{"id":3424,"date":"2017-05-02T20:57:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T03:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2017-05-02T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T03:57:02","slug":"my-espressobin-board-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/my-espressobin-board-is-up\/","title":{"rendered":"My EspressoBIN board is up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvell and Globalscale Technologies developed a new single-board computer called the EspressoBIN (<a href=\"http:\/\/espressobin.net\/\">website<\/a>). Unlike any other cheap SBC I am aware of, it has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 ethernet ports<\/li>\n<li>a SATA port<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, it&#8217;s perfect to act as a home router with an attached hard drive that runs apps. Now, where have we heard that before? Ah yes, Indie Box and <a href=\"http:\/\/ubos.net\/\">UBOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have been very eager to get my hands on it, and backed the project on Kickstarter. Last week I received the board, and now it&#8217;s up, running<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archlinuxarm.org\/platforms\/armv8\/marvell\/espressobin\">Arch Linux ARM<\/a> for now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0008-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"EspressoBIN with drive\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0008-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0008-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0008-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it talks to the hard drive:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-02-at-20.44.32-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-02-at-20.44.32-.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-05-02 at 20.44.32\" width=\"658\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-02-at-20.44.32-.png 658w, https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-02-at-20.44.32--300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s all very nice. Except the SATA power. As you can tell from the picture, I had to misuse a 1-male-to-2-female splitter in order to be able to connect: all SATA power adapters I have are male, and the EspressoBIN connector is male, too! A mistake? Intentional? I don&#8217;t know but have <a href=\"http:\/\/espressobin.net\/forums\/topic\/hd-power\/\">posted<\/a> to their forums to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvell and Globalscale Technologies developed a new single-board computer called the EspressoBIN (website). Unlike any other cheap SBC I am aware of, it has: 3 ethernet ports a SATA port In other words, it&#8217;s perfect to act as a home router with an attached hard drive that runs apps. Now, where have we heard that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,371],"tags":[478],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","category-ubos","tag-espressobin","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}