nanopi neo tft display pricelist

When FriendlyElec announced its NanoPi Neo4 SBC last October, there was a lot to be excited about, starting with one of the most affordable prices ($45 and up) and smallest footprints (60 x 45mm) available with a hexa-core Rockchip RK3399. To our mind, it was not a proper Neo, however, as it lacked the ultra-compact 40 x 40mm footprint of earlier, Allwinner-based Neo boards such as the Allwinner H3-based NanoPi Neo Air and Allwinner H5-based NanoPi Neo2 or 52 x 40mm NanoPi Neo Plus2.

Like the Neo4, the networking-oriented Neo3 it offers a Rockchip SoC, but this time, a lesser powered, quad-core, Cortex-A53 RK3328 clocked to 1.5GHz. Like most of the earlier Neo models, including the H5-based, reduced GPIO NanoPi Neo2 Black, the Neo3 is a headless board with a compact footprint, in this case 48 x 48mm.

The NanoPi Neo3, which we saw on CNXSoft, joins other open-spec, community backed RK3328 SBCs including Pine64’s $25-and-up Rock64 and Firefly’s $35-and-up ROC-RK3328-CC, which originally launched on Indiegogo as Libre Computer’s Renegade.

Despite the Neo3’s price advantage, the SBC not only lacks media interfaces, but is missing other some features you might expect from a hacker board. Unlike the Rock64 and ROC-RK3328-CC, there is no eMMC socket or 4GB RAM option, although the RAM limit is probably not an issue with this minimalist networking board. Unlike the other two SBCs, the Neo3 has a wide -20 to 70℃ operating range.

The NanoPi Neo3 is available for $20 (1GB) or $25 (2GB). Like other NanoPi boards, the low prices should be weighed with the high shipping fees: $16 to $20 to the U.S. FriendlyElec notes that extensive shipping delays are to be expected due to the pandemic. More information may be found on FriendlyElec’s shopping and wiki pages.

Usually knockoff products are cheaper than the original, but if the original is a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, well the knockoffs just can"t afford to slash prices. Enter the NanoPi NEO, an $8 Chinese version of the Pi Zero built by FriendlyARM— that you can actually buy. It"s easier to get Hamilton tickets than to get your hands on the perpetually sold out Raspberry Pi Zero these days, which could potentially give the NanoPi NEO an actual audience.

The NanoPi NEO is a 40mm square featuring an Allwinner H3 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 with 256MB of RAM, a 10/100 Ethernet port, MicroUSB port, and Micro SD slot.

If you want to purchase the NanoPi NEO you can have it shipped to the US for just $5, bringing the grand total to $12 for the Linux board, which isn"t a bad deal. But don"t get your hopes up for future support from the company. You can order the NanoPi NEO today from FriendlyARM"s website.

So – nice looking – I’m not sure why they chose hardwired Ethernet over WIFI – I’d have gone the other way and kept the height down – but there you are. The existing case for the NEO does not fit the new model incidentally.

One thing that worried me – and I’ve complained about this before – the requirements are: A NEO2 (obviously), a micro TFT card, a power supply and “a computer running Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit” – FRIENDLYARM – YOU MUST BE JOKING! Most of us in the west have Microsoft Windows PCs. I do have one PC running Linux – it is running MINT and I’ve no intention of changing that just for one new board!!!

So, despite desire for Debian, I downloaded the Ubuntu Core software from the FriendlyArm WIKI site. I blew the image file with Win32 Disk Imager as usual and plugged it into the NEO 2 board. From what I could read, this would expand on first use and might take some time.

I’ve now heard back from FriendlyArm on the subject of GPIO and the issues I had – they have fixed the most trivial – the temperature display – here is the link – https://www.sendspace.com/file/eqh907