The NanoPi2 is a newly released ARM board by FriendlyARM which advances the NanoPi by featuring Samsung’s S5P4418 Quad Core A9@1.4GHz processor, 1G 32bit DDR3 RAM, rich video and display interfaces and two MicroSD slots. Its Quad Core A9@1.4GHz processor and 1G RAM make Linux and Android booted from a TF card fast and smoothly. Its adoption of the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pin header makes it compatible with both Raspberry Pi’s external GPIO modules and Arduino’s shield boards. Its two MicroSD slots make it support up to two external TF cards’ storage. Its video and display interfaces include a DVP camera interface, an HDMI interface and an LCD interface which make it work with various popular display devices. The NanoPi2’s on-board AP6212 Wireless and Bluetooth chip supports 802.11 b/g/n, AP mode, BLE 4.0 and HS mode.

On the NanoPi2’s wiki FriendlyARM open sources its schematics, PCB, bootloader, kernel and file systems, and provides plenty of tutorials and code samples.

NanoPi2 Features:

• SoC: Samsung S5P 4418 Quad Core Cortex-A9, 1.4G Hz
• System Memory: 1GB 32bit DDR3 RAM
• Storage: 2 x Micro SD Slot
• Connectivity: AP6212 Wireless and Bluetooth, 802.11 b/g/n, AP mode, BLE 4.0, HS mode
• HDMI: 1 x HDMI 1.4A, Type-A
• LCD: 0.5 mm spacing 45 pin interface
• Camera: 0.5mm spacing 24 pin DVP interface
• GPIO: 40 pin GPIO pin header, compatible with Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pin header
• Debug Serial Port: 2.5 mm spacing 4pin interface
• USB: 1 x USB 2.0 host Type-A; 1 x Micro USB for data transmission and power input
• OS: Android and Debian
• PCB: Six-layer
• Dimension: 75 x 40 mm
• Weight: 22 g
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