Giveaway Week 2024 – Jupiter RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard

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.

Bianbu OS setup wizard

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.

Jupiter RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard

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.

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Stanislav Vasilev
Stanislav Vasilev
1 day ago

Greetings from Bulgaria!

Haych
Haych
1 day ago

Greetings from Australia!
Thank you for this giveaway!

Dan
Dan
1 day ago

This would fun to install in my DeskPi rack if I win it.

Good luck to everyone here.

Edgar Carlos
Edgar Carlos
1 day ago

Konnichiha! Good afternoon from Japan

someone
someone
23 hours ago

A friendly “Moin!” from (northern) Germany.

Curtis
23 hours ago

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. 😀

Jason
Jason
23 hours ago

USA

I have some history with RISC-V, but all of my HW is 32-bit.

Neil Kenny
23 hours ago

Hello from the USA, thank you for the giveaway chance and all your coverage!

Willy
23 hours ago

France. Would make a nicer dev board than the VF2.

Ryan Horrigan
Ryan Horrigan
23 hours ago

This looks cool.
Hello from Australia

Amy
Amy
23 hours ago

Hello from the US! I usually read via RSS feeds, so thanks for keeping those up to date!

Frank
Frank
23 hours ago

Sg

Codrut R.
Codrut R.
23 hours ago

Salut din Romania!

Nate
Nate
23 hours ago

Howdy from the US!

Ivan
Ivan
23 hours ago

Belarus there

jaypay
jaypay
22 hours ago

The UK. Good luck everyone.

Hardip
Hardip
22 hours ago

Greetings from Australia!

Shinyfoxes
Shinyfoxes
22 hours ago

Hello from a long time reader in the United Kingdom 🙂

Iliyan
Iliyan
22 hours ago

Wonderful giveaway!
Greetings from Bulgaria!

Gim
Gim
22 hours ago

Greetings fr Indonesia

Abhishek Kalyankar
Abhishek Kalyankar
22 hours ago

Hello there, good morning from India . Good luck to all

KunYi Chen
KunYi Chen
22 hours ago

Hello from Taiwan,

Stephen
Stephen
22 hours ago

Good evening from the USA

KotCzarny
22 hours ago

poland

Frost Sandmoon
Frost Sandmoon
21 hours ago

Hi from the UK

Jorge
Jorge
21 hours ago

Greetings from Spain!

JaXX
21 hours ago

“France represents !” 🙂

Jack
Jack
21 hours ago

USA, hoping I could snag this board as I’ve been just barely keeping myself from buying one for a while lol

Romeo
Romeo
21 hours ago

Greetings from Bulgaria 🙂

Black Beard (Black Beard)
21 hours ago

Hi from Hong Kong

Ivan
Ivan
21 hours ago

Hi! Finland

James Carrico
21 hours ago

This is the best site on the web lol
Thanks from the United States!

Bill
Bill
21 hours ago

I have a feeling that RISC-V development will still be faster than RK3588.

Hilary Cheng
Hilary Cheng
21 hours ago

Greeting from Hong Kong

lucas
lucas
21 hours ago

singapore

Mark Birss
Mark Birss
21 hours ago

Hello from South Africa

Tomas
Tomas
21 hours ago

Hello from Czech Republic

Christian
Christian
21 hours ago

Risc-V rulez in Germany too 🙂

Vince
Vince
21 hours ago

It’s that time of the year again! Hi from Belgium

Alx
Alx
21 hours ago

Greetings from Belarus!

Jeroen
21 hours ago

Greetings from Belgium

Gauthier
Gauthier
20 hours ago

Hi.
Bonjour de France

Pim Vullers
Pim Vullers
20 hours ago

Netherlands

Nita Vesa
Nita Vesa
20 hours ago

Finland would like to say hello!

Artur R.
Artur R.
20 hours ago

Poland good luck all

Jasbir
Jasbir
20 hours ago

Greeting from the UK.

Edgaras
Edgaras
20 hours ago

Hello from Lithuania!

Kit G
20 hours ago

Greetings from Poland, good luck to everyone!

Chris
Chris
20 hours ago

France.
Pas pour participer mais souhaiter bonne chance aux participants !
Une Rock5ITX je prends par contre 🙂

Flavian
Flavian
20 hours ago

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!

q4a
20 hours ago

Greetings from Russia.

Carlos Martínez Úbeda
Carlos Martínez Úbeda
20 hours ago

Greetings from Germany!
That’s a very nice little board

Keri
Keri
20 hours ago

I’d love to try making a Risc-V port of AROS run on that.

Armin
Armin
20 hours ago

Hello from Germany

RafalB
RafalB
20 hours ago

Good morning from Poland

Alexandre Assouad
Alexandre Assouad
20 hours ago

Thanks Phoronix ! Greetings from france !

Simon Vannarath
Simon Vannarath
20 hours ago

Australia; this would be a nice test/porting system! But I’d likely use it as a headless server.

Steve Waggitt
Steve Waggitt
20 hours ago

Good morning from England!

rreignier
rreignier
19 hours ago

Greetings from France!

Simon V
Simon V
19 hours ago

Australia; this would be a decent test/porting machine!

Klaudiusz
Klaudiusz
19 hours ago

Poland

Jakub
Jakub
19 hours ago

siemanko 😉

Goran Udovicic
Goran Udovicic
19 hours ago

Greetings from Serbia

David
David
19 hours ago

Greetings from Croatia

Migsu
Migsu
19 hours ago

Greetings from Peru!

Matt W
19 hours ago

Thanks for the giveaway, I really enjoyed your review of this board and I’d like to try it myself.

Greetings from Canada

animtakhnet
animtakhnet
19 hours ago

Yeey!
Greetings from The Netherlands!

urostor
urostor
19 hours ago

Poland says hi!

Jakub
Jakub
19 hours ago

Cheers from cold Poland

technik007cz
technik007cz
19 hours ago

Good morning from United Kingdom

David
David
19 hours ago

Looks good, I need it.
Thanks.

Nik
19 hours ago

Netherlands

maurer
maurer
19 hours ago

“Salut” from Romania

Matthias Granberry
Matthias Granberry
19 hours ago

Greetings from the United States of America!

Iacopo
Iacopo
19 hours ago

Greetings from Italy

Sachin Kumar Singh
Sachin Kumar Singh
19 hours ago

Good morning from india

Magnus
Magnus
19 hours ago

Hello from Finland! Thank you for the giveaway!

Xtract
Xtract
19 hours ago

Saludos from Germany!

Steve
Steve
19 hours ago

Bom dia from Portugal

anan
18 hours ago

Hello from Ireland.

Maast
Maast
18 hours ago

Hey from Lithuania!

Agathiyan V
Agathiyan V
18 hours ago

India

Adam
Adam
18 hours ago

Hello from the UK

JeanRhum
JeanRhum
18 hours ago

Bonjour de France !

jan
jan
18 hours ago

Greetings from Germany!

Otipoch
18 hours ago

Hi from France

Satvik hardat
Satvik hardat
18 hours ago

Namaste(hi) from india

arprip
arprip
18 hours ago

Greetings from TW

Markus
Markus
18 hours ago

Greetings from Germany

Thomas Kirschner
Thomas Kirschner
18 hours ago

Hey from Germany 👋

Rodney
Rodney
18 hours ago

Hi from Australia!
I hope I get to find out if this thing can make noises. 🙂

Joao
18 hours ago

Greetings from Portugal

Jamie Gunn
Jamie Gunn
18 hours ago

Greetings from Scotland!

Zak
18 hours ago

Greetings from the UK

Rob
Rob
18 hours ago

Greetings from Sweden

Wolfgang
Wolfgang
17 hours ago

Greetings from Germany 😀

t0bybr
t0bybr
17 hours ago

Hello from Germany and thanks for the giveaway

Johnas
Johnas
17 hours ago

Labas(hi) from LITHUANIA

David
David
17 hours ago

Greetings from Israel!!😀

Hackileo Cypher
17 hours ago

Greetings for tanzania

Gregory Loscombe
Gregory Loscombe
17 hours ago

Hey, from Manchester.
Thanks for the giveaway!

RatherNotSay
RatherNotSay
17 hours ago

Looks like the board has an emmc header and an sd slot, so might not even _need_ an nvme ssd. Greetings from Germany btw.

pi-r
pi-r
17 hours ago

Greetings from Poland.

Mosh
Mosh
17 hours ago

Greetings from Israel

Oren
17 hours ago

Singapore.
Thanks for the giveaway!

Gregory Loscombe
Gregory Loscombe
17 hours ago

Hellos from Manchester, UK

Kunal
Kunal
17 hours ago

Greetings from India!

Irinel Turturea
17 hours ago

Morgen from Germany

Varma Konala
Varma Konala
17 hours ago

Greetings from India

inspector
inspector
17 hours ago

Russia

Carlos Santos
Carlos Santos
17 hours ago

Hello from Portugal!

Varma Konala
Varma Konala
17 hours ago

Greetings from India

Vk

Saket
Saket
16 hours ago

Thanks for the great work you do here

Paul Kocialkowski
16 hours ago

Bonjour from France, all hail RISC-V!

21UEE070_ARGHADEEP SAHA
16 hours ago

India
Bye from my side as I won’t be hearing back for commenting here.

Neal
Neal
16 hours ago

South Africa.

John
John
16 hours ago

Hi there from Norway, hope you have a great day. Always a great day when you get tour fist cup of coffee.

Phisit Nakapun
16 hours ago

Hi from Thailand. Thank you.

Lopo
Lopo
16 hours ago

Hello from Slovakia

mark
mark
16 hours ago

Heck! I’m throwing my United Kingdom hat in the ring : I’d love a RISC-V board.

Fran H. Sena
Fran H. Sena
16 hours ago

Saludos desde España.

Joachim
Joachim
16 hours ago

Greetings from Poland !
Thanks a lot for all the reviews I’m reading quite often, and the giveaway of course 🙂
-Joachim.

Min
Min
16 hours ago

Lithuania

SW Chuah
SW Chuah
16 hours ago

Hello, greeting from Malaysia

OldCrow
16 hours ago

Greetings from PT!

Dmitry
Dmitry
16 hours ago

Greetings from United States.

Thomas Foth
Thomas Foth
16 hours ago

Good morning from the United States! I enjoy this website so very much!

Jonas Albertsson
Jonas Albertsson
15 hours ago

Cheers from Sweden with love! A nice price indeed.

Gilles
Gilles
15 hours ago

Greetings from France

Bill Keesing
Bill Keesing
15 hours ago

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.

Adrián Arroyo
15 hours ago

I send you “Hola” from Spain!

Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson
15 hours ago

Greetings from sunny Costa Rica

Vinay Sidawadkar
15 hours ago

Namaste from India !! It would be helpful to test my custom BIOS/UEFI on that platform.Thank You!

Opk
Opk
15 hours ago

Germany

adrenalinedj
adrenalinedj
15 hours ago

Greetings from France!

Abbadon
Abbadon
15 hours ago

Hallo from The Netherlands 🙂

Youssef
Youssef
15 hours ago

Thank you and good luck to everyone, from Morocco

Haiko
Haiko
15 hours ago

Cheers from Czechia!

Jisheng
Jisheng
15 hours ago

China. Hello, RISCV

Pedro Maia
Pedro Maia
15 hours ago

Nice giveaway!
Hi from Portugal.

15 hours ago

Cheers from Singapore!

Dan
Dan
15 hours ago

Hello from the USA

Chirag Arora
Chirag Arora
15 hours ago

Hey, I’m from India

I thought there’s no shipping charges, lmao i don’t even have 21$, my mom would kill me 😵

Darius Koh
14 hours ago

Greetings from Singapore

HUSMEN
HUSMEN
14 hours ago

Hello from Finland

James Parker
James Parker
14 hours ago

Hello from the UK

Sheng
Sheng
14 hours ago

Canada. Greetings

Don Isenburg
Don Isenburg
14 hours ago

I would like to have one! Greetings from the USA!

Richard Schulz
Richard Schulz
14 hours ago

Greetings from Germany. Thx for opening this give away. Great Stuff

Tazio
Tazio
14 hours ago

Greetings from South Africa!!

Nguyen Huy Tung
Nguyen Huy Tung
14 hours ago

Hello from Vietnam

Richard
Richard
14 hours ago

Greetings from Canada

Rachmat
Rachmat
14 hours ago

Greetings from Indonesia.
If you filter my ip address maybe you will find a lot of user because my isp is using CGNAT

Darren B.
Darren B.
14 hours ago

Risc V, nice toy, would love to take it for a spin!

Greetings from Brisbane, Australia!

Redy Wibisono
Redy Wibisono
14 hours ago

Good Luck & Success for this Project from Indonesia de YB3RDW

Leandro
Leandro
14 hours ago

Greetings from Sardinia – Italy

Erik S
Erik S
14 hours ago

Greetings from Sweden!
Appreciate your work and hopefully I’m one of the lucky ones this year!

liothan
liothan
13 hours ago

Greetings from Germany

Tomaz Tercic
Tomaz Tercic
13 hours ago

Hello from Slovenia

Nguyen Quoc Binh
Nguyen Quoc Binh
13 hours ago

Xin chào!
I’m from Vietnam

khancyr
khancyr
13 hours ago

greeting from France

Paul Wratt
13 hours ago

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 ..

Giosue
Giosue
13 hours ago

Hi from Ireland

Xavier
Xavier
13 hours ago

Hi from the United Kingdom

David Dederscheck
David Dederscheck
13 hours ago

Greetings from the Rhein-Main area of Germany! Always happy to read about all kinds of exotic new hardware here.

Ted
Ted
13 hours ago

Greetings from Taiwan

Jeffrey
Jeffrey
13 hours ago

Hello from United States of America!

Nenad
Nenad
13 hours ago

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Branko
Branko
13 hours ago

Hello from Serbia

Sergey
Sergey
13 hours ago

Latvia

Matt Snyder
Matt Snyder
13 hours ago

United States

JJ
JJ
13 hours ago

Greetings from the USA. They could be used in some interesting DIY projects.

hir
hir
13 hours ago

Hi from south Africa

François Talbot
12 hours ago

Greetings from Canada. Thanks for this giveaway!

Oscar
Oscar
12 hours ago

Hello from Finland

Laurent Gonzalez
Laurent Gonzalez
12 hours ago

Bonjour du Canada.

Harold
Harold
12 hours ago

Greetings from the UK!

Alexey Roslyakov
12 hours ago

Greetings from Philippines and Thailand.

Matt McFadden
Matt McFadden
12 hours ago

Hi from florida. A present would help my new company and would be a great birthday present. Thanks
Matt

MobileJAD
12 hours ago

This is such an awesome little board!
MobileJAD from the US!

Quinten
Quinten
12 hours ago

Heya I’m from the Netherlands
Would love to try out stuff like opencv on it with a coral ai tpu

Colton
Colton
12 hours ago

Greetings from the USA

Viraaj konala
Viraaj konala
12 hours ago

Greetings from india

rodney
12 hours ago

greetings from canada

Julio
Julio
11 hours ago

Thank you for your great work and that giveaway.
Wish you the best from France

Timothy
Timothy
11 hours ago

Form Ukraine with love

Slackstick
Slackstick
11 hours ago

Germany would love to play with the board.

François-Denis Gonthier
François-Denis Gonthier
11 hours ago

Greetings from Québec, in Canada

Carlos Lopez
11 hours ago

Hello from Spain.

Francois B (Makoto)
Francois B (Makoto)
11 hours ago

Greetings from Belgium.
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂

Simone
Simone
11 hours ago

Hello from italy!
It seems a pretty interesting board! I would be very happy to try it.

Stephen Helms
Stephen Helms
11 hours ago

Greeting from the Unitied States of America

Greg Dalton
10 hours ago

Greetings from Canada!
Make My Day…

Bhupesh
Bhupesh
10 hours ago

Thanks for the giveaway. Hello from India

willmore
willmore
10 hours ago

I’d like to give this a home in the USA if I get chosen. Thank you, Jean-luc.

Timothy Arnold
10 hours ago

Greetings from the United States of America!

Chris
Chris
9 hours ago

Hello from Poland, Great idea. Thank you

James Mahoney
James Mahoney
8 hours ago

Hello from the UK

JF002
8 hours ago

Greetings from Belgium 🙂

wxt
8 hours ago

Greetings from US

Angelo
Angelo
7 hours ago

Greetings from Italy!

Vall
Vall
7 hours ago

Thanks for the GAW, and greetings from Chile!

Guillaume
Guillaume
7 hours ago

Greetings from France

Benoit
Benoit
7 hours ago

Greeting from Belgium

Ben Carlson
Ben Carlson
7 hours ago

Great website! USA!

RGT
7 hours ago

Greetings from Germany!

Wayne Fong
Wayne Fong
7 hours ago

A big Hello .. from California, USA .. !!

Mipl
Mipl
6 hours ago

With 🍺 greeting’s from Bavaria

Ivan Podogov
6 hours ago

Hi from United Kingdom!

Patrick
Patrick
6 hours ago

G’Day from Australia

Michael
Michael
6 hours ago

Greetings from Germany!

Hans Kruse
6 hours ago

Greetings from the Netherlands there was a typo in my earlier post’s email address.

verde
verde
6 hours ago

Hello from France. Would make a nice dev platform!

andrew garzon
6 hours ago

Hello from the United States

ExplodingLemur
6 hours ago

Hi from the United States! Thanks for the giveaways!

Andrew Radke
6 hours ago

Hi from Australia

Huynh Thanh
Huynh Thanh
5 hours ago

Hello from Vietnam, good website that i read everyday

Tobias
Tobias
5 hours ago

Greetings from Sweden !

Fiodor
5 hours ago

Poland here!

Rui Cruz
Rui Cruz
5 hours ago

Thanks Portugal

Rowbow
Rowbow
5 hours ago

Greetings from Germany

Tim
Tim
5 hours ago

Not for me but good luck folks.

Adam
Adam
4 hours ago

Hello from USA, California
Looks like a fun thing to try to get working

Zak
Zak
4 hours ago

Hello from the US!

Mike
Mike
4 hours ago

Looks interesting, USA

LillianCharles
LillianCharles
4 hours ago

Hello from the UK!

Nikola
Nikola
4 hours ago

Greetings from Serbia!

Fabio
Fabio
4 hours ago

Hi, greetings from Italy!

Andy Piper
4 hours ago

Hello from London, UK!

Khush
Khush
3 hours ago

Greetings from India!

Pham
Pham
3 hours ago

Greetings from Vietnam

Mick
Mick
3 hours ago

Hello from Australia

79lumoto79
79lumoto79
3 hours ago

hoila from italy
🙂

Naervern
3 hours ago

Glad to see Risc-V getting some attention. Cheers from Finland!

Hoang Tuan
Hoang Tuan
2 hours ago

Good morning from Japan

Nev
Nev
2 hours ago

Hello from Wales, UK

therealergo
2 hours ago

Hi from the USA! In with the RSS group here 🙂

John
John
1 hour ago

Hi, from Australia.

Gabriel R
Gabriel R
1 hour ago

Really cool. Did not expect this on giveaway week. Hello from USA!

Mik hail
1 hour ago

Greets from the trip to 🇲🇾 👋

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