ANOTHER SMALL LINUX COMPUTER WITH PI IN ITS NAME NanoPi NEO FROM FRIENDLYARM
Raspberry Pi Zero has two noticeable attributes compared to other Raspberry Pi boards: it’s smaller and it’s cheaper. FriendlyARM has now designed another model for their NanoPi family, that about 12% smaller, although not quite as thin at all due to its Ethernet jack and USB connector, and much faster than Raspberry Pi Zero, with NanoPi NEO board powered by Allwinner H3 quad core processor.
Here’s the NanoPi NEO, the latest quad-core Allwinner board from a company in China you’ve never heard of.
The NanoPi NEO is someone’s answer to the Raspberry Pi Zero, the very small and very cheap single board Linux computer whose out-of-stock percentage has led some to claim it’s completely fake and a media conspiracy.
The NanoPi ZEO features an Allwinner H3 quad-core Cortex-A7 running at 1.2 GHz, 256MB RAM, with a 512MB version being released shortly. Unlike the Raspberry Pi Zero, the NanoPi NEO features a 10/100 Ethernet port. No, it does not have PoE.
NanoPi NEO has its 3D printed housing and we could download its 3D printed file to print ,hha. It is so interesting that i think friendlyarm team is much more funny，and the 3D printed box is very beautiful ，you guys can see following photos which i found from http://www.thingiverse.com/FriendlyARM3DPrinter/designs .
To reduce the temperature of NanoPi NEO，FriendlyARM designs one heat sink for NanoPi . A combination cooling fan and heat sink for better heat dissipation. You do not need to worry about overheating issues of NanoPi NEO.
The Wiki is still in construction, and for now only in Chinese, but we can find out that FriendlyARM provides Ubuntu-Core with Qt-Embedded for the board relying on Linux 3.4 legacy kernel. However, Allwinner H3 should get full mainline support in Linux 4.7 or 4.8, so I’m fully expecting the board to be supported in mainline kernel in a few months. The schematics (PDF), and header pin assignments are also available in the wiki.
NanoPi NEO sells for $7.99 with 256 RAM, $9.99 with 512 RAM + shipping ($4 to my location).
