usb port

I’ve been fiddling with an ESP8266 this week that is being powered by an FTDIBasic board from SparkFun.  The setup is simple enough and it’s easy enough to get a simple web server running on it but I don’t have a power switch so the whole thing is powered through […]

udev rule for FTDIBasic from SparkFun

 in Arduino / Fedora / General / Linux  tagged arduino / Fedora / FTDI / Future Technology Devices International / Linux / USB connector / usb port / web server / wifi
Over the holiday I managed to close out a few nagging issues in the builds.  First, logins stopped working until I realized that I’d turned off the getty’s on tty0 and tty02.  This wasn’t the complete fix, however, as Busybox was adding /etc/securetty to the rootfs and that file did […]

BeagleBox: working Xorg and eth support

 in Android / BeagleBox / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged Android / angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / busybox / debian / DSS / DSS2 / fbdev / Fedora / kernel / kernel source tree / matchbox / metabuild / omap / omapfb / ubuntu / usb port / Video / wifi (updated 4864 days ago)
I placed an order for a gray Peek from Amazon.  The gray Peek’s are$2 less than the colored ones.  Who needs a colored one for hacking?  Anyway, it should arrive by Saturday.  In the meantime I’ve been watching the videos and scanning online resources to learn about the internals of […]

Peek ordered, learning about the hardware

 in GTK+ / Hardware / Linux / Peek  tagged framebuffer device / GTK+ / jtag interface / kernel / Linux / mobile wireless / peek / standard vga / usb port / video display / wifi / wireless lan (updated 5386 days ago)