Posts with «hardware-hacking» label

CrashSpace BigButton w/ ESP8266

At CrashSpace we have a publicly-viewable “sign” at https://crashspacela.com/sign/ to let members know when the space is open. This sign page is updated by a big button in the front room. Press it, the sign page updates, and you’ve promised to be in the space for an hour. But last month, the button broke. So I [...]
Todbot 12 Jan 18:40
arduino  crashspace  hardware-hacking  

blink(1) and C.H.I.P. work great together!

Thanks to NextThingCo‘s recent efforts with getting Debian on their nifty little C.H.I.P. board, I was able to quickly get working my blink1-tool for our blink(1) USB LED. Let the blinky disco commence! Mostly as a reminder to myself, here’s what I did.  (based on the “Flashing with Debian” section of this document) On the vagrant [...]
Todbot 23 Oct 21:29
blink1  hardware-hacking  

blink(1) and C.H.I.P. work great together!

Thanks to NextThingCo‘s recent efforts with getting Debian on their nifty little C.H.I.P. board, I was able to quickly get working my blink1-tool for our blink(1) USB LED. Let the blinky disco commence! Mostly as a reminder to myself, here’s what I did.  (based on the “Flashing with Debian” section of this document) On the vagrant [...]
Todbot 23 Oct 21:29
blink1  hardware-hacking  

Cross-compiling C programs for C.H.I.P. Linux

My blink1-tool command-line program is very cross-platform. It currently supports Mac OS X 10.6.8-10.10.6, Windows XP-10, FreeBSD 10+,  most Linux distros including Ubuntu, RedHat, OpenWrt, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, and Linino Arduino Yun.  And I want it to work for C.H.I.P. The NextThingCo C.H.I.P. runs a tiny Linux similar to OpenWrt or Arduino Yun.  For these systems, [...]
Todbot 11 Oct 06:07
hardware-hacking  

Cross-compiling C programs for C.H.I.P. Linux

My blink1-tool command-line program is very cross-platform. It currently supports Mac OS X 10.6.8-10.10.6, Windows XP-10, FreeBSD 10+,  most Linux distros including Ubuntu, RedHat, OpenWrt, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, and Linino Arduino Yun.  And I want it to work for C.H.I.P. The NextThingCo C.H.I.P. runs a tiny Linux similar to OpenWrt or Arduino Yun.  For these systems, [...]
Todbot 11 Oct 06:07
hardware-hacking  

Alpha C.H.I.P. first setup impressions

I recently received part of my Kickstarter reward from the famous C.H.I.P. $9 computer project.  This is the “Alpha C.H.I.P.” board that is hardware complete, but has no firmware.  So you need to install the SDK and flash the firmware yourself.  If you’re a kernel hacker (like me, I’ve been poking on Linux internals since ’98 and [...]
Todbot 09 Oct 21:41
hardware-hacking  

Alpha C.H.I.P. first setup impressions

I recently received part of my Kickstarter reward from the famous C.H.I.P. $9 computer project.  This is the “Alpha C.H.I.P.” board that is hardware complete, but has no firmware.  So you need to install the SDK and flash the firmware yourself.  If you’re a kernel hacker (like me, I’ve been poking on Linux internals since ’98 and [...]
Todbot 09 Oct 21:41
hardware-hacking  

Little portable AVR development kit

Recently a CrashSpace member asked about my little portable AVR dev platform. It’s small, compatible without avrdude hacks, and cheap enough to not worry about. Though it’s a gaffer-taped together setup, it’s served me well for about 10 years.  It’s in a go-bag about the size of my laptop’s power supply, so it’s often with me. [...]
Todbot 24 Sep 00:53
arduino  blinkm  hardware-hacking  

Little portable AVR development kit

Recently a CrashSpace member asked about my little portable AVR dev platform. It’s small, compatible without avrdude hacks, and cheap enough to not worry about. Though it’s a gaffer-taped together setup, it’s served me well for about 10 years.  It’s in a go-bag about the size of my laptop’s power supply, so it’s often with me. [...]
Todbot 24 Sep 00:53
arduino  blinkm  hardware-hacking  

Makerbot Replicator mods I’ve done

After two years, I think I have my Replicator (apparently the first one shipped) finally working reliably to produce >1 hour prints. Thank you @iandanforth for asking if I had a description of the mods I did and prompting me to write this. The Replicator has been a very frustrating product. After a few out-of-the-box [...]
Todbot 27 Sep 22:32
hardware-hacking