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…
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…
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…
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″…
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]…
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…
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…