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pcDuino is a small (12,5x5,2cm), hacker friendly, low-cost while powerful ARM board with Allwinner A10 SoC, with its major feature being that it has Arduino Compatible Headers as extendable ports.

=Overview= pcDuino is a new development board based on Allwinner A10 Cortex A8 SoC that comes with 1GB RAM and 2GB Flash, HDMI output, USB, as well as Ethernet RJ45 network interface ports, and is said to feature 2.54mm pin headers compatible with Arduino boards.

The board comes preloaded with Ubuntu 12.10, but it also supports Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) as operating-system. The “Arduino compatible header” allow you to connect any Arduino shield to pcDuino, and pcDuino developers have written C code to allow programming the I/O like an Arduino.

The company provides Ubuntu and Android images, tools (liveSuite/Phoenix card), a user guide, and some hardware files for the board: mechanical drawings (PDF and DXF) and schematics (PDF). In their user manual, they compare pcDuino to the Raspberry Pi, but it’s actually much closer to the Cubieboard, albeit with less exposed I/O pins.

The board is available now, and can be purchased for $59(US) retail price.

=pcDuino specifications=
 * SoC – AllWinner A10 ARM Cortex A8 CPU @ 1GHz + Mali-400 GPU
 * System Memory – 1GB DRAM
 * Storage – 2GB Flash + SD card slot for up to 32GB
 * Video Output – HDMI
 * USB – 2x USB 2.0 Host, 1x USB-OTG 2.0 (microusb)
 * Connectivity:
 * Ethernet – 10/100 Mbps (RJ45)
 * Wi-Fi – Via USB Wi-Fi dongle (not included with the board)
 * Headers – 2.54mm pin headers: 1x UART, 6x ADCs, 2x PWMs up to 24MHz, 14x GPIOs, 1x I2C and 1x SPI.
 * Power Supply – 5V/2A
 * Dimensions – 125mm x 52mm

= Community =
 * pcduino.com - official homepage

=References=

External

 * pcduino.com - official homepage