Single Board Computers

Cheap Orange Pi heatsinks have appeared on AliExpress but are they any good? It turns out they might be!

AliExpress is full of wonders and this month we’ll look over the world of Single Board Computer heatsinks in my August 2022 AliExpress Tech Haul!

Hot on the heels of their RISC-V MQ Pro, MangoPi have released their Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W alternative, the ARM H616-based MQ Quad Single Board Computer.

With the Raspberry Pi Zero still in short supply, are the alternatives in the same (or similar) form-factor worth looking at? Time to find out..

Ubuntu 22.04.1 was just released and includes support for Allwinner RISC-V on the Nezha. Luckily, it also allows us to install Ubuntu on the MangoPi MQ Pro!

Is the Banana Pi M5 better than a Raspberry Pi 4? Banana Pi’s M5 has the performance to beat a Pi 4, though does a lack of WiFi/Bluetooth let it down?

The MangoPi MQ Pro has been compared to the Raspberry Pi Zero ever since it was announced but were we right to do so? Today we find out!

The MangoPi MQ Pro is a new Single Board Computer using the Allwinner D1 RISC-V chip and I’ve benchmarked it to see how it weighs up!

The Banana Pi M2 Zero (BPI-M2-ZERO) is a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W alternative with 512MB RAM and a quad-core ARM CPU. Is it worth getting given the Pi shortages?