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Just to pick up on a few threads, as I know how popular the R-Pi is, I thought I'd highlight a few ARM boards I have enjoyed working with, at or slightly above the price-point of the R-pi, but often sourced from much further afield. Firstly, I was looking for an embedded board for a work project, and came across the Wandboard (http://www.wandboard.org/) - this comes in single, dual and quad-core variants, the dual+quad with wifi and bluetooth, and quad with Sata on-board. All have a low-power sound codec too, and in/out/mic jacks. It's a bit more expensive, and harder to get hold of, but quite a versatile board to play with. Secondly, I came across the Banana pi (http://www.banana-pi.org/) which I liked because it would interface directly to Pi peripherals, but being an Allwinner A20 cpu, it had many of the features I liked (physical ethernet port!) and SATA which the R-Pi couldn't support. I got a bit carried away then, and came across the Orange-Pi, and having decided I liked the "Pi" theme I had stumbled upon, bought an Orange-Pi plus, also with the wifi, gigabit ethernet, 4x usb and SATA again. This has a quad-core CPU and runs well completely standalone. It was slightly harder to get this running with debian, but a forum poster came to the rescue, and I soon had the on-board eMMC programmed up with an XFCE desktop :). If you want to do electronic interfacing, there is always the Beaglebone Black, which having solved its manufacturing delays by allowing element14 to build a bulk volume of approved clones, has a load of IO pins and UARTs and buses available via its expansion headers. If anyone would like to see these boards, I will hopefully be visiting the DC lug meetings soon - my free-time commitments have been a bit manic lately, but I have been wanting to meet the group for a while now.
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