Parallella VerifiedPeripherals

Important Notices Using non-standards compliant powered USB hubs may damage the Parallella! Check the list of all certified USB hubs before plugging in your USB hub. Critical issue with non-conforming USB powered hubs. Using a power adapter supplying more than 5V may damage the Parallella The smoke escaped from my parallella

Guidance

1. Where additional information may prove useful, please include this, e.g. requires a powered USB hub, only works with Kernel vN etc.
2. Where a peripheral has proven to be problematic, please add a sub-section for problem hardware if it doesn't already exist and note down a few details there.
3. If you'd like to notify others you can also post details to the forum topic.

Power supplies

Voltage: 5 Volts
Current: 2 Amps / 2000 mA (minimum)
Connector Type: Barrel
Barrel Size: 5mm with a 2.1mm center
Polarity: Center-positive

• SONY PSP-100 PSP1000/2000/3000 AC Adapter
  • (Needs conversion adaptor 4.0mm OD and 1.7mm ID female to 5.5mm OD and 2.1mm ID male)

Micro SD

• Kingston Digital SDC4/32GB-AMZ
• Kingston Technology SDCX10/64GB
• SanDisk MicroSDHC 8GB, Class 4
• SanDisk MicroSDHC Ultra 16GB, Class 10
• SanDisk Pixtor High performance microSDHC UHS-I 32GB, Class 10
• TOSHIBA MicroSDHC 8GB UHS-1 Card,Class 10
• Samsung MicroSDHC 16 GB, Class 10 MB-MPAGC

Powered hubs

• Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.04-Port Mobile Hub - Model: F5U404-BLK (certified)

Keyboards

• Apple Extended USB Keyboard - Model: A1048
• Happy Hacking Professional 2 - Model: PD-KB400
• Gear Head Windows Smart Touch TouchPad Keyboard - Model: KB3700TP
• Genius Slender Desktop Keyboard - Model: KB-06XE
• Logitech K120 Keyboard - Model Y-U0009
• Logitech Wireless Keyboard K330 - Model: Y-R0009
• Logicool Wireless Keyboard K240- Model: Y-R0036
• Maplin Wireless Mini Deskset - Model: N69JX
• Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard 5000 - Model: CSD-00001
• SIIG Wireless Mini Multimedia Trackball Keyboard - Model: JK-WR0412-S1
• Tru-Form Media 208 - Model: PCK-208B
• Cooler Master CM Storm Quick Fire Rapid - Model: SGK4000GKCL1
• ELECOM TK-U77MPSV Japanese keyboard - Model: TK-U77MPSV

Mice and Pointing devices

• Logitech iFeel Mouse (legacy)
• Logitech Mini Mouse Optical - Model: M-UAE55
• Logitech Touch Mouse M600
• Logitech Wireless Mouse M210 (legacy)
• Logitech Wireless Mouse M215 (legacy)
• Maplin BlueTrace USB Wired Mouse - Model N97JA
• Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical - Model: D66-00069 (legacy)

Wifi

Requires some software configuration. See How to get WiFi working?

• Belkin N300 High-Performance Wi-Fi USB Adapter
• EdiMAX 150mbps Wireless 802.11b/g/n nano USB Adapter EW-7811Un

Sound cards

• Sound Blaster X-Fi HD - How to guide (96kHz Hi-Fi audio!!)

Webcams

• Kinect for Xbox 360 - How to guide
• PlayStation Eye (PS3 camera)

Serial

• Any serial interface/adapter that uses 3.3v logic levels. See Parallella UART Connection.
• USB to TTL Serial Cable - Debug / Console Cable for Raspberry Pi

Unsuitable

• Anything using the RS-232 or RS-423 standards, as these have larger and negative voltages.
• PC serial port or replacement adapter. These can often be identified by a 9-pin D shaped socket.
• Directly connecting to USB or Ethernet. An adapter is needed!

Memory Card Readers

• Transcend Information USB 3.0 Card Reader (TS-RDF5)