Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized Linux development boards, are now in production. The first boards will start rolling off the manufacturing lines at the end of January. Raspberry Pis started being made a couple of days ago, but I was forbidden to tell you about it until signed contracts and receipts for payment had arrived […]
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8devices Wi-Fi 4 things
There is a new Wi Fi module around. It supports UART, I2C, SPI, and Ethernet interfaces. The board has a RT3050 320Mhz CPU with 8MB of flash memory and a 32MB onboard RAM chip. It is built to support Linux based embedded systems via the OpenWRT. Via the contact form.
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 […]
USB Infrared Toy receive/transmit support for LIRC (Linux)
LIRC is a remote control decoder/transmitter program for Linux. The IR Toy has always been supported by LIRC’s IRman-compatable mode, but now there’s a patch for full receive and transmit support. Peter posted the test IR Toy LIRC driver in the forum: I have finished work on a lirc driver for linux that supports receive […]
Control #twatch from Linux command line
llauren used Netcat to control his #twatch: I received my #twatch the other day. I found out that the most basic way to speak to the #twatch is using Netcat (nc). Netcat probably comes as standard with most Linux distros and if it doesn’t, then install it. On a Debian-flavour platform (like Ubuntu) Via the forum.
pickit2 in MPLABX and 64bit Linux fix
arhi noticed that the latest MPLABX has pickit2 support, but it doesn’t work under 64bit Linux. He managed to fix it by tweaking his Java install, how-to instructions here. Via the forum.
Web Platform from Linux desktop
Shuckc posted a Linux guide to the web platform: Web platform arrived today in the post, very impressed. It was very simple with a Linux desktop to get the firmware flashed to the DP microchip TCP/IP demo using ds30 Loader, then to upload the Microchip demo apps. Here are some instructions using Fedora… Get an […]
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 […]
Logic Sniffer Linux upgrade resources
Want to upgrade the Logic Sniffer under Linux? Kormus wrote an upgrade tutorial for Linux users. There’s also Linux versions of the command line upgrade utilities available in the forum. Order the Logic Sniffer at Seeed Studio for $45, including worldwide shipping. Seeed now has probe cables for $6 each.
Program PICs using Linux
Hack a Day has a how-to on programming PICs under Linux with the open source SDCC compiler.
Beta Microchip IDE for Linux, Mac
ahri tipped us to a new beta version of the Microchip development software for PIC microcontrollers, MPLABX. Looks like it’s Java based, and there’s Linux and Mac versions too. This will make a lot of people happy. Grab the preview here, and share your experience in the comments. We’re installing it now. Via the forum.
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 […]
Pirateship Bus Pirate GUI available for Linux
We previously covered the Pirateship GUI for the Bus Pirate . It looks like a Linux version is available now. Thanks for the tip Ronan! The Bus Pirate is available at Seeed Studio and Adafruit Industries.
Using the Bus Pirate with Ubuntu
Mike Szczys wrote a quick-start guide for connecting the Bus Pirate to Ubuntu Linux. He used the Minicom terminal and recommends some custom UDEV rules to assign a persistent port name. Thanks for the tips!
Bus Pirate bootloader v4 console for Linux, Mac
It looks like some people are having problems with the ds30 Loader GUI for the Bus Pirate v4 bootloader on Linux or Mac with Mono, and many would prefer not to install Mono at all. pppd cooked up a simple console application (updated version here) for the v4 bootloader in Linux and MacOSX (and Windows). […]
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]
Bus Pirate: Firmware upgrades on Linux, OSX
STOP!!! You probably need the v2 to v4 upgrade guide instead!!! See the latest version in the documentation wiki. Bus Pirate firmware updates can be done from Linux or OSX using the Python PIC24F programmer developed by broeggle and JoseJX. The programmer works on all operating systems that support Python and pySerial: Linux, OSX, and […]