That pricing/availability is stupid, I want one for 19$, I dont need expensive sata cable or micro usb cable.
Yes I'm sorry I missed out on the $19 offer. It was probably just a strategy to get them off $0 with a super cheap deal. Anyone who has built a PC will have a SATA cable laying around. I'm even starting to accumulate micro-USB cables to add to the 30 (guess) mini-USB cables I have.
The UDOO on Kickstarter did very well. It offers Arduino shield capability without additional accessory boards. Their video was pretty slick whereas the Iteaduino is ordinary.
http://www.udoo.org/
It would be an interesting debate to see just how powerful a board needs to be and still make Arduino compatibility (or RPi) an essential factor.
The Odroid is even more powerful with a 1.7Ghz quad CPU and 2GB RAM but no Arduino or RPi compatibility. I couldn't resist the U2 variant. The PCB is 2/3 the size of a credit card. No I/O pins of course.
However it is probably the only one (of these three) that could satisfy as a desktop replacement for many people.
We have a new "plug"(the shield for Iteaduino Plus) , it can breakout a pins for Arduino shields, it will offer a OLED to show the IP, the CUP and RAM Utilization. And this shield will comes with the Rich and Advanced Perks - although it's not mention in the perk discription yet ~
And, as my last reply, it‘s easy to build a Arduino board, because it just a low-speed digital board, but you may not able to build a 8layer high-speed circuit for DDR3 SDRAM, and what you need to do now, jus to add a ITEAD A10 CORE interface in your "Arduino" base board, after plugging the CORE, it will be a same function like UDOO. - If nobody make this customized baseboard out, we can build it , just like - Iteaduino Turbo
We are really not good at photography, video and description
It's our weakness , but we can not overcome it recently ....