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STM32F3 Discovery + Eclipse + OpenOCD
Hi,ST launched in September a very interesting development board(STM32F3-Discovery). It is a very cheap one(I have got myself one for ~10$). It has a debugger integrated(STLINK) and also some great...
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Free ARM toolchain with floating point unit support
Hi,The previous post(STM32F3 Discovery + Eclipse + OpenOCD) was based on the CodeSourcery Lite toolchain, which doesn't support floating point unit.I have found an alternative: gcc-arm-embeddedYou just...
View ArticleSTM32F3-Discovery Usart with printf
Hi,The next step after setting up the Development Environment for STM32F3-Discovery was to communicate with computer via serial port.I have added usart support to my board using USART2 module, which...
View ArticleSTM32F3 Discovery on Windows with Eclipse and OpenOCD
Hi!Because of a lot of requests, I have decided to make the Windows version of the tutorial for setting up STM32F3-Discovery board, with free tools.First, download ST-LINK V2 driver from here. Open the...
View ArticleAdding 7inch display with touchscreen to Raspberry PI
Hi!First thing I got in mind when seeing Raspberry PI was "car PC project".The targeted display was 7 inch with touchscreen. I have found a lot of displays on Ebay.I have got myself one for 85 dollars...
View ArticleBuild XBMC Frodo from source in Raspbian on Raspberry PI
Hi!After struggling couple of days in finding the best way to build XBMC on Raspberry PI I have finally got a working solution(haven't discovered how I can cross-compile it, which would be the best...
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Raspberry PI, Raspbian, XBMC and eGalax 7 inch touchscreen
Hello!I have spent some time lately trying to find a solution to get my 7 inch eGalax touchscreen to work with Raspbian(Debian Wheezy) in XBMC 12 Frodo and finally got it working as I wanted.My...
View ArticleCarPC first build
Hi!After working a lot at my CarPC project I have decided to take a break and post about it.A short preview is here:You can download my 4GB image from hereIf you want to build it by yourself please...
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Car PC project(August 2013 update)
This is an update for my CarPC project.The main features are:Hardware:Raspberry PI model B(256MB ram): ~35$7 inch display with touchscreen for car rear view camera, from eBay(touchscreen is connected...
View ArticleOpenElec with support for eGalax touch screen
Hi!Lately I have tested OpenElec for Raspberry PI and found out that it is very very fast, very very small and also it has some great addons(wifi, bluetooth and more).Speed/size features on an 512MB...
View ArticleKeep your linux clock synchronized with gps time
A big problem for a CarPC is that you need a real time clock to synchronize your system with.For my CarPC, I don't have any RTC module on Raspberry PI, but I do have a gps always connected, which...
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Control XBMC from the Raspberry PI GPIO's
I have recently worked on adding external controls for my Raspberry PI CarPC project because while driving it is better to have some physical controls to rely on, rather than looking at the touch...
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OpenCarPC
Hi!I have worked on some new features for my CarPC. Here are the changes: First, some videos:The latest image can be downloaded from the Downloads link on the right of this blog(username:pi,...
View ArticleopenCarPC controller v1.1
Hi!In a previous post I have explained how I have interfaced Raspberry PI GPIOs with XBMC, using buttons and rotary encoders.I have reworked the application which controls this and now there are more...
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Raspberry PI CarPC April 2014 updates
Hello!I have made a lot of work on the project, with great help from Doru Ignat(idorel@gmail.com) and now the complete list of features is:latest Raspberry PI firmware(which supports new models and has...
View ArticleRaspberry PI CarPC September 2014 updates
Hello!I have made some progress on my CarPC project and here are the main changes:- support for Raspberry PI Model B+- update XBMC to 13.2 stable- update kernel to 3.16.0- reworked radio(rds is...
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Raspberry PI CarPC November 2014 updates
Hi,I have made a new release of the CarPC software for Raspberry PI.Updates: - RDS radio support(new radio application) - new application for managing everything on GPIO which takes about 3% of...
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RaspberryPI CarPC tutorial
1. Installation process(fresh install):- write a fresh image with the latest RaspbianOS image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/- copy the carpc folder in /home/pi/ on the SD card(get the...
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Raspberry PI CarPC January 2015 updates
Hi,Here are the updates I have recently worked on: - migration to KODI stable 14.0 - Raspbian OS from 24 december 2013 - linux kernel 3.18.1 with touchscreen drivers - updates to Radio and Navigation...
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Raspberry PI 2 CarPC
Hi,Here are the updates I have recently worked on: - Raspberry PI 2 support - KODI 14.1 - linux kernel 3.18.7-v7 with touchscreen drivers(thanks to Chris Coat) - radio backend fixed to support RDS...
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