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Featured Android application: Electrodroid
Posted on May 28, 2011 | No CommentsElectrodroid: This is a very well written application which is a great reference for engineers doing hardware design. I almost use it on a daily basis. I won’t go though... -
OpenEmbedded: Overcoming common annoyances
Posted on May 28, 2011 | No CommentsI’m not a hater. OpenEmbedded makes life easy! Unfortunately like all things linux, it breaks sometimes and its complicated-ness cause me much frustration in fixing it. This post describes a... -
OpenEmbbeded: Adding custom patches to kernel
Posted on May 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsAs I previously discussed the drivers for the Playstation Eye camera in the opkg Angstrom repo need to be patched to be able to use additional features of the camera.... -
Testing the Playstation Eye on the BeagleBoard (basic capture)
Posted on April 9, 2011 | 1 CommentAs the title says, I am wanting to simply test the ability to take snapshots from the Playstation Eye connected to a BeagleBoard. Setting up the Playstation Eye was easy... -
Building Ångström for the BeagleBoard using OpenEmbedded
Posted on April 6, 2011 | 5 CommentsHere is a photo of the kernel being built with Open Embedded, whilst cooking my poor laptop. Open embedded is an amazing package which greatly streamlines the process of building... -
Fixing a Bitbake: “zlib checksum mismatch.: Failed” error
Posted on April 5, 2011 | 2 CommentsSome context: And the error message is: With all the documentation around about how to fix checksum errors in Bitbake, what caused my error is actually a download error. So... -
Intro to basic cross-compiling for the BeagleBoard
Posted on April 1, 2011 | 17 CommentsI need to be able to compile packages and my own code for the BeagleBoard target. Therefore this requires the setup of the cross-compiler environment on my host machine (Ubuntu... -
RT2573 Wireless Dongle with the BeagleBoard
Posted on March 31, 2011 | No CommentsThere are quite a few posts on other sites with successful/unsuccessful installs of usb wireless dongles for the BeagleBoard. I’m posting this in case it can be of any help... -
BeagleBoard: DVI Video modes
Posted on February 13, 2011 | 2 Comments(also known as getting the BB to output HDMI on a Sony LCD TV) As I am still waiting for a microSDHC reader I thought I’d have a play with... -
![While updating the Angstrom on my BeagleBoard for the first time I came across a problem. microSD -> SD adapter -> SD card reader -> Ubuntu 10.10. [dmesg | tail] had the...](http://www.electronsonradio.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/IMAG0177-115x115.jpg "MicroSD: Device offlined")
MicroSD: Device offlined
Posted on February 8, 2011 | No CommentsWhile updating the Angstrom on my BeagleBoard for the first time I came across a problem. microSD -> SD adapter -> SD card reader -> Ubuntu 10.10. [dmesg | tail] had the...