Heard of or using an Up Board?

[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