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Radxa Rock is rk3188 based development board by Radxa.

Community

• Radxa goolge plus community
• radxa@googlegroups.com
• #radxa IRC channel on Freenode. Click to join #radxa on Freenode (WebChat mode).
• This wiki

Getting started

The Radxa Rock board is shipped with Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 on the Nand flash. It works out of the box. You can refer Radxa Rock Getting Started for how to hook everything up and start to play with it.

There is an available kernel to boot Linux for the Radxa Rock board.

FAQs

Before you ask the questions about Radxa Rock checkout if your question is already asked and answered Radxa Rock FAQ.

Software Hacking

Boot Loader hacking

Build Android image for RR

Build your own kernel and boot into Linux

Make Ubuntu image

Boot FreeBSD

Flash the image

Dual boot Android/Linux

ADB under Windows

Serial debug tools configuration

Hardware Hacking

Hardware Revision

80s pin extension header

Mainboard

• schematic of revision 2013.09.03(.pdf)
• board dimension file(.dxf) - open with LibreCAD under Linux, AutoCAD under windows

Components

• CPU - rk3188 brief specification
• PMU - ACT8846
• Wifi/BT module - BL-8723RB1 or RTL8188ETV (only has wifi)
• HDMI chip - IT66121FN

User Projects

• DIY low power NAS (home file server) with Radxa Rock
• Hardware hacking: Communicating Radxa with external I2C devices
• Hardware hacking: Control Radxa Rock's expansion header GPIOs

Photos

• Some high definition photos of radxa rock engineering samples
• picture of engineering samples by naobsd

References

See also

External

• cnx-soft - radxa rock development boards with rockchips rk3188 are available for developers now
• linuxgizmos - open sbc runs android and linux on quad core rockchip
• minipute - new radxa rock single board computer runs rockchip rk3188
• omglaptop - Radxa Rock Specs
• PicUntu 4.5 with a GUI installer for RK3188 based devices