Mango Pi MQ-Pro RISC-V SBC

"RISC architecture is going to change everything" 1995. Its amazing how fast this actually is, this would not be possible 10 years ago. Has anyone built a dragonfly imagine?

What's the most lightweight web browser with adblocking capabilities, like installing Ublock Origin?

Is connecting the fiddly antenna necessary? Will it damage the board, if we don't connect it?

Ok sounds compelling, but what exactly does all that stuff you’re saying mean?

When Ronald Reagan was President, he would have approved of the Mango Pi MQ-Pro for Star Wars

that barnet always gets me

"Armbian on RISC V" is more than a bit amusing.

Great video! Did you notice in your tests whether this board has a low power or sleep mode? It would be useful to wake it up with a microcontroller without having to go through the complete boot process for certain things.

Really nice demonstration. I'd like to see with a lighter wm like icewm or i3

Armbian is running a lot better now than it was in March 2023. I got it to boot to desktop with xkde but graphics operations were measured in minutes. This almost looks like a 386 which is mostly rendering things in a reasonable amount of time.

How to connect CSI DVR camera to mango pi mq pro with 18pin fpc single board pc? If i uderstand corectly i should design own extension board. Im right?

But can it run Crysis?

2d graphic accelerator. Oh baby.

I love your work, Chris. You have the right attitude, foresight, perspective and knowledge to make these videos a cut above the rest. I will see you again.. verrry soon.

Isn't Radxa zero 2 coming out also?

The rate of development is going to EXPLODE by orders of magnitude compared to x86 and ARM which are already mature... The cost, simplicity and open nature make RISC V a better future proof platform for the masses. I expect China will lead the way in development so expect trillions in investment as they are being forced to do so geopolitically.

LOL "If you were interested in inspecting every frame in a video then this would be perfect" I immediately started humming to myself, Monty Python's "always look on the bright side of life". Good on you Gary keep up the awesome work I luv your channel.

Trolling?

thanks

Surprised it’s not called grapefruit pi

While the advancements in RISC-V are certainly exciting, it's crucial that manufacturers feel motivated to provide robust driver support. Based on my research, it seems FTDI currently doesn't offer support for RISC-V, limiting it to x86, x64, ARM, and MIPS32 (as per AN_220). Recent Ubuntu releases that I've used all natively support FTDI without any additional installation required. I'm genuinely curious if Chris's successful Ubuntu server installation included any inherent kernel or distribution support for such devices.

Can you boot from a 128GB micro SD card?

Risc ........... this brings me back to the AMIGA TRANSPUTER PROJECT how glorious it was in its days. Who doesn't remember the T800!?!?!

But but....... Mango is yellow ;(

The amount of bloat is unbelievable

how to install chromium browser

This Mango Pi has everything from H.O.M.E.R. & Supercomputers to A Quantum computer & J.A.R.V.I.S. were blastastic useless.

Hey man, have you seen what Mr Iot tech are doing? it is so amazing and you should really take a look

Can it use raspberry pi cameras

As more developers get involved, the optimisations for RISC-V and its associated graphics drivers will yield better results. I expect that future revisions of the hardware will also increase performance. These early RISC-V boards are important in starting the process whereby the platform improves over time.

I really hope more powerful RiscV SBC coming

Thanks for your great and clear reviews! I love them. If I may suggest a very interesting retro-like tiny computer/ Memory Operating System: The AGON light: New open source 8-bit System. A very compact open-source system using a modern Z80 variant, an ESP32 chip and 512kb of static RAM running MOS and BBC basic very fast. Even boasting a GPIO header for interfacing to external electronics. Would like you to review this one, I think you'll love it.

could you run raspian on this?

Very nice little thingy, but still way far from useability for everyday micro-desktop use.
They are barely useable for ultra-low cost development use, and also in this case, spending not much more, you can afford much powerful SoC's, isn't it?

Thank you Chris for making us know all about those very interesting devices! ❤

An open source GPU anyone?

Has anyone managed to get the GPIO to work?

I‘d be interested in its camera interface.
Most of them have one and I consider it underrepresented and underanalysed.
Some have proprietary camera modules.
Some others.

Thank you

The D1 (I think it's called) also has a fairly chunky DSP copro which you can run one of the lightweight tensorflow flavours on!
And hardware codecs for video, so it's probably just a support problem for video playback (Linux Vs video hardware, the eternal battle continues)

Back when I was in college, it took 24 hours to render a ray tracing image on a Sun3 machine.

Was getting nowhere fast. Then found the login is "root" and the password is "1234" my main problem is my USB hub is not giving the full 5 Volts my mouse & keyboard need. This is actually a great little SBC with Armbian 22.08.0

Hmm, seems like this has no hardware acceleration for video at all and does everything with the cpu, doesn't it?

That dillo browser has serious Windows 95 vibes lol!

How much does the Mango PI cost? If it's cheaper than RPI, then it may have chance for commercial success.

Thanks for the review. Do you think it is fast enough for running magic mirror?

I got interested in RISC-V since one of your first videos about it. I also have some projects that I wanted to run on a Raspberry Pi, but after watching this video, I went ahead and bought a mango pi from Aliexpress. I can't wait for it to arrive. Thank you for inspiring my curiosity about RISC-V.

Thank you!

How did Windows 95 render low fidelity video? I remember late DOS games and early Win95 games playing 160x120 256 colors or maybe even 320x240 256 colors during fmvs/cutscenes. I also remember streaming Limp Bizkit music videos from their website. They had an option to stream @ "28.8 quality" (just 3.5 kilobytes per second). I had a 166 MHz cpu with mmx extensions in that rig. How was any of this possible? Those early dabblings into video compression and video rendering were astounding at the time.

Hi Chris, thanks to your video I bought a Mango Pi MQ-Pro, which arrived from China to the Netherlands in about a week, nice.
However, I have problem booting it, so much so that I was under the impression my MangoPi was faulty. Only with the image on their own site, with xfce desktop, I was able to boot it, so it works, but the video is a bit flaky. The Ubuntu server image I tried did nothing at all. Which image did you use to boot Ubuntu server (with link please). I bought it so I can have a stab at RISC-V assembler language on the actual hardware, which is a bit different from my 80s old and rusty Z80 assembler skills, just for fun.
Thanks in advance,
Albert