The original BeagleBone — sometimes known as “the white board” — was expensive, however its successor, the BeagleBone Black, was much cheaper and more capable. While never a runaway success like the Raspberry Pi, possibly due to the notorious supply problems, the BeagleBone line was arguably better suited for hardware prototyping than the Raspberry Pi, […]

The NanoPi M1 comes in two versions, one with 512MB of RAM, the other with 1GB of RAM for $5 more. The NanoPi M1 from FriendlyARM is a neat little board, just two-thirds the size of the Raspberry Pi. Powered by an Allwinner H3 processor, the board is very similar to the Orange Pi One, […]