I'm not sure if this is the right place to post blogs. I'm very new to this site.
I am very Excited to have been selected in the Sci-PI Science competition. I'll be working on the chromatograph very soon!
I was currently using the ts7600 development board because I couldn't get my hands on a Raspberry Pi for ages.
The TS7600 is a cool little board, with loads of interesting features,
such as having 5 on board ADCs, and numerous gpio, and busses, multiple FPGAs, and runs on low enough power to run from my laptop USB port UART adapter power.
The draw backs of the ts7600 are that the support life cycle has ended, and its been impossible for me to install a kernel newer than 3.14.79
it works well with that kernel, but getting new packages, for development means I have to cross compile and back port everything, and its been dependency hell.
documented IO support It limited, and the OEM is no longer providing support.
Through a generous Donation to the Bangor Makerspace, by the University of Maine, we have several hundred of these devices to play with.
I've been learning a lot about embedded systems, and cross compiling, although I am still very confused by the imx28 bootlets, and whatever it is the boot loader is doing.
I just wanted to post my thanks for the Opportunity to compete in the Sci-Pi challenge, and say that I am very excited to get a better platform to work from.
