LeMaker Guitar Review

Product Introduction

LeMaker Guitar is a high performance cost-effective SBC designed by LeMaker Team. It adopts Actions S500 SoC (Quad-core ARM® Cortex™-A9R4 CPU and PoweVR SGX544 GPU), 1GB/2GB DDR3 and 8GB Flash. In order to make the users more convenient to DIY their own platform . LeMaker Team designed it with a Core Board & Main Board , which significantly reduces the redesign period of personalized customization.

Chinese thinking process in this product was very smart in designing a cost effective PCB product composed from two separate elements. This way any future upgrades to the hardware could be easily done by just replacing the external main PCB when newer revisions will come out.

LeMaker Guitar currently supports Android 5.0 OS and few Linux distributions images such as Ubuntu Mate, Android 5.0 , LeMedia and ArchLinux. Company expected to support additional platforms as product development evolves and advances. The Guitar currently costs 44.99USD , and is available in company official store Here.

LeMaker Guitar Key features

Quad-core ARM® Cortex™-A9R4 CPU;
System on module design;
1GB/2GB DDR3 SDRAM;
On-board 8GB eMMC NAND flash storage;
204 pins standard DDR3 SODIMM for connecting LeMaker Guitar base board;
Hardware ADFU button
Android 5.0 and Linux support

LeMaker Guitar Base Board Rev.B Key features

1 x micro-B USB3.0 receptacle and 2 x type-A USB2.0 receptacle
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz and Bluetooth 4.0
10/100Mbps RJ45 ethernet
HDMI type-A and LVDS display interface
40 pins expansion compatible with Raspberry Pi 2
204 pins standard DDR3 SODIMM connector for connecting LeMaker Guitar.

Hardware Specification of LeMaker Guitar ^TM
SoC	Actions S500
CPU	ARM® Cortex™-A9R4 Quad-Core up to 1.3 GHz (ARM v7 instruction set)
GPU	Imagination PowerVR SGX544, Support OpenGL-ES 1.1 and 2.0, OpenVG 1.0.1
RAM	1 GB DDR3 SDRAM (option 2GB DDR3 SDRAM)
PMU	ATC2603C (Integrated Audio Codec etc)
Features
Storage	8GB eMMC （Options 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB）on board storge
Video	4K HD video decoding 1080P@60fps HD video encoding Supports MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and other mainstream video formats
LCD Interface Select	LVDS / RGB / MIPI
Expansion Interface	204 Pins standard DDR3 SODIMM
OS Support	Android 5.0 / Linux
Appearance characteristic
Sizes	67.6mm x 42.2mm
Weight	10g

Hardware Specification of LeMaker Guitar ^TM Base Board Rev.B
Sorage	MicroSD Card slot
Ethernet Port	10/100Mbps
Wireless	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz Bluetooth 4.0 1 x IR receiver
USB	2 x USB 2.0 HOST 1 x MicroUSB 3.0 HOST & DEVICE
Display	1 x HDMI 1.4(Type A – full), supports up to 4096*2048@30HZ 1 x LVDS-DSI for raw LCD panels (up to 4096 x 2048) Composite video output (via 3.5 mm TRRS jack shared with Analog audio out)
Audio	HDMI output Analog audio (via 3.5 mm TRRS jack shared with composite video out) I2S audio output (also available as audio input) On board MIC input
Camera	1 x MIPI-CSI 1 x Parallel 8-bit camera interface
EXPANSION INTERFACE	40 Pins Header ： 28×GPIO, some of which can be used for specific functions including UART, I2C, SPI, PWM, I2S SODIMM 204 Pin Connector : board Debug COM : debug
LED	1 x Power status LED (red) 1 x User defined LED1 (green) 1 x User defined LED2 (blue)
Button	Power Button： Button Power on/off Reset Button： Button System reset
Power Source	12V@2A, Plug specification is inner diameter 2.1mm and outer diameter 5.5mm
Appearance characteristic
Sizes	88mm x 88mm
Weight	58g