Le Potatoe SBC (AML-S905X-CC) Notes

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Intro

An almost Raspberry Pi 3 replacement. Notably no WiFi, but at least I could buy one at the moment, as rPi's are like gold dust...

High level board diagram with pinout for Le Potatoe SBC [Ref]

Installing Ubuntu 18 (Bionic)

Download the file libre-computer-aml-s905x-cc-ubuntu-bionic-headless-4.19.55+-2019-06-24.zip.

Use gnome-disks [Ref] or any other program of your choosing to write to an SD card, then insert into the board. Power up.

Default login should be [Ref]:

Username: libre
Password: computer

GPIO

Examples taken from Libre Computer Tutorial.