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So with the ooh-ing and ah-ing that accompanies the unboxing of a new toy out of the way, we set to work bringing the C2 out of its slumber. This means that the underside of the board requires a little more room than other boards. The SD socket is positioned next to the GPIO pins with a higher profile such that the card protrudes over the bottom of the pins.

On the underside are the other two RAM chips, the SD card socket, and the eMMC socket. The SD card is in a slightly unusual position The micro-USB power is a USB OTG port and not the power port you might be expecting in this form factor. There is a UART socket and infrared receiver at the end opposite the USB and network ports, and a 2.5mm power jack next to the HDMI socket.

Of course the only case we had to hand was a PiBow which are cut for specific Pi models, so sadly we couldn’t test that assertion.Īside from the Ethernet, USB, HDMI, and GPIO ports, most of the top of the board is occupied by a low-profile heatsink that covers the processor and two of the RAM chips. Otherwise it looks as though it should fit most Pi cases. There are a few differences, no camera or DSI connectors, the SD card in a different place, a power jack where the Pi has its audio jack, and oddly the network port is the other way up. When unpacking the board it is immediately obvious how closely they’ve followed the Raspberry Pi form factor. We had ordered a couple of extras: a micro-SD card preloaded with Ubuntu and a USB power lead (more on that later), both were present and correct.

The parcel from Korea arrived in due course, the C2 in its box inside it well protected by a sturdy cardboard outer packaging. This could be a board of great interest to our readers, so we ordered one for review. With four ARM Cortex A53 cores at 2GHz and 2Gb of DDR3 on board it has a paper spec that comfortably exceeds that of the Pi 3’s 1.2GHz take on the same cores and 1Gb of DDR2.

A couple of weeks ago we covered the launch of the Odroid C2, a single board computer from the Korean company Hardkernel in the same form factor and price segment as the Raspberry Pi 3.

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