OLinuXino is an

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capable of running Android or

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. The project's goal was to design DIY friendly industrial-grade Linux board which everyone can reproduce at home. It leverages widely-available hand-solderable components which are reasonable to purchase in low quantities, housed in

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packages. The project's CAD files are hosted on

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, allowing everyone to study and customize them according to their needs. Initially OLinuXino was designed with

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. In March 2016 the first boards designed with

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became available as OLIMEX Ltd announced plans on switching development to Open Source CAD tools.

iMX233

A13

The Chinese company

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released in April 2012

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SoC in TQFP package, this was spotted immediately by OLinuXino developers and they start working on OLinuXino board based on A13 Three OLinuXino boards with A13 processor were released:

A10S

In November 2012, Allwinner released a new A10S processor with HDMI and Ethernet and dual-core A20 processor. The A13 has no native Ethernet capability, so the A10S processor was chosen for new OLinuXino boards.New processors from Allwinner A10S Cortex-A8 with HDMI and Ethernet and A20 Dual core Cortex-A7 with HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet and SATA
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A20

A64

Operating systems

Officially supported: *

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* Android Third party: *

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References

External links

OLinuXino web site

SUNXI: OlimexA64-OLinuXino

OLinuXino looks to take on the Raspberry Pi

Meet the iMX233 OLinuXino Nano

Element14 Olimex A10S/A20-OLinuXino boards quite BBB-like

Linux Sunxi Community Open Source Hardware

Hackaday article - OLinuXino booting Android

CNX-Software OLinuXino unboxing and review

Slashdot Fully open OLinuXino computer

* ttp://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/04/27/olinuxino-1-2-ghz-single-board-computer/ Dangerous Prototypes - OLinuXino single board computer{{Single-board computer Single-board computers

iMX233

A13

A10S

A20

A64

Operating systems

See also

References

External links