This board is begging for RO5.

So I stumbled upon Asus Tinker Board which you can buy here

I have to say, it’s tempting to port RO to but probably beyond my abilities as I’m still a RO newbie.

Still, 4K support, 2 GB RAM, gigabit eth, 3 year warranty and made by reputable ASUS, it’s extremely tempting.

Thoughts?

Hmmm… It’s fairly cheap (about fifty quid) and appears to have extensive documentation http://rockchip.fr/RK3288%20TRM/

Is the board popular? Does it sell well? There have been a plethora of ARM boards that have come and gone, though admittedly most with abysmal documentation…

;-) Have a look at this thread

There have been a plethora of ARM boards that have come and gone, though admittedly most with abysmal documentation…

The ASUS web site has a nice collection of broken links and areas with zero file content when you start searching for the ASUS specific documentation so your largely on the chip manufacturers info

;-) Have a look at this thread

I searched the forums before posting and couldn’t find anything. I think I will get one.

The ASUS web site has a nice collection of broken links and areas with zero file content when you start searching for the ASUS specific documentation so your largely on the chip manufacturers info

Disappointing, but the chip is 90% of the problem so I don’t think it would put my off. Might get one next month.

Disappointing, but the chip is 90% of the problem so I don’t think it would put my off. Might get one next month.

Have fun.
Maybe a query to ASUS would get them to fix the broken links and supply more info?

Maybe a query to ASUS would get them to fix the broken links and supply more info?

I wonder how much they’d be willing to support developers since it already has debian and only costs £50ish

Well, the quality of reply will make or break it as a “tinker” board. There’s approximately zero point in trying to tinker with a thing that has scarce documentation, unless of course their idea of tinkering is using Python on top of a pre-configured Linux in order to turn an LED on and off…..

has scarce documentation,

or would “sparse” be a more appropriate word?

Python on top of a pre-configured Linux in order to turn an LED on and off…..

More interested in its desktop performance, although pins might be important for rtc modules.

or would “sparse” be a more appropriate word?

No.

I asked Google the difference so I could be lazy and just copy-paste why I think scarce is a better word…

The implication in my comment is not that there are big gaps in the documentation, but that it’s damn hard to get any decent documentation at all and what there might be is so often wrapped up in ideas of trade secrets and NDAs and rubbish that the simplest option is to just shrug and write off whatever it was that was interesting and look elsewhere… :-(
This is all so alien to somebody who grew up with the bloody schematic of his computer (Beeb) and information on the behaviour of all the major parts… And this was pre-internet when one bought the Advanced User Guide (to fill in the bits the ridiculously large User Guide didn’t cover) and got photocopied datasheets from Farnell.

Huh?

My emphasis.

Bottom of the spec page: https://www.asus.com/uk/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/specifications/

bummer. not as appealing. Still 2GB and gigabit still make it an interesting option.

At least you can push a Pi (any Pi) to true 4K, albeit only at 24Hz.

To be honest, I’m still use 1080p monitors. I don’t know why I’ve want a high resolution. 24hz does seem incredibly low, I must say.

Full sentence.

The ARM® Quad-Core Mali GPU supports max. resolution of 4K@30hz (up-scaled from 1080P) with H.264/H.265 hardware decoder (update coming soon).

They’re talking about video playback.

They’re talking about video playback.

Hmm, so I’d better not feed it any of the QHD videos my phone can make. ;-)

I don’t know why I’ve want a high resolution. 24hz does seem incredibly low, I must say.

The resolution is actually the same as on a 22" 1920×1080 monitor – there’s just 4x the screen area, so I can get a lot more stuff on screen. Big diagrams in !Draw, or lots of text. Good for being able to see a lot of a program at once, or to cut and paste between multiple files or multiple views on different parts of the same file. A much bigger desk to spread your work out on, rather than having to riffle through the pile of papers on a tiny desk to find the one you want.

I really don’t notice any slowness at 24 Hz, but then I’m not playing video games, I’m reading and writing stuff or studying or drawing diagrams & illustrations.

The Mac Mini only manages 30 Hz at 4K.

I asked Google the difference so I could be lazy and just copy-paste why I think scarce is a better word…

Thank you for the clarification – though I don’t care much for that definition’s use of “widely spaced intervals”, which seems a bit limiting!

http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/index.html?Desk2017

Edit: I’ve now fixed the site to use PHP for the ?, not Javascript. So that link won’t work any more, but this will:

http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/index.php?Desk2017 – and won’t depend on you having scripts enabled.

This board is begging for RO5

To throw another contender into the ring, although it has been discussed before ;-) I would suggest that this board is begging for RISC OS.

http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/index.html?Desk2017

Now that’s an impressive set-up!!!

To throw another contender into the ring, although it has been discussed before ;-) I would suggest that this board is begging for RISC OS.

http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/index.html?Desk2017

Unfortunately not viewable under RISCOS? Sort it, Clive!

Unfortunately not viewable under RISCOS? Sort it, Clive!

I don’t think it’s up to me to fix RISCOS’s browser(s) 8~) … it’s presumably the Javascript that’s fouling it up? You can have a direct link to the frame: http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/Desk2017.html (but that means you don’t get the navigation to the rest of my site)

I would suggest that this board is begging for RISC OS.

Wow. Yes! M.2 is quite exciting and so is type-C.

I don’t think it’s up to me to fix RISCOS’s browser

Rumour has it they do want more developers for RO.

Rumour has it they do want more developers for RO.

If I only could, I surely would…sadly working on RISCOS’s browsers would require skills I do not possess.