My plan is to use an old PS1 case and controllers with the Pine64+.  It will be used as a PC and an game emulator.




I've gutted the case except for the power supply and the the input slot for memory and controllers.  The PS has an 8v line I've attached to a DC-DC step down 5V.  The nice thing about this is I can still use the actual power button and rest.

I've added a pig tail added for LAN port.  Waiting on HDMI pigtail from ebay.  

Siimple USB hub is being used to attach external storage.  Paper printout is standing in for Pine unit.



The front ports for the PS1/PS2 controllers will run through a USB adapter.  I hope this works, as I have no way of testing it.


I'm also working on converting the standard PS1 memory modual into a USB SD card reader.  While still plugging into the front of the PS1.  I used an old ISA card edge modem instead of destroying the existing memory card.

If you have 2.1 V versus 5.1 V, does it not boot or is it very slow? 

Hearing rumors about the development of Cyanogenmod 12/13 in the Pine64, if it's true this will be the best budget Android device ever. 

I was wondering about operating temperature, idle temperature, and upper and lower limits of the pine. Has anyone done any testing on this?

I'd like to use mine as a media server, but if it runs too hot on idle, the place that I'd like to put it may not be wise. 

Honestly, this is probably all in the faq, but it at least gives me an excuse to interact with the community.

This area is so empty. #maketechnologygreatagain

hello, I have a tv with hdmi input ( only 720p ressolution ), I have connected an android tablet with hdmi output and a nintendo wiiu and I can see them in my tv with 720p 60 Hz  ressolution option. I have a pine64 with android and I can't see it in my tv ( I have changed the ressolution setting to 720p 60 hz in the pine64's android display menu hdmi output), can anyone help me?
Thanks

It's almost the end of March and I chose the February early bird 1GB option.

I added the following modules on Backerkit:
- Bluetooth + WiFi module
- RTC battery
- Camera module

However, I have not received a shipping tracking number yet. This is very disappointing. What is the point of the early bird option?

The Raspberry Pi 3 is about to be/is released with many of the same features as the Pine 64. On top of that, the Pine 64 is more than double the size of the Raspberry Pi with a board that is too thin, causing warping. It looks and feels "cheap". The board could have been laid out better with additional layers and, thus, thickness with components on both sides, reducing board size. The main selling point to me is that Raspberry Pi doesn't (yet) run Android. Other than that, they are not dissimilar enough to choose the pine 64 over the Pi.

If I had known about the Pi 3 when I found out about the Pine 64, I wouldn't have backed the pine 64.

Anyone else feel disappointed?

For those of you interested...yes, it works. Well...mostly. Wifi not so much, but the rest of it looks pretty good! This is the 1GB variant, which seems ok, but I'm guessing the 2GB will be the sweet-spot for good performance.

I'm running the most recent Ubuntu Xenial image by longsleep. I'm just playing around with all the ports, and I see on the Euler bus, there is a pin for EAROUT_N. I assumed that was for headphones, so I wanted to try sending audio to that. I enabled the universe repository and got mplayer installed, and it seems to be playing the audio file I am testing with, but I get no audio out of my headphones. I have the Pine connected to a monitor without speakers, so I don't get any audio through the HDMI, though I assume that's where the audio is being sent to. I found some documents that said I can use amixer to switch to analog audio, but I can't figure out if what I am providing to it is even valid information. Has anyone got audio coming out of their headphone jack in this build of Ubuntu yet? I've never been good with the audio side of things in Linux.