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 _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
