Blueberry PI

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Some time ago after searching for hours to find a simple SoC wich can run Linux and is available in a TQF package, I stumbled across the Allwinner V3s. Orignally designed for the Action Camera / Dash cam and IP camera market. The V3s fulfilled all my needs for my embedded project. Since there is no development board for the V3s I created the Blueberry PI.
The V3s is a very unique SoC, it can be called the true 3 in 1 chip solution. Beside the ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.2GHz, the V3s has built-in 64 Megabyte of RAM and an Ethernet PHY.
Thanks to the built-in RAM, there is no need for a messy memory layout. This saves space and more important expensive PCB layers. The Blueberry Pi is routed as 2 layer board.

Mainline U-Boot and Linux support is available.

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How to create your own custom boot image
Marcel Thürmer • 08/31/2018 at 17:43 • 0 comments

I wrote a tutorial on my Github wiki, on how to create your own custom image for the Blueberry PI.

Since the Allwinner V3s only has 64Mb of RAM, it is a very smart decision to customize your image to fit your needs.

You only need a running Ubuntu / Debian (or other distros) on your PC.

However some knowledge about the Linux terminal is required.
Successfully tested the parallel RGB Interface
Marcel Thürmer • 08/25/2018 at 16:58 • 1 comment

Since the V3s has a parallel RGB interface, it can directly drive LCD's like the AT050TN33 (480x270) or other even bigger LCD's like the HW800480F-3E-0B-10 (800x480). The Blueberry PI is compatible with every 40 pin RGB LCD.
Since many people were really interested in buying a Blueberry PI, I fixed some minor issues on the current PCB and ordered new PCB's. I will start selling the Blueberry PI on Tindie in the near future.

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Amy wrote 02/18/2023 at 07:22

How much did this cost?!

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p3im4n wrote 10/15/2021 at 23:15

hi dear

is it true the MIPI-CSI is not yet supported in the Linux kernel?????

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Samuel Abubakar wrote 07/08/2021 at 15:06

Hi looking to make a bespoke version of the raspberry pi for a project im working on at the moment. Just wondering how you went about it

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dazz187 wrote 11/09/2020 at 11:03

I have a few old phones lying about, I was wondering if anyone knew if it would be at all possible to follow this Guide on this to a degree and use one of the more powerfull CPU for this?

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mumah786 wrote 09/16/2020 at 13:57

Can I run this board with battery? Can I use 50 pin RGB LCD using this processor? Do I need any hi-speed layout in this board?

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Pikalover666666 wrote 05/05/2019 at 15:45

Where can I buy them? They are not on tindie.

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PixelDud wrote 02/16/2019 at 03:43

What software do I need to run Ubuntu?

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PixelDud wrote 02/16/2019 at 14:31

Thank you for the answer.

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PixelDud wrote 02/14/2019 at 14:11

Would this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2354 work as a display?

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Marcel Thürmer wrote 02/14/2019 at 15:00

Yes it will work, but you can get them cheaper on ebay or aliexpress.

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PixelDud wrote 02/14/2019 at 15:35

Thanks.

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PixelDud wrote 02/13/2019 at 13:39

This project looks awesome!

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JeffSw wrote 08/15/2018 at 13:48

When will you sell these boards on Tindie ? ;-)

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Twisted Pair in my Hair wrote 08/15/2018 at 09:36

Are you using AXP203 as PMIC?

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Marcel Thürmer wrote 08/15/2018 at 09:39

No, I'm using the EA3036 3 channel DC DC step down converter

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jordanbrandes wrote 08/14/2018 at 15:58

Great project!

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Marcel Thürmer wrote 08/14/2018 at 13:14

Hi,

thanks for the feedback. I updated the schematics and also uploaded the schematics as pdf.

I will keep you guys updated.

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Just4Fun wrote 08/13/2018 at 08:36

Hi, very interesting project!

On your github there are only Eagle files... Could be possible to have the schematic on pdf...?

Keep us updated please!

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