Build your own tablet with this $31 Orange Pi CM5 baseboard

The Orange Pi CM5 is a computer-on-a-module that launched earlier this year with a Rockchip RK3588S processor and support for up to 16GB of memory. At the time Orange Pi introduced a baseboard for the CM5 that would give the little computer a bunch of ports including USB, HDMI, and Ethernet.

Now Orange Pi has launched a new baseboard designed to let you build your own tablet, although you could also use it for other applications. The new Orange Pi CM5 Tablet Base Board is available from Amazon for $31.

One of the biggest differences between the original baseboard and the tablet version is that the original had three Ethernet ports and the tablet board has none. But the tablet board supports WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, while the original board does not.

There’s also a 26-pin GPIO header, more interfaces for video output, allowing you to use a MIPI-DSI interface for a tablet screen and an M.2 2280 M-Key connector with support for a PCIe 2.0 NVMe x1 SSD.

Some of the Orange Pi CM5 Tablet Base Board’s key features include:

• 3 x 100-pin connectors for an Orange Pi CM5
• 1 x USB 3.0 Type-C (DP 1.4 alt mode and data)
• 1 x USB 3.0 Type-A
• 1 x USB 2.0 Type-A
• 1 x USB Type-C (for 5V/5A power)
• 1 x HDMI 2.1
• 1 x 3.5mm audio
• 1 x M.2 2280 PCIe 2.0 x1 connector
• 1 x microSD card reader
• 1 x MIPI-DSI 4-lane
• 2 x MIPI D-PHY RX 2-lane
• 1 x MIPI-CSI 4-lane
• 1 6-pin battery holder
• 1 x 26-pin connector
• 1 x onboard microphone
• 2 x speaker sockets
• 1 x IR receiver
• 1 x WiFi 5/BT 5.0 chip

The board measures 90 x 66mm (3.54″ x 2.6″) and weighs 43 grams (1.52 ounces).

While the board is relatively affordable, keep in mind that it’s useless without an Orange Pi CM5 compute module, which sells for around $78 and up at AliExpress or $87 and up at Amazon. And you’ll also need to supply you own display, battery, case, and other components if you’re actually looking to build a tablet.

via CNX Software and @orangepixunlong

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Orange Pi CM5 is a RK3588S compute module with up to 16GB RAM and a Raspberry Pi CM4-like form factor

The Orange Pi CM5 is a computer-on-a-module that looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. In fact, you can even use it with carrier boards designed for the Raspberry Pi module.

But to get the most out of the Orange Pi CM5 you might want to use a board that’s built for it. That’s because Orange Pi’s version has a faster processor, support for more memory, an integrated AI accelerator, and more I/O interfaces. So while the Raspberry Pi CM4 has two 100-pin connectors that let you attach it to a carrier board, the Orange Pi version has three 100-pin connectors.

At the heart of the module is a Rockchip RK3588S processor with four ARM Cortex-A76 CPU cores that can run at speeds up to 2.4 GHz, four Cortex-A55 cores with support for frequencies up to 1.8 GHz, a Mali-G610 MP4 GPU, a 6 TOPS AI accelerator, and support for 8K/60 fps video playback and 8K/30 fps video encoding.

The 55 x 40mm (2.2″ x 1.6″) board is available with 2GB to 16GB of LPDDR4x memory and 32GB to 256GB of eMMC flash storage.

Since this compute module lacks any full-sized ports of its own, you’ll need to connect it to a carrier board for power, video, and peripherals. But those three 100-pin connectors include everything a carrier board needs to enable two SATA interfaces for storage, HDMI 2.1 and eDP 1.3 interfaces for video output, as well as MIPI-DSI display and MIPI-SCI camera connectors.

The board also supports PCIe Gen 2, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0, and SDIO connections.

The Orange Pi CM5 is available now from AliExpress for $70 and up (the starting price is for a model with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC flash storage).

There’s also a $20 base board that features:

• 1 x USB Type-C port for power
• 1 x USB 3.0 Type-A port
• 1 x USB 2.0 Type-A port
• 1 x HDMI 2.1 port
• 2 x 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports
• 1 x Gigabit Ethernet port
• 1 x microSD card reader
• 1 x RTC connector
• 1 x 5V fan interface
• 1 x IR receiver
• 1 x user-defined button
• 4 x MIPI-CSI camera connectors

The base board measures 90 x 66mm (3.5″ x 2.6″), making it a little larger than a full-sized Raspberry Pi board.

via CNX Software

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