The orange pi one is a neat little board for those who wish to play with linux and electronics. However, since the software isn't as neat and documented as the RPi platform, I wouldn't recommend it to beginers. As for the OS, don't bother trying to download from orange pi website. just head to armbian website and download the OS from there. I am planning to use my board as an embedded controller because of price. It's a lot more work but it's way cheaper than buying a commmercial product.

The orange pi one is a neat little board for those who wish to play with linux and electronics. However, since the software isn't as neat and documented as the RPi platform, I wouldn't recommend it to beginers. As for the OS, don't bother trying to download from orange pi website. just head to armbian website and download the OS from there. I am planning to use my board as an embedded controller because of price. It's a lot more work but it's way cheaper than buying a commmercial product.

The orange pi one is a neat little board for those who wish to play with linux and electronics. However, since the software isn't as neat and documented as the RPi platform, I wouldn't recommend it to beginers. As for the OS, don't bother trying to download from orange pi website. just head to armbian website and download the OS from there. I am planning to use my board as an embedded controller because of price. It's a lot more work but it's way cheaper than buying a commmercial product.

I just test it with two different OS (Raspbian from orange pi website and Armbian) and it work perfectly. It is faster than my raspberry pi b+. everything work fine (network,usb,grahics). You have to put heatsink on cpu because it is very hot. Not tested GPIO yet.

I just test it with two different OS (Raspbian from orange pi website and Armbian) and it work perfectly. It is faster than my raspberry pi b+. everything work fine (network,usb,grahics). You have to put heatsink on cpu because it is very hot. Not tested GPIO yet.

I just test it with two different OS (Raspbian from orange pi website and Armbian) and it work perfectly. It is faster than my raspberry pi b+. everything work fine (network,usb,grahics). You have to put heatsink on cpu because it is very hot. Not tested GPIO yet.