Orange Pi Zero 512mb - Page 1
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author: sony mavica
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 02:35:37 am
content: just bought this onehttps://www.banggood.com/3-in-1-Orange-Pi-Zero-512MB-Development-Board-Expansion-Board-Black-Case-Kit-p-1135881.htmlother then playing retro games what can i use one for i only bought one as i have always thought they where neat

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 03:55:08 am
content: Whatever you want?I have a similar Raspberry Pi that I use as a general purpose web/FTP server. I also have a DS18B20 for temperature monitoring, and an RTL SDR dongle connected to it used to pick up various things.

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 04:25:19 am
content: Looks great value, but do you need to add a heatsink to the CPU just like you have to with the Orange Pi One?It wouldn't be easy with that daughter board.I use the Orange Pi One a fair bit and I could not use it without a heatsink on the CPU - it would just crash within 15 minutes.

author: laneboysrc
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 05:00:29 am
content: I got a Orange Pi Zero recently too. This thing only has only composite video out, so I consider it more suitable for headless networking applications.Software support is really poor. I find that Armbian is the only reasonable choice, and then there are a lot of things that do not work properly for me (e.g. UART2, SPI). Not a big deal for my application, but if I would need the things that are actually advertisedworking, I would definitely go with a Raspberry Pi based solution instead.You will most certainly need a heatsink; here in the 23 degC aircon office the board still gets too hot just idling under Linux. Any kind of load puts it in thermal throttling.Still, if you can live with the limitations then they are awesome value for money.

author: sony mavica
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 06:46:11 am
content: Quote from: laneboysrc on May 02, 2017, 05:00:29 amseeing that other devices using Cortex-A7 don't get very warm at all im surprised this does

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 07:55:43 am
content: Quote from: sony mavica on May 02, 2017, 06:46:11 amDo the other Cortex-7 chips have quad 1.2GHz cores plus a 600MHz Mali400 GPU (two cores I suspect) plus a 10/100 Ethernet port plus two USB ports?

author: sony mavica
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 11:22:24 am
content: Quote from: amspire on May 02, 2017, 07:55:43 amwell i think i have seen some cheap android netbooks that do and they have no heatsinks

author: ^_^
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 11:33:00 am
content: You can set up ownCloud for backups.Better than relying on dropbox or other servers not owned by you IMOAlso, a VPN/SSH tunnel for routing the traffic.

author: GeorgeOfTheJungle
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 11:59:27 am
content: Quote from: amspire on May 02, 2017, 04:25:19 amArmbian has a better DVFS table to fix that. It will eventually throotle without a heatsink, but at least won't crash.

author: GeorgeOfTheJungle
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2017, 12:04:22 pm
content: Quote from: sony mavica on May 02, 2017, 06:46:11 amThermal throotling soon kicks in in most phones if you try hard enough... e.g. with antutu?