ARK Just A Pi is a tiny NDAA-compliant carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM5 designed for drones, robots, or other space-constrained embedded applications.This follows ARK Electronics’ NDAA-compliant ARK Jetson Orin NX/Nano bundles introduced in 2024. The new “Just A Pi” is much smaller and lighter, features a built-in 100 Mbps Ethernet switch with two JST-GH Ethernet ports, a micro HDMI port, two MIPI CSI camera connectors, a microSD card slot, a PCIe FFC connector, a USB 3.0 Type-C dual role connector, and a range of small connectors for UART, SPI, PWM, GPIO, and fan. It also features a power connector for the company’s PAB power modulesARK Just A Pi specifications:
Supports SOM
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 – Full support
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 – The following interfaces are not supported: CSI1/CAM1, UART2, USB-C, PCIe, and fan
Storage – MicroSD card slot for CM4/CM5 Lite without eMMC only
