JWilly's Linux Travels

USBmicroISP v1.0:  The Beginning Steps of Dev I like small things.  I don't know why.  It's something about slimness, minimal living I guess.  I drive a Honda Civic, yes. To develop for a micro-scale, wearable electronics project, you have got to have a smaller  USBtinyISP  programmer.  Take the guts of that ISP (in-circuit serial programmer) project (props to the original devs there) and put them in this amazingly small box? Don't you just want to put something in there? Just imagine if small things weren't a thing. You'd be wearing THIS: Do not try to wear this at home, kids. Oh, the HORROR. Anyways... Here's my re-design that is mostly based off Adafruit's USBtinyISP and USB tiny code & design .  I just wanted to...ah... improve it a bit.   The Design Smaller, uses micro USB instead of large printer one, and looks cool, too.  The design is mostly reduced to SMD components, which presents the programming problem:  how

Restart Into Electronics (and not getting lost) So I decided to really start investing my wandering hobbitual energies into something that I had heard about back in 2009 or so while in college (see my project  Let's Make Things Talk blog ).  What I speak of is the Arduino project.  Well, let's just say the Arduino world  ever since the opensource community embraced this wholeheartedly.  So cool to see that happen.  Personally, I've also wanted to have something worthy to communicate to the world. Xmas gift from my brother, to add to the tool collection!  Ask and you shall receive. The Restart for Myself I have many interests, too many probably.  Too many hobbies, things, inventions I like to dream about.  They seem to all revolve around making and creating (the will to power).  You know that feeling of squelched passion ?  I've found release in channeling that into my original love: electronics .  Hardware and software.  The lower down the better.  Huddl

I discovered an AMD Geode processor lurking in a slim client SBC (single board computer) originally for a printer kiosk.  I wonder if I could fit a TinyGentoo  onto its 128MB compact flash card??? Introduction and overview I will utilize crossdev, and avoid any chrooting problems and mismatching CHOST/CFLAGS... Customize the target systems make.conf generated by crossdev. Compile and install packages into runtime tree. [picture of slim client and screen] >>>I'm writing this while my Gentoo system cross-compiles a i486-pc-linux-uclibc toolchain into /usr/i486-pc-linux-uclibc. There are many resources that I had to pull together to get this working: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Tiny_Gentoo  HOWTO guide to install a 5MB system on a USB flashdrive or similar http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml?full=1  Gentoo Embedded Handbook details cross-compiling for various dev boards http://judepereira.com/blog/going-embedded-with-mgento