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Picking the right SBC.... (I hope)

A project log for Room Assistant

A project for an voice and gesture controlled

james-wynhoffJames Wynhoff 03/26/2018 at 16:170 Comments

Product selection time!

After debating the SBC for the heart of this, I decided on the orange pi one v1.1, I was able to source 20 of them, for a cost with shipping of  7USD.

Why this SBC?

  1. Ethernet! (This excluded the raspberry pi 0 models)
  2. Full size usb port
  3. Has test points for the audio out
  4. supports hardware h265 encoding (support is still sketchy)
  5. 512 MB ram, we need at least 48mb free memory for our ramdrive
  6. Looks like it supports booting from SPI to netboot (maybe)
  7. Quad core 1.2 ghz processor
  8. Small! (for its features and IO)
  9. CSI Camera port

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