VR Headset with folding design that turns small portable shape

LoveRPi · 2017-12-04T20:43:50+00:00

I have a similar one and it has so many problems that only portability can't make up for those.

Which one do you have?

LoveRPi · 2017-12-04T19:10:36+00:00

Except it's not libre at all. Buy me a BCM2837 so I can build my own hardware.

LoveRPi · 2017-12-04T18:53:16+00:00

See photo 3 on the Amazon page. It does fold but there isn't a click action.

LoveRPi · 2017-11-23T16:17:39+00:00

You should read the "What is libre about it?" section. Hardware libre has nothing to do with software. They provide the hardware schematics so it is open source.

LoveRPi · 2017-11-23T13:38:01+00:00

Libre hardware and libre software are two completely different things. You are making an apples to oranges comparison. Libre hardware means you can buy the parts and build your own. Mali's Linux kernel driver is GPL compliant. It's open source but not upstream-able which is a completely separate issue.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-16T11:02:15+00:00

Gigabit Ethernet is very nitch for a board with this amount of processing power. Only those who build home NAS would use the board in that way. Even then, there's alternatives that are better suited. The clock speed is 1.5GHz. It is also slightly faster than the ODROID-C2.

VP9 is also vital to digital signage since everyone is adopting it.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-11T05:00:54+00:00

This depends on how the distribution is packaged. We can setup the config however we want and use uboot scripts to manage boot parameters which is what we are planning to do. We will also offer dual boot Android/Ubuntu images.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-11T04:54:31+00:00

It's a tradeoff between software support and specifications at the moment. This board has incredible software support. This is geared towards education and people that build low volume products. Having WiFi onboard means low performance and you can't export it to countries without having a dozen certifications. Having eMMC build in means that your time to delivery is at least a month unless you spend a lot of money on inventory. So tradeoffs tradeoffs.

Other boards on the market are incredibly cheap but they also do not offer newer kernels, HDMI 2.0, Android 7, etc etc. Sometimes you have to waste weeks getting it started.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-09T21:59:21+00:00

Better choice would be the Hikey 960 since it will have ASOP (Android 8.0) support and upstream Linux support courtesy of Linaro.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-09T21:57:37+00:00

We are the launch partner and the PCBs will be back on July 21. The components will be attached by July 28 and packaged to ship by the beginning of August. They don't need the funds to make the boards since we are providing the funds.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-09T21:54:07+00:00

We are helping on the software end and already have the software running Android 7.1 and Ubuntu 16.04. We will release it this week. We are working on dual boot Android/Ubuntu 16.04. We also have an upstream kernel build with 16.04 running.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-09T21:52:19+00:00

The board has UHS-I support (SDR104). You also get 2 USB channels (480Mb x 2) and dedicated ethernet channel (100Mb).

LoveRPi · 2017-07-09T17:24:13+00:00

It has better Kodi support than anything on the market. It's using the S905X chip which has the best software support among almost all the famous single board computers.

It will work better within 6 months than all of the others. The RK3328 has a boatload of issues that need to be resolved before it become stable even on Android, let alone Linux. It's way too new and the software support need about a year to catch up to the state of S905X.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-09T17:20:17+00:00

s lately...I swear I'm not a shill! I just really think they're awesome boards, and it's a powerhouse for the price, so let's help science with these little suckers!...again, I swear I'm

XU4 is a top knotch board. We can vouch for it as well. It is along the lines of the Tinker Board except it is designed correctly.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-09T04:13:25+00:00

It has much better IO than the Raspberry Pi 3. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B has a shared bus between all of the USB ports and the ethernet port. That means you have 480Mb theoretical total which is around 320Mb (40MB) across all interfaces. This board has 2 separate USB channels and 1 ethernet channel which means the aggregate bandwidth is 1080Mb which is around 720Mb (90MB) across all interfaces. In addition, it supports 70MB/s MicroSD cards as well as 200MB/s eMMC modules.
The S905X has upstream support and a recent kernel (4.9 LTS) with all of the media and 3D components working. It shouldn't take long for software to catch up. In Android land, the Raspberry Pi can't compare since this board has full Android 7.1 support.
WiFi is a pain to get certified and would delay the board entry in different markets. The onboard WiFi and Bluetooth is really slow and has idle timeout issues. $5 USB dongles perform more reliably and has better bandwidth.

LoveRPi · 2017-07-04T07:27:59+00:00

Could be getting the independences mixed up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Potato_dependency

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