Heard of or using an Up Board?

tehswiftone

Very interesting, thanks for posting! I'm wondering how the x86 flavor of Retropie would work on it.

Twitch0815

Looks really interesting. Benchmark looks really good on performance per dollar.

Twitch0815

UDO is intresting.
There biggest board offers the Intel 405 chip and higher clock speeds and ram.

suprjami

Up Board is only available for original Kickstarter backers atm, but I'd definitely buy one if the come up for wider sale. They look like a great little system and way more powerful than the Pi. Other good options are currently LattePanda and Intel Compute Stick:

PetroRie

@suprjami Damn the Intel's Compute Stick looks so nice but the price doesn't. I think a lot people won't buy it it's way too expensive.

suprjami

@PetroRie Really? There are 32Gb ones near me for $120. I would pay that. It's about the same cost as a Pi 3 and power supply and sdcard.

Lyle_JP

@suprjami More like double the cost. My Pi3, case, 16gb NOOBS card, 5A power supply, and HDMI cable came out to $60.

suprjami

@Lyle_JP Welcome to Australia: http://www.altronics.com.au/p/z6302b-raspberry-pi-3-model-b-board/

obsidianspider

@suprjami Wow, I guess the "Australia Tax" even made its way to Raspberry Pis

qix77

Wow. This could change some things for my future plans. An x86/x64 SoC the size of a Pi 2/3. Count me in.

obsidianspider

@qix77 said in Heard of or using an Up Board?:

Wow. This could change some things for my future plans. An x86/x64 SoC the size of a Pi 2/3. Count me in.

Looking at the specs it looks like they made the footprint the exact same as a Pi. GPIO pins are slightly different, but most are the same. I wonder how hot they run…

Lyle_JP

@obsidianspider Shame that the power connector makes it incompatible with pi cases.

obsidianspider

@Lyle_JP I'm sure the other ports would make it an issue as well, but the actual shape of the rectangle being the same will make it "swappable" with a lot of Pi projects that need more "oomph"

smartroad

So could a manual install of RetroPie work with this?

obsidianspider

@smartroad said in Heard of or using an Up Board?:

So could a manual install of RetroPie work with this?

There's RetroPie for x86