Hackerboards: Making Finding The Right Single-Board Computer Easy – Hackaday
The great thing about the wide availability of single-board computers (SBCs) is that it offers such a large selection of options, in terms of CPU performance, GPU features, RAM size, I/O options and much more. This is however also the largest issue, especially with the annual surge of new boards with new feature sets. Trying to make sense of all these offerings is the recently overhauled Board-DB, also known as Hackerboards.
As [Martijn Braam] explains in the blog post on the changes, a major upgrade over the old Hackerboards (which we covered in 2016) is a far more extensive set of parameters that can be filtered against. This makes a fine-grained selection of detailed features significantly easier, which is also reflected in the technical specifications comparison feature. With over 450 active entries there are a lot of boards that can already be filtered on, but manufacturers are invited to take up contact to add further entries, which should keep the list up to date.
Incidentally, if you’d like to know how [Martijn] gets those gorgeous PCB photographs, he wrote a whole a separate write-up that goes over his camera setup.
Thanks to [Vlad] for the tip.
Oh this is awesome!! I’ve been using that site a few times a year for the last few years. Its been a wonderful resource and I’m happy they’ve updated it.
The author’s blog mentions it uses an SQLite backend because the site is mostly read-heavy, and doesn’t require JavaScript. I can confirm the site is damn fast and very enjoyable to use. Great job Martijn!!! And thank you!
I ask the board to show me boards with 32 GiB of “Memory / RAM (on board or expanded)” and 2 “Ethernet / LAN” ports and only I have no interest in x64 so I select “ARMv7” boards and I get 3 boards:
U5C ; Novasom ; NXP i.MX6ULL (1x @900Mhz ) ; 512.0 GiB RAM , 2x Ethernet
SBC-7530 ; Artila ; NXP i.MX6ULL (1x @800Mhz ) ; 512.0 GiB RAM , 2x Ethernet
DR4029 ; WallysTech ; Qualcomm IPQ4029 (4x @720Mhz ) ; 512.0 GiB RAM , 2x Ethernet
U5C has “RAM 512.0 GiB DDR3” in the “Hardware Specifications”, but above that it says “512MB RAM”.
SBC-7530 has “RAM 512.0 GiB DDR3L” in the “Hardware Specifications”, but above that it says “512MB RAM”.
DR4029 “RAM 512.0 GiB DDR” in the “Hardware Specifications”, but on the manufactures website it says “DDR 256MB~512MB”
I like the website, but the data needs to be double checked and verified and maybe a report problems link added.
I should probably add that “ARMv7 architecture is a 32-bit processor” so seeing 512GiB was making me smile.
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