Radxa Zero: Tiny Quad Core SBC
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Radxa Zero single board computer review, including hardware specification, and demos running Android and TwisterOS Armbian operating systems.
The Radxa Zero featured in this video was purchased from Allnet. However, please note that the following is not an affiliate link, and that I have no association with Allnet (or Radxa): shop.allnetchina.cn/collectio...
The June 2021 announcement of the Radxa Zero is here:
forum.radxa.com/t/introduce-t...
The Radza Zero Wiki is here:
wiki.radxa.com/Zero/getting_s...
And the downloads page for operating system images is here:
wiki.radxa.com/Zero/downloads
If you like this ExplainingComputers episode, you may also be interested in my other videos:
Banana Pi M2 Zero:
• Banana Pi M2 Zero: Low...
Raspberry Pi TwisterOS:
• Raspberry Pi Twister O...
Rock Pi 4C:
• Rock Pi 4C: Dual Displ...
Rock Pi X:
• Rock Pi X: Low-Cost x8...
More videos on SBCs and wider computing and related topics can be found at: / explainingcomputers
You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: / explainingthefuture
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Specifications
06:36 Guess the OS
08:28 TwisterOS Armbian
13:41 Software Support
17:07 Wrap 
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Mr. Scissors could have done the job, with his flashy dual blades on a pivot and handle with finger holes, but Stanley was there, basic but always willing and ready.
I thought Stanley the Knife was banged up but it appears he's on bail. Philip the Screwdriver must be the one banged up now. Mr. Scissors is doing alright, it seems.
Mr. Scissors must be cut up about losing out to Stanley.
@@WoottonRivers Stanley the Knife is the sharp guy with the Cockney accent -- you know wadda mean, innit?
A relationship with Stanley comes with thrill of risk of bloody injury that plain old meat and potatoes Mr Scissors can’t offer.
Sounds like I'm back in Kindergarten.
Stanley is an underrated guest of the show. He has a sharp wit.
One might say that he can be quite cutting
That's an impressive set of specs to fit into the Zero form factor. If they can get their software support issues fixed this could be a fantastic all-purpose SBC!
Stanley the Knife looks like an old trusted friend... Still useful and productive in its Retirement years. :)
I'm personally convinced that every British family has an iteration of Stanley the Knife that's at least as old as the oldest family member. Nobody remembers going out and getting Stanley the Knife, he's always just there.
@@dittikke In the States too! I have a Stanley in my family! Still working and still cutting up boxes for the recycle bin.. :)
@@dittikke Stanley 199. That is the best one. non-retractable, so it doesn't retract ever when you are cutting something tough.
I vaguely told my cousin about this RUclips Channel, he now owns 4 raspberry pi SBCs all with their own purpose in his house lol.
Cheers Chris!!
Great to hear!
I cant belive that a pc the size of a credit card is better than my 16" laptop from 10 years ago
Progress is amazing . . .
It's in fact smaller than a CC
How old is your laptop?
@@kriskruz3792 13 years old
@@ozrencupac nice! You have been taking good care of it!
Just what today needed, a well spoken SBC demo and review that leaves me with the information I need to make a well informed purchase decision.
Apart from the current lack of software support, this is the Raspberry Pi Zero successor that everyone on the Raspberry Pi forums wants. The Radxa Zero has good connectivity with its USB-C ports and its support of USB 3 and 4K/60 over HDMI. Thank you for this great video!
Tbh no camera stack is a big letdown as well, especially with all that power
@@vocassen i really wish they make the zero 2 version that include camera connector and beating RPI 4b
Finally the video is out. And very full of information. Very interesting. Thank you so much for the video, Chris.
Hi Chris, good to see a review on a new SBC. I was very excited to see the form factor. As I have made lots of very small devices using RP0. One major missing component is of course, the camera port. For me this is a deal killer, yes I’m sure a webcam could be used but that’s not a option for me. I need my SBC’s to be able to run MotionEyesOS. Thank for reviewing this board, it was very informative. I hope to see more tiny SBC’s in the near future 🗓
I so hope support builds quicky. Looks like a very good SBC!
Another great Sunday treat.... Thanks chris
Thank you for annother great video @ExplainingComputers Hope you are well and look forward to the next :)
I love your video, thanks for all the work that you put into them. This looks like an interesting
board.
Another great video,thanks for giving Mr Scissors a break....:)
That is such an impressive board! Please test its performance after they get the software sorted out. Really, I’d like to see this board in another video in a few months. It may be the best zero type board yet, as far as hardware goes. Looking forward to your next video!!!
Whoa what a cool SBC, thanks for the great video Anne Robinson
I liked the way you as genially as possibly slam dunked the OS support of the board. Hopefully the developers watch this and rectify the situation.
“Mists of time” indeed. Extra points for Chris! Literate tech presenters on RUclips are, as we say in the Midwest, scarce as hen’s’ teeth.
Covering all the bases with those apostrophes I see 😉
“Because it’s a law when you’re making a video like this.” Chris you’re killing me!
Wonderful, great review! I shold be purchasing mine next payday!
Interesting board 👍😀
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
This feels like the heady days of C64, when hardware outpaced software. Computer Wild West 2.0.
Man, I miss my Commodore.
Best RUclips-video about this SBC yet
I hope that someone collects all of these SBCs and their OS for future generations to explore. A lot of technology is lost over time and that board you have could equate to C3PO's great, great, great granddad.
Or great great great great grandson? C3PO came online
A long time ago...
I like this board, very powerful for his form factor and better than others because have two functional USB connectors , onboard eMMC and a good amount of RAM, and at that price point I love it .
finally we got this sbc, i also receive my one last week, but have to wait until my type c hub arrive to operate the sbc
The RPi foundation hasn't updated the Zero in a while. Hopefully boards like this one will show how much more the platform can do for a reasonable price. Thanks for another great video Chris.
Great review, as always. Great hardware, pity about the lack of software support
Wonderful review, thank you!
Great video as always Chris.
Sorry I was late today.
Sunday fun day in SBC world! Thanks for the video. 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦
I’ve been waiting on this review. I’m glad I waited. Maybe updates in the future... i don’t know 🤷♂️
Sunday morning SBC review! Woooo Hooo!
Looks like a great piece of hardware but no software support, and can’t find one for sale anywhere yet. Hopefully it will all come together soon. Love it when EC has an SBC video. It’s going to be a good week!
Great video! My Radxa Zero arrived from allnet this week. The links on that Radxa site have been updated and they work. Looking forward to another Radxa Zero video as I'm interested to know what type of heat sink might be required.
Thanks for the info on the links -- I'll try them again! :)
Nice a new video ! As every Sunday I'm here. Have a nice week
Thanks, you too!
If Radxa is viewing this, may I make a suggestion?
Make the shipping box double duty as a case for the working board.
Seems pretty powerful compared to PiZero. Look forward to followup videos of this SBC. Thanks again for sharing the video!
loving this channel.
:)
Good video Chris! Thanks for always sharing with us!💖👍😎JP
My pleasure!!
@@ExplainingComputers 😎
"Come on browser! come up! You can do it.
There we are, always give it encouragement if you want it to work for you"
I just love the humor inside the video :) Thank you Chris for another very informative and well narrated video:)
One of these days I am going to look at the possibility of building a super NAS with an entire swarm of these SBC machines. Meanwhile it's really great knowing that you are keeping us all up to date with this gear. Thanks!
eta prime had video on that recently, could hold 2 full size and 2 smaller ssd.
Or a compact Kurbernetes/Clusters!
"...a little encouragement..." 🤣 killed me
Amazing, whole computer, size of the bigger watch, and u can do so much with it!
Christopher: "Mr. Scissors could have done that, couldn't he? But no, Stanley [the Knife] got in first."
Me: "Okay Keysha the Car Keys, got a few Amazon boxes for you..."
I'd be interested in seeing this device given the full Barnett treatment as far as benchmarking, projects, etc. Seeing xfburn in the menu from TwisterOS gave me an idea: what about a low-power, automated DVD cloner to back-up discs?
Real shame about the software situation, though. This seems worse than average for the time being, even among SBCs.
@Cindy SparkleFarts Don't forget Angela The Angle Grinder...
Seriously guys, don't forget Charlie the chainsaw!
Don't forget Harry the Hacksaw... 🤔
I love Chris's barely contained joy balanced by mild frustration when tackling the unboxing of well or over packed SBCs with his faithful backup team of Mr Scissors, Mr Screwdriver and last but not least Stanley The Knife.
finally a SBC video , thank you chris
I'm watching this again! I'd already had a few by the time you put this up on Sunday so wasn't paying attention (time difference) Swizzle the board around? New one on me!
Happy Sunday Chris
And to you!
Stanley the knife had been showing signs of aging.
Interestingly, here Radxa's GPIO pins are color coded. And the USB connectors are USB - C unlike micro USB in various other SBCs.
Cos he's old skool original 😊
It's still USB 2 so apart from convenience there's nothing significant
@@haziqsembilanlima Correction, there are 2 USB-C connectors on the Zero board, 1x USB2(for power & OTG) and 1x USB3(Host)
"Stanley the knife had been showing signs of aging. " - yes it needs an upgrade quick!
It's not age, it's character.
Nice video! Super cool little board!!
I never tire of videos that explain how awful a random bit of hardware is. Please make more.
Thank you so much for the video as always, your content is brilliant. Chris can you do a shot of all your SBC/SoC collection? Would love to see this
I've come closest to a group photo early in this video: ruclips.net/video/RcvMxC81r_g/видео.html -- but still less than half of my little SBC friends!
@@ExplainingComputers aha exactly I know the collection has to be quite big. Would be awesome to see. Better yet make it into a poster and sell as merch 😃😃
hope to see a review for Radxa Zero2 !
it shall be much powerful .
Funded the hackboard 2 unhappy about the wait myself even though I'm hidiusly patient . great looking SBC good specs sadly not enough os support thanks for your patience involved with the review of the radxa 0
For me the turning point with many of these things is when Armbian start releasing builds; I run (amongst others) an original series Rock64 which I use as a server, Pine's reliance on community work was really showing problems but the Armbian build was miles ahead despite not being officially supported.
:o thanks for sharing. I had no idea about this board, and was looking for something just like this. 👍👍
My goodness. I wish I wasn’t old enough to remember using cp/m on my Amstrad PCW, my first PC (an Amstrad 1512), how much it cost and how pleased I was when I could afford a 20 gigabyte hard disk card. These things are amazing. Looking forward to quantum computing. Keep well.
Wouldn’t that have been a 20 megabyte card?
Thank you for the insightful video. I feel like a kid in a candy store. Best wishes.
That looked like it had so much potential, but as the video went on, my enthusiasm waned. I am never impressed when software support isn't 100%. This looks like potentially a great device, let down by (for now at least) software.
It's why I stand by Armbian, they spend time on a rampant issue with SBC's that aren't a Raspberry Pi, outside of Armbian or Manjaro I don't see any other active project squeezing water out of a stone this size.
@@phonewithoutquestion80 I agree, but it really shouldn't be the community that gives good support to boards. Companies who want to make money from those boards but don't invest in Software Support should be avoided.
Yeah after seeing the specs I was impressed, but the choppy playback and lackluster support on their own site really set off some red flags, I mean what's the point of having a beefy micro-computer that can only run android or an offshoot distro of Linux?
Software support is more important than the hardware backing it. I wouldn't trust any of these fly by night Chinese brands. I don't know if there is a viable competitor to Raspberry Pi.
ARM locks you down and doesn't let you just slap an OS on a board like you can with x86, so you're screwed if the manufacturer abandons ship.
I share your feelings on this one alrightie
Thanks, Hill Gates.
Welcome to another video❤️❤️
I swear there's a glint in his eye when he opens a new SBC
True!
Nice, I did not know about this device before.
Another great video as always, hopefully support on the software side gets better soon, if not I guess we'll have to wait for the Raspberry Pi Foundation to update the Raspberry Pi Zero which really needs an update on the specs! Too bad the Pi 4 is more important for them, it obviously makes them more money and R&D is not cheap!.
When it comes to describing specs, this man is the best, his pronunciation is correct and on point, non of that five point "Ou" that every other claims.
Good episode thanks
Hot darn! A tiny little Vulkan capable SBC! Super temping to make a little handheld with that. :D
Nice system especially for the price. Excellent video as usual. I didn't pay much attention after seeing the country of manufacture.
It's difficult to avoid these days, as most of the world's manufacturing has been outsourced there.
@@johnm2012 So true. The CCP has set up workshops in other countries to trick people who try and avoid their products.
Stanley is in love with SBC!
Thanks for another great "little introduction" to a new "SBC", and my commendations for always "holding back" until You can review the actual "sold product" rather than just "jumping on the launching bandwagon" with all the "caveats" that that forces those """reviewers"" to include. Also a special thanks for lowering the screen resolution to make it very "readable".
I find that there are far too many otherwise great "demonstrations/tutorials" that for some reason are made in the screen resolution that the creator uses for his own work rather than a resolution "optimised for the viewer". An oversight that unfortunately makes the demonstration/tutorial very hard if not impossible to follow if watched on a screen that is smaller than the one it was created on.....
So thanks again for all Your great work.
Best regards.
Thanks for this. I am first an foremost a filmmaker, so always scale things in my videos so that they are viewable "lean back" on a TV, or on a small screen at low resolution. I used to shoot animation on film at the BBC, and if you took in artwork with lettering that would be too small in the final shot, they simply would not put film in the rostrum camera.
Mine showed up Friday and my experience has been the same. I spent all weekend trying to boot anything but android from emmc but I guess we're just not there yet. Disappointing but I'm excited to get things going once the support is better.
Good Sunday Morning!
Greetings!
Hopefully after seeing your review, Radxa will improve the OS support situation.
I'm interested in the potential of the USB-C ports on this board, possibly more versatile than the microUSB ports on a Pi Zero. I'm sure we'll see improvements in the software support soon.
An RPi Zero sized board with USB C, built in memory and Wifi AC support sounds like the ideal base for an Pwnagotchi.
Nobody tell Hak5...... Darren will pwn the world with this board!
Wow, weird coincidence, I’m watching this exactly a year after you recorded it.
:)
I'm still amazed by the fact that there are computers at the size of a tuna can!
The spec is good but like you mentioned OS support is not ready. Hope they fix it soon. Thank you for reviewing this SBC.
Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷
Hello from the UK!
Beautiful, straight forward and honest review...... the software support is a bit of let down..... but oh well! We only need to figure out how to override emmc boot. Have you tried Ventoy or Yumi?
Looks a great board hardware-wise, but it clearly suffers from the problem many RspPi clone boards suffer from: lacking software support (at this point in time, at least). I hope that support improves, because this looks like it could be a mighty computer in a mini package.
So ... Let's go ... and take ...
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a closer look.
this is already interesting !!! works fast for such a small thing)) Это уже интересно!!!
Would love to see ExplainingComputers do some video reviews on some open hardware SBCs this year :). Is ExplainingComputers planning to review some of the newer Beaglebone boards?
That's pretty f'd up to have a list of "Official Images" that error 404. - 17:02
There is a small lock icon but that tells the user nothing and the *LEAST* they could/should do is have those pages state the current status, etc. It takes only 2 seconds to put something there instead of a 404 error.
I haven’t checked, but those links are offsite, at the projects that control them, and not something that the board maker can control. I’d do some searching for the “These OSes”, and see if there are updated versions in a slightly different location.
Hardware specs looks good! - I hope I can run .NET6 Arm64 and IoT on it.
Thanks for another great review. I hope there will be a board with a good gpu support in the feature. More or less many of the SBCs available as of 2021 have anemic gpu performance for the streaming. I really wish someone or a company can produce a SBC with proper support for mainstream linux distro including proper gpu support. SBC field becoming crowded with products but without proper GPU acceleration and streaming support. Great hardware without software support is a bad product.
Usually with Armbian you can do "sudo nand-sata-install" to copy the OS on to the emmc
Twister OS is pirated version of Armbian. There is no Armbian for this board.
@@igorpecovnik oh, I just realised that you are the Armbian author, lol
@@igorpecovnik Pirated? Strange word choice for open source software, but okay. From the Armbian Documentation page of your website: "Lightweight Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distribution specialized for ARM development boards".
@@SuperDavidEF Armbian is open source software, all sources are available, it respects open source licence. Not a problem with that. Good luck finding sources for Twister. Can that be classified as a piracy or its alright?
@@igorpecovnik I would call that a violation of the GPL, but not "piracy" since they didn't take something that belongs to somebody else through the use of force or the threat of force. If you seriously believe them to be in violation, you can take legal action against them (if they are in a country where the GPL is enforceable).
Thanks! Good video. Key phrase, "because it's a law when you're making a video like this!" :)
Great video as always, Chris! Like others I'm a bit disappointed with this SBC in terms of software support, although I don't know what takes an OS developer company to port their software to a particular machine. How much of a demand would they need to sit down and actually do it, or even if the community would.
But this looks like a nice piece of hardware regardless, and I'd like to see how it stacks up against similar machines.
My Sunday is now complete. An interesting SBC (I feel there are too many choices) it would be more cost effective to manufacture & supply a standard board with GPIO headers, decent WiFi & Bluetooth leaving a choice of mmc & memory. It'll be a good board once it's updated with support for other OS's
Seems like the clear case packaging that the board comes in could easily be a clear case to operate the SBC inside if it had holes and a place to mount the fan.
I loved the fact that it was in 4 layers of packaging.. shrink wrap/ cardboard sleeve/ clear plastic case and FINALLY... an anti static bag
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OS support and good GPU drivers is a must. If someone wanted to use this as an all around entertainment computer (games/videos/music/etc..) then getting the right OS and drivers is a must. I hope this improves because I really would love to get this SBC.
Greetings from India sir...Excellent video...one thing I would like to add that community support makes any board successful......for example few years ago banana pi was the worst suported board alongwith orange pi...but now banana pi is in better position compare to orange pi...
It's sad that this awesome SBCs have poor software support, but I'm still tempted to buy one of these to test that sweet raw power.
I think the Nio 12L is very interesting one! Anyone else pre-ordering the NIO 12L based on this review? #Radxa #MakerLife Looks like a serious contender in the SBC world!
Ah, yes, the software issue. The reason why I sold my Rock64 and bought a Pi Zero W instead, and am muuuch happier, despite the huge drop in raw power.
looks like it's possible to solder a UFL chassis/connector for an external WiFi antenna as there are soldering pads right next to the AP6256 ?