{"id":168,"date":"2020-06-25T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.apolonio.tech\/?p=168"},"modified":"2020-06-25T22:37:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T05:37:57","slug":"atomic-pi-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.apolonio.tech\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Pi Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday I was perusing the Internet when viewing some youtube videos when I came across one mentioning a cheap x86 based Single Board Computer. This SBC called an Atomic Pi caught me off guard, I thought this thing would cross my path due to me being involved in so many maker things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This board was so cheap at $35.95 + tax that I purchased two and it came in quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My order from yesterday came in today
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The box contained the 3 smaller bags, a quickstart document and a cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contents of my Atomic Pi order<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It did not come with a power supply, it needs a 5V power supply at 2.5A. What is different from a Raspberry Pi is that it has this breakout board you attach to the SBC and it has a standard DC barrel connect to an AC to DC wall wart you can find. I had two lying around that would work, one had 3A so I used it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baby breakout board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here is the device itself<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atomic Pi Unwrapped<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For $35.95 + tax you get the board, the baby card, camera with cable. Something must be wrong with this thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not really though, for the price it impressed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ethernet side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I call this the ethernet side. The NIC is a RTL8111\/8168\/8411 and looks like a real PHY not a USB ethernet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately it only has a single USB3 port, the white connector next to the USB port is for the camera, but I some documentation also says it is a USB 2 port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HDMI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This side I will call the HDMI side, it is a full size HDMI which most of my monitors can connect to without an adapter for the cable. The two white connectors on that same side is a UART and volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reset Side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This side has button meant to reset the RTC (why that is weird) and a slot for a micro SD card. This is also the side where power would go in when the baby card is attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GPIO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am not sure what would go on this side, I know those two smaller connectors seem to be for audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are more specs of the device<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Intel(R) Atom(TM) x5-Z8350 CPU @ 1.44GHz<\/li>
  • 16 GB of Internal eMMC storage<\/li>
  • 2GB of RAM (and I could be reading it wrong looks to be ECC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    I plugged in HDMI, USB KVM hub which had a Keyboard and Mouse, network cable, then powered it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On first boot it wanted to PXE boot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    PXE Boot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    So stopped it and had it boot to the eMMC which had a light version of ubuntu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Ubuntu on Atomic Pi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    After a bit of rebooting and playing around, I learned that F7 would let you choose what to boot to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (sorry no screen shot of that)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After PXE boot over network using UEFI I was able to install CentOS 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    UEFI net boot to CentOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    I had to manually install because most of my kickstarts were for disks with either NVME or SATA, not eMMC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But I was successful<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Successful Install of CentOS 7 on Atomic Pi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    I will post more later, but this was a nice little diversion from my Zoneminder stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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