PineCube

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Specifications

• Dimensions: 55mm x 51mm x 51.5mm
• Weight: 55g
• Storage:
  • MicroSD slot, bootable
  • 128Mb SPI Nor Flash, bootable
• Cameras: OV5640, 5Mpx
• CPU: Allwinner(Sochip) ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore, 800MHz
• RAM: 128MB DDR3
• I/O:
  • 10/100Mbps Ethernet with passive PoE
  • USB 2.0 A host
  • 26 pins GPIO port
    • 2x 3.3V Ouptut
    • 2x 5V Output
    • 1x I2C
    • 2x UART
    • 2x PWM
    • 1x SPI
    • 1x eMMC/SDIO/SD (8-bit)
    • 6x Interrupts
    • Note: Interfaces are multiplexed, so they can't be all used at same time
  • Internal microphone
• Network:
  • WiFi
• Screen: optional 4.5" RGB LCD screen
• Misc. features:
  • Volume and home buttons
  • Speakers and Microphone
• Power DC in:
  • 5V 1A from MicroUSB Port or GPIO port
  • 4V-18V from Ethernet passive PoE
• Battery: optional 950-1600mAh model: 903048 Lithium Polymer Ion Battery Pack, can be purchase at Amazon.com

PineCube board information, schematics and certifications

• PineCube mainboard schematic:
  • PineCube mainboard Released Schematic ver 1.0
• PineCube faceboard schematic:
  • PineCube faceboard Released Schematic ver 1.0
• PineCube certifications:
  • PineCube FCC Certificate
  • PineCube CE RED Certificate
  • PineCube ROHS Test Report

Datasheets for components and peripherals

• Allwinner (Sochip) S3 SoC information:
  • Sochip S3 SoC Data Sheet V1.1

• X-Powers AXP209 PMU (Power Management Unit) information:
  • AXP209 PMIC datasheet

• CMOS camera module information:
  • Specification.pdf PineCube Camera Module Specification
  • OV5640 5MP CMOS Image Sensor SoC datasheet

• LCD touch screen panel information:

• Lithium battery information:

• WiFi/BT module information:
  • RTL8189ES specification

• GPIO Header Pinout: (PDF, HTML)

Operating Systems

Mainlining Efforts

Linux kernel
Type	Link	Available in version
Devicetree Entry Pinecube	https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/22/1241	expected in 5.10
Correction for AXP209 driver	https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/22/1243	5.9
U-boot
Buildroot

NixOS

• danielfullmer's Github

SDK

Stock Linux

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (7zip file): efac108dc98efa0a1f5e77660ba375f8
  • File Size: 3.50GB

How to compile

Recommended system requirements:

• OS: (L)Ubuntu 16.04
• CPU: 64-bit based
• Memory: 8 GB or higher
• Disk: 15 GB free hard disk space

Install required packages

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full git make u-boot-tools libxml2-utils bison build-essential gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi g++-arm-linux-gnueabi zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 lib32z1-dev

Install older Make 3.82 and Java JDK 6

pushd /tmp
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.82.tar.gz
tar xfv make-3.82.tar.gz
cd make-3.82
./configure
make
sudo apt purge -y make
sudo ./make install
cd ..
# Please, download jdk-6u45-linux-x64.bin from https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-java-archive-javase6-downloads.html (requires free login)
chmod +x jdk-6u45-linux-x64.bin 
./jdk-6u45-linux-x64.bin 
sudo mkdir /opt/java/
sudo mv jdk1.6.0_45/ /opt/java/
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/java/jdk1.6.0_45/bin/javac 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/java/jdk1.6.0_45/bin/java 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /opt/java/jdk1.6.0_45/bin/javaws 1
sudo update-alternatives --config javac
sudo update-alternatives --config java
sudo update-alternatives --config javaws
popd

Unpack SDK and then compile and pack the image

7z x 'PineCube Stock BSP-SDK ver1.0.7z'
mv 'PineCube Stock BSP-SDK ver1.0' pinecube-sdk
cd pinecube-sdk/camdroid
source build/envsetup.sh
lunch
mklichee
make -j3
pack