Italy

  •  Před 11 měsíci +175

    10 years of alternate ARM SBC development and we still haven't reached software parity with the Raspberry ecosystem. I wonder if RISC-V can finally bridge the gap in this regard.

    • @tonysheerness2427
      @tonysheerness2427 Před 11 měsíci +33

      Risc V will be worse as extensions will not be standardised.

    • @richardahlquist5839
      @richardahlquist5839 Před 11 měsíci +15

      Honestly, I think one of the biggest issues there, is we have a diversity problem with too many SBC designs, which are diverse enough that you cant successfully just build one fork of any major distro with minimal work and have compatibility. Sure the cores are ARM 5x in most cases, but the remaining differences cause issues that the Raspberry Pi foundation has minimized with very few diverse cpu/gpu/peripheral combinations.

    • @Oktokolo
      @Oktokolo Před 11 měsíci +18

      That custom distribution got snappy GUI interaction by _disabling_ hardware accelleration. That's insane. It basically means that the Mali GPU driver ist just a steaming pile of crap.
      It also means that SBC CPUs are fine for light desktop use with browsing now.
      We need a free and open GPU so drivers can be part of the Kernel and get good maintenance.

    • @Psychx_
      @Psychx_ Před 11 měsíci +8

      And yet the RPI still hasn't got VDPAU or VAAPI and relies on external patches to provide hw accelerated video decoding i.e. in Chrome. IMO the Rockchip SOCs that are on the market long enough to have received mainline kernel support are a much better choice. You get all the same interfaces as on a desktop platform and don't rely on applications needing out-of-tree customization.

    • @rolyantrauts2304
      @rolyantrauts2304 Před 11 měsíci +3

      I don't think we are that far off with the new Rockchip rk35xx series as they have had a huge effort to get mainline support and then Arm has announced it will work with Collabora to create opensource GPU drivers.
      We need to get away from direct plug hats and get used to jumpers so that any pin mux can be wired to any board.
      Raspberry had a lead but with what they have done with stock and how they turned thier backs on makers that isn't true anymore.
      We need mainline support and jumper based boards and we have parity.

  • @ticler
    @ticler Před 11 měsíci +4

    Orange Pi has been a life saver. RPi supply was hard to get even before the coof in my third world country. But OPi was in stock with local suppliers.

  • @tupmankolanks2638
    @tupmankolanks2638 Před 11 měsíci +15

    There is a CONFIG file associated with the Android Installer RKDEV tool.
    You can edit that CONFIG file with a text editor.
    There's a place where you can change the language - I believe it is default 1 for Chinese and you can change it to 2 for English. There might be a list of other languages.
    But even if you don't change the language, the manual for the Orange Pi 5 Plus (if the 3B manual doesn't show the same thing) shows how to use the tool. The text in the manual is English, even if the pics they show of the software show the Chinese language. And it's only like 3 buttons to press in the software needed to complete the whole process.

    • @ExplainingComputers
      @ExplainingComputers  Před 11 měsíci +6

      Useful, I will try this. Thanks.

    • @MarcusPHagen
      @MarcusPHagen Před 11 měsíci +6

      ​@@ruirosado6289that's correct! I found the same fix while working on my Orange Pi 5 Plus. Had to check the messages before posting, to find that two others had already provided the answer for Chris. Well done!

    • @ruirosado6289
      @ruirosado6289 Před 11 měsíci +4

      @@MarcusPHagen And i did the exact same thing you did. :)

  • @andy.3407
    @andy.3407 Před 11 měsíci +10

    Another great video…. Looks like raspberry pi is still the king even though it costs a little more! Thank you so much for your wonderful videos

  • @jimlynch9390
    @jimlynch9390 Před 11 měsíci +27

    As usual very good video. This promises to be a valuable card, if they can work out the bugs. I'm very surprised at the cpu performance. While the hardware acceleration issue is fixable since it's most likely a software mod, I don't think the cpu problem can be a software issue. It will be interesting to find out if and when they address it.

    • @Darkk6969
      @Darkk6969 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Yep. Probably needs further optimization in the Debian kernel to take full advantage of it.

    • @goku445
      @goku445 Před 11 měsíci

      It's already "fixed". Look at the pinned comment. The CPU clock was set lower.

  • @dantevortex
    @dantevortex Před 11 měsíci +41

    I'm glad to see that Raspberry Pi is getting some much needed capable competition.
    This board features more gadgets and functions than it should technically fit and at a much lower price.
    Surely the CPU performance is lacking, but that NVMe slot and eMMC slot make up for the Raspberry Pi's lacking storage capability.
    You have convinced me on this one. I'm going to get myself a few Orange Pi 3B boards to play around with.
    Exciting little devices for sure.

    • @kwacker45
      @kwacker45 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Agree given the cost of pi now

    • @Drak976
      @Drak976 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@Username-qx9gk Prices aren't going back down for a long time. $10 only ever got you a pi 0 w with 1 core that was barely functional. Mine used to make this annoying snapping sound through the audio it was always garbage. For a similar pi board right now you'd pay $100 instead of $55.

    • @impuls60
      @impuls60 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@Drak976 Id rather buy an Intel N100 instead then.

    • @blender_wiki
      @blender_wiki Před 11 měsíci

      😂😂😂 CPU power ???
      You need to make a fluid simulation??😂😂😂🤦🏿‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️

    • @maxxdahl6062
      @maxxdahl6062 Před 9 měsíci

      @@Username-qx9gk You can get a zero 2, that has the power of a Pi 3 for $15.

  • @montecorbit8280
    @montecorbit8280 Před 11 měsíci +3

    The orange pie is purdier....it's blue!! 💙

  • @mcgrath16511
    @mcgrath16511 Před 11 měsíci +1

    i ordered one of these a few days ago,, looing to control my ham radio with it.. since raspberry pi's have gotten out of control with pricing! another great video! what i like about your videos is no nonsense, cut to the chase!

  • @TingFeng77
    @TingFeng77 Před 3 měsíci +1

    heads up! I noticed that the Orange Pi 3B received a major hardware revision
    If you visit their website, you will see the revision has changed from 1.1 to 2.1
    Notable changes include the M.2 port turning into a 2280 port and a different wifi chip, as well the board size changed resulting in old cases being incompatible

  • @PS_Tube
    @PS_Tube Před 11 měsíci +3

    Greetings Chris B. RPi competitive boards that boast significant features while still at neighbouring prices is a pleasant change.
    And thank you for including more and more such devices in review vids.
    Love to see what's in the kitty for next week.

  • @avejst
    @avejst Před 11 měsíci +4

    Great video as always
    Thanks for sharing your experiences with all of us 🙂

  • @stephensu4371
    @stephensu4371 Před 11 měsíci +8

    hi Chris, i recently found the orange pi 5 and 5B not bad at software, but it still be very good for the rk3588s using on it, the major different between the normal RK3588 and the RK3588S is RK3588 is with pci-e 3.0, but the RK3588S doesn’t having one and rk3588s (17*17mm) is much more compact then rk3588 (34*34 i remember), so in my opinion is if you wish to having an arm board with powerful extension, go to rk3588, if you wish to have more portable go for the rk3588s, i will run my server and development tool on my orange pi 5B.
    and also the orange pi team pushing out the new board call Orange pi zero 2W with the allwinner h618 with up to 4GB ram, and it has wifi, i pre order one for myself

  • @chainreaction8977
    @chainreaction8977 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Always bringing the cutting edge fire content. o7

  • @horusfalcon
    @horusfalcon Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thank you again, sir, for an understandable and honest presentation of this boards strengths and weaknesses.

  • @MultiGood2
    @MultiGood2 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Thanks video. Good to have more small computers these days.

  • @BharatMohanty
    @BharatMohanty Před 11 měsíci +5

    Greetings sir .....nice to see Mr scissors....orange pi is really doing some crazy stuff. I guess within 6 month they released 3 sbc... latest is orange pi zero w with pi zero form factor.

    • @StepDub
      @StepDub Před 11 měsíci +2

      Disappointed not to see Stanley the Knife making an appearance, but maybe next time.

  • @joeg3950
    @joeg3950 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thank you, this informs my decision of SBC development that may work for me in the future. Cheers!

  • @Antti_Nannimus
    @Antti_Nannimus Před 11 měsíci

    Explaining Computers, also known at my house as: SBC Central Station!
    Thank you once again, again.

  • @Kw1161
    @Kw1161 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thanks Chris for this video, mine Orange Pi 3B is due on Monday,so Serendipity has happened again, :)
    Have a nice week.

    • @ExplainingComputers
      @ExplainingComputers  Před 11 měsíci

      There seem to be so many people in these comments who have either just received an Orange Pi 3B, or are about to do so! :)

  • @mikefinn2101
    @mikefinn2101 Před 11 měsíci

    Nice video of the Orange Pi, glad to see your demonstration saved me some $ I was planning to purchase one, but I will still stay with Raspberry PI-400 I currently use.
    Love single board computers with Linux. Thanks for a great adventure watching your exciting channel. Always a great pleasure to watch Peter. Thanks Mike

  • @benlynch7249
    @benlynch7249 Před 11 měsíci +2

    I'll bet Mr Scissors slept well that night!

  • @perrymcclusky4695
    @perrymcclusky4695 Před 11 měsíci

    Definitely it is a well equipped board. Amazing one can get so much tech into an affordable SBC. Looking forward to your next video!

  • @MicrobyteAlan
    @MicrobyteAlan Před 11 měsíci +5

    So many SBCs, so little time. Very informative and well presented, thanks.

  • @SirTodd
    @SirTodd Před 11 měsíci

    That RK3566 chip is incredibly powerful. I love it

  • @John.0z
    @John.0z Před 11 měsíci +7

    That has a *lot* of very desirable features; strange that it's Debian performance is a bit low.
    I think they missed the opportunity to use an orange-coloured board. 🤔🤣
    It is good to see those larger RAM options. The better WiFi antenna would also help.

  • @petersmith5199
    @petersmith5199 Před 11 měsíci

    Chris. 90% of your videos go over my head, maybe old age is against me! But I wanted to say how much I love your content in every way. Could it be I'm green with envy that you understand what I would love to understand! Please please keep up the good work, some of the content will sure to sink in eventually!

  • @robrockman
    @robrockman Před 6 měsíci

    I always watch this guys videos on 1.5x speed, just so he talks at a normal rate :) No seriously....thanks for your vids theyre very informative and great content. Just that small constructive criticism :)

  • @sid_gm1949
    @sid_gm1949 Před 11 měsíci +1

    And here we meet again for some pi
    On another Sunday.
    Greetings !

  • @judsonleach5248
    @judsonleach5248 Před 11 měsíci +3

    “ mr. scissors is having a field day!” (Hahaha!)
    I’ll bet “Stanley the knife” is getting jealous, Sir! :-)

  • @srtcsb
    @srtcsb Před 11 měsíci

    Really hoping the next new RPi board has some (or maybe even one?) of these extra storage options. Thanks for another great video. 👍

  • @gavinskurrie
    @gavinskurrie Před 11 měsíci +3

    YAAAAAAAAS! MR SCISSORS!

  • @AMDRADEONRUBY
    @AMDRADEONRUBY Před 11 měsíci

    Oh nice a low cost orange pi theses machines wont stop to impress me crazy how much we can do in 2023

  • @superangrybrit
    @superangrybrit Před 11 měsíci +1

    I am just glad they included 40 pins GPIO again. RPi HaT compatibility is important. 😉😉

  • @declanmcardle
    @declanmcardle Před 11 měsíci +4

    I think I see Stanley the Knife walking down to the Job Center...

  • @laskaofalaska
    @laskaofalaska Před 11 měsíci +4

    Notification gang. Orange Pi is really tempting right now. Especially when Raspberry is heavily overpriced here

  • @leskaighin8903
    @leskaighin8903 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Thanks for another great review. Great connectivity, let down by software. Disappointing about the dropped frames.

  • @bobwong8268
    @bobwong8268 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Raise the Sword of Honour in due respect to Chris
    👍👍👍👍👍Thanks for continously creating Great videos!
    Hmmm... performance of the orangePi is a little disapointing though, hopefully it's but a s/w issue that they can fix in an update.
    Cheers, for Good Health, Pal 🍷🍾🍷🍾🍷🍾

  • @pinrod1
    @pinrod1 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Im so excited for Mr. Scissors ✂️ so many things to cut! 😂

  • @ShadowzGSD
    @ShadowzGSD Před 11 měsíci +3

    landed on this again, did not even realise what the time was.

  • @rigorobles3991
    @rigorobles3991 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Great video Chris, as always

  • @Quemedices684
    @Quemedices684 Před 9 měsíci

    M.2 it’s essential for any serious application, more than any cpu speed increase. But should be well built, remaining under the sbc

  • @Drak976
    @Drak976 Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks for showing all of these. I originally used to get so excited at the idea of SBC before I ended up thinking they were just scam vaporware. It's nice to see some companies step up and make actual boards instead of just selling coffee cups and pretty chargers and other extraneous crapola.

    • @treelineresearch3387
      @treelineresearch3387 Před 11 měsíci

      I've been buying ARM SBCs for 10+ years and the ONLY one I've ever had a problem getting is the Raspberry Pi. Everything else you just order one when you want one.

  • @PatrickConstant
    @PatrickConstant Před 11 měsíci +2

    regards to Mr. Scissors. he must be very tired, two interventions in the same video, it was exhausting 😅.

  • @umitkabuli7717
    @umitkabuli7717 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Hello from Turkey. I always watch your youtube channel

  • @shivanSpS
    @shivanSpS Před 8 měsíci

    Hi Chris, i just wanted to mention, i just got my Orange PI Zero 2W, Zero 3 and Orange PI 3B, and to enable the gpu on all of them it seems to be the same, on the official Debian image run "sudo orangepi-config", then on system->hardware enable the gpu item and reboot, after that the Mali shows up in glxinfo.

  • @seguramlk
    @seguramlk Před 11 měsíci +1

    Incredible SBC Connectivity wise. Go Linux Go Go 🐧

  • @kwacker45
    @kwacker45 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Enjoyable and informative definitely one sbc I will consider

  • @johncundiff7075
    @johncundiff7075 Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks for sharing this with the world! Nice job!

  • @loginregional
    @loginregional Před 11 měsíci

    I'm convinced. I'll be ordering my Raspberry Pi 400 tonight

  • @Mohadi23
    @Mohadi23 Před 11 měsíci

    Thanks for the video, and for the android installer you just make " Selected=2 " in the language option in the config file so that the app language will be in English.

  • @erlinglorentsen4262
    @erlinglorentsen4262 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Apart from "larger number - more power" ARM core notation totally eludes me.
    Perhaps an "Explaining ARM core notation" is too small a subject?

  • @boboften9952
    @boboften9952 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thank you Chris
    Excellent information

  • @ianhollis51
    @ianhollis51 Před 9 měsíci

    Hello Chris. I thought I’d let you know on this video that I splashed out on an Orange Pi 3B 8GB with 256 EMMC flash storage. If all goes well this will turn my Pi-Top [3] laptop into a very useful (perhaps fully functional) regular laptop with 13” screen and WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. This will save me many, many mor dollars by not having to buy a new laptop. And, I’ll get more familiar with Linux and open source software into the bargain. Just the ticket for a retired brain. 😁

  • @lesliedeana5142
    @lesliedeana5142 Před 11 měsíci +6

    I'm here, Professor!

  • @drallersouldust3054
    @drallersouldust3054 Před 11 měsíci +1

    it's already out but right now we don't have it in our own online market but I know it will sell pretty good like most of their device

  • @yagoa
    @yagoa Před 11 měsíci

    Great video !
    Imo the most important spec is OOE and the number and size of buffers, hence apple silicon sweeping the floor with everything else

  • @wktodd
    @wktodd Před 11 měsíci +3

    Any information on that interesting unpopulated ADC port ?

  • @MohamedMostafa-yo6gz
    @MohamedMostafa-yo6gz Před 11 měsíci +1

    Many many sbc witthout good software support

  • @fallingwater
    @fallingwater Před 11 měsíci +1

    11:32 that lag is hurting my soul. I think I'll wait for the new RK3588 devices to hit sub-100 prices...

  • @briianhebert
    @briianhebert Před 11 měsíci

    thanks for the video! It seems to me that the Raspberry Pi alternatives are getting better and better.

  • @dang48
    @dang48 Před 11 měsíci

    As always, great video. Very informative. Thank you.

  • @donaldduck5731
    @donaldduck5731 Před 11 měsíci

    I'm saving all my money for the PI-5 now.

  • @crom29a
    @crom29a Před 11 měsíci +1

    Really enjoyed the video. Thank You.

  • @peejae082004
    @peejae082004 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I wish Orange Pi releases a low cost RK3588 notebook.

  • @markusklingsiek2366
    @markusklingsiek2366 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Just another excellent review (with quite the unsatisfying result though), and extra points for bringing Mr Scissors to the party. I certainly love your style which keeps me coming back for years now.
    May I ask, do you plan to review the Orange Pi Mini 3 as well? And probably, as we are on it, the Beagle Play?

  • @TheZimberto
    @TheZimberto Před 11 měsíci +1

    I love Mr Scissors

  • @tubegor
    @tubegor Před 11 měsíci +3

    Hello Chris, again very nice Sunday with growing family of the ARM SBC. Hopefully software problems will be improved in the future. I am skeptical SoC without a metal cover will cause tremendous temperature problems. It is disappointing that M.2 module is only 30% faster than, RPI 4 with USB 3-SATA adapter. In addition, is the M.2 module bootable?🤔It is gratifying, the great performance of Mr. Scissors was recognized.

  • @bullygram
    @bullygram Před 3 měsíci +1

    Orange pi is a cost effective but the down side is it requires a bit of heavy lifting. And raspberry pi is much more user friendly and a strong community support!

  • @rs.matr1x
    @rs.matr1x Před 11 měsíci

    The built in EDP is intriguing. I can also imagine building a FPGA hat with something like a tang NANO 20K, using the orange pi as the host and passing through controller data and configuration data or flashing the ROM core, using the IO pins, and then displaying the FPGA framebuffer through the EDP and HDMI ports. plugging in an EDP screen directly would make for some interesting options, assuming theres enough IO to handle it all. Could build a tabletop arcade machine with a small LCD screen, or throw a retina screen into an old macintosh classic case and just emulate the mac on the OrangePi..

  • @Colin_Ames
    @Colin_Ames Před 11 měsíci +1

    Great video, as always.

  • @judsonleach5248
    @judsonleach5248 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Hey Buddy! - It's Sunday Morning! - Let's go learn something from "The Smartest Man In England?!! 🙂 (You make Sundays ROCK, Sir!) - Cheers! - Judson & Buddy !!!

  • @HenryCavillage
    @HenryCavillage Před 11 měsíci +2

    Good Morning my friend....

  • @trevorford8332
    @trevorford8332 Před 11 měsíci +3

    I was just thinking with all the SBC you got, you could create a cluster with them, would great as a small project. Or have you resold them. 😊

  • @Psychx_
    @Psychx_ Před 11 měsíci +1

    These in-order A53 and A55 cores are great for hosting a NAS, print server, homecloud, small website, for home automation and gathering surveillance camera data. For interactive tasks, as in having a display and HID connected to the SBC, I wouldn't recommend them though. They're very slow.

  • @francis400
    @francis400 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Can't you organize a round of applause for Mr. Scissors? One of technologies unsung heroes

  • @essetee
    @essetee Před 11 měsíci +1

    On Aliexpress I bought a motherboard with xeon 2667-v4 cpu + 32 GB ddr4 ram @ 32000 for 110 euro. With proxmox on it I don't need any sbc anymore. I just use my pi-zero2-W to run pi-hole.

  • @estusflask982
    @estusflask982 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Orange Pi 5 Plus has dual 2.5Gb ethernet, and PCI-E 3.0 x4 NVME for 2,000MB/s storage. Makes for a great little NAS.

  • @JazzTechie
    @JazzTechie Před 11 měsíci +1

    I told myself I wouldn’t buy one, but I did anyways, and It arrived a couple of weeks ago. I need to order more M2 standoffs and nuts for these SBCs where orange forgets to include nvme spacers. I actually have some wurth SMT spacers that can go there, but haven’t gotten around to purchasing hot air/flux/paste.

  • @richsadowsky8580
    @richsadowsky8580 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I bought one with 8GB and 3A power supply from Amazon here in the US for about $55. I have not had a chance to play with it or order any additional storage options. For my intended (test) use case I am less concerned about video playback as I intend to use it as an edge node. It's my first Orange Pi product.

  • @ffieditor
    @ffieditor Před 11 měsíci +3

    what a bummer. they need to get the act together. other wise is a nice board!

  • @prozacgodretro
    @prozacgodretro Před 11 měsíci

    The EDP port is kinda exciting, I have some old laptops that won't boot for various reasons - I think a couple may use EDP displays ... I smell a cool project in my future!

  • @lorderectus1849
    @lorderectus1849 Před 11 měsíci

    Looks Chris is favouring oranges 🍊 and pies 🥧

  • @r0galik
    @r0galik Před 3 měsíci

    It might be worth retesting the Opi3b as a desktop now because Joshua Riek's Ubuntu 24.04 was released for it (with hardware video acceleration).

  • @steveshadowphoto9346
    @steveshadowphoto9346 Před 11 měsíci

    Another very helpful video, thanks!!

  • @worldgate989
    @worldgate989 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I'm kinda over the whole SBC revolution. I have a 8gig rpi 4 and i plan to use it for a car computer because i dont really need it for anything else.

  • @brianwood5220
    @brianwood5220 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Very nice , software needs a bit of work. Hopefully they'll sort it soon. Thanks for sharing.

    • @ExplainingComputers
      @ExplainingComputers  Před 11 měsíci

      Greetings Brian!

    • @igorpecovnik
      @igorpecovnik Před 11 měsíci

      They don't develop software. They download it from internet.

    • @brianwood5220
      @brianwood5220 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@igorpecovnik When I say "Hopefully they'll sort it soon", I am talking in general, not particularly to the board manufacturer.