NanoPi NEO — A RPiZero Alternative

[pipbug]

For those of you who don't want to buy the Raspberry Pi Zero, this is a cheaper alternative! Pretty awesome. http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=132

 

[Pinotte]

They're cheap and pretty nice for iot or small linux projects. Keep in mind you should not use them for gaming/emulation purposes though. Drivers for the Mali gpu in the Allwinner H3 are almost nonexistent so gpu acceleration would be unavailable. The problem with most of these small companies' sbc's is that they have no communities. This means no support if you run into a problem and no software development for the board. Most of the time their custom linux distro has faulty drivers and you need to have some solid linux knowledge to get them working properly as you're basically on your own for troubleshooting.

 

[pipbug]

They're cheap and pretty nice for iot or small linux projects. Keep in mind you should not use them for gaming/emulation purposes though. Drivers for the Mali gpu in the Allwinner H3 are almost nonexistent so gpu acceleration would be unavailable. The problem with most of these small companies' sbc's is that they have no communities. This means no support if you run into a problem and no software development for the board. Most of the time their custom linux distro has faulty drivers and you need to have some solid linux knowledge to get them working properly as you're basically on your own for troubleshooting.

Indeed lol