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Sama5d2 xplained ultra rev.b - 20hrs in.....

2017-10-08T20:49:15Z

So FINALLY......20 hours into my roadtest I finally have the board connected on windows 10 and uploading my image. Not going to lie its been a test of patience working with the sama5d2 Attempted to ssh in but kept getting errors end...(read more)

Digital clock using atmega8 and lcd display.

2017-08-17T14:02:29Z

I have written code to make a digital clock using timer1 and tested with Proteus (an Arduino simulator). That program has been downloaded into an Atmega8 and interfaced to an LCD display. Seconds are being counted perfectly in 1 second duration. But ...(read more)

yocto sama5d4-xplained's image with Qt5, wayland, 3d, opengl ...

2015-05-08T23:44:11Z

Note, I had in mind to write a longer tutorial but due to Miracast Sink for Tizen priority it was postponed. Anyway let me share some info to community who dare to port they favorite OS (Tizen?) to this platform. WAYLAND AND OPENGLFirst, t...(read more)

TM7000 Display module with SAMA5D4 Xplained running Android

2015-04-09T18:44:59Z

I've tried using the instructions on Android4SAM (Android4SAMv44 < Android4SAM < TWiki) but I've had no luck getting Android to work on Xplained with a TM7000 Display module. I've been able to load the package for the SAMA5D4 Xplain...(read more)

Atmel SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra N00b help.

2015-04-03T19:38:00Z

Salutations all, I wanted to tinker with the Atmel SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra board as a learning tool to understand embedded Linux environments. Not coming from an engineering background I could at least glean SOME understanding by going throu...(read more)

SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra - Tips and Tricks #2 - Using the built in IO and external devices

2015-02-26T04:53:43Z

In the first post in the series we looked at how to attach displays of various sorts SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra - Tips and Tricks #1 - Getting Displays up and Running In this post we will look at how to use some of the IO abilities of the SAMA5D4 Xp...(read more)

SAMA5D4 Xplained Ultra - Tips and Tricks #1 - Getting Displays up and Running

2015-02-24T06:33:21Z

So I have a SAMA5D4 from Element 14 and wanted to try to pre-empt the issues we experienced last year with the SAMA5D3's, this was a distinct lack of working drivers and samples With the Help of Christian doctorcdf and Atmel, I n...(read more)

MAC address fix on SAMA5D3 Xplained

2015-02-23T03:49:19Z

I found it very frustrating to try to access the Xplained from SSH. It never had a MAC address set so it would assign a new one every boot and a new IP to go with it. Here are the instructions to set the MAC address so this doesn't happen any more.&n...(read more)

sama5d3 xplained violet - graphics with python

2014-11-17T08:37:03Z

As part of my road test with the sama5d3, I've been working on a simple graphics library using Python, currently it consists of an lcd driver and buffer, a bmp decoder, a simple shape library and a simple system text library. Heres a video of it...(read more)

sama5d3 xplained violet - xgpio library

2014-10-16T13:54:42Z

It's a bit later than I anticipated, but I've settled on a very basic gpio control library for the time being, I tried a few different things but ran into issues specific to Python relating to global data only being global to the particuar script and...(read more)

sama5d3 xplained violet - Pin assignment guide

2014-10-07T17:24:14Z

Hey, If you read my previous blogs on using GPIO pins, you'll remember that we had to export the number "81" in order to activate pin C17. I thought it would be nice to have a lookup table to what number corresponds to what pin. I've atta...(read more)

sama5d3 xplained violet - GPIO control using Python

2014-10-06T09:42:52Z

This blog post is about controlling the digital io pins of the xplained board using Python. My previous blog showed how to control the pins using standard Bash commands in the system shell / terminal. The Python method works along exactly that ...(read more)

sama5d3 xplained violet - Using GPIO through bash

2014-10-05T20:36:04Z

This blog is about using some basic control methods to use the GPIO pins of the xplained board through bash commands, we'll look at using a digital pin as an output and then reading the value of it as an input pin. I already wrote a quick post a...(read more)

sama5d3 xplained violet - mount and access the SD card slot

2014-10-04T17:37:21Z

This post is about being able to access the SD card slot on the xplained board. First off, we need to log into our xplained board, either use the usb cable and follow the connection guide or read my blog post on accessing it using ssh (http://ww...(read more)

sama5d3 xplained violet - ssh into the sama5d3 xplained through network cable

2014-10-04T17:06:17Z

Power off the Xplained board and connect a network cable from the board into your router (a wireless adapter should also work just as easily, I'm going to use a cable for simplicities sake. Once your happy and problem free using a cable then moving o...(read more)