Hands-On with the Banana Pi M2 Magic

After taking a look at the Banana Pi BPI-D1 micro-camera for IoT applications earlier this week, I am moving up the food chain to the Banana Pi M2M, a slightly larger big-brother to the BPI-D1 which sports a quad-core Arm A7 SoC called the Allwinner A33.

With on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the BPI-M2M offers 512 MB of DDR3 SDRAM and an 8GB eMMC for onboard storage. SD card slot if you need more storage or want to load an OS (very likely).

At 51 x 51mm, the Banana Pi M2M is a little larger than the Banana Bi BPI-D1 and offers a full SoC capable of running Android or Linux. The BPI M2M supports 40 GPIO as well as some other interesting connectors and onboard sensors including a microphone as you can see in the diagram below and on the Banana Pi website.

So thats my initial introduction with the BPI-M2M. I will update once I have had more time to play with the board / boot an OS, etc.