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[@BooXdk]

Thank you for the "weekly" roundup. It's always great to get alle the new stuff presented in front of you :o)

[@darthvader8433]

A suggestion for your JLCPCB friends.. It would be great if they had a repository of designs for circuits with a peer review and voting platform. My thinking: There are LOTS of people making widgets to scratch their itch. There must be common itches scratched. Not everyone is willing to design a PCB for a common itch, but might like to order some boards if it has been voted up. A small credit for each board ordered could be given to the designer of popular designs. JLCPCB makes and sells more boards.

[@MickMake]

easyeda.com/ !! Lots of designs up there for reference.

[@electronic7979]

Very good 👍

[@geekinthegarden3927]

With the Rock Pi 4A - if the M2 is on the underside and the processor is on the underside does that mean you can either use M2 OR a Heatsink or can you still use both at the same time?

[@MickMake]

It depends on the heatsink, but yes you can for the default one.

[@samuelschwager]

Wow, so much new stuff!

[@MickMake]

and so little time.

[@zxkim8136]

It's gonna be a great year for SBCs Mick .....Nice Vlog 😁😁😁 Kim 😁😁😁

[@Promilus1984]

It would be good to mention that Allwinner H6 does pci-e the other way around (implementation sux and has workaround patches to kernel so can't expect any pcie peripheral to work properly and out of the box). And SoC is still A53 based so performance is not so high.

[@MickMake]

Yes, true true. The RockChips are really going to become the SoC to watch. I should have mentioned that the RISC-V will be the follow up SoC.

[@TheOleHermit]

Speaking as a retired PC tech, who just purchased my 1st PI 3B+, you just fried my brain. lol

[@MickMake]

Ha ha!

[@TheOleHermit]

@@MickMake Been watching lots of your videos, trying to play 'Catch-Up'. Received my PI 3B+ and am amazed of its capabilities, rivalling many laptops, including my $1000 Surface Pro 4. Love the fact that I can use the PI to browse the Internet w/o worries of virus or malware infections. Simply replace a microSD card. No worries, Mate! Gotta go and set up remote vnc. Keep up the good work!

[@Blebber-r9f]

@Mickmake The second board from From Groguard is a planned replacement for the C.H.I.P SBC but more demand is required to produce it.

[@jamesleehunter]

Thanks mick, love these roundups. Any recommendations for the most capable sbc for netflix/htpc under $100au?

[@MickMake]

Thanks mate. If you're really looking for ease of setup, you can't go past the Pi. After that I'd look at the ODROIDs or any of the RK3399 based FriendlyARM boards.

[@jamesleehunter]

@@MickMake Part of what I like about your vids is discovering more-powerful sbc's than pi's that are off the beaten track. I just mean netflix in a browser, and am willing to futz around setting it up. Just looking for bang-for-buck.

[@Alacritous]

You kids today may be frustrated with the slowness of added features to boards like USB3 or Gigabit ethernet, but to us old folks who've been around a while, some of this stuff is just simply miraculous. When I think what I could have done with a simple Arduino when I was in high school in the early 80s, let alone something like a Raspberry Pi or the like. This stuff still blows my mind.

[@MickMake]

Yup, having to work with 6502s in the past, hand assembling code and entering in bits manually... It's so easy these days!

[@TheDutyPaid]

I can only find weekly round up 61 on your website. Really curious to what can't be named? I like a good scandal.

[@MickMake]

Alas, it was so late last night that I fell asleep instead of publishing the web article. Doin' it now...

[@magnets1000]

The orange pi3 has a usb3 hub chip on board

[@MickMake]

Yup, it needs it as the RK3399 has only 2 USB 3.0 ports.

[@Andreas-gh6is]

My prediction: More FPGAs, More AI, More LoRa

[@MickMake]

Yes, yes, yes.

[@MickMake]

Come back at the end of the year and I'll congratulate you.

[@keghnfeem4154]

Is there any device or board i can plug into my linux laptop and get GPIO access?

[@MickMake]

Yes, many. All the way from a classic Arduino to the mini Tomu - www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/tomu

[@chris-tg6ki]

mini b was better as it was stronger but how many items would you break with mini b?

[@MickMake]

The problem with miniB was the mechanics. Over time the connector would move up and down and bend the body. You'd end up with a dodgy connector every time. I have this issue currently on the camera I use for shooting. Won't be long before I have to resort to the old BluTak method of securing.

[@jasonmhite]

To be honest, the maker community probably *isn't* a great market for Intel. They seem to really struggle with delivering something appealing to makers. There seems to be some intangible *something* that just keeps them from putting out products that makers and/or educators actually want. The only place I have noticed them having any success is with Altera. Their budget MAX10 FPGAs have been modestly popular.

[@MickMake]

Yes true. The Maker market is very ... ADHD. So many distractions and who knows when the next hyper-focus will hit. And yes... quite like the Alteras. I really hope they don't pull the plug on those!

[@sethrd999]

Nice roundup ( if a little late in the year ), I get the have to suppliment income thing so no complaints from me ( yes Real Life gets in my way too ;), its a real bugger). I do agree with your predictions but would add that I dont think RockChip and friends will sit still and release an A76 based SoC with some real nice additions ( I3c ? ) amongst higher ram / storage options, as for the Pi to be honest after seeing the announcment that they are signed up with RiscV, that for me spelled out the end of the current BCM partnership. I would think we might see something but I would not count on it, knowing that designing a SoC is one thing, getting everything to play nice is something else entirly. Ive also though about what this will be the year of, not quite sure because the current pace of FPGA's amongst other things has not changed from last year. Panfrost / Midgard ( Mali Txxx ) DRI/DRM looks to be heading up the Mesa chain and I would think once moved upstream will shape up quickly. Take a look at work here, rosenzweig.io/blog/panfrost-on-the-rk3399-meow.html Ive watched the Mesa dev list alot, mainly interested in SoC implementations, but as you well know its not Linux that is the issue its Arm who own Mali that have no interest in open drivers ( cough cough nvidia crap cough cough powervr glad they became irrelivent cough ). Hopefully this might be a year of bringing decent graphic and video playback to an open and stable state ( a breath of fresh air ) ...

[@MickMake]

Yeah, I tend to agree also ... Can't yet figure out what 2019 will be the "year of"... FPGAs already made their stamp in 2018, but we also saw AI start to make a dent. So, maybe there will be some more ground made in AI... maybe as you said, some advancements in OSS graphics. Might be just a consolidation year. Also, once we see really cheap SBCs with NVME storage hit the shelves, we're gonna see a lot of people take advantage of this. So, maybe cheap NAS will be big this year. That along with cheaper RAM ... looking good so far.

[@sethrd999]

@@MickMake Just this one from Tom's hardware, www.extremetech.com/computing/285054-everything-we-know-about-the-raspberry-pi-4 This is a big mistake since the RK 3399 is already close to if not on the price point, my Rock64 running Arch still kicks the RPi in all area's,

[@avejst]

Nice, thanks for sharing :-)

[@richardperritt]

Budgets? We don't need no stinking budgets. ;D

[@MickMake]

Tell my better half that please. :-D

[@SignalChange]

I'd sure like to see something the size of a pi / latte panda but with a better soc on it like the snapdragon 8cx -

[@sethrd999]

That would be the A76, most likely soon as I mentioned on my main comment.

[@dr.zippymcscoots8725]

SSD BOOT ON SBC"s PLEASE! Pine64 Im talking to you!

[@nethoncho]

I enjoyed the video. Time to remove the Google+ logo and link unfortunately. Thanks for sharing

[@MickMake]

Yeah, should really do that. Will be interesting to see how KZbin can actually remove Google+ from KZbin. It's so embedded now.

[@williamhart4896]

Dam that ark dev kit Looks Nice

[@DarkFighter84]

@mickmake Just an observation but for future videos it might be more helpful to group each new maker product by their own category.

[@MickMake]

I tend to group them in areas... 1. Crowd sourcing. 2. General Internet "stuff". 3. Tindie. 4. AdaFruit/SparkFun/Seeed/DFRobot/etc/ 5. Cheap China stuff, (although haven't done this for a while).

[@pirateman1966]

Do you or anyone here knows of an SBC that can do off-line speech recognition using an I2S MEMS mic? I don't want to use Amazon, Google, or other sites for limited command recognition like; "Bozo, living room, Desk light, On, 50%". Bozo being the wake up call instead of "Alexa" or "Hi Google":) I do understand that reliable speech recognition requires lots of horse power, neural networks,... but I am hoping some one has an SBC and SDK for this purpose. Don't need Wifi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, USB...ETC. A TTL serial will do.

[@MickMake]

I used to use cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/about/ which is pretty decent, but there's now some new players: kaldi-asr.org/ htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/ simon.kde.org/ julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php As for SBC... any will do!

[@pirateman1966]

@@MickMake Thanks m8. I didn't get a notification of your reply. I thought I check, and that's how I new you replied. I don't know if this is something new or you've had reports of this happening before! I'll go get busy to see which one of these will do the job. Thanks again.

[@MrGFYne1337357]

YaY weekly roundup #1

[@MickMake]

... is back! :-)

[@browaruspierogus2182]

Atomic Pi - Rockchip killer

[@sethrd999]

Absolutely not

[@MickMake]

Ugh and there's another I missed! I was going to back that one too.

[@MickMake]

One of the reasons why Nigel disagrees is probably - 1. It's huge! 100mm x 130mm isn't small. 2. Atom x5-Z8350 is a SoC that is used in the LattePanda. It's a nice SoC, but doubt AtomicPi can deliver all this for that price. 3. AtomicPi won't kill the Pi just on specs alone. 4. There's no 40 pin GPIO - so no Pi hats will ever be used. This is actually something that people want to be able to do. Apart from that it still looks like a decent board. Let's just wait to see if they can deliver though!

[@browaruspierogus2182]

@@MickMake I don't think AtomicPi uses Atmel like LattePanda. It will be a beast despite size. And there will be more projects with x64 cpus which have awesome support and IDEs

[@andrewbeasley]

Enjoyed the video esp the power connector comments. Did you see Ebon Uptons comments www.tomshardware.co.uk/raspberry-pi-4-everything-we-know,news-59876.html

[@MickMake]

Yup. Seems to be in line with what I said, but his comment on USB-C durability is a good one. However, if there's a USB-C it gets rid of the HDMI connector and so the board could be potentially smaller or the space could be used for more GPIO headers.

[@martinostlund1879]

Liked!

[@MickMake]

Liked your like!

[@thehulk0111]

First comment :D please make the HDMI Convert for the projector to run from other computer sources other than the pi

[@MickMake]

It is in the works! :-)

[@thehulk0111]

@@MickMake

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

DOOD

[@rwbimbie5854]

*_PCIe on a plank? Yeehaww this is gonna be awesome_* what _It doesnt do gpus???_ ..the pcie cards that completely destroy limitations of planks and make them REAL pcs... 4core 2-4ram 1050ti plank wont work? SCREW THAT I aint buying

[@philipcross1586]

i see mick is still bashing micro usb while promoting dc jacks, don`t know why i prefer micro usb to dc jacks, ask a friend for a power cable chances are it will be a micro usb, go round micks and you better bring your own charger.

[@rwbimbie5854]

micro USB2... how do you power a 23w plank with that?

[@MickMake]

:-D Actually, I have every USB type adaptor under the planet: USB2.0 - A, B, miniA, miniB, microA, microB & USB3 - A, B, microB & C. Although I only have a couple of the miniA & microA and recently tossed a lot of the USB-B cables out. The reason why I bash microB for SBCs, is ... The original standard wasn't designed to deliver such high currents that more modern SBCs expect. This month's project I actually designed in a microB, but I always struggle with routing that power connector to accommodate any decent current. Move to the dark side - get a USB Type-C! :-D

[@VK6TT]

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