INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
When we last met UDOO, the team was building a powerful Raspberry Pi-based DIY board with a bunch of impressive features, including more
ports and a better processor
Now the team behind the first units has released the UDOO BOLT, a DIY board that can run &AAA games& thanks to a built-in AMD Ryzen Embedded
V1202B 3.2 GHz SoC processor and a Radeon Vega 3 graphics card
The system is also Arduino compatible so you can connect it to your robotics and other electronics projects.
The BOLT, when outfitted with a
chunk of RAM, is, according to the creators, &almost twice as powerful as a MacBook Pro 13-inch equipped with an Intel i5, and three times
more powerful than a Mac Mini.& Because it is nearly a fully fledged computer, you can stick it into a case and treat it like a
mini-workstation with a USB keyboard and mouse and HDMI out to a monitor
The BOLT can drive four monitors at once, two via 4K HDMI and two via USB-C
It runs Linux or Windows.
The team plans to ship in December 2018
The starter kit costs $298 on Kickstarter and includes a power supply and 4GB of RAM
The 8GB unit with SATA and Wireless costs $409.
Is a DIY board with a massive processor and graphics card a bit of overkill Absolutely
However, because the system is designed for experimentation and on-the-fly design, you can easily repurpose a board like this for a kiosk,
store display or workstation
Because it is so portable, you could slap a few of these on school desks and give the kids powerful computers that run nearly everything you
Plus, it pretty cool to be able to play VR games on a machine the size of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
UDOO has been adding onto the
traditional Raspberry Pi/Arduino stack for so long that they&ve become experts at making basic boards much more powerful
Given their earlier models could run drones and control multi-legged robots all while running Android, this new product should be a real
