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Tessel 2 VS Orange Pi

Compare Tessel 2 VS Orange Pi and see what are their differences

Tessel 2 logo Tessel 2

The Tessel 2 is equipped with two 10-pin module ports to add sensors and other external hardware, two USB ports for camera peripherals and flash storage, a 10/100 supported ethernet port, and a microUSB connector for power and tethered programming.

Orange Pi logo Orange Pi

It’s an open-source single-board computer. It can run Android 4.
  • Tessel 2 Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-04-23
  • Orange Pi Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-09-15

Tessel 2 videos

Seeedstudio Tessel 2 Amazon Review

More videos:

  • Review - Tessel 2: microphone input to speaker output

Orange Pi videos

Orange Pi 3

More videos:

  • Review - #080 Orange Pi Zero: Better than the Raspberry Pi Zero? // Review
  • Review - Raspberry Pi 2 VS Orange Pi 2 VS BPi-M2

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Tessel 2 and Orange Pi)
Single Board Computer
43 43%
57% 57
Electronics
26 26%
74% 74
System & Hardware
26 26%
74% 74
Operating Systems
16 16%
84% 84

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Orange Pi seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 7 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Tessel 2 mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Tessel 2 yet. Tracking of Tessel 2 recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Orange Pi mentions (7)

  • Official Opi 5+ Ubuntu Jammy does bootloops on my desktop.
    Install a fresh copy of Ubuntu Jammy 1.0.8 from the official listing of downloads on the orangepi.org website. Source: 5 months ago
  • thoughts on Orangepi 3B as a music player (feeding a dac)
    - how's the quality of the debian images offered by orangepi.org? Source: 6 months ago
  • Orange Pi Zero 2 doesn't boot from SD card anymore.
    Is there a way to force the OPi Zero 2 to boot from a SD? Now it is only booting to the emmc:s crappy android that is worthless. I used to have Armbian for Octoprint on this board on a SD card but it kept shutting down without logging any reason and destroying the prints so I just put it in a drawer. Now after half a year I decided to see if I could run it with a Linux like Armbian, Ubuntu or Debian (tried them... Source: about 1 year ago
  • Request for "Orange Pi OS (Droid) Beta" (Chinese) Img File for NVMe on OP5
    I am asking that a kind soul who has a copy of the referenced file to please upload it (or multiple different revisions) and provide a link for me. The current version of the (English) beta img file for NVMe located on GDrive from orangepi.org is corrupted and I have tried 3 or 4 different methods to flash the img file onto an NVMe SSD, in either Ubuntu or Windows, but to no avail. I would greatly appreciate the... Source: over 1 year ago
  • OrangePi4 LTS in text only mode
    - Download boot image from orangepi.org. Source: over 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Tessel 2 and Orange Pi, you can also consider the following products

ESPRESSObin - Electronics, Single Board Computer, and x86

Raspberry Pi - The Raspberry Pi is a tiny and affordable computer that you can use to learn programming through fun, practical projects. Join the global Raspberry Pi community.

Intel NUC - Intel NUCs are available as Kits(Barebones), Boards(Mainbaord only) and as perconfigured Mini-PCs.

Odroid - The Odroid is a series of single-board computers and tablet computers created by Hardkernel Co.

Olimex A64-OLinuXino - Open source hardware board that runs Linux and Android. Entirely designed with open source software CAD tools.

Banana Pi - Banana Pi is a single-board computer made in China. It can run Android, Ubuntu and Debian.