Daughter Card SBC for P64

[blue]

I dunno if any of you remember, but in the 90's and 2k's you could buy a single-board computer that slotted into an ISA or PCI slot and acted as a very, very expensive watchdog for big servers. Well, history is repeating itself: here's a pi zero acting as a daughterboard for a pine64.

[Pushpike]

I dunno if any of you remember, but in the 90's and 2k's you could buy a single-board computer that slotted into an ISA or PCI slot and acted as a very, very expensive watchdog for big servers. Well, history is repeating itself: here's a pi zero acting as a daughterboard for a pine64.

can you explain the uses of this daughter board thing..

[MarkHaysHarris777]

I dunno if any of you remember, but in the 90's and 2k's you could buy a single-board computer that slotted into an ISA or PCI slot and acted as a very, very expensive watchdog for big servers. Well, history is repeating itself: here's a pi zero acting as a daughterboard for a pine64.

can you explain the uses of this daughter board thing..

He just added four more A53 cores to his PineA64 board;  the daughter card can now interact with the PineA64 (maybe) for extended SMP computing, but probably he's got monitor|watchdog in mind here;  the PI can "operate" the PineA64 directly... and there might be some interesting things one might do with that !

Depends what he does with the gpio(s) on both boards, whether they work together or not, or whether there is blue smoke and suffering.

[dkryder]

the pi zero looks to me like it was just positioned on the pine64 for a picture. lack of solder joints.

[MarkHaysHarris777]

the pi zero looks to me like it was just positioned on the pine64 for a picture. lack of solder joints.

heh hehe   and you wouldn't want the 3v3 soldered anyways...  if you were really going to do this some of the underside pins would | should be cut ;  

[blue]

I have no plan of powering it on, I just thought it was hilarious that it's a perfect fit. You can actually slide two zeroes on the bus if you squish em.