Mecha Metal

A back-to-basics Single Board Computer

Computer Core

CPU

MEMORY

STORAGE

CONNECTIVITY

M.2 PCle

Inbuilt M.2 PCIe extension for extending onboard storage and AI accelerators.

Input & Output

Rich set of digital interfaces accessible from 40 Pi-compatible pins and 14 additional I/O pins.

12x GPIO

2x UART

1x USB

1x RTC

2x I2C

1x SPI

2x PWM

54-pin I/O

Security

Hardware security store for securing crypto keys - asymmetric, symmetric isolated from the onboard storage or SOC.

Accelerated cryptography for faster crypto operations.

Crypto store

Crypto accelarator

SPECIFICATIONS

Dive in the details

Data Sheet

Operating System

Mechanix OS (Linux, Kernel 6.1)

CPU

1.8 GHz Quad Arm Cortex-A53 (64-Bit)

Memory

4GB LPDDR4 RAM, 32 GB Flash

Wireless

2.4 GHz/5.0 GHz 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0

Display

DSI, 4 lanes, Pi5 Compatible

Camera

CSI, 4 lanes, Pi5 Compatible

Audio

2x Digital HD Mic, HD Speaker

Power

Type-C 5V 1.5A

Ports

1x Gigabit Ethernet, 2x USB 2.0, 1x PCIe 2.0

Peripherals

RTC, TrustStore

Extensions

Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)

Add remote power capabilities with a standard PoE HAT.

Battery System

Power your metal with external juice using any battery management system HAT.

LTE (4G)

Take your Metal in the outdoors with compatible LTE extensions.

Any Pi HAT

Metal supports any already available HATs for the Pi 40-pin and M 2.5 form factor.

Multimedia

Camera (CSI)

Pi5 Compatible

Display (DSI)

Pi5 Compatible

Speaker Connector

Onboard Audio

Dual HD Mic

Onboard Audio

GUI fresh out of the oven

Github

The Mechanix Shell is our open-source shell running on Wayland, uniquely designed for small-screen devices.

SOFTWARE

Now let's talk firmware

The Comet-M is powered by Linux, flavoured with our custom distro - Mechanix.  The bootloader, kernel and rootfs is open-source and you are welcome to customize for yourself and others.

App ecosystem

Join the vibrant and growing Linux open-source apps ecosystem by accessing the packages offered by Debian and Flatpak. 

You can also use Docker run containers (even with GUI).

Build with tools you already know

With Mecha we want you to build
with the tools and languages you
already know.

Project Schedule

The Mecha Comet will be launched on Kickstarter in Jan 2025