@ -40,15 +40,15 @@ Sep 2013 was the estimated delivery date; I got in November the same year. Bette
### Impression
This came in a good pretty box, but there was nothing but board and if you did not know, UDOO was intentionally for education. That was why it packed with so many stuffs in there. In my opinion, SATA was one rare thing in this sorta board and at the price I paid, it was quite a deal.
This came in a good pretty box, but there was nothing but board. In my opinion, SATA was one rare thing in this sorta board and at the price I paid, it was quite a deal.
[![UDOO board](/sites/2015/01/udoo/board-sm.jpg)](/sites/2015/01/udoo/board.jpg) [![UDOO back](/sites/2015/01/udoo/back-sm.jpg)](/sites/2015/01/udoo/back.jpg) [![UDOO SATA](/sites/2015/01/udoo/sata-sm.jpg)](/sites/2015/01/udoo/sata.jpg) [![UDOO 3.5 DC jack](/sites/2015/01/udoo/dc-sm.jpg)](/sites/2015/01/udoo/dc.jpg)
UDOO was like every other ARM board. `dd`'ing image file to micro SD card and UDOO was ready to run. You would to bring your own 3.5mm jack 12VDC adapter with 2A to make it operate fully functional with all stuffs attached.
UDOO was like every other ARM board. `dd`'ing image file to micro SD card and UDOO was ready to run. You would have to bring your own 3.5mm jack 12VDC adapter with 2A to make it operate fully functional with all stuffs attached.
GPIO max voltage was 3.3V. It did work like you connected any Arduino board to your computer with USB. If you had ever used Raspberry Pi, UDOO was faster, but it was fast enough like Intel NUC. I honestly didn't know that ARM CPU would be able to achieve the same level as x86 CPU as far as desktop experience was concerned. To compare with more comparable CPU, Odroid-XU which had Samsung Exynos5 1.6GHz Big.Little CPU (4-core A15 + 4-core A7 which couldn't be used at the same time, but throttling back and forth) UDOO was a bit slower. UDOO's wasn't that stable in hot weather at least it rebooted randomly during the day in Thailand, but worked fine at night. I guessed a big black heatsick wasn't enough. Wifi wasn't that reliable either; it got crankly after sleep most of the time. I was happier with a Wifi USB, of course.
GPIO max voltage was 3.3V. It did work like you connected any Arduino board to your computer with USB. If you had ever used Raspberry Pi, UDOO was faster, but it was fast enough like Intel NUC. I honestly didn't know that ARM CPU would be able to achieve the same level as x86 CPU as far as desktop experience was concerned. To compare with more comparable CPU, Odroid-XU which had Samsung Exynos5 1.6GHz Big.Little CPU (4-core A15 + 4-core A7 which couldn't be used at the same time, but throttling back and forth) UDOO was a bit slower. UDOO's wasn't that stable in hot weather at least it rebooted randomly during the day in Thailand, but worked fine at night. I guessed a big black heatsink wasn't enough. Wifi wasn't that reliable either; got crankly after sleep most of the time. I was happier with a Wifi USB, of course.
Honestly, I didn't use UDOO regularly since I found an 5VDC ARM board powered was much easier to operate; smaller adapter or even obiquitous phone adapter would work properly. Also, with all extra stuffs coming with UDOO wasn't useful to me much. I regular had only a sensor attached to gather data which 76 fully GPIO were surely overqualified. Maybe I just wasn't the target.