Saturday, January 21, 2017

List of maker boards

Ever since the Raspberry Pi became popular several new ARM development boards have hit the market, some even predate the Pi but gained more popularity as the Pi paved the way into mainstream. It's getting to the point where it's difficult to keep track of all the new offerings so this post is a reference list for myself which i plan on updating as new interesting devices become available. It only lists hacker friendly mainboards and not ARM devices in general. It would be fun to add some MIPS based boards too - some do exist, but the ARM based devices tend to be more interesting and popular. I list only the models with the highest spec available.

With the performance boost of the Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 most alternative maker boards loose their appeal - but the various outputs or the presence of gigabit ethernet still makes some alternatives into better options. Recently Udoo has caught my attention as a project with interesting ideas and their recent x86 model has great potential for real-world deployment where the Raspberry is too limited - digital signage springs to mind. I've known about Udoo for years but now that their x86 board is on it's way I think it has excellent potential even though it's a lot more expensive than the Pi.

Board URL CPU Cores GPU RAM
Raspberry Pi 3 Website ARM Cortex A53 4@1.2GHz Broadcom VideoCore IV 1GB
Beagleboard Website ARM Cortex A8 1@1GHz PowerVR SGX530 512MB
Pandaboard Website ARM Cortex A9 MPCore 2@1.2GHz PowerVR SGX540 1GB
ArndaleBoard Website ARM Cortex A15 2@1.7GHz Mali-T604 2GB
Wandboard Website Freescale i.MX6 Quad 4@1GHz Vivante GC 2000 2GB
Udoo Website Freescale i.MX6 Quad 4@1GHz Vivante GC 2000 1GB
HummingBoard Website Freescale i.MX6 Quad 4@1GHz Vivante GC 2000 2GB
pcDuino3 Website AllWinner A20 (ARM Cortex A7 Dual Core) 2@1GHz Mali-400MP2 (Dual Core) 1GB
Banana Pi Website AllWinner A20 (ARM Cortex A7 Dual Core) 2@1GHz Mali-400MP2 (Dual Core) 1GB
Cubieboard Website AllWinner A20 (ARM Cortex-A7 Dual Core) 2@1GHz Mali-400MP2 (Dual Core) 2GB
OLinuXino Website ?? ?? ?? ??
APC Rock Website ?? ?? ?? ??
Origenboard Website ?? ?? ?? ??
ODROID Website ?? ?? ?? ??
CuBox-i Website ?? ?? ?? ??


I'll keep updating this.