One of my goals over the past couple of years has been to find a suitable replacement for the Raspberry Pi 4B as supplies have been low and costs have been high. During the past couple of years, I’ve purchased several different boards to test out. Now that I have a GPIO abstraction layer and…
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Articles related to the Radxa Rock 5B SBC
Radxa Rock 5B Setup for sbc_gpio
If you are looking for the results of the sbc_gpio tests, please check out our sbc_gpio Pi 4B vs Rock 5B comparison. Configuring the Radxa Rock 5B for our sbc_gpio test require 1x I2C, 2x SPI, 1x UART and 2x IR (1 Tx and 1 Rx). All the configuration will need to be done directly in the /boot/config.txt file….
ZRAM for your SBC
One issue that I have seen crop up multiple times on different SBC’s is memory and swap. I have seen many SBC’s out out of the box that come with no swap space enabled. For systems with no GUI running a single task, this rarely turns into an issue. For larger systems running a GUI…
Radxa Rock 5B Software
Now that I’ve completed the hardware setup from my last post (if you missed the hardware, SPI flash, power issues etc, please check it out) the next step is to get this system up and running as my new desktop. So far during the build performance has been excellent and I’m looking forward to the…
Radxa Rock 5B Setup
After waiting 6 months from my pre-order on Ameridroid I finally received my Rock 5B! I ordered this using early on to get my hands on one of the new 8 core (4x A76, 4x A55 Rockchip RK3588) systems. My plan is to make this my daily driver, so I ordered the system with 8GB…
Chromium Sync
I recently received my Radxa Rock 5B SBC and intended to put it in place as my primary workstation at home. In order to use it as my primary workstation I had a few major required pieces of software: Feel free to take a look at my Radxa Rock 5B SBC breakdown posts. For more…