To be honest with you, it might be I've just bought tons of packages and have A3 on aliexpress that does this

But some packages I've gotten ahve been wrapped around with tape

like fucking crazy tape everywhere

so gl opening with hands

It's actually better to have a seperate package opening knife because my victorinox always gets a lot of awful tape glue on it which is hard to get off

and the ARM Cortex M3 wi-fi chip isn't trash

if you know what you are doing

It always seems like all those bluetooth/wifi/sdcard addons for the arduino have more powerful chips than the thing itself

micro USB port for power and programming

I always thought of this project if I could get down the size to for example raspberry pi zero to affordable price

to have wi-fi chips, and hook them up to steal electricity somehwere like this one can and run VPN at public wi-fi or some shit.

Maybe I'm going into an area I shouldn't be in

they draw so little electricity its practically unnoticeable

I know I've had one for months and checked how much it uses

under high load max 0.6 Ampere

which means all four cores 100%

just under 3 W

I could get it more down

Know that some power goes to GPU too

so you can undervolt it

yeah they are pretty efficient

or low power at least

Well, we are going into more efficient turf

With the A53 cores and so

15W ULV i5s are probably more efficient per FLOP

ARM chose to do power efficiency over performance power so far

since they are mainly used in phones

well they seem to get better performance

I didn't actually look into the newer chips

but apparently the 820 is a quadcore instead of an ""8core""

I guess they just put more cores in to combat the lower juice they could output

and it still competes with 8cores in multicore benchmarks at pretty low ghz

Octa-core A53 is now a thing

thats the chinky cpu right?

the helio

http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_366821.html?wid=21

http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_424843.html?wid=21

Mediatek is Taiwanese, I say chink but some other people like to call taiwan, HK etc for not chinkland

sure they have it "better", like HK has free internet for example (non censorship) but we all know that the chink gov have attacked them brutally

HK vs Mainland is a joke, they will be crushed

as you can see there is quite the price difference so far