Buying a 4GB RAM SBC should be easy. Pick a budget, compare processors, and buy the fastest board that fits. Then Raspberry Pi 5, Orange Pi 5, and KiwiPi 5 Pro make the decision awkward. Raspberry Pi 5 has the weakest hardware (at least on paper) and no NPU. Orange Pi 5 is faster and … Read more
A Rockchip board that no longer boots is not necessarily dead. If a failed update damages the bootloader, the processor can still expose a low-level USB recovery interface called Maskrom mode. It sits below Android, Linux, U-Boot, and the loader stored on eMMC or SPI flash. That makes Maskrom the most dependable recovery path on … Read more
A MIPI connector may look like an ordinary ribbon-cable socket, but its appearance tells you surprisingly little about what can actually be connected to it. Two connectors can have the same number of pins and the same physical dimensions while using different pinouts, voltages, lane configurations, and even interface standards. This is the main source … Read more
If you’ve ever tried to flash a custom firmware onto an Orange Pi, recover a bricked Radxa board, or simply get your Windows PC to recognize a Rockchip-powered device, you’ve probably run into a familiar problem: your computer just doesn’t see it. You plug in the USB cable, and nothing happens. No new drive appears, … Read more
