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How-To: eMMC and microSD Card Writing
By Duncan Cline, ameriDroid technician: Curious how to write an image (OS) to your eMMC module or microSD card for use with Single Board Computers? This video shows you how! eMMC and microSD cards at ameriDroid

Cluster: Category5 TV Talks About the Pine64 Clusterboard
From Category5 TV: The PINE64 SOPINE Clusterboard is a single mATX board that supports up to 7 SOPINE modules, and more to come. Think of it as a single micro computer that actually has 7 physical computers built-in. They can...

News: NET 60 Terms Up To $100K Now Available for ameriDroid Customers
Read All About It! Are you a company that needs product, but desires the flexibility that NET 60 terms offers? Are you a maker-run business that needs to ramp up production, but could use a 60 day buffer to get...

How-To: Enable Autologin on Ubuntu MATE and Similar Distros
To configure the Desktop to auto-login for systems like ODROID, Pine64, Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano, Tinker Board, Beagleboard, and others, run the following commands in the terminal (System Tools | MATE Terminal): sudo sucd /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.dtouch 60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.confnano 60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf If the file...

How-To: Change the Hostname of your Linux System From the Command Line
While setting up our Clusterboard with SOPine modules, we wanted to give each SOPine module its own name to make it easier to identify. Here's how to do that from the command line, and this should work for most Debian-based...

How-To: Set Up A Round-Robin Webserver On Your SBC Cluster
SOEdge Module(release date Q3 2019) By Miguel Alatorre, ameriDroid Technician In earlier articles, we showed our new file server project and how we configured RAID on it, seen here and here respectively. Today we have another update! Since we have...

Upcoming Product: SOEdge Module - More Details
From cnx-software.com, referencing an earlier ameriDroid.com article, plus new info from several sources including ameriDroid.com via TL Lim (founder of PINE64) and pine64.org: A few weeks ago, ameriDroid reported Pine64 would soon launch SORock and SOEdge systems-on-module, but at the...

Project: Packing SBC Goodness into a Mid-ATX Tower
Here at ameriDroid, we use the products we sell for our own infrastructure. The Cloudshell2 running 2x 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) that we've been using for a few years has gotten rather full, so we're building a higher-capacity solution...