Got it today...DAMN its big??

[Brian Beuken]

LOL the first picture on the kickstarter below the video has the dimensions...

true, but somehow they just never registered, I've bought a lot of SBC's and they are all credit card sized so I never expected anything bigger. I must say its interesting.

Can't say more than that at the moment as I am waiting 13hours for the Debian img to download....(need to fix that Pine people)

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Nano Pi (32 bit ARM board) is an amazing design, almost every mm of the board has a component fitted to it.  It doesn't have the "Euler" bus or the Wifi/Bluetooth expansion.  It's probably possible to make it a bit smaller, but then you'd have to compromise on the port locations - the perimeter of the board is pretty much maximally used.  The only way you could do better is by moving some of the components to the underside of the board or removing some ports.


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I have a large number of SBC's including some with 4USB/gigabit network, onboard wifi/BT, mics and IR, and other ports...no bigger than a credit card, I'm pretty sure making it smaller, maintaining 2 sets of GPIO and current ports, is quite possible.

Its not a complaint in any way about the A64, just something I find surprising. I am curious why the choice to make it this size was made, knowing the trend for smaller boards was so prevalent.