Cubieboard2

A celebration of the possibilities with the Raspberry Pi like Cubieboard2

Finally got the cubieboard2 working!

It's just a headless torrent server at the moment. The HDMI output isn't so hot. The video is scrunched up into the top fourth of the screen. But the web interface for Transmission and SSH now work. Which is really what matters.

TODO:

• Wait for cubieboard upgrades to better support GPU and more monitor types. Specifically, my ancient 1680x1050 LCD. But cubieteam has SSH working as of Aug 3, 2013, so it's much less of an issue. HDMI is so 2002. As is WiFi. Ethernet is where it's at.
• Install and Configure OpenVPN.
• Add 1 TB harddrive. Cubieboard2 has SATA =D.
• Write scripts to intelligently sync with my power-hog with the massive disks and RAID array.
• Emails? When torrents are done? ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

As to how interacting with the computer over SSH feels, it responds quite snappily. Even for installing things. Seconds or minutes to install from apt-get. There is insta-response to pretty much all other commands I have tried.

Sooo... all in all, I am quite happy with the chip. (AllWinner A20: dual-core, 1 ghz.)

And all for ~5w. Which works out to roughly $4 per year, if I leave it on all the time. Or to put it another way, it takes like 5 of these to equal the output of a single CFL lightbulb. Oh ARM. You are amazing.