Nice!
Although I’ve been lured in by the appeal of crazy-inexpensive tech before, usually I end up being frustrated when I start bumping up against the upper limits of the tech’s capabilities.
You have to be realistic about cheap gear of course.
This is a 700mhz ARM11 with a graphics processor along side.
You need a good SD card (Sandisk is good). Don’t try to run too many programs at once... just 700mhz so it can’t handle what a quad core 3.5ghz machine can.
I tried playing some HD videos, some played better than others...some would freeze for a second now and then. I probably have something configured wrong. (XBMC) It’s amazing that something this cheap can play HD at all.
It has 2 rows of gpio pins on the board. I will try controlling those and see if I can make an LED blink :-)
I program ARM so perhaps I can get something going.