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<\/p>\n The back there were comparible ports to a Raspberry Pi, but there were two video ports, one DVI and one HDMI (altough both were HDMI type ports) and I think one of the 3.5mm ports is a mic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Like the RPi it had a port for an SD card<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Its also interesting that was an RS232 serial port as well<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Although there were no GPIO ports (altough I could have simply not seen it), this board seems way more for a hardware hacker than an Rpi, it has a power button, reset, jtag and it is a dual core. \u00a0 It is larger but it is faster than an Rpi<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The minecraft session was full. \u00a0I was\u00a0surprised\u00a0 also all of my kids attended the minecraft server session, the presentor did seem experienced but was not prepared for such a large group. \u00a0I think he was going to do a smaller more interactive session then a presentation.<\/p>\n Gonna hit some pushups and situps. \u00a0Tomorrow I restart my training.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back home now, it was a fun weekend and a needed diversion from the sad events earlier this week. This final day I attended to sessions, one on Raspberry Pi GPIO ports and another on setting up a minecraft server. … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n