[HH] OLinuXino-Micro ARM9 Linux board

Kurt Keville kkeville at MIT.EDU
Mon Sep 17 17:14:32 EDT 2012


Here's another couple of interesting possibilities... not reality yet; Hopfen u. Malz, Kickstarter erhalt's ...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kuy/galago-make-things-better
http://hackaday.com/2012/09/05/meet-the-teensy-3-0/


On Sep 17, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Tom Metro wrote:

> Dangerous Prototypes (@dangerousproto) tweeted and blogged about this,
> and I'm quoting their entire blog posting, as it is so short:
> 
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/09/12/olinuxino-micro-arm9-linux-board-available-at-mouser/
> 
>  Brightbluejim let us know that the OLinuXino-Micro ARM9 Linux board is
>  available at Mouser for $30. It runs at 454 MHz, has 64 MB of RAM, an
>  SD-card reader, TV PAL/NTSC video output, one USB High-Speed host
>  port, and an a Pi-tossing 60 GPIO pins broken out.
> 
> 
> Raspberry Pi competition? A commenter address that:
> 
>  Charles Babbage says:
>  Arm9 inferior to Rpi's Arm11; 454Mhz slower than Rpi's 700Mhz; 64MB
>  ram less than Rpi's 128 or 256MB; cost is more than Rpi; yes 60 GPIO
>> 26 GPIO but other than that it seems the Pi is OlinuXino-tossing?
> 
>  Nabil says:
>  True, but it's open source and free to use in your own projects, which
>  I think is more important for a dev board. Also, take a look at their
>  more powerful board which runs Android 4.0
> http://ca.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Olimex-Ltd/A13-OLINUXINO-WIFI/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtfUM4gNaCsXt%2f8G7WT37Q7
> 
> 
> And the vendors site:
> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/iMX233-OLinuXino-MICRO/
> 
> where the board is selling for 24 Euros.
> 
> And more importantly the US distributor page:
> http://www.mouser.com/new/olimex/olimex-olinuxinomicro/
> 
> (The higher-end Android-running board mentioned above is currently out
> of stock, but sells for $71. It uses a 1 GHz Allwinner ARM Cortex A8,
> Mali400 GPU, 512 MB RAM, and has a nano-ITX form factor. Aside from
> having its hardware design on Github, doesn't sound unusual. See:
> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino-WIFI-DEV/ )
> 
> -Tom
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