The Linux Foundation Tizen Work group announces the availability of a set of pre-release tools to give application developers an early look at Tizen. “Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, smart TVs, […]
Category Archives: Linux
Review: 8devices Carambola
David has taken a closer look at the 8devices Carambola (which we posted about a couple of months ago) and posted this review on his Nut and Bolt website. Via the contact form.
TCPDUMP-fu
While most of us are familiar with packet capturing/sniffing programs such as Wireshark, it’s not always the most convenient or appropriate tool to use in every network monitoring situation. Henry Van Styn has written an excellent how-to tutorial on the uses of the Linux command line utility TCPDUMP, and why it may be all you […]
Raspberry Pi PCBs
Drone writes: The Raspberry Pi production PCB’s have arrived. Look at the comparison to an actual credit-card; and those tiny yet crowded BGA footprints. It is amazing how the BGA parts are actually solderable – and with high yield! Read more about the Raspberry Pi dev board and the availability of these PCBs at the […]
DraftSight free 2D CAD product
N S K Chaitanya wrote in about an open source CAD program: I just came across a software called DraftSight. It is an open source alternative to autocad. It is by Dassault Systemes and even runs on Linux. Finally Linux has DWG support… According to Dassault Systemes, DraftSight is a “no-cost, easy-to-use 2D CAD product […]
andLinux: seamlessly run Linux apps on Windows
Michael Reed of LinuxJournal has posted this review of the andLinux distro. Primarily he gives it positive marks, while pointing out concerns about security and the age of the distro from which it’s derived (Ubuntu 9.04), as well as the fact that Linux apps cannot make use of a processor’s multicores. You can tryout the […]
PZST – an open-source Propeller IDE in development [ Version 1.0.1 released! ]
Andrey Demenev has been developing PZST – an open-source Propeller IDE. Not wanting to use Windows any more than necessary, he wanted to develop an open source Propeller IDE for use with Linux. He states: I have been always using Brad Campbell’s BST for Prop programming, and mostly was satisfied with it. But there are […]
Embeded Linux board update
sqkybeaver took over the embedded Linux board routing and released an updated PCB. Here’s the wiki for this project. Via the forum.
Raspberry Pi tiny Linux computer platform
This tiny USB stick PC was featured on Slashdot and many other sites. It’s intended as a $25 throw-away computer education tool, and uses an ARM11 with 128MB of RAM: David Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has a HDMI port in one end and a USB port on the other. You […]
Fedora Electronics Lab Linux distro
Kelvin writes to inform us of a Fedora Linux distribution particularly keyed toward electronics experimenters and developers. The Fedora Electronics Lab includes design tools for ASIC Analog Circuit Design and Simulation, ASIC Layout, DRC and LVS, Digital Simulation and Verification, RTL and logic synthesis design flows, Circuit and PCB Layout, Micro Controller (µC) Programming and […]
Infosec: using fuzzers to find vulnerabilities
Infosec Resources has a free online tutorial, An Introduction to Fuzzing: Using fuzzers (SPIKE) to find vulnerabilities. While not directly related to microcontrollers, this resource provides a hands-on guide to using open source Linux tools to find vulnerabilities in code on a networked Windows machine. To fully participate in this demo, you’ll need two machines […]
Shmoocon 2011: Linux autorun USB attacks
Many of us use Linux on a regular basis, and some users mistakenly believe that it’s immune to many of the hack attacks commonly used against Windows machines. In this talk presented at the Shmoocon 2011 conference which recently concluded in Washington, DC, Jon Larimer demonstrates how the development of common windows features in Linux, […]
Simple embedded Linux development board
There’s an ongoing discussion of an AT91SAM9260 (uC)Linux development board in the forum. This chip is just amazing, it can boot from serial or parallel flash, internal memory, or enumerate as a USB serial terminal for firmware flashing. Check out more features of this massive ARM processor in the AT91SAM9260 quick start guide on the […]
Program PICs using Linux
Hack a Day has a how-to on programming PICs under Linux with the open source SDCC compiler.
Microchip C30 compiler on Linux
A common criticism of Microchip’s compilers and IDE is that they’re only available on Windows. However, the compilers are all based on GCC so they’re open source. Tayken has been working on a Linux port, and linked to this detailed guide with resources for compiling C30 under Linux. Binaries are not yet available, but the […]
Pinguino: a PIC Arduino
Pinguino is an Arduino-like board based on PIC microcontroller. The hardware is based on a PIC 18F2550, which has an integrated USB module. This is the same chip we used in the USB IR Toy. The IDE is built with Python. An integrated preprocessor translates Arduino specific instructions directly to C. It uses SDCC as […]
Using the Bus Pirate with Arch Linux
scj made a wiki about using the Bus Pirate with Arch Linux. It covers creating a udev rule to name the Bus Pirate /dev/buspirate, and communication with minicom, screen, and picocom. Thanks for the tip!
Create /dev/bus_pirate on Linux
blue.zener demonstrates some handy Linux UDEV foo that assigns the Bus Pirate to /dev/bus_pirate, instead of the boring /dev/ttyusb. This can be used to give any device a more memorable name under Linux. Thanks for the tip! [Tux image]