The 11th edition of CNX Software giveaway week is underway! We have seven items to give away this time around: six review samples I will send myself and one from a company offering one of its cellular IoT development kits… The contest is open worldwide, and CNX Software Thailand is also joining the fun with four additional items available to people with an address in Thailand.
The first prize of this year’s giveaway is Shenzhen MILK-V Technology’s Jupiter RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard powered by a 1.8 GHz SpacemiT K1/M1 octa-core processor, equipped with 16GB LPDDR4x, and various interfaces and features such as M.2 PCIe 2.0 x2 socket for an NVMe SSD, a 4K-capable HDMI video output, two gigabit Ethernet ports, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5 module, and more.
I reviewed the Jupiter mini-ITX motherboard with Ubuntu-based Bianbu OS and an Auriga 6-Bay NAS mini-ITX chassis last August and the results were rather mixed. The system is usable for headless applications with Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 6, and NVMe SSD storage working just fine, and the PCIe slot was also detected, but I had nothing to test it with apart from an old NVIDIA Geforce graphics card that’s not supported. However, while 3D graphics acceleration worked, the glmark2-es2-wayland score was fairly low, YouTube videos were not watchable in Chromium except at really low resolutions (360p/480p), and none of the USB 3.0 drives would be recognized… However, the RISC-V software ecosystem is evolving constantly, so maybe some of those issues are already fixed.
The giveaway includes the Jupiter motherboard, its rear panel plate, and two antennas for the wireless module. You’ll need to get an NVMe SSD to install the OS, either a 12V power adapter or an ATX power supply, and various cables and accessories to get started.
To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:
- Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
- Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
- Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
- Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
- I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner. Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the draw.
- Shipping
- $21 for registered airmail small packet or ePacket for overseas shipping payable via PayPal within 48 hours once the contest (for a given product) is complete. If PayPal is not an option in your country, we can try to find another payment solution.
- All prizes will be shipped at the same time once we get all the winners, so around November 14.
- I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.
Good luck!
For reference, the kit above is sold for $115 plus shipping on the Arace website.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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A cool 292 entries for this giveaway. The results are in with random.org selecting number 188.
That would be François-Denis Gonthier. Congratulations! I’ll contact you by email shortly.
Greetings from Bulgaria!
Greetings from Australia!
Thank you for this giveaway!
This would fun to install in my DeskPi rack if I win it.
Good luck to everyone here.
Konnichiha! Good afternoon from Japan
A friendly “Moin!” from (northern) Germany.
Good evening from Canada! Would be fun to test out if the PCIe would accept a HBA controller to run SAS with TrueNAS. Good luck to all. 😀
USA
I have some history with RISC-V, but all of my HW is 32-bit.
Hello from the USA, thank you for the giveaway chance and all your coverage!
France. Would make a nicer dev board than the VF2.
This looks cool.
Hello from Australia
Hello from the US! I usually read via RSS feeds, so thanks for keeping those up to date!
Sg
Salut din Romania!
Howdy from the US!
Belarus there
The UK. Good luck everyone.
Greetings from Australia!
Hello from a long time reader in the United Kingdom 🙂
Wonderful giveaway!
Greetings from Bulgaria!
Greetings fr Indonesia
Hello there, good morning from India . Good luck to all
Hello from Taiwan,
Good evening from the USA
poland
Hi from the UK
Greetings from Spain!
“France represents !” 🙂
USA, hoping I could snag this board as I’ve been just barely keeping myself from buying one for a while lol
Greetings from Bulgaria 🙂
Hi from Hong Kong
Hi! Finland
This is the best site on the web lol
Thanks from the United States!
I have a feeling that RISC-V development will still be faster than RK3588.
Greeting from Hong Kong
singapore
Hello from South Africa
Hello from Czech Republic
Risc-V rulez in Germany too 🙂
It’s that time of the year again! Hi from Belgium
Greetings from Belarus!
Greetings from Belgium
Hi.
Bonjour de France
Netherlands
Finland would like to say hello!
Poland good luck all
Greeting from the UK.
Hello from Lithuania!
Greetings from Poland, good luck to everyone!
France.
Pas pour participer mais souhaiter bonne chance aux participants !
Une Rock5ITX je prends par contre 🙂
Salutări from Romania!
Would love to get my hands on a RVV1.0 board, it’s not as compact as I usually prefer, but I wouldn’t complain at all winning it!
Greetings from Russia.
Greetings from Germany!
That’s a very nice little board
I’d love to try making a Risc-V port of AROS run on that.
Hello from Germany
Good morning from Poland
Thanks Phoronix ! Greetings from france !
Australia; this would be a nice test/porting system! But I’d likely use it as a headless server.
Good morning from England!
Greetings from France!
Australia; this would be a decent test/porting machine!
Poland
siemanko 😉
Greetings from Serbia
Greetings from Croatia
Greetings from Peru!
Thanks for the giveaway, I really enjoyed your review of this board and I’d like to try it myself.
Greetings from Canada
Yeey!
Greetings from The Netherlands!
Poland says hi!
Cheers from cold Poland
Good morning from United Kingdom
Looks good, I need it.
Thanks.
Netherlands
“Salut” from Romania
Greetings from the United States of America!
Greetings from Italy
Good morning from india
Hello from Finland! Thank you for the giveaway!
Saludos from Germany!
Bom dia from Portugal
Hello from Ireland.
Hey from Lithuania!
India
Hello from the UK
Bonjour de France !
Greetings from Germany!
Hi from France
Namaste(hi) from india
Greetings from TW
Greetings from Germany
Hey from Germany 👋
Hi from Australia!
I hope I get to find out if this thing can make noises. 🙂
Greetings from Portugal
Greetings from Scotland!
Greetings from the UK
Greetings from Sweden
Greetings from Germany 😀
Hello from Germany and thanks for the giveaway
Labas(hi) from LITHUANIA
Greetings from Israel!!😀
Greetings for tanzania
Hey, from Manchester.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Looks like the board has an emmc header and an sd slot, so might not even _need_ an nvme ssd. Greetings from Germany btw.
Greetings from Poland.
Greetings from Israel
Singapore.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Hellos from Manchester, UK
Greetings from India!
Morgen from Germany
Greetings from India
Russia
Hello from Portugal!
Greetings from India
Vk
Thanks for the great work you do here
Bonjour from France, all hail RISC-V!
India
Bye from my side as I won’t be hearing back for commenting here.
South Africa.
Hi there from Norway, hope you have a great day. Always a great day when you get tour fist cup of coffee.
Hi from Thailand. Thank you.
Hello from Slovakia
Heck! I’m throwing my United Kingdom hat in the ring : I’d love a RISC-V board.
Saludos desde España.
Greetings from Poland !
Thanks a lot for all the reviews I’m reading quite often, and the giveaway of course 🙂
-Joachim.
Lithuania
Hello, greeting from Malaysia
Greetings from PT!
Greetings from United States.
Good morning from the United States! I enjoy this website so very much!
Cheers from Sweden with love! A nice price indeed.
Greetings from France
Greeting from New Zealand.
It would be interesting to explore a RiscV computer. I still have a Raspberry Pi 1B that was one of the first few hundred thousand made and have been involved with computers since I got my first one, a BBC Model B (still in my posession) in the early 1980s.
I send you “Hola” from Spain!
Greetings from sunny Costa Rica
Namaste from India !! It would be helpful to test my custom BIOS/UEFI on that platform.Thank You!
Germany
Greetings from France!
Hallo from The Netherlands 🙂
Thank you and good luck to everyone, from Morocco
Cheers from Czechia!
China. Hello, RISCV
Nice giveaway!
Hi from Portugal.
Cheers from Singapore!
Hello from the USA
Hey, I’m from India
I thought there’s no shipping charges, lmao i don’t even have 21$, my mom would kill me 😵
Greetings from Singapore
Hello from Finland
Hello from the UK
Canada. Greetings
I would like to have one! Greetings from the USA!
Greetings from Germany. Thx for opening this give away. Great Stuff
Greetings from South Africa!!
Hello from Vietnam
Greetings from Canada
Greetings from Indonesia.
If you filter my ip address maybe you will find a lot of user because my isp is using CGNAT
Risc V, nice toy, would love to take it for a spin!
Greetings from Brisbane, Australia!
Good Luck & Success for this Project from Indonesia de YB3RDW
Greetings from Sardinia – Italy
Greetings from Sweden!
Appreciate your work and hopefully I’m one of the lucky ones this year!
Greetings from Germany
Hello from Slovenia
Xin chào!
I’m from Vietnam
greeting from France
Good to see the have been a few RISV SBC and SOMs for you to review, especially thick and fast from Milky recently. Looking forward to more RISCV devices ..
Hi from Ireland
Hi from the United Kingdom
Greetings from the Rhein-Main area of Germany! Always happy to read about all kinds of exotic new hardware here.
Greetings from Taiwan
Hello from United States of America!
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hello from Serbia
Latvia
United States
Greetings from the USA. They could be used in some interesting DIY projects.
Hi from south Africa
Greetings from Canada. Thanks for this giveaway!
Hello from Finland
Bonjour du Canada.
Greetings from the UK!
Greetings from Philippines and Thailand.
Hi from florida. A present would help my new company and would be a great birthday present. Thanks
Matt
This is such an awesome little board!
MobileJAD from the US!
Heya I’m from the Netherlands
Would love to try out stuff like opencv on it with a coral ai tpu
Greetings from the USA
Greetings from india
greetings from canada
Thank you for your great work and that giveaway.
Wish you the best from France
Form Ukraine with love
Germany would love to play with the board.
Greetings from Québec, in Canada
Hello from Spain.
Greetings from Belgium.
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
Hello from italy!
It seems a pretty interesting board! I would be very happy to try it.
Greeting from the Unitied States of America
Greetings from Canada!
Make My Day…
Thanks for the giveaway. Hello from India
I’d like to give this a home in the USA if I get chosen. Thank you, Jean-luc.
Greetings from the United States of America!
Hello from Poland, Great idea. Thank you
Hello from the UK
Greetings from Belgium 🙂
Greetings from US
Greetings from Italy!
Thanks for the GAW, and greetings from Chile!
Greetings from France
Greeting from Belgium
Great website! USA!
Greetings from Germany!
A big Hello .. from California, USA .. !!
With 🍺 greeting’s from Bavaria
Hi from United Kingdom!
G’Day from Australia
Greetings from Germany!
Greetings from the Netherlands there was a typo in my earlier post’s email address.
Hello from France. Would make a nice dev platform!
Hello from the United States
Hi from the United States! Thanks for the giveaways!
Hi from Australia
Hello from Vietnam, good website that i read everyday
Greetings from Sweden !
Poland here!
Thanks Portugal
Greetings from Germany
Not for me but good luck folks.
Hello from USA, California
Looks like a fun thing to try to get working
Hello from the US!
Looks interesting, USA
Hello from the UK!
Greetings from Serbia!
Hi, greetings from Italy!
Hello from London, UK!
Greetings from India!
Greetings from Vietnam
Hello from Australia
hoila from italy
🙂
Glad to see Risc-V getting some attention. Cheers from Finland!
Good morning from Japan
Hello from Wales, UK
Hi from the USA! In with the RSS group here 🙂
Hi, from Australia.
Really cool. Did not expect this on giveaway week. Hello from USA!
Greets from the trip to 🇲🇾 👋
The Netherlands
Always love these giveaways! Thanks for doing them. 🙂
Hi from Brazil !!!!
Ukraine
I’m in, will compile Gentoo 😏.
Need new challenges after arm64. 😅
Hi from Hungary! 😉
We say “kaas” in the Netherlands 😀
Hi! from Thailand
Hello, from New Zealand.
Hello from France 🙂
France
Greetings from the USA! I have wanted a MILK-V board a long time, so I will keep my fingers crossed! Thanks for holding the giveaway!
Hi! Paul here from the Philippines. If I could win this giveaway, the hardware would be of great use for my computer vision and machine learning-based applications.
Greetings from Germany
Czech republic
RISC-V is future!!!
Greetings from Asturies and good luck to everyone. Thanks for this chance CNX
Hi from France.
Hai, Salam dari Indonesia!
Wish me luck!
Hi from UK !
Hi from IRAN
Slovakia
Greetings from Switzerland
Hi from Hungary.
Slovakia
Hi from Guatemala.
Greetings from italy, it is fortunate that the board has both power supply options, so it can be plugged into a mini-itx case right away without any problems!
Hello from Osaka, Japan
Ah. Risc!
Good initiative!
Hello from France
Greetings from Germany! 😉
Greetings from Germany!
Russia
Hy from Croatia
I Love RISC,
Next big thing
Poland. Good luck everyone.
Un bonjour de France !
Merci pour ce concours
Nice giveaway, as usual!
Greetings from Israel
Hi from France,
I just think to buy one, but it’s hard to find the 16GB version, and this memory is needed to compile some softwares.
Greetings from the United States of America (Utah)
Howdy from the United States of America.
Greetings from Latvia!
I would like to give this a try. From Germany.
Greetings from The Netherlands
Goeie môre from South Africa. I want to ask if the risk-v have integrated graphics
Hello from California, USA!
Greetings from Germany
Thanks for this giveaway and greetings from Brazil!
Hello from Latvia!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Hello from the US!
Forgot the first time oof
awesome! thanks 🙏 Would be a great neighbor to my turing pi 2 in the ikea kallax… Greets from Germany 👋
Glad I saw this in time, one more entree from the United States
Hi! From Brazil
Hello from the United States