Welcome Arduino Yún – the first member of a series of wifi products combining Arduino with Linux: Massimo Banzi announced it some minutes ago during his annual “The state of Arduino” presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area: Arduino Yún is … Read more
Odrioid is yet another tiny board capable of running Linux or Android. It’s only 48mm x 52mm, yet it features a 1.7 GHz quad core Cortex A9 processor, the Mali-400 quad core GPU, and 2 GBs of DDR2. Unfortunately there … Read more
Brightbluejim let us know that the OLinuXino-Micro ARM9 Linux board is available at Mouser for $30. It runs at 454 MHz, has 64 MB of RAM, an SD-card reader, TV PAL/NTSC video output, one USB High-Speed host port, and an … Read more
Cubieboard is another Linux computer-on-a-board type device. It features a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU, with 1GB of DDR3 RAM, and the Mali400 OpenGL ES GPU with HDMI output. What sets it apart from the popular Raspberry Pi, is … Read more
Long time reader IPenguin let us know Olimex started the OLinuXino open source developer discount initiative. Basically you develop open source software for their OLinuXino Linux boards, and they give you a 15-50% discount code: What are the requirements? An … Read more
Yesterday we talked about the cheap OpenWRT supported TP-Link WR703N Wi-Fi router. This instructable describes how to interface it to an Arduino board, and compares it to other Linux boards like the Raspberry Pi. So far the nicest solution I … Read more
The TP-Link WR703N (machine translation) is a small Wi-Fi router that’s easy to hack, and flash with openWRT. The best feature about it is that it cost only $20 on eBay. It features a single host USB connector making it … Read more
A link to this guide was left on yesterday’s post about fixing library issues on Eagle 6.xx Linux versions. The difference to yesterday’s guide is that this one provides links to all the missing files, instead of having them packaged … Read more
Mick M. posted the missing Cadsoft Eagle 6.x libraries for Linux: I finally tracked down the libraries to allow installation of the latest version. This will get you out of “dependency-hell” . Hopefully Cadsoft will statically link the next release. … Read more
Olimex released their OLinuXino-Micro, an ARM9 development platform that supports Linux. It runs at 454 MHz, has 64 MB of RAM, an SD-card reader, TV PAL/NTSC video output, one USB High-Speed host port, and an a Pi-tossing 60 GPIO pins … Read more
A common assumption is that you need a 32bit processor and lots of RAM to even consider running Linux, but Dimitry pulled it off with just an 8bit AVR. It is common to see newbies asking in microcontroller forums if … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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