Comments on: Unbricking IFC Boards

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:18:10 +0000

The IFC6410s are much older than Raspberry Pi 3/4s, but they’re still better in a lot of ways. Way better connectivity. True dedicated SATA and PCIe gigabit network is a huge plus. RockPro64s are the current best alternative. Hexa-core processor, each USB port has a decided controller (not shared like on RPi), so you can run 4 HD USB cameras if you want, plus true gigabit network (not over USB), plus an open PCIe 4x slot. I’m using them for some robots right now. They blow the doors off of Raspberry Pis for less money.

But I totally agree, I’ve been closely watching (and drooling over) new Risc-V hardware. It’s still expensive and slow, but the second a decent consumer-level quad core board hits the market I’m buying it.

Since I have four IFC6410 boards lying around, and I will only ever use one or two for projects, I can send you one if you want to replace your dead one. Cover the cost of shipping and it’s yours.

By: Paolo Redaelli

Paolo Redaelli — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:55:53 +0000

In reply to Joel. My board also broke more than an year ago. It may have been cool, but I will stick to the plain'n'simpl Raspberries... or forthcoming RiscV machines

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 07:36:30 +0000

Great writeup. I have four of these boards, one of which I recently bricked. Inforce has basically orphaned these boards, which is really unfortunate because they were great. They have pulled all of the recovery files from Techweb and won’t even send you the files if you e-mail them. Oh well.