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Message started by Fernando on Feb 11^th, 2017, 2:17pm

Title: Got the Orang Pi Zero... But...
Post by Fernando on Feb 11^th, 2017, 2:17pm

While the forum was down I got the Orange Pi Zeros from the mail. It took about 32 days for it get to my door from China. As I suspected, it came by Slow Boat instead of Airline.

I am amazed at it, though I do have an issue with them. The O-Pi 0 with 512MB of RAM has a paper label identifying it, which when I got it out of the anti-static bag, it fell off the board. I used a bit of contact cement to put it back in place. The O-Pi 0 with 256MB of RAM has no label.

I am amazed because of its tiny size - about 2 1/2 inches square! They could have done more with it but I think they were trying to keep the cost down to sell a cheap board. As is, it has Ethernet and Wifi/BlueTooth. Though it has 1 USB Port, with the expansion board it has 3 USB Ports and Audio/Composite Video.

Unfortunately, I lost my bag with my SD Cards. I have (or had) a WWII Ammo Canvas Bag where I stored new, still in the package SD Cards and a few other new things I did not open yet for setting up Pies with. That bag is gone, missing, not been found yet. So currently I do not have an SD Card for it yet. I tried booting from the O-Pi PC SD Card, which boots up my O-Pi Lite and O-Pi Mini boards, but the O-Pi Zero will no boot off it. "Newest things in Incompatibility" as we used to say in the 1980s for when a new computer came out that was incompatible with everything else in the market while claiming it to be better than everything before it.

The missing bag with the SD cards sets me back by a lot. There was a mixture of Class 4 and Class 10 in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB sizes; the O-Pies only boot from the expensive Class 10 SD cards. Unless I get lucky and find the bag, looks like I'm going to save my pennies and start buying SD cards when I see them on sale in various places.

I must say that I am impressed with its small size while sporting a Quad Core CPU and 512MB ram size. Can't wait to get it up and running.

Title: Re: Got the Orang Pi Zero... But...
Post by Hondo I. Sackett on Feb 11^th, 2017, 7:48pm

Cool! Too bad on the bag. Hope ya find it.