ZeroPi A Super Tiny Fast GigE Allwinner H3 Single Board Computer with 512M DDR3 RAM Bunlde with Metal Case

Works as expected for the most part. The wiki link you can obtain from performing a web search for this board will give several options on how to burn an iso onto a Micro SD card and from there it is a breeze. The Wiki gives the default admin/password for the iso as well.I used Etcher and burned the given Ubuntu Core onto my [Lexar 633x 128GB micro SD card]; my purpose for this is for a .NET 5.0 web service for delivering image and video content hosted on my home NAS to local users. Everything went well for the most part. After updating and installing all the libraries, everything seemed to work as expected (other than one issue described at the bottom of this). The ZeroPi extended my partition for me to full card size of 128GB which was very helpful, my Raspberry Pi's did not do this so I did not expect it to.One of the first things I noticed is that this is a 32 bit ARM processor (NOT 64 bit) which I initially overlooked when purchasing; this is not an issue for me but it may be useful for you the reader. My .NET 5.0 service can deliver several 4k videos out through websockets with no lag on buffering at all. The .NET app runs SHA3 processing on content while it is not doing anything else and this causes it some processor overload. Because this is ARM 32 bit, I had to use SERIES.ONE Keccak library for the hashing which may not be optimized/utilizing the hardware as much as it could, but the CPU seems to be a bit over load while hashing four files over 1GB at a time. The little machine has been pushed beyond its limits and even though it may slow down under heavy load (as expected), it has never had a critical issue.While it is not specifically the product, the ISO is the only way to utilize thr product, therefore I removed one star because the given ISO image has a critical flaw in that the partition 0 was assigned only 40MB. I won't get into too much detail, but anyone who has a day's experience in this field knows that upgrades require far more than 40MB. The result of this amateur oversight is that users are stuck on Ubuntu Core 16.04LTS which has been scheduled to end on April 30, 2021 (in about 4 months) and anyone using this is unable to upgrade to any other version (because of the 40MB limit). For certain, at some point all users who are using this device will have to clone off all desired files from the card onto a new one when upgrading because it is impossible to perform standard OS upgrades on the given image unless you have a visual screen to boot locally (cannot perform remote/ssh partition modifications).If you are planning to use Ubuntu Core, and are not able to build your own image (ISO), you definitely should not purchase this item; you will have to build your own image starting in May 2021 in order to use this device as intended.

Arrived at my local Amazon locker in 4 days. Probably not much stock in North America for these (14 when I bought, down to 9 five days later) and of course you're paying $30 instead of $15 so you don't have to wait two months for China Post shipping.Arrived pre-assembled with heatsink in the black case. All I had to do was snug the screws a little after disassembling to admire the board.The push-push SD card slot is good, and the Micro USB plug retention on mine was extremely strong.I've got it working with Samsung EVO 32gb SD cards, images burned with Etcher, from both DietPi and Armbian.Be sure you get the images built for the Zero, not the NEO/NEO2. Armbian for NEO didn't DHCP properly (makes sense, NEO is 10/100 and Zero has gigabit).These boards have no headers except the TTL debug; you're relying on the Ethernet port for everything.Very happily experimenting with Node-Red and SQLite now.

Pi-Hole - a tool to shut up some of the deluge of advertising. If you are going to spy on me, I should do my best to ignore your advertising. ( or something like that )Anyhow - standard DSL router will have an ethernet port or two and a USB port, never clear why they have USB ports, but they do. USB power, Ethernet connection, perfectly functional Linux/Ubuntu computer.( Upgrading Linux to a more recent version will be exciting - so I bought another one to play with .. )