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The value of an over-exuberant penchant for experimentation and fiddling should never be underestimated, if only because it helps measure the onset of age-associated mental debilitation. In other words, everyone needs a hobby. Or two. Or ten.

What to do in 2017

Thu December 29, 2016 in General / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development tagged adafruit / Android / ARM / debian / IoT / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / technology / toolchain / web server / WebKit / xmpcr (updated 2950 days ago)

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 3243 days ago)

One of the longterm goals for PiBox is to integrate it into the home. I want to see the PiBox Server provide centralized communication for an array of IoT devices. One way to do this is with Bluetooth Low-Energy, aka BLE, aka Bluetooth 4.0. This specification allows very low power […]

PiBox: bluetooth for video means no omxplayer

Mon July 27, 2015 in Audio / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / Video tagged crosstool-ng / gcc / kernel / Linaro / mplayer / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / toolchain / Video / video player

It’s taken more than 2 years but I’ve finally finished the first versions of the PiBox Media Server and Media Player. The cases are stained wood boxes from a hobby store but they provide me with information on how to deal with layout in a 3D printed case. It also […]

PiBox prototype cases

Thu June 11, 2015 in PiBox tagged Android / custom boards / digital TV / HDMI / Media Player / Media Server / PiBox / projector / prototype / toolchain

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 3796 days ago)

Sitting around this weekend taking care of one of my pups (Bailey, who just had TPLO surgery to fix a torn ACL) I decided to take a deeper look at the problem with the cross toolchain supporting NEON instructions. I did a few more Google searches and found the Linaro […]

BeagleBox: fixed NEON problems in cross toolchain

Sat March 12, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / neon / toolchain

I made a little progress this week. First, I managed to build a 2.6.32 kernel based on Angstrom's recipes that appears to be the build to use for PSP support. Something tells me this is sufficient to get the Xorg driver working, but I haven't tried it yet. In any […]