Saw some mention of dimensions in the 'Cases and Enclosure Question' thread, but I'm hoping for a nominal dimension solid model if possible, or at least a good print to work from. I'm a machinist by trade and want to try a few enclosure designs and the one REV B drawing is only for outer board dimensions which isn't going to do it. I want to be able to design and machine aluminum cases with integrated standoffs and the like. 

Will a non-STL* model be available sometime soon? I would like to start designing before the board arrives in March.

*(hopefully something like a STEP or IGES solid model, or dare I say SolidWorks)

Greetings and I am very excited about joining the pine-64 community. I was thinking of getting a pine-64 for pre order but have decided to wait till they are available in a few months and am currently planning on buying quite a few of them when they become available. There are a few things I would like to point out. I was looking at development boards for a while now and a lot of them do not have a cpu but more so the gpu horse power to do what I want to do with them. I was originally looking at a AMD soc to make a media computer and also a bsd wireless router as well as home servers and such. I am a long time Linux and current bsd user and there are a lot of projects I would like to try with Pine-64. As I stated I was looking at the AMD soc systems and they would cost about $200 to $250 to make a box and this is where I really got interested in Pine-64 as Pine looks like its got the horse power to do the same for less money than building an amd soc. As far as low cost development boards are concerned Pine-64 blows everything away in the $dollar to performance aspect. 

 As for the future and I must add pine-64 must be careful here not to overextend its abilities to deliver to market. However there are possibilities for pine to extend. There have been a few arm developments of late with and arm and others trying to introduce server arm boards and the like but have had a hefty price tag per performance. I am not recommending a server board but rather it might be interesting to see if it would be possibly to develop a carry on to pine-64 that is more cpu-gpu-motherboard orientated in that it would be a package to build a pine 64 soc type thing on a mother board at a very affordable level. The main part of this would be motherboard like function. This would mainly be in ram, seta, mseta support like in that it would allow for a arm cpu  desktop like mother board ability at an affordable price point compared to anything else on the market. That may be used to make free-bsd and linux wireless routers, Media boxes, game emulators, home file servers and other enthusiest projects. 

 Another aspect of this is to include the Linux and BSD communities to get involved with Pine development which already have huge web forum support to get involved such as Ubuntu, Debian, and free-bsd and PC-bsd. There are other aspects with possibilities such ad getting involved with GNU hurd witch is based on the mach micro kernel that could jump start ARM-Hurd micro kernel development. There are a lot of possibilites. 

 This may be jump started with a new Kickstarter product as an other development of the Pine-64 like system for home project use. Its just a interesting idea but it looks like the Pine-64 package can deliver this to home users. And the last aspect could be a low cost mini computer with say Ubuntu as a os sounds really interesting.

Hello,


I was wondering when the Pine64 online retail store will be available. There was a link for shop.pine64.com in the FAQ but it's a broken link... when will it be functional?

Hi there,

each Android device has a few buttons like "Power", "Volume+" and "Volume-".
These buttons (especially "Power") are necessary to control the Android system.

How can we use these buttons for Android on Pine64?

Best regards
Julian

I would like to know what is the operating temperature?

0°c/ 70°C?

Hello

I am curious if the CSI lanes on the Pine64 are compatible with existing Raspberry Pi CSI inputs like their camera, the NOIR camera, and other inputs like Auvidea's HDMI Input via CSI.

Thank you.

Hi there!

I already asked something about possibility of dualboot.
This seems to be very tricky, but maybe we can use software for Raspberry Pi for it.

I found the software "berryboot" to boot different operating systems from only 1 (Micro)SD card.
- How To Install Multiple OSes On A Single SD Card For Raspberry Pi

I've no idea if it'll works, but we should give it a try.
I would try it for myself, but I'll get my board first in March. So, I please the community to test this software or give a statement about this possibility.

Best regards
Julian

I have been a fan of Rasplex for a long time now and have decided to do other things with my raspberry pis instead.

I am hoping to use the Pine64+ I pledged for to get another Rasplex like system set up for a while after I get it.

What is the best option for a Plex media player at the current time for the Pine64+? Android, Linux?

Thanks in advance for the help!

The fact Pine64 has many free GPIO and comms interfaces, makes it a great candidate for an Arduino API.

I have been a contributor to the Arduino project for quite some time now, and have seen it grow to other great devices like the ESP8266 and such. Basically I think an Arduino API for Pine64 linux would be quite useful for non-programmers and the like. 

Now that the IDE is quite versatile, a Pine64 can be integrated directly in. And the simple API with a reference/documentation already (on arduino.cc) would make it quite fun and simple to use, not to mention extendable by numerous Linux libs already available.

I'm going to start putting together a core for the Pine64 (attempt to anyway). I'll start implementing the high level shell and things common to linux like console in/output (Serial), Ethernet, even the EEPROM can be emulated as a per-program storage block on the SD card.

And then add in the low level features of GPIO manipulation. And any packaged drivers can be simply wrapped by Arduino libs (use driver for SPI, I2C if available, rather than bit-banging). However this will probably have to wait until I have something to test against. Plus the pin mapping will have to match that of the Arduino form-factor shield I have seen the creators talking about.

As my board probably won't make it to Australia until probably April, I have plenty of time to begin a basic implementation, but I'm curious to see who else might be interested in this, or more so interested in helping out.

I have created an empty repo here. However, I'm quite busy for the next few days, including researching what is available on the A64,  but will get at least a start happening by the end of the week coming and pushed up to GitHub.

Cheers

Just for the sake of organizing what is going on since they are all mixed on the updates and Facebook posts, here is a list of what I have seen mentioned by the project. This list goes as far as to update #23.

Channels

- Youtube Page
- Facebook Page
- Kickstarter Page
- Wiki Page

Use-Cases on PineA64 (Videos)

• Portable Set-up of the PineA64 (Touch Screen + Battery + PineA64 itself)
  
• Playing Games on PineA64 (Angry Bird)
  
• PineA64 Bridge Children to Education
  
• Remix OS 2.0 (Mimics a Desktop OS for everyday use)
  
• Nintendo 64 Emulator running on PineA64
  
• 4K H.265 Video Quality:
  

• HDMI to DVI Adaptor (click the link for image)
  
• HDMI to VGA Adapter with 3.5 MM Audio output integration (click the link for image)
  

• Basic PINE64 IR Remote (Non airmouse)
  

• 8000mAH Lithium Polymer Battery
  

• Acrylic Case
  

• Waterproof Enclosure
  

• Testing Solar with PineA64
  

• Thermal imaging camera
  

• Pine Powered by Ethernet
  

• SATA Hardrive / Western Digital Partnership for Hardrive Support
  

• Playbox Concept (Early Prototype - Also shown as an Alarm)
  

• Lego Enclosures
  

• Partnerships for other functionality (Smart homes and Personal Cloud to run at home).
  
• Partnership for testing clustering with PineA64.
  
• Partnership with Keyport Inc. (PineA64 could detect keychain arriving at home and turn on devices as in a "Smart Home")
  
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• PineA64 being used for robots at Curtin University at Australia (See Developer Boards Section).