Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative

Re:Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative by majke on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:47PM (#7811724)

Quad core doesn't excite me. Low power usage does.

Does anyone know Raspberry Pi alternative that uses little power and supports low power states?

AFAIK RPI has pretty flat power usage at ~500-1000mA. BeagleBone Black seems to be lower power (~200mA?) but it's hard to verify this claim.

(I need a box that will mostly stay idle but online, for things like ssh servers)

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Re:Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative by dublinben on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @02:08PM (#7811843)

I can confirm that the BBB uses no more than 500mA while running intensive tasks. I have mine connected to a power supply that only provides that much, and it hasn't had any issues.

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Re:Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative by mongrol on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @06:55PM (#7813510)

Beaglebone Black all the way. Low powered, more grunt than a Rpi and can run with no binary blobs whatsoever.

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Re:Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative by Pfiffer on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:50PM (#7811751)

I'd be interested in this too. Have you looked at maybe using the WR703n[0]? It runs OpenWRT. I think that hovers around 500mA as well, though.

[0] - http://www.everbuying.com/product65368.html

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Re:Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative by maguirre on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @02:53PM (#7812079)

I was excited about the BBB specially because of the NAND Flash availability. In similar fashion as the RPi back in the day lead time is (as far as I can tell) in months

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Re:Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative by adventureloop on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @03:32PM (#7812286)

Whats your application? We have a pi up a mountain on a solar panel and it is doing ok.

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