In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series of posts I outlined the attempts I have made at using U-Boot to control the booting of the pcDuino. Specifically, I have been trying to configure the second stage boot to be from my SD card instead of the on board… Read more“pcDuino U-Boot – Part 3”
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pcDuino U-Boot – Part 2
In Part 1 I described connecting to the pcDuino serial port and accessing the U-Boot subsystem. With this access to the boot environment, the task of booting to a root file system other than the NAND flash looked promising.
pcDuino U-Boot – Part 1
This evening I decided it was time to check out the boot loader and boot command options on the pcDuino. To access the serial port on the J5 debug port I used a Sparkfun FTDI Basic Breakout-3.3v — a simple to use logic level serial to USB interface. With the… Read more“pcDuino U-Boot – Part 1”
Setting pcDuino Display Resolution
One of the things I had noted earlier was that the HDMI output resolution is fixed at 720p (1280×720) and there was no documented way of setting a new resolution. There was a posting in the comments at Sparkfun that a script for setting the resolution was being worked on…. Read more“Setting pcDuino Display Resolution”
pcDuino – I2C Test
Today I connected up a my prototype board for an I2C experiment with the pcDuino. Blinky Lights! YouTube video of simple I2C parallel port test using Python.
pcDuino Setup
Finally some time to get my new pcDuino set up. Connected a USB keyboard, USB mouse to the USB ports. Plugged in to my network, connected the monitor to the HDMI port, and applied power. Green LED and nothing… Then, about 20 seconds later, the monitor showed a LXDE desktop…. Read more“pcDuino Setup”
pcDuino Arrives
My pcDuino was deliverd while I was at work. I came home this evening to find the distinctive Sparkfun red box waiting for me. I could not wait to confirm that everything had arrived. Opening the box revealed the packing list, packing materials, and an anti-static bag with the pcDuino… Read more“pcDuino Arrives”
pcDuino
I was browsing the Sparkfun web site this week and saw they had added the pcDuino as a new product. At $59USD this looked to be an excellent addition to my ARM based small development boards that run a “real” OS. The pcDuino comes preloaded with Ubuntu Linux and also… Read more“pcDuino”