June 2020 (ODROID-GO Advance Black Edition)

June 1, 2020 Andrew Ruggeri, Senior Editor Editorial Comments Off

We are excited to showoff the new ODROID-GO Advance Black Edition, as our headline article in our first issue of our Community Edition of ODROID Magazine. Be sure to have a look and read all about it!

Setting up the ODROID-H2+: Installing the H2+ NIC Driver

July 1, 2020 0

The original H2 and H2 REV.B carried two 1GbE NIC whose driver is included in both Windows 10 and recent Linux distributions. On the other hand the ODROID H2+ is equipped with two 2.5GbE NIC based on the Realtek 8125B chipset. This chipset is rather recent and its support in ▶

ODROID-H2+: The New And Enhanced X86 Platform

July 1, 2020 0

The ODROID-H2 is back, this time in a slightly upgraded form - named aptly, the ODROID-H2+! Accordingly the board revision code is REV-B+ (while the previous production batch was REV-B). We announced the original ODROID-H2 back in November 2018, as a new generation of single board computer (SBC) - an ▶

ODROID-GO Advance Black Edition

June 1, 2020 0

The GO-Advance on a spiffy new version! ▶

Selfhosting with ODROID-XU4 CloudShell2: From hardware setup to up and running with Docker

June 1, 2020 0

Easy to spin up and try out new applications, conversely its equally trivial to completely remove applications one may no longer interested in. ▶

ODROID-GO Advance Cell Phone: A Custom Built and Coded Cell Phone

May 1, 2020 0

Recently, I decided to build my own cell phone out of an ODROID-GO Advance using a SIM800L module which included a speaker and mic. Thanks to the ample space inside the case, this hardware installation was pretty easy. For this build, I used a Debian Buster image with the SIM880L connected to the ODROID-GO Advance’s UART2. ▶

Assist With Coronavirus Research: Using Rosetta@home To Help Find A Cure

May 1, 2020 0

It is now possible to use your 64bit ODROID to assist with Coronavirus Research. Thanks to a new application update for Rosetta@home, made possible by the Arm development community. ▶

Multi Screen Desktop Using VNC - Part 2: An Improved And Simplified Version

May 1, 2020 0

Looks to me everyone has been stuck indoors for longer than they desired. Some of us had to work during this time too. Working on a small laptop screen is no fun task, and using HDMI cables while kids run around is not fun either. So, how about we use an ODROID as a secondary screen? ▶

Introducing the New ODROID-C4: A New Generation Single Board Computer

May 1, 2020 0

The ODROID-C4 is a new generation single board computer that is more energy efficient and has higher performance than the ODROID-C2 which was introduced over four years ago, as the world's first affordable ARM 64-bit computer. The ODROID-C4 features an Amlogic S905X3 CPU which is a quad-core Cortex-A55 cluster with a new generation Mali-G31 GPU. The A55 cores run at 2.0Ghz without thermal throttling using the stock heat sink, allowing a robust and quiet computer. The multi-core performance is around 40% faster, and the system DRAM performance is 50% faster than the ODROID-C2. ▶

ODROID-GO Advance Tips And Tricks: Unzip ROMs While Maintaining Box Art And Game List

May 1, 2020 0

This is a short tutorial to help you with your ROM sets and the ODROID-GO Advance. Many of us have ROM sets with accompanying media files like box art, screen shots, logos, etc. Sometimes these ROM sets have compressed files. Now do we really want to be using up precious battery power to decompress games before we load them up? ▶