Banana Pi BPI-F3 8-Core RISC-V K1 Chip SBC, 2.0TOPS AI Performance CPU Single Board Computer, with 2X GbE Ethernet for AI Edge Computing, NAS Network Storage and Laptop Alternatives (16+128GB Bundle1)

The media could not be loaded. I got this to mess around with RISC-V and it works well for that purpose. Easy to setup and use.

There is support for predominantly Chinese operating systems; you will need to be a bit of a hacker to get this working. The CPU is underpowered, especially when a GUI is running. Two microphones are not well documented in terms of how they work or what their purpose is.One working, it does behave reasonably well but is not more than a nice tool for a tinkerer who wants something nice and cheap to get started playing with.Debian and Ubuntu have minimal support.

Please note that the $109 price includes $60 US tariffs; I bought this board for $40 a few months ago.This is a nice board if you want to test RISC-V 2022 platform nodes with Version 1 support for RISC-V Vector instructions.As with many of these boards, the software situation is painful, and it's worth learning how to build your own software image. But I'm getting a lot of good measurements of the effectiveness of clang and gcc autovectorization (it's pretty good now).

This is a great tool to use if you have something you need a dedicated computer for, such as network storage or controlling Christmas lights. It does require a lot of learning to be able to use it and use it correctly, but if you are up to the challenge then this will do well for you. If you have used a Raspberry Pi in the past, then this shouldn't be much different.

This single-board computer comes with heatsinks. I am going to try to use this as a home server for media. But I will probably use it for some projects I have in mind to learn. But after messing with this board for a few days, it turns out that no matter what I tried I could not get this board to boot. I used a bootable SD card and even flashed the main board but to no avail.