Another Cool Board Maker, New to Me

  
  I just ran across the Odroid Computer family, by a company in business for some years.

Made by hardkernel.com ((South Korea)

Their Raspberrry Pi-like boards run Linux and Arduino.
(fun to have a Gigahertz speed Arduino, hopefully in Arduino mode, real time code execution is predictable)

Their newest model the ODROID-XU4 has an ARM® big.LITTLE Octa core processor.
It runs Ubuntu 16.04 and Android 4.4 KitKat, 5.0 Lollipop and 7.1 Nougat.  (You can make a multi-system boot setup.)



 Benchmarks show the processor to be 7+ X faster than a Rasberry Pi 3.  Due to the 2 Ghz.
 Cortex-A15 cores on the $49 board.  ( 2 - Big 2 Ghz cores,  2 - little 1.4 Ghz cores)



While the Ras Pi System on Chip components are made by Broadcom (Irvine) the Odroid chip is made by Samsung (South Korea)

 Their Raspberry Pi like boards have a 40 pin GPO connector with Power, Ground and some signals matching the Pi's.

See their Wiki pages for more down and dirty details


I actually first ran into the site when one of their magazines came up in a search, they are much like the Raspberry Pi foundation magazines.  (Some of their application ideas should translate to the RasPi.

(Thry also make one ESP-32 and one X86 board)

Their designs are open source with accessible schematics.



 ----------------  Arduino on a Pi ! --------------

It's worth noting that you can execute Arduino on a Raspberry PI, after a fashion. Two different solutions cam out in 2016, there doesn't seem to be a lot of activity.
 (hopefully the Odroids can do it more gracefully)    

Kolban's video tutorial on setting up RasPiArduino

A tutorial article on RasPiArduino.

The RasPiArduino Github code page


Here's a  separately developed project:  PiDuino  he has made some cusom library extensions.
 A few lines on installation are given on this forum post, (where he is first made aware of
RasPiArduino).

   

Video: PIDuino Raspberry PI Programmed with Arduino IDE part 1   (no voice in these) 
Video: PIDuino Raspberry PI Programmed with Arduino IDE part 2

 Video:  Raspberry PI Piduino SSH part 3
 Videos 4-6 cover: More SSH & Particle IO

 Programming Raspberry PI with C    Referenced by above video pages.
Using the Arduino IDE, Particle Cloud, and Pure C 
 (He appends a one line review of PiDuino)




(There's some board out there named PiDuino as well...confusing)

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