Giveaway Week – Orange Pi R1S Kit

Day 4 of giveaway week will be another product sent directly from the manufacturer, as Shenzhen Xunlong Software agreed to send an Orange Pi R1 Plus kit for free to a randomly selected winner.

Just like the FriendlyELEC’s NanoPi R2S we’ve offered earlier this week, Orange Pi R1 Plus comes with a Rockchip RK3328 processor and dual Gigabit Ethernet, as well as 1GB RAM.  The kit also includes a plastic enclosure.

Orange Pi R1 Plus Black ABS CaseWhile I did not have the opportunity to test the board myself, James Dawson did, and found both Ethernet ports to achieve close to Gigabit Ethernet speed, with the processor delivering decent performance.  Software-size, Shenzhen Xunlong Software provides Ubuntu, Debian, OpenWrt, and even Android images on the resources page, but some people also managed to run the Armbian image for NanoPi R2S or RockPi E boards.

Orange Pi R1 Plus

To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say. If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:

  • Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
  • Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
  • Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
  • Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
  • I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner.
  • Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the daw.
  • Shipping will be handled by Shenzhen Xunlong Software, and I’ll forward the winner’s email to arrange shipment.
  • I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.

If you are unlucky this time around, the kit is listed on Aliexpress, albeit “no longer available”. The first time, I asked for an Orange Pi 4, but with the lack of audio codec due to the current chip shortage, we settled for Orange Pi 1 Plus. It’s been a while since we’ve announced a new Orange Pi board, but the good news is several new Orange Pi boards are being developed.

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Joseph Teh
Joseph Teh
1 year ago

Malaysia – Hoping to win!

Carey Bishop
Carey Bishop
1 year ago

New Zealand

Chris Lee
Chris Lee
1 year ago

Greeting from Singapore!

Robert
Robert
1 year ago

USA

Andi
Andi
1 year ago

Germany

Rogan Dawes
Rogan Dawes
1 year ago

South Africa

Nguyen Thanh Tu
1 year ago

Vietnam

frank
frank
1 year ago

singapore

Isidoros Gkantsidis
Isidoros Gkantsidis
1 year ago

Greece

dnmnhat
1 year ago

Vietnam – good orange pi

billak
billak
1 year ago

Greece

dnmnhat
1 year ago

Vietnam – amazing

Karl L
1 year ago

USA

João P.
João P.
1 year ago

Brazil – Fingers crossed.

Toth Attila
Toth Attila
1 year ago

Romania

Україна
Україна
1 year ago

Ukraine

Eric
Eric
1 year ago

U.S.A.

Jim St
Jim St
1 year ago

United States

Werner
Werner
1 year ago

Germany

Ted Lin
Ted Lin
1 year ago

TAIWAN!

Jason Patrick
Jason Patrick
1 year ago

UK

Daniel Tomaszewski
1 year ago

A new Pi Hole Server with Oscam, Pi Hole, Traccar and other Stuff would be great. Would be the First Rockchip Device at Home.
Stay Healthy Guys.

Lacko835
Lacko835
1 year ago

Hungary

kebab
kebab
1 year ago

Turkey

Ilyas Zamanbekov
Ilyas Zamanbekov
1 year ago

Kazakhstan

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chaolue
1 year ago

New Zealand

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Nitin D'Almeida
1 year ago

India

khiemspdt
khiemspdt
1 year ago

Vietnam

Afranio
Afranio
1 year ago

Brazil. Interesting kit.

Anthony
Anthony
1 year ago

Singapore

Zamir
Zamir
1 year ago

China
This is a pretty cool board to use as a portable router.

Pete
Pete
1 year ago

Australia

Codrut R
Codrut R
1 year ago

Romania

XtracT
XtracT
1 year ago

Let’s give it a shot from Sweden!

Kwlee
Kwlee
1 year ago

Malaysia

V P
V P
1 year ago

Finland

fape
fape
1 year ago

Hungary. Keep up the good work!

Emil Olsson
Emil Olsson
1 year ago

Sweden

JF002
1 year ago

Belgium

Tropicao
Tropicao
1 year ago

France !

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frostwork
1 year ago

Germany

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Flouf
1 year ago

France

Alexey
Alexey
1 year ago

Germany

Jerome T
Jerome T
1 year ago

France

Alexander Enos
Alexander Enos
1 year ago

MH

Tom
1 year ago

*your country*
Taiwan

Caio Pedreira
Caio Pedreira
1 year ago

Brazil. I will win!

Parthiban
1 year ago

Germany

Christian
Christian
1 year ago

Germany

Kamil
Kamil
1 year ago

Poland

Anis
Anis
1 year ago

France

Bjames
Bjames
1 year ago

Hungary

Ralph
1 year ago

Wales

udif
udif
1 year ago

Israel

Parveen
Parveen
1 year ago

India

Daniel D.
Daniel D.
1 year ago

Let it come to Germany! It will have a great time.

rufik
rufik
1 year ago

Poland

Thomas
Thomas
1 year ago

Germany

Sfinx
Sfinx
1 year ago

Ukraine

zmlopez
zmlopez
1 year ago

Spain

chunga
chunga
1 year ago

From France, I’m in

Bulgaria

Suresh
Suresh
1 year ago

New Zealand

Juri Shalkin
Juri Shalkin
1 year ago

Russia

Balázs
Balázs
1 year ago

Hungary

KotCzarny
1 year ago

poland

maurer
maurer
1 year ago

Romania . I really want it !

Joseph
Joseph
1 year ago

Hong Kong

Karpiu
Karpiu
1 year ago

Poland

Manuel
Manuel
1 year ago

Spain – Thanks.

ARMy
ARMy
1 year ago

Ukraine

Solmis
Solmis
1 year ago

Finland

Jean-François
Jean-François
1 year ago

France

Tom Bed
Tom Bed
1 year ago

Poland.

Maybe this time…

Dainis S
1 year ago

Latvia

Katie
Katie
1 year ago

USA

Shahryar
Shahryar
1 year ago

USA

pi-r
pi-r
1 year ago

Poland

Jarek
Jarek
1 year ago

Poland

Dinh Phan
Dinh Phan
1 year ago

VietNam

dpavlin
1 year ago

Croatia — thanks for great content, and keep up the good work!

Mike O'C
Mike O'C
1 year ago

I would like to try this as a controller for my 3d Printer. The two Ethernet port would allow me to connect two machine which does not have Wifi.
South Australia, Australia

Itay
Itay
1 year ago

Israel

Marco
Marco
1 year ago

Italy here, hope to get one 😀

Grzegorz Drozd
Grzegorz Drozd
1 year ago

Poland

tahu tempe
tahu tempe
1 year ago

Australia

Arden Phoenix
Arden Phoenix
1 year ago

hi I’m from New zealand and I’d love to get my hands on a new router

jeanrhum
jeanrhum
1 year ago

France!

Iman Hadji Ali Khamse
Iman Hadji Ali Khamse
1 year ago

Iran

Zcarlos
1 year ago

Spain

Sebastien
Sebastien
1 year ago

France

Gérald
Gérald
1 year ago

France ! I’ve a NanoPI R2S managing a part of my network, the Orange would ne perfect for the other part 😉

Schmurtz
Schmurtz
1 year ago

France 😉

Marques
Marques
1 year ago

France

Jovan Radukin
1 year ago

Serbia

Nicolas Barnafi
Nicolas Barnafi
1 year ago

Italy – so fantastic!

Malik Cissé
1 year ago

France

Gung
Gung
1 year ago

Indonesia, wkwkwk
Is TVOUT working? Otherwise no display T_T

Jimmy Pedersen
Jimmy Pedersen
1 year ago

Sweden here 🙂

Mietek
Mietek
1 year ago

Poland

Paolo
Paolo
1 year ago

Italy, if i win this it’d make my year.
my raspberry was sadly involved in an accident and crushed so i’m left with no boards 🙁

Frans
Frans
1 year ago

Nice. The Netherlands would welcome shipment

Alexandre Assouad
Alexandre Assouad
1 year ago

france

michael zweers
michael zweers
1 year ago

Netherlands

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lampra
1 year ago

Greece

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Dmytro
1 year ago

Ukraine

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Ray
1 year ago

Belgium

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fl0w
1 year ago

France

Christoph
Christoph
1 year ago

Greetings from Germany!

Aldo
Aldo
1 year ago

Italy

Walter
Walter
1 year ago

Spain

Luis Silva
Luis Silva
1 year ago

Portugal- Thanks Jean-Luc

Copercini
Copercini
1 year ago

Brazil

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1 year ago

Russia

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Francois B (Makoto)
1 year ago

Belgium

Simon John
Simon John
1 year ago

United Kingdom

Guillaume LEVEQUE
Guillaume LEVEQUE
1 year ago

france

Sergej Komov
Sergej Komov
1 year ago

Latvia

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inspector
1 year ago

Russia

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Mayla B
1 year ago

Philippines

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Klaudiusz
1 year ago

Poland

Cityboy
Cityboy
1 year ago

Poland

verde
verde
1 year ago

France!

David
David
1 year ago

australia – get your act together on climate change action

Peter Steenbergen
1 year ago

The Netherlands

For OpenVoiceOS development purposes.

Luís Costa e Silva
Luís Costa e Silva
1 year ago

Portugal
Thank you very much!

vladimir
vladimir
1 year ago

Russia

X4lldux
X4lldux
1 year ago

Poland.

Mattia
Mattia
1 year ago

Italy

Florian
Florian
1 year ago

Germany

Serge
1 year ago

Germany

1 year ago

Portugal!

Loic
Loic
1 year ago

Greeting from Switzerland ! 🙂

Chris Seru
Chris Seru
1 year ago

Why not? from France.

Kubo
Kubo
1 year ago

Slovakia

Vladan
Vladan
1 year ago

Serbia

Thiago Tavares
1 year ago

Brazil – Feeling lucky today!

Nikola Samardzic
Nikola Samardzic
1 year ago

Serbia

Velkom
Velkom
1 year ago

Italy! 😀

Norbert Orlikowski
Norbert Orlikowski
1 year ago

Poland – I think I can built this as router instead mikrotik!

Vianney
Vianney
1 year ago

France

Thang Huy
1 year ago

Vietnam

John
John
1 year ago

Israel.

I am very passionate and exited to explore and learn new technologies and to contributing to the Open-Souce community.

israel
israel
1 year ago

israel

Nachum
Nachum
1 year ago

Israel

John
John
1 year ago

Israel.
I am very passionate and exited to explore and learn new technologies and to contributing to the Open-Souce community.

Prasel
Prasel
1 year ago

Singapore

Bazsi
Bazsi
1 year ago

Transilvania – Romania

Ceclan Alexandru
Ceclan Alexandru
1 year ago

Awesome, greetings from Romania.

Jeanne Pindar
Jeanne Pindar
1 year ago

USA

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xdcc_master
1 year ago

Germany

crossbar
crossbar
1 year ago

Germany

mpampis
mpampis
1 year ago

Greece

Aashitech
1 year ago

India

Peter
Peter
1 year ago

Malaysia

Joe Bleau
Joe Bleau
1 year ago

USA!

jansen cesar arruda
jansen cesar arruda
1 year ago

Brazil

Rudi
Rudi
1 year ago

Australia

Steve Sexton
Steve Sexton
1 year ago

USA

Joe S.
Joe S.
1 year ago

United States – Thanks for all the great SBC news you provide!

Peter Elliot
Peter Elliot
1 year ago

United States.

tvall
tvall
1 year ago

United states
dual gig eth on rk3328 sounds fun. thinking i would get either alpine or postmarketos running on it, then use it to run zoneminder and connect to a dedicated switch for some pinecubes. to keep cameras on a separate network. that makes sense, right?

Benjamin Hojnik
1 year ago

Slovenia 😀

Gilles
Gilles
1 year ago

france

Gyulus
Gyulus
1 year ago

Greeting from Romania!

Caio P.
Caio P.
1 year ago

The Netherlands

Mark Birss
Mark Birss
1 year ago

South Africa

Rok
Rok
1 year ago

Slovenia

Alex
1 year ago

Ukraine

Alon
Alon
1 year ago

USA

Ivan Najdanović
Ivan Najdanović
1 year ago

Serbia

Sheng
Sheng
1 year ago

Canada

Kurt
Kurt
1 year ago

USA

Oliver
Oliver
1 year ago

Germany

Ricardo Quesada
1 year ago

yay, thanks! USA

T. R.
T. R.
1 year ago

Italy. Hello again, world

Ray Knight
Ray Knight
1 year ago

USA

K.Toure
K.Toure
1 year ago

United Kingdom

Erik
Erik
1 year ago

Sweden

sirrab
sirrab
1 year ago

USA Pick me, pick me!

kostasx
kostasx
1 year ago

Greece

Branko
Branko
1 year ago

Serbia

Suren
Suren
1 year ago

Bulgaria

Rainer
Rainer
1 year ago

Germany

Magnus
Magnus
1 year ago

Finland

Mike
1 year ago

Greece

Hong S.
Hong S.
1 year ago

USA

This one can be used as router, very powerful.

Patrice Tisserand
1 year ago

France

William Bonnet
William Bonnet
1 year ago

Salutations de France, mzrci pour ce site génial et ce geste.

William

Wenle Zheng
1 year ago

U.S.A
good luck, y’all!

Gustavo O
Gustavo O
1 year ago

Brazil – Hope to win to put it to run HomeAssistant and test some powerfull funcionalities of this amazing board 🙂

Gustavo O
Gustavo O
1 year ago

Brazil – Hope to win this amazing and powerfull board to put it to run HomeAssistant

123
123
1 year ago

Russia

חיים פלס
1 year ago

Israel היי

Juraj jiv
1 year ago

Slovakia 🙂

michael Z
michael Z
1 year ago

Hellas

Mike
1 year ago

United States

Cheers!

christophe rousseau
1 year ago

Frannce

Great for make master kubenetes cluster

El Tan
El Tan
1 year ago

Philippines! part 2

avra
avra
1 year ago

Serbia

Mode
Mode
1 year ago

Lithuania. Old celeron based router must be replace 🙂

Mati
Mati
1 year ago

Poland

rui Cruz
rui Cruz
1 year ago

Portugal

Martin F
Martin F
1 year ago

Germany

James Ostrowick
1 year ago

South Africa. Nice little device!

Matej
Matej
1 year ago

Slovakia

Dru Nelson
Dru Nelson
1 year ago

USA

Hicham B
Hicham B
1 year ago

France

William Bonnet
William Bonnet
1 year ago

Hi thanks a lot for this site and your actions

Kovacs Robert
Kovacs Robert
1 year ago

Hungary

Andrew
Andrew
1 year ago

United States of America

Frank Earl
Frank Earl
1 year ago

USA. Such fun/neat stuff, Jean-Luc. Hoping to lay hands on some of this- it’d make it easier to add support for it in PHA-Linux… X-D

TonyT
TonyT
1 year ago

United States

jealcuna
jealcuna
1 year ago

Ecuador – 😀

Geovanny Arguello
1 year ago

Nice post, greetings from Ecuador

Rob Leighton
Rob Leighton
1 year ago

United Kingdom

Catalin Toda
Catalin Toda
1 year ago

USA

engerex
engerex
1 year ago

Turkey,
Good choose for home server.

Anthony Martyn Maisincho Jivaja
Anthony Martyn Maisincho Jivaja
1 year ago

Ecuador

Jeroen
1 year ago

Belgium Ftw!

CHRIS
CHRIS
1 year ago

usa

Wargn
Wargn
1 year ago

Germany

Stephen
Stephen
1 year ago

USA

Tobias
Tobias
1 year ago

Sweden

Martijn
Martijn
1 year ago

Nice! The Netherlands

David Jashi
1 year ago

Germany

William Page
1 year ago

USA

Looks like a neat project board.

Txema
Txema
1 year ago

Spain
Thank you

Jean-Jacques Michel
1 year ago

Hi from France.

Alvaro
Alvaro
1 year ago

Greetings from Spain!!! Good luck

Frulko
Frulko
1 year ago

France

jiyan
jiyan
1 year ago

Greece

Andrei
Andrei
1 year ago

Brazil here

Axel
Axel
1 year ago

Gernany

littleyoda
littleyoda
1 year ago

Hope
Germany

loki
loki
1 year ago

France

itchy n scratchy
itchy n scratchy
1 year ago

Switzerland

PhilS
PhilS
1 year ago

England

lifelion
lifelion
1 year ago

France
!

Rachid
Rachid
1 year ago

Morocco

Elsa Nunes
Elsa Nunes
1 year ago

Portugal
Thank you!

Inkyubasu
Inkyubasu
1 year ago

Italy

Kira
Kira
1 year ago

France

Kamber simsek
1 year ago

Turkey

Kamil
Kamil
1 year ago

Poland

Krzysztof
Krzysztof
1 year ago

Poland

khancyr
khancyr
1 year ago

France

Angelos Chatzikostas
1 year ago

Malta!
Yes please!

Carlos Santos
Carlos Santos
1 year ago

Portugal

Leonardo
1 year ago

Brazil

GTurkeli
GTurkeli
1 year ago

Turkey. Good luck everyone!

Aleksandar Pericin
Aleksandar Pericin
1 year ago

Serbia

Dale
Dale
1 year ago

USA

Owen Knight
1 year ago

G’day from Australia 🦘

Tomaz
Tomaz
1 year ago

Slovenia

David A.M.
David A.M.
1 year ago

Valencia, Spain is famous for its oranges!

James
1 year ago

The US… and thanks for the informative top of my reading list website!

MikaK
MikaK
1 year ago

Finland

Craig Swan
Craig Swan
1 year ago

USA
Aloha!

Vasco
Vasco
1 year ago

Portugal

Jon Mott
Jon Mott
1 year ago

USA

Griff
Griff
1 year ago

USA

Has anyone tried these in real use? The original R1 was a neat little board, but the thing would sit there and bake itself to death at idle. I had one in a cellular fallback application, and even in the cool room with some airflow it was in (no case) the thing would overheat and lock up while doing nothing. There was even a small heatsink on the CPU.

Not sure if it was just being pushed to hard or what.

Robert F Porter
Robert F Porter
1 year ago

United States

L_oled
1 year ago

France

Kenny Phongsavan
Kenny Phongsavan
1 year ago

United States of America

Björn Riemer
Björn Riemer
1 year ago

Germany

Manuel
Manuel
1 year ago

United Kingdom

Jose
Jose
1 year ago

Spain

Leon Woestenberg
1 year ago

The Netherlands
Did you know our national colour is orange? And pi is half-way across the circle.

Philip
Philip
1 year ago

France

Oliver
Oliver
1 year ago

Germany

Mirek
Mirek
1 year ago

Poland

Ismael
Ismael
1 year ago

Spain

suriyan
suriyan
1 year ago

Thailand

Nedim Lisica
Nedim Lisica
1 year ago

Bosnia and Herzegovina. Thanks!

Mirek
Mirek
1 year ago

Poland

1 year ago

USA

Benjamin
Benjamin
1 year ago

Canada

Marcin Dąbrowski
1 year ago

Poland

Matt
Matt
1 year ago

United States

Frank Teo
Frank Teo
1 year ago

Singapore

Randy Ledyard
Randy Ledyard
1 year ago

USA

Finny Philip Biju
Finny Philip Biju
1 year ago

India

Adam C
Adam C
1 year ago

USA Thanks for the invite

Sathish Guru V
Sathish Guru V
1 year ago

India

Barnaby
Barnaby
1 year ago

United Kingdom

Smol000
Smol000
1 year ago

From Russia with love)

Dubravko Gaćina
Dubravko Gaćina
1 year ago

Croatia

Ulices
Ulices
1 year ago

Very hard to find SBC this days. Mexico.

Adrian
Adrian
1 year ago

Poland, nice board!

Arvo
Arvo
1 year ago

Latvia

Edgaras
Edgaras
1 year ago

Lithuania

Yho
Yho
1 year ago

Romania – Regards

Abbadon
Abbadon
1 year ago

Netherlands

Mark Seward
Mark Seward
1 year ago

United Kingdom

Juan Pedro Cánovas
Juan Pedro Cánovas
1 year ago

Spain
Good luck to everybody!!

Piotr
Piotr
1 year ago

Poland

Eugeniy
Eugeniy
1 year ago

Russia

Serge Chirik
Serge Chirik
1 year ago

Belarus

fmp
fmp
1 year ago

Portugal

Hartraft
Hartraft
1 year ago

Belgium

Najmul Haq
Najmul Haq
1 year ago

India

N H Shaikh
N H Shaikh
1 year ago

India

Ramin
Ramin
1 year ago

Iran

Stevo
Stevo
1 year ago

Hi from Slovakia 🙂

simon friar
simon friar
1 year ago

United Kingdom

Mert
Mert
1 year ago

turkey

Eamonn
Eamonn
1 year ago

Ireland

gruzija
gruzija
1 year ago

Macedonia

Robert N Lott
Robert N Lott
1 year ago

USA

Tomek
Tomek
1 year ago

Poland

Christian Lambert
Christian Lambert
1 year ago

United States

gamiee
1 year ago

Slovakia

Mati
Mati
1 year ago

Israel

Valentin Ionita
1 year ago

Romania. Would love to get this 🙂

Tomas
Tomas
1 year ago

Slovakia

Sajad
Sajad
1 year ago

Sweden

Luke Marvin
Luke Marvin
1 year ago

Canada

Nick Portelli
1 year ago

USA

Tired_
Tired_
1 year ago

Canada. Thanks!

Marius Cristea
Marius Cristea
1 year ago

Romania

Tim
Tim
1 year ago

USA – would love to win this!

butzel
butzel
1 year ago

greetings from germany
Burgbrohl….

Harald
Harald
1 year ago

Germany

Mario Bilic
Mario Bilic
1 year ago

Croatia

hkguy
hkguy
1 year ago

USA

Diogo
1 year ago

Brazil! That Opi is what I need to connect my home office to work vpn!

Danilo D
Danilo D
1 year ago

Colombia!
Thanks for this Giveaway Week.
I hope win to represent Latin America.

Arsenio
Arsenio
1 year ago

USA

Mustafa Kurt
Mustafa Kurt
1 year ago

Germany

Adam
Adam
1 year ago

United Kingdom

Piotr
Piotr
1 year ago