All right, here we go with an unboxing

video. This is my first actual unboxing,

so we'll see how things go.

So, I ordered an Orange Pi 6 Plus

from Amazon. Here we go. Get that out of

there. Orange Pi 6 Plus.

I figured I would test it out in my home

lab and see if I could get some

improvement over the performance of my

current Raspberry Pi 4. Uh, comes with

some mounting screws here.

And there is the device. Fairly simple.

I do have a

have your electrostatic bag. Cut that

open.

So, I do have an old power supply from a

laptop. 100 watt. That should work

nicely with this. I'll post a video once

I have it up and running. But as you can

see, there's quite a bit of IO on this.

It has two USBC ports, two USB 2.0's,

two USBA 3.0's, and two 2.5 GB

Ethernets, as well as display port and

HDMI. It's a fairly powerful board,

especially for the size. I also ordered

a case that should be coming in soon.

You also have a few M2 slots on the

back. For now, because of the prices of

NVME and RAM, as you all know, I'll just

be running this off of an external SSD,

which should be fine for my use case. Uh

my biggest hurdle that I will likely

have to overcome is just getting

Kubernetes to play nicely with this. My

plan is to replace my Raspberry Pi 4

that's acting as the control plane with

this guy. It should be a lot faster and

more powerful and then it should allow

me to expand going forward into the

future. So, looking forward to trying

this out and I'll let you guys know how

it goes.