For those who ask, "Why didn't they design this or that so it could be like the other Pi s?" It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this "Kickstarter Project" was nothing more than a company who bought a couple pallets of leftover robot boards from Mayfield Robotics when they went under. The "makers" simply kickstarted "funding" to make a simplistic 'breakout board' (you can easily see that IT is a totally different color PCB with silkscreening from them as opposed to labels on the "Atomic Pi" that give clues to the genesis of the board.
I ordered this board and here are my thoughts about it. It boots up but if you power it down it looses your bios settings. Installed windows on it. After installation it refuses to boot up. The power interface is very clunky. They could have made it such that you could use a standard USB cable like Raspberry PI. It takes a long time to boot up as compared to Raspberry PI. Based on these observations I will not recommend it.
I just had a chat with them and they said they would ship to in my case Germany, too, for about $38. For this I will need to call them. The online shop only works for US.
As soon as I saw the article I ordered this on Amazon (I'm in Philadelphia, PA USA) on Friday 4/26/2019 and got it Monday 4/29/2019. I also ordered a power supply with 5V 3Amps.
Would it have been too much just to click the link to verify the Amazon sales channel ?? There is an Amazon page setup for the item with a photo and associated narrative. Are we changing our mind on the price mid-stream? There is a suggestion that this was actually excess inventory from a previous product venture which failed. No price was included in the Amazon narrative as if the ad was only entered as an "advertising" opportunity with no intent to supply inventory to actually sell on Amazon?? What kind of article was this: accidental or intentional misinformation?
"Atomic Pi is available on Amazon US".... um no, it's not. At the time this article was published it's NOT available. NotebookCheck should CHECK the links they publish!