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This is the Igloo Community support wiki. It strives to gather all there is to know about Snowball boards and their software in one place.

This is a community wiki, anyone is welcome to edit it.

In particular, we encourage you to add your Snowball project to Community_projects page to inspire others!

Just create an account and add your information on the relevant page or create a new one. Normal wiki rules of behaviour apply here too; don't delete text from other people without discussing it first, no spamming/advertising etc.

Some of the pages are protected, mostly because they contain "official" information that is tested by the maintainers. Changes to those pages can be suggested on the Mailinglists, Forum or IRC.

About Snowball

Snowball is a low power, low cost Single Board Computer based on the ST-Ericsson Nova A9500 processor platform (Dual Cortex A9 + Mali 400 GPU) that targets hobbyists and professional developers wanting to prototype new embedded designs.

Features

• ARM® Dual Cortex A9 @ 1GHz,
• 4 / 8GB e-MMC,
• 1GB LP-DDR2,
• 1x Micro-SD,
• 1x RTC Battery Backup,
• 1x HDMI Full HD,
• 1x Ethernet 10/100Mbits,
• 1x CVBS Video OUT,
• 1x Audio OUT,
• 1x Audio IN,
• 1x USB OTG HS (480Mbits),
• 1x DC IN +5V,
• 1x Li-Ion Battery Charger,
• 1x Serial Port (RS232 / Over USB
• 1x JTAG Connector,
• 1x MiPi34 Debug Connector,
• 1x IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wireless LA
• 1 x Bluetooth 4.0/LEB(Ex. Antenna)
• 1 x GPS (Ex. Antenna),
• 1x 3 Axis Accelerometer,
• 1x 3 Axis Magnetometer,
• 1x 3 Axis Gyrometer,
• 1x Pressure sensor (300-1100 mb)
• 3x Expansion Connectors (FSMC HSI, Audio, MiPi CSI / Camera, LC MiPi DSI, UART, SPI, I2C, GPIO).