A powerful ARM-based SBC (Single Board Computer)

May 22, 2015 05:13 GMT  ·  By

You should know that there's an on-going Indiegogo campaign (with flexible funding) for a new computer board called Lemon Pi and developed by the EMBEDSTUDIO Chinese company.

From the looks of it, Lemon Pi is a Raspberry Pi clone, but with some powerful specifications that we've summarized for you below. An interesting fact about this SBC Single Board Computer) is that it claims to support the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Linux operating system, as well as Android 5.0.

Lemon Pi boasts an ARM Actions Semi S500 Quad-core Cortex A9r4 processor with a PowerVR SGX544 GPU that supports OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0, OpenCL, and OpenVG 1.0.1, and 512KB L2 cache, 1GB DDR3 RAM, Micro SD slot, HDMI 1.4 with HDCP video output, and HDMI audio.

Additionally, Lemon Pi includes a 10/100M Ethernet port (RJ45), 2x USB 2.0 ports, 1x USB 3.0 port (OTG), MIPI CSI-2 interface, a 40-pin Raspberry Pi compatible header with 16 GPIOs, PCM, I2C, PCM, UART, and SPI, IR receiver, as well as ADFU (Actions Device Firmware Update), Reset, and On/Off keys.

If you want a piece of the Lemon Pi, you should hurry and get yours for no more than $30 (€27) - only two left at this price at the moment of writing this article. In the meantime, watch the video below to see the Lemon Pi computer board in action with the Ubuntu and Android operating systems.

Lemon Pi (3 Images)

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