Single-board computer systems (SBCs), like these made by Raspberry Pi, have dramatically modified the way in which makers and engineers method issues. With the ability of a full pc in a small and reasonably priced bundle, the chances are nearly countless. However what if not one of the SBCs available on the market suit your wants? Cyao didn’t let that cease them, as a result of they made their very own customized SBC.
From a sensible standpoint, this SBC, known as Icepi, isn’t all that completely different than a Raspberry Pi. It’s the identical measurement as a Raspberry Pi 3 Mannequin B and has an identical set of options. However we don’t see many customized SBCs and so that is nonetheless very particular.
Cyao constructed it round an Allwinner H3 SoC, which has an Arm Cortex-A17 quad-core CPU and a Mali-400 MP2 GPU. They paired that with 512MiB of DDR3 RAM and that may be upgraded to 1GiB. It has a 32GB eMMC storage chip, a microSD card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, an HDMI port, a headphone jack, USB-A ports, and USB-C ports.
All of that {hardware} goes on a customized four-layer PCB and there’s even what seems to be a Raspberry Pi-style GPIO header.
Cyao has examined the Icepi and confirmed it really works with each Linux (Debian, particularly) and the H3Droid Android picture.
And to cap all of it off, Icepi is open-source. If you wish to make one, you will discover all the information you want on the GitHub web page.
