Overview of Hackberry - a single-board computer from Miniand
Recently, I came to Hackberry, a single-board computer from the manufacturer of "whistles" MK802, MK803 - from Miniand.
Details, pros and cons under the cut
At the time when I ordered, only one EMS Express option was available (18 USD), the package arrived in 2.5 weeks.
In the kit were:
The device was tested before shipping and it already had Android ICS 4.0.
Keyboard, mouse were picked up without any problems. I was very pleased with the presence of root, and the Play store.
The device is built on the basis of a single-core SoC AllWinner A10 (Cortex A8), the processor frequency is 1.2 GHz. There is support for instructions (swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3), distributions compiled with Hard-Floating (armhf, for example Debian from version 7),
RAM: two models with 512MB and 1GB DDR3 Hynix memory, 834MB available.
ROM: 4GB NAND (1.5GB available) Video accelerator
: Mali 400.
Cost: 65 USD for a model with 512MB of memory, 70 with 1GB.
Also present:
Installation is simple, just write the image to the SD card.
There is another option, to get a complete environment - use sshd, debootstrap and chroot :) dmesg
exhaust All useful information can be found on the forum . Product page here . Kernel and driver development is on github . There you can find all the necessary tools.
Details, pros and cons under the cut
Delivery, delivery
At the time when I ordered, only one EMS Express option was available (18 USD), the package arrived in 2.5 weeks.
In the kit were:
- Hackberry board
- Power supply (5V 0.2A), can be powered by USB (cable not included)
- Cotton green bag with android logo :)
The device was tested before shipping and it already had Android ICS 4.0.
Keyboard, mouse were picked up without any problems. I was very pleased with the presence of root, and the Play store.
Specifications
The device is built on the basis of a single-core SoC AllWinner A10 (Cortex A8), the processor frequency is 1.2 GHz. There is support for instructions (swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3), distributions compiled with Hard-Floating (armhf, for example Debian from version 7),
RAM: two models with 512MB and 1GB DDR3 Hynix memory, 834MB available.
ROM: 4GB NAND (1.5GB available) Video accelerator
: Mali 400.
Cost: 65 USD for a model with 512MB of memory, 70 with 1GB.
Also present:
- 2xUSB 2.0 ports, also on the board there is one non-soldered port.
- 4 pin TTL 3.3v
- HDMI audio, composite and component outputs
- 10/100 Ethernet and IEEE 802.11n based on a Realtek chip soldered to the USB bus.
- SDHC card reader (up to 32GB)
pros
- Fast processor
- 1GB of memory
- Ethernet
Minuses
- Most likely, HDMI - DVI adapters will not work (support for YUV420 monitor is required)
- Price
Community Developed Distributions
- Debian Wheezy headless ( information )
- Linaro Port (information )
- Ubuntu Server headless ( info )
- Slackware ( information )
- ArchLinux ( information )
- Fedora ( information)
- XMBC ( information )
Installation is simple, just write the image to the SD card.
There is another option, to get a complete environment - use sshd, debootstrap and chroot :) dmesg
exhaust All useful information can be found on the forum . Product page here . Kernel and driver development is on github . There you can find all the necessary tools.