Hi, Looking for a user friendly way to automatically start the Gizmo2 on power up. Understand its possible to change the BIOS to do this. Anyone had any success with this? Read various threads on adding external buttons and 3D printing a ...
In a previous post, a small bar graph display was used to provide a visual animation of disk activity on Gizmo2. This is the updated version with the actual lightbar that is going to be used. The video below has a quick look at how the light ba...
Wow! what a busy couple of weeks, I've had a few extra days away from home that I wasn't expecting so updates have been a bit short on the ground, I decided to get straight on with things rather than blog intermittently. The project is ...
I used the Gizmo 2Gizmo 2 single-board computer for this project. This project was originally inspired by a few of the image processing projects that I have gotten involved in as well as my strong interest in robotics. After hearing about ...
Deciding to choose a new and unfamiliar material was maybe a bad idea at first, I was a out of my comfort zone and was putting off getting started with using it. Well that was until I made my very first cut... from then on, I knew aluminium co...
In it's initial build, the console is going to have a nightrider style light chaser on the top to act as a disk activity monitor. There are plenty of other animation styles that can be used but for the proof of concept, I stuck to just the light chas...
Waiting for some bits and bobs to be delivered for the case build, I've been trying to find out how to access and use the gpio ports on Gizmo2. The ubuntu install has a /sys/class/gpio folder and the export/unexport files where gpio pins can be ...
Mame is a Multiple arcade machine emulator allowing computers to play games from arcade machines by providing it with rom files. Installation is straight forward but can have some pitfalls if you don't know the procedure. Installing Mame i...
The Gizmo's main limitation is it's ram which means that the less resources the system needs, the more we can devote towards applications that we want to use. There are lots of lightweight Desktop environments that can help reduce these...
To be able to play Amiga games, an emulator is needed; specifically SF-UAE. The emulator needs to have roms that act as a kind of BIOS called kickstart in order to boot games. A company bought the rights to own kickstart so to use them legally...
It's been longer than anticipated finishing off installing the core software; and it's all Gizmo's fault.. There I was, quietly sat going through some terminal commands thinking I was nearly done when the the output of the last command listed ...
Here's a video demonstrating launching application outside of the desktop environment on Ubuntu, A screen recorder launches the in turn launches Warsow and records it in high+ graphics mode while capturing the screen at 30 fps. If you got the t...
I came across the Catalyst Fire graphics chipset drivers for Gizmo2's G series system on chip and found the performance increase well worth the effort of installing them. The AMD download site has tons of options but if you perservere, you...
I have received my Gizmo 2 just before the Easter weekend. Its arrival was perfect timing for me to see try out its capabilities out of the box and share that experience in this post. There are already a few great reviews in this communit...
After getting my Gizmo2 booting Arch [Gizmo 2 Arch Linux Installation Guide], I was unimpressed with the bottleneck the MMC card creates.The Gizmo2 has a PCI/mSATA interface. Low cost SSDs can be had by scouring [ebay]. I went through two ~$10 listin...
Owing to the fact that Timesys embedded Linux, which comes preinstalled on the Gizmo 2 is designed primarily for use in "deeply embedded" systems as opposed to hobbyist and rapid prototyping usage, I have spent a fair bit of time getting Arch Linux r...
This is my design for a 3D printed enclosure, I have used OpenSCAD for this as it's my preferred design tool and just for fun I used the GIZMO2 as my development workstation.To start with I set-up my GIZMO2 with a 120GB S...
Introduction
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Introduction In my previous post, I designed and 3D printed an enclosure for the Gizmo2. Unfortunately, this blocks access to the onboard power and reset buttons. So I searched for a way to have some externa...
Introduction
Design
Print
Introduction To protect my brand new GIZMO 2 board from the pointy and metal objects (and the rest of the mess) scattered around my desk, I decided to design a simple 3D printable enclosure for it, which wou...
If you haven't already read this excellent post Gizmo 2 – The New Batch by shabaz please do. Here is a very brief post of my initial experiences and observations so far.. I was lucky enough to win a prototype board in a re...
The new Gizmo II from Gizmosphere is absolutely oozing with power: dual-core 64-bit AMD SoC Jaguar II processor, with built-in GPU1GB of DDR3L RAM; on-board USB3.0 portsa PCI-Express card slotHDMI out; gigabit EthernetAnd, as a bonus, a real-tim...
