[Discontinued] pcDuino3S 1GB ARM Cortex A7 Dual-Core Allwinner A20 Arduino interface Mini PC

Description:

pcDuino3S is a high performance, cost effective single board computer. It runs operation systems such as Ubuntu Linux and Android. pcDuino3S is based on pcDuino3 and has a steel enclosure. It can be used as computer, setup entertainment box, and thin client terminal for desktop visualization. pcDuino3S could support multi-format 1080p 60fps video decoder and 1080p 30fps H.264 and MPEG4 video encoder with its built-in hardware video processing engine.

Specifications:

Items Details CPU AllWinner A20 SoC, 1GHz ARM Cortex A7 Dual Core GPU OpenGL ES2.0, OpenVG 1.1, Mali 400 Dual Core DRAM 1GB Onboard Storage 4GB Flash, microSD card (TF) slot for up to 32GB Video Output HDMI 1.4 with HDCP support OS

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Android 4.2

Network interface

• Ethernet 10M/100Mbps

Audio out

• 3.5mm analog audio interface

USB 3 x USB host, Power 5V, 2000mA Overall Size 5?x 2.5?x 0.8?/td>

SoftwareSpecifications

Items OS

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Android 4.2

Language

• English

Programming language support

• C, C++ with GNU tool chain
• Java with standard Android SDK
• Python
• Scratch for pcDuino
• Remote desktop client
• Arduino IDE
• XBMC

Reference:

• Review of pcDuino3S

Hardware:

• Schematics and PCB files for the Button Daughter Board of pcDuino3S

One of the USB port is USB OTG, it can be used to flash OS by followingthis post.

Applications (Desktop virtualization):

• Install SPICE Client on pcDuino3s
• Install SPICE Server on a Ubuntu 12.04 Server and create virtual machine to be used with pcDuino3s as client
• Install SPICE Server on a CentOS 6.4 server and create virtual machine to be used with pcDuino3s as client