Gumstix
It’s time to create a new category in my projects blog: embedded. I got interested in microcontrollers some years ago and wrote something simple for 16F88 with assembler. Then I connected it to an old...
View Article2.6.25 running on Gumstix
I had to add a new category after all: gumstix. The embedded word has too broad a meaning. Updating the kernel wasn’t such a big thing after all, even for a kernel n00b like me. I git cloned the...
View ArticleUBIFS and Gumstix
I wanted try something other than JFFS2 as the rootfs and decided to go with UBIFS. Thanks to GIT’s brilliance I had no trouble pulling the UBIFS kernel patches from their tree to mine. It seems that...
View Article2.6.25 and BT working on Gumstix
I finally got the Bluetooth working with my Gumstix running 2.6.25 and my linux setup. My patches are against two weeks old kernel but hopefully apply to current HEAD too. The patches include my kernel...
View ArticlePleco Phase01 completed
I started playing with microcontrollers in 2005 and, if not at the very start, at least very quickly I decided to aim to have some sort of remote controlled Linux device with controllable camera with...
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