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Mainline Kernel and U-Boot with MFGTool

radiatortwo

I´ve been searching for a method to write all the stuff you get from building the parts for the system on the internal flash of the board.Mainly because I don´t want to write everything onto an SD Card and then copy it onto the internal flash. Also t...
- 28 Jul 2014
RIoTboard Demo III - Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer!

e14 Contributor

IntroDuring application development, taking screenshots of the Android environment on your RIoTboard would be a very useful ability to have right? Most Android devices have an easy method for taking screenshots on the device (usually pushing the home...
- 28 Jul 2014
A RIoT Board Journey

McuOnEclipse

I ordered a RIoT board, and thanks to the many existing blogs here on element14 I was able to make some progress :-).So I started a series of my own articles about my journey with the RIoT board, with links listed below (all articles accessble under ...
- 26 Jul 2014
Teil 3: Bau eines Mainline Linux-Kernel für RIoTboard

e14 Contributor

Teil 3: Bau eines Mainline Linux-Kernel für RIoTboardPost von selsinork in RIoTboard, 4. Mai 2014, 15:13:00 In Teil 3 meiner Post-Serie lesen Sie heute, wie man eine aktuelle Linux-Version auf dem RIoTboard zum Laufen bringt. Über die Links könn...
- 22 Jul 2014
Teil 2: Bau eines Mainline u-Boot für RIoTboard

e14 Contributor

Teil 2: Bau eines Mainline u-Boot für RIoTboardPost von selsinork in RIoTboard, 28. April 2014, 21:05:00 Dies ist der zweite von mehreren Posts zum RIoTboard. Die anderen Beiträge können über die folgenden Links aufgerufen werden:Teil 1: Boot-Schalte...
- 22 Jul 2014
RIoTboard Teil 1: Boot-Schalter am RIoTboard

e14 Contributor

RIoTboard Teil 1: Boot-Schalter am RIoTboardPost von selsinork in RIoTboard, 10. April 2014, 15:51:00 Dies ist der erste von mehreren Posts zum RIoTboard. Die anderen Posts können über den folgenden Link aufgerufen werden:Teil 2: Bau eines Mainline u-...
- 22 Jul 2014
RioT Board power consumption.

DAB

I noticed that several people had remarked that the chip got warm in use, so I decided to run a quick test. I set up the wall wart on my power meter and plugged in the Riot Board to see what current it drew. When first plugged in, the wall ...
- 20 Jul 2014
RIoTboard Demo II - ♫ I'll place a call around the world ♫

e14 Contributor

IntroIf you have followed my previous guide you will have a working Android platform on your RIoTboard, now lets do something with it! In this guide we will be installing and using Skype to participate in a video call. The process can be easilly...
- 16 Jul 2014
RIoTboard Demo I

e14 Contributor

IntroI recently set up a couple of demos on I.MX 6 based boards for one of the tech suport guys to take to the Designing with Freescale seminar in Warsaw. The best of the bunch was a RIoTboard demo showcasing compatibility with a portable LCD display...
- 14 Jul 2014
Automate Uboot build with Eclipse

tusharp

Recently i was going through freescale document AN4173 on building uboot using eclipse.The document was released with an old version of eclipse and on windows, and being a linux user I thought to give it a try on a newer version of eclipse (kepler) o...
- 14 Jul 2014
[One Stop Place] RIoTboard Platform Glossary

tusharp

The RIoTboard is an Embedded Linux Development Platform designed for Internet of Things (IoT) and display based HMI applications.The board is a open source SBC powered by Freescale i.MX6 Solo Processor based on 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9. Below is a com...
- 12 Jul 2014
RIoTboard: Building a TFT LCD Display and Digitizer - Part 2: Circuit

shabaz

Part 2: IntroductionThis project is about connecting a screen from a laptop to the RIoTboardRIoTboard. For a full introduction, see part 1 by clicking here, it goes into more detail about this project. This part 2 covers the circuit and powering up t...
- 10 Jul 2014
RIoTboard: Building a TFT LCD Display and Digitizer - Part 1: Introduction

shabaz

Part 1: Introduction(Click here for Part 2).Thanks so much to doctorcdf and nlarson at element14 for always inspiring me and others, I was very proud to receive two free RIoTboards for a couple of projects. The RIoTboardRIoTboard is one of the latest...
- 9 Jul 2014
Arch Linux on the RIoTboard

bwelsby

First of all let me just say that my preferred Linux distribution is Debian and thanks to the excellent work by Selsinork I have just what I want.However, just for fun I thought I would see how easy it would be to get other distributions workin...
- 30 Jun 2014
Steve's RIoTboard Blog #1

dragonstyne

What is this thing anyway? The wonderful folks at Element14 were gracious enough to send me a RIoTboard to evaluate and experiment with. My first question was, what is a RIoTboard and what can I do with it. Well, I was happy to learn it h...
- 25 Jun 2014
RioTboard Power Consumption

e14 Contributor

Does anyone know the typical power consumption of the RioTboard?
- 23 Jun 2014
Debian on RIoTboard - After basic install, adding a GUI Desktop and other usefull stuff

Robert Peter Oakes

I have been following the previous posts from agrahambell and a lot of google searching and reading (PI and BBB stuff is really helpful) I now have a fully working GNOME desktop including browsers, editors, music players etc. Basically th...
- 13 Jun 2014
RIoTboard for newbies like me, part 2

ntewinkel

Over the weekend I was able to fix the ethernet jack in my living room (it had a little mishap a while back where I tugged on a nearby cable and all the little wires popped loose from this port - oops!), so today I plugged the RIoTboard back in to tr...
- 28 May 2014
Rooting Android for the RIoTBoard

radiatortwo

I´m not an Android developer. I´m using my RIoTBoard mainly with a Debian Linux distribution.but because I am rooting all of my Android devices, I thought why not root the RIoTBoard as well. Just for fun.It´s still an Android development board howeve...
- 24 May 2014
Hello, RIoTboard (for newbies like me)

ntewinkel

Element14 was kind enough to send me a RIoTboard to try out, and after receiving it today I couldn't wait to try it out to see what it can do. I have to note that I'm a total newbie to single board computers, so I had no idea what to exp...
- 24 May 2014
Building Android from Source

radiatortwo

Since there´s only a small description on how to build Android from the sources and nothing about setting up the build environment, I am going to show you how to setup the build environment to compile Android for the RIoTBoard yourself. I always...
- 17 May 2014
Installing Google Play Services and Google Play Store on RiotBoard

e14 Contributor

This short blog is for those android developers who which to install the Google Play Services and the Google Pay Store apps on the RiotBoard !!. So the first we need is to download this applications: GoogleLoginService.apk - www.dropbox.com...
- 14 May 2014
GPS usb receiver for Android on RiotBoard

e14 Contributor

Hi !, well this is about getting a GPS usb module to work on Android, at least i haven´t checked the gps on ubuntu. The gps receiver that i used is the Holux GR-123u USB GPS Receiver. This GPS module is supported by the Prolific PL23...
- 13 May 2014
Part 3: Build an Android App on the RIoTBoard

bluescreen

In my last post, we examined Eclipse, the IDE included in the Android Development Tools bundle. We learned how to configure the RIoTBoard to make it appear as an Android device in Eclipse, and we're now ready to write our Hello World! applicatio...
- 20 Apr 2014
Getting started with OpenGL stack on RIoTboard

tusharp

I’ve had the opportunity to use the RIoTboard for a while now and use some of the graphics capabilities available on the board. The board comes bundled with lots of peripherals and has good Android support as expected from an IoT board. I made sure t...
- 16 Apr 2014