two usb C ports on the top left for scale, currently trying to figure out how to build a linux image for it 🤷‍♀️

  • seahorse [Ohio]
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    62 years ago

    Who makes this? Is it essentially just a raspberry pi zero w but with a risc-v processor?

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      that’s a very big just 😄, but yes, it’s made by a company (which i suspect is just a single guy potentially lol) called mangopi

      also this one has 1gb of ram instead of 512mb of rpi zero 2, plus it has usb C ports instead of micro usb

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          yeah, honestly

          it costs like a dollar more (even with the controller), and i’d happily pay that for any device, no matter the budget range, just for the convenience being able to use a single cable and not having to dig through a pile of micro usb cable 🤷‍♀️

        • @vitaminka@lemmy.mlOP
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          52 years ago

          it is 😎

          they actually already have a prototype of a similar board that’s literally smaller than an SD-card 🤯

          and it has 1gb of ram and a quad core cpu 😮 (though, as you can see, it only interfaces via pins, so it’s more of a compute module than a standalone board)

          and i have to say that the support is still not great, like, you need to build linux a linux image yourself with third party tools and many things aren’t working yet, but overall, i’m very excited for RISC-V and its potential (and other boards from this company)

        • @vitaminka@lemmy.mlOP
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          42 years ago

          they also have a board that’s about 40x40 millimetres, which i also have, but i can’t access it to showcase here unfortunately, but it was more of an early prototype: it only has 64mb of ram 😬, so not great performance, but cool for stuff like making your own OS 🤷‍♀️

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    Where did you buy it?! I can’t find anywhere that’s actually selling RISCV hardware outright. It’s all “preorder” or even “sign up and maybe we’ll let you buy one”.

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      thank me later 😎 (one in the pic)

      https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004157984532.html

      the other board (40x40 mm one) i mentioned was much harder to get, it’s only sold somewhere in china, and i only ended up getting it bc some guy messaged me on the forums and offered to buy an additional one and post it to me, and it took 4 months to get to me

      (but it’s a earlier prototype, very little ram, so you’d probably want the one in the pic related)

        • @vitaminka@lemmy.mlOP
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          32 years ago

          the market is really small, so not only everything costs a lot to produce, the price hasn’t level out at all yet, so ppl will be selling these at wildly varying costs, which means you just have to look more

          you’ve got everything from ~700$ development boards from sifive to inexpensive boards like this 🤷‍♀️

          (if you’re curious, i left the link in another comment in this thread, as i said, the board is available for ~20$)