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PiBox Media Center v0.11.0 Release 2016-10-11 The PiBox Media Center v0.11.0 binary releases are now available for download. This release represents the first public release that will be demo’d at this weeks Maker Faire in Colorado Springs. It’s focus has been on performance, usability and developer functionality. Additional Information Meetup […]

PiBox 0.11.0 release

Thu October 13, 2016 in Linux / PiBox tagged BUI / gcc / GTK+ / HDMI / Media Player / meetup / metabuild / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / toolchain / Video / video playback (updated 2690 days ago)

When I was just getting started with embedded development I found many tutorials on how to perform cross compiles required setting up some shell functions and variables before working on builds. This is a necessity for embedded work because the embedded build for the target platform won’t use the same […]

cdtools, because who has just one project?

Mon April 06, 2015 in General / Linux / Raspberry Pi / Software Development tagged angstrom / ARM / buildroot / embedded development / Fedora / git / java / kernel / Linux / metabuild / Metabuilds / OpenEmbedded / packaging / PiBox / rpm / toolchain / yocto (updated 3243 days ago)

A recent thread on the Buildroot mailing list about the use of Buildroot in practice got me thinking about why I created BeagleBox and similar systems at work. So I wrote up a paper on it and put it on my wiki. Comments and criticicisms are welcome. Related posts cdtools, […]

Metabuilds for Embedded Development

Sun March 27, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / crosstool-ng / Development / embedded development / metabuild / Metabuilds

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

Sat January 01, 2011 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’ve spent the past week or so trying to integrate my BUI releases into the Buildroot build for BeagleBox. My original intent was to use a metabuild of all of the packages I’d forked from Matchbox so I’d only have one package to build in Buildroot. The metabuild would build […]

BeagleBox: BUI reset

Sat December 18, 2010 in BeagleBox / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / matchbox / metabuild / qemu

I signed up for the Matchbox mailing list last night and have just sent a request to find out the status of the project. While I was waiting for confirmation of my sign-up last night I started a metabuild for Matchbox. Essentially its just like the metabuild used by BeagleBox, […]

BeagleBox: Matchbox metabuild to generate patches for buildroot

Wed August 11, 2010 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / buildroot / matchbox / metabuild (updated 4999 days ago)

I’ve gotten the embedded bug lately. I dug around for an interesting hardware platform to work with and stumbled across the BeagleBoard. This 3×3″ board provides impressive multimedia capabilities via the TI OMAP35xx processor. It appears to serve the purpose I had long ago thought about for the miniITX boards […]