I'm a software guy.
I'm good at software engineering, and I have purchased 16 pines recently to run as a slave nodes in my cluster (using a 2xRaspberry Pi as main nodes).
Some academic stuff will be tested on this, later to be executed on Denmarks largest super computer, as part of my PhD.

The question is now: what's the wiring instructions for powering this cluster?
16 china-wall chargers next to each other, does sound like a nice way to burn down your house. So I'd rather not do that. Plus it's a wonky implementation.

I've been suggested this: http://www.amazon.com/Tanbaby-Switching-...typ_im_1_3

By user jproffer on here - and on several discussion threads online.
I see 2 terminals for +- and one for ground.
And then I see 2 terminals for connecting a 230V mains cord, which does worry me a little as I have little to no experience with wiring stuff, so my instinct tells me that working with lethal shock dangers like this, isn't good practice.

However, I do need this cluster powered.

Those 4 terminals I see: 2 for plus, 2 for minus.
How do I expand those into the 16 that I need?
What do I wire into ground..?

Could anyone explain this in a very dummy way to me?

Why does this not seem to be a big concern?

Other than the suggestion to initialize the NIC to 100mbps or plug it into a 100mbps hub, there doesn't seem to be any chatter about the fact that it hangs in a gigabit environment.


-rob

After burning the "Android 5.1.1 Image Release 20160428 [BETA"] the bluetooth stopped working.
Does anyone know a workaround this issue?

I have tried to re-burn the image a coupple of times, but with no luck.

I'm running a Pine A64+ 2Gb with a 128Gb Sandisk card (have not had any problems with previous images)

Hello everyone! Ubuntu version from 20160421 installed ok, but had several problems:
1. System lags (but not critical)
2. Ragged sound (youtube, video from sd card)
3. Video lags (youtube, video from sd card)

After installing Ubuntu 20160501 2 problems still alive:
1. System lags (still not critical)
2. Video lags (youtube, video from sd card) - impossible to see anything. 

Tried to watch video from youtube at 240 p - lags. 

VLC plays video with lags.
Suddenly GNome Player plays videos ok but no way possible to set the full screen: player goes full screen but the videos still very small. 
Can anyone help, please? 

p.s. Ubuntu very-very noob user.

Looks like they just announced the online shop is open, with delayed shipping (no orders will ship till end of May or later). I glance around and see a HDMI-DVI adapter and wonder with all the posts on here if it actually works? LOL

Hi, i am a new owner of a PINE64

I have already a RPi B and i found online a pdf to print (2d printer) on a plain cardboard. Then I cut it following the lines, fold it, a bit of scotch tape and made a 0$ enclosure.

I searched online but I didn't find anything similar for the Pine64 (since the communities are, for now, not comparable)

Someone of you has searched and found or made something similar?

Thank you very much

Has anybody had any issues with this? 

I can get audio out of the audio jack but I cant get any audio from the HDMI.
I have the pine 64 with the 2gig board.

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, apologies if it has been answered.

I used win32 disk imager and the latest Android image on a 32 GB card.  The system runs like a dream, but only reports 4 GB of usable space (it detects 32 GB of flash, interestingly).

So I popped the card back in my reader on my pc and noticed that the disk has 3 partitions--I'm guessing a small boot partition, the android partition, and the usable flash.  The remaining 20+ GB are simply unpartitioned.

How do I gain access to that extra space?

What am I doing wrong?
1. All distributions (Remix, Ubuntu, Debian, Android) have a big lags in video 720P. Android lag in the interface, some applications can not be opened, is very slow.
2. Board sometimes hangs (from overheating?)
3. The first time after idle HDMI is not working. Need to reboot
4. Do not work USB 3.0 Hard Drive 1TB
5. No sound via HDMI

I have Nillkin 2A DC adapter and Transcend Premium 300x micro SD card
I would like to make a simple file server... Any ideas?

Is there a usb wifi dongle that works? I've tried WiPi and 2 others and haven't had much luck. Am I missing something?