Archives par mot-clé : Banana Pi

[Review] Lemaker’s Guitar board

Lemaker, well known for making the BananaPi and BananaPro boards, have now 3 more boards, named after musical instruments : Guitar, Bass, Piano. In this article, I’m reviewing the Guitar board Lemaker kindly sent to…

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[Review / Guide] Sainsmart 5″ inch HDMI touch display

Here is a nice little screen sold by Sainsmart, not only compatible with Raspberry-like boards, but with every HDMI-enabled device. It could be powered via a 5v mini-USB cable and doesn’t need an external power…

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Installer chromium en mode kiosque

Le navigateur web Chromium peut être utilisé en mode kiosque : c’est un mode d’affichage en plein écran, sans barres d’outils ni bordures de fenêtre. Ce mode est particulièrement utile pour les afficheurs autonomes, comme…

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[Banana Pi] 3.5″ touch display module

Great news : Lemaker just released their touch-enabled displays. These displays come in 3 sizes : 3.5″ (320×240), 5″ (800×480) and 7″ (1024×600). They are available on their web-shop, Lenovator. Today I’m reviewing the 3.5″…

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BPI-R1 Open Router : first look

In the Bananas technological tree, there is a very special one : the BPI-R1 Open Router. This board is built and sold by SinoVoip, a chinese hardware manufacturer but the board shows « Lamobo » branding. The…

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Hands on the new Banana Pro

Today, in the mail, I had the great surprise to find a package coming from Lemaker. Inside the package is their new Banana Pro. Let’s have a first look at it. Great packaging, good job…

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[Banana Pi] AXP209 battery power monitoring

The AXP209 chip present on the Banana Pi is managing the board powering. The free pads just behind the power micro-USB allows for a 3.7v li-po / li-ion battery to be installed. So we need…

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[Banana Pi] 3.5″ LCD display module review

I really like small displays. They allow to build some very nice embedded devices. Lemaker released a line of LCD displays for their Banana Pi Board. They come in 3.5″, 5.0″ and 7.0″ sizes. 5.0″…

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[Banana Pi] More sources available…

Lemaker team and the growing community are doing a great job documenting and providing Banana Pi sources.

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[Banana Pi] GPIO now supported

Things go really fast around the Banana Pi board. Lemaker team released the Raspbian_for_BananaPi_V3 image, and it is a very nice step in the good direction. Some additional documentation is also available, and hacking with…

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Raspberry vs Banana vs A10-OLinuXino : powering and SATA performance

After the Raspberry vs Banana duel article, some people requested some power consumption and SATA performance tests, so here they are. You may have notice, our bench has a newcomer : the A10-OLinuXino-Lime. This is…

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Raspberry vs Banana : hardware duel

I took the time to play with the Banana Pi board, and made some benchmarks against the Raspberry Pi. Here are the specs of the two (three) board, performance related : Raspberry Pi [model A]…

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Banana Pi : first start

In the previous article, I unboxed the Banana Pi. It’s time to power it on. Let’s start with downloading the official Banana Pi image : link I will start with the RaspberryPi_For_BananaPi_v1.0 image. Later, I…

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Banana Pi : unboxing, first impressions

LeMakers.org people were kind enough to send me a sample of their Banana Pi board. It arrived today in my mailbox, so let’s have a first look at it… The packaging is standard nowadays. My…

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