Olimex's A20 OLinuXino MICRO is a fully Open Source Hardware (OSHW) single board computer. This means that the designer is actively helping people using the platform for their own designs, and supports them in adding hardware functionality and production advice. This is a part of freedom that is often overlooked, but very much aligned with the FreedomBox goals. It uses the Allwinner A20 Dual Core ARM processor.
Important: Read general advice about hardware before building a FreedomBox with this single board computer.
The following similar hardware will also work well with FreedomBox.
Olimex's A20 OLinuXino MICRO 4GB. This hardware merely has extra 4GB NAND storage that is not used by FreedomBox.
FreedomBox MicroSD card images are available for this device. Follow the instructions on the download page to create a FreedomBox MicroSD card and boot the device. These MicroSD card images are meant for use with the on-board MicroSD card slot and won't work on the SD card slot or when using a separate MicroSD card reader connected via USB.
An alternative to downloading these images is to install Debian on the device and then install FreedomBox on it.
Price: 50 EUR (A20 OLinuXino MICRO)
Price: 63 EUR (A20 OLinuXino MICRO 4GB)
Open Source Hardware (OSHW): Yes
CPU: Allwinner A20, ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1GHz dual-core
RAM: 1 GiB DDR3
Storage: 4 GB NAND flash built-in (only on 4GB model), 1x microSD slot
Architecture: armhf
Ethernet: 10/100, RJ45
WiFi: None, use a USB WiFi device
SATA: 1x port
Non-free blobs required: No
WiFi: Not available
Boot Firmware: BROM (GPLV2+)
Not visible on local network
When booting the 'stable' image (made on 2017-06-18) the board does not automatically get an IP address from the router's DHCP server over ethernet. Booting the 'testing' image (2018-06) the board does get an IP address. Tested on MICRO hardware revision J. see also: https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=5839.msg24167#msg24167