Best Makerspot Single Board Computers in 2026

Keep your Raspberry Pi Zero nice and safe with this acrylic protector.

Imprinted with GPIO pins (on top piece) guides you the correct connection.

Raspberry Pi Zero computer is **not** included.

LATEST SOFTWARE SUPPORT: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Raspbian 11 support with hardware-accelerated video playback and 3D graphics. Upstream software stack featuring the latest Linux 6.x with open source graphics and video libraries. UEFI support with GRUB sofware behaves like PCs. Direct first software support and community hub for third party help to get started. Video tutorials on YouTube for commonly asked questions.

COMPATIBILITY AND EXTENSIBILITY: Great RPi alternative with same form factor as Pi 3 Model B for re-use with existing cases and power supplies. Identically designed 40-pin header enables hardware re-use by maintaining same pins for functions like SPI, I2C, PWM, UART, and more. Powerful GPIO wiring tool, libretech-wiring-tool, is available on Github that can quickly toggle GPIOs and dynamically control dtoverlays for faster design, testing, and learning.

HIGH PERFORMANCE LOW POWER: AML-S905X-CC performs faster than a Pi 3 B+ while using half the power. It is designed with power optimizations to increase sustained performance under load and reduce failures due to input voltage and current. It is one of the first SBCs to support 4K multi-codec hardware decoding and features a highly performant OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU for accelerated 2D/3D.

HIGH PERFORMANCE DESIGN: Quad 64-bit 1.4GHz ARM Cortex-A53 Processors, 4K Ultra HD ARM Mali-450 GPU, 2GB of High Bandwidth DDR4, 4K 60FPS High Dynamic Range Display Engine for H.265 HEVC, H.264 AVC, VP9 Hardware Decoding and 1080P 60FPS H.264 Harware Encoding, Up to 40% faster than Raspberry Pi 3.

UNMATCHED IO PERFORMANCE: Equipped with superfast Gigabit Ethernet and lightning speed 5Gbps USB 3, Renegade will power through mixed workloads unlike any sub $50 SBC can dream of. Turn it into a NAS, Kubernetes cluster, file server, wire speed encrypted router/VPN, and more! The performance and possibilities are endless.

COMPATIBILITY AND EXTENSIBILITY: 40 Pin header enables hardware re-use by maintaining compatible alternate pin functions like SPI, I2C, PWM, UART, and GPIO. Additional design features include ultra high speed (UHS) Micro SD card support, onboard IR, ADC header, eMMC module expansion connector, and more. Form-factor compatible with Raspberry Pi 3 for easy migration. Software made for Raspberry Pi is not compatible!

High Performance: Amlogic A311D - x4 2.2Ghz Cortex A73, x2 1.8Ghz Cortex A53 12nm SoC fabrication process for low heat 2T2R AC Wi-Fi with RSDB Features Bluetooth 5.0 USB 3.0 Available Gigabit Ethernet with WOL support LPDDR4/X USB-C PD for heavy applications

Neural Network Accelerator: NPU: Supports a maximum frequency of 800MHz at 5.0 TOPS INT8 inference up to 1536 MAC Internal L2 cache (512KB) and system workspace buffer (1MB) Supports all major deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow and Caffe

Maker Friendly: Stackable Design Programmable MCU 3 Programmable LEDs (Blue, Red and White) XPWR for external Power button Onboard SPI Flash Khadas TST Khadas KBI

🍊[High Performance]: Orange Pi 5 signal board computer uses Rockchip RK3588S new generation 8-core (4-core A76 and 4-core A55) 64-bit processor with 8nm process design. Main frequency up to 2.4GHz, integrated ARM Mali-G610 GPU, embedded high-performance 3D/2D image acceleration module, built-in AI accelerator NPU with up to 6 TOPS, supports INT4/INT8/INT16 mixed operation, with 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB (LPDDR4/4x), and up to 8K display processing capability.

🍊[8k Video Codes Support]: Orange Pi 5 up to supports 8K @ 60fps, the powerful video codec allows for clearer images and more detailed picture quality which greatly improves the user experience.

🍊[Abuandent Interfaces]: Orange Pi 5 development board provides abundant interfaces, including HDMl 2.1 output, 26 PIN expansion port, M.2 PCle2.0, USB Type-C port, Gigabit LAN port, 2*USB 2.0, 1*USB 3.0, etc. The Orange Pi 5 can be widely used in tablets, edge computing, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, AR/VR, intelligent security, smart homeand other fields, covering AloT various industries.Orange Pi 5 will let you to enjoy technology life!

5 x USB 2.0 data and charging ports, a micro USB port for power input up to 2.3A consumption 

5 x electrolytic capacitors to filter electrical noise and stabilize voltage with an independent protection circuit to limit total current to 2.3A 

an RJ45 Ethernet port with Realtek RTL8152B 10/100M chip, A 3.5mm audio jack, supporting both recording and playback 

Low cost evaluation board using i.MX6UL G3 CPU With Cortex-A7 Core Up to 528MHz

Onboard 512MB DDR3L,Onboard 4GB EMMC Storge

Onboard RS485/CANx2/10,100M Ethernet/USB OTGX1,HostX2

【GPIO 1 to 2】: This expansion board can expand one GPIO pin of the development board into two, which is convenient for users to reuse pins in large smart home projects.

【2 connection Methods】: two connection methods: pin connector and screw terminal.

【Good quality】 The product structure is solid, the holes of the breakthrough plate are gold-plated, and the circuit is stable and reliable, without poor circuit contact and unstable signal transmission.

[Cost-effective Complete Connection Kit] With more than 200pcs components for fun and electronic projects.

[Breadboards of 2 sizes] 400-point and-830 point breadboards, 2pcs for each size, are included to meet your various experimental needs, with self-adhesive Tape on the back, esy to stick on the Arduino Prototype Shield.

[Dual Voltage Power Supply Board] Fixed output voltages of 3.3V (max 100mA) and 5.0V (max 500mA). Maximum combined current is 500mA. Standard 2.1mm x 5.5mm DC barrel jack for connecting a DC wall wart.

[Package] 300 jumper caps in 6 colors, 50 units for each color, individually packed

[6 Colors] Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Black & White

[Material] Metal and plastic material, durable and secure

[High-quality] Flexible and ultra-thin; soft and compact.

[Plug to Connect] Easy to connect with camera and module for photo & video transfer.

[Application]: This FFC cable is perfectly compatible with Raspberry Pi camera, compatible with all Raspberry Pi boards: Models A+, B+, 2, 3, 3B+, 4B.

348 holes of prototyping area, Full breakout of the 40-pin Pi Header

Holes are connected in row and column groups

Silkscreen marking for 40-pin Pi Header reference