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Budget CC1110/2430/2510 programmer/debugger
Although the TI CC debugger is a relative inexpensive debugging tool, I did stumble across a cheaper option that is compatible with the TI software suite (SmartRF Studio & IAR) and could be used...
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Nano SL5 Alarm Panel
This project came about because my existing alarm system an SL5 Friedland Response Alarm (Honeywell) system had no easy means to interface with it so that I could control it through sms or through the...
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Friedland Alarm Serial Ouput
So I've managed to create code to output sensors information to the XRF serial port. The plan is provide a simple interface allowing the XRF to be switched to different alarm modes:Mode 0 - IDLE...
View ArticleRaspberry PI first impressions
I received my PI on the Friday although not desperately seeking one I was fortunate to be in the second batch. The packing was simple, consisting of a padded envelope containing in small cardboard box....
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Raspberry PI meets Nano Alarm Panel
The last 3 weeks have been spent getting up to speed with the Raspi and determining the quickest way of interfacing it with the Nano Alarm Panel (based on the Ciseco XRF board).The end goal was two...
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HackBerry A10 board
As always I'm on the look out for the next hackable board, my interest turned to the Gooseberry board which essentially is an tablet PCBA. I must commend the Gooseberry founder for sourcing such a...
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Hackberry A10 update 1
Hackberry A10 available to buy from here . For the last few weeks I've been very busy mainly due to the interest in the board and more importantly debugging the hardware/software to determine what some...
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Hackberry A10 First attempt to boot Ubuntu 12.04 & Puppy Linux
After a couple of hours of debugging I final got the MK802 Ubuntu 12.04 image working on the Hackberry. So thanks to guys on the miniand forums for create the images, in the end just a simple tweak of...
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Hackberry A10 Bootloader
Having been intrigued by the boot messages that appear upon the board booting I thought I would take some time to look at this further. As described on numerous internet sites the A10 first loads the...
View ArticleHackberry A10 - Wireless Access Point
I've spent some time attempting to get the Hackberry configured as a Wireless Access Point. The on-board wifi module is the based on the RealTek RTL8188CU. The official driver documentation indicates...
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Hackberry A10 - Home Alarm Interfacing
After setting up the Access Point, I'd thought I would devote some time on integrating the Nano alarm panel with the Hackberry. The end goal was to arm/disarm from my Andriod phone within the vicinity...
View ArticleHackberry A10 - Debian Wheezy (Headless)
There seems to be demand for a minimal headless debian wheezy image for the Hackberry. So here is a pre-built image that I've created using this armhf rootfs and compiling a 3.0.36 kernel. This should...
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Hackberry A10 - Linaro 12.06 (Desktop)
I took Toby's Linaro build for the MK802 and patched it to work for the Hackberry. Thanks to Tobay for the work he put into creating the build.You have two options for getting an image to SD card:1....
View ArticleHackberry A10 - 3G Modem Support
One of the outstanding items on my long of list of 'things to do with the Hackberry' was to get my Huawei E173s 3G modem working under Debian. This allows the Hackberry to used for remote deployments...
View ArticleHackberry A10 - Compiling a kernel (armhfs)
I've had quite a few requests to include or create kernel modules for the debian image. So here are instruction to compile a kernel. There's plenty of information on the web for compiling kernels for...
View ArticleHackberry A10 - Java benchmarks
Having not seen any benchmarks for running Java on a A10 device, I thought I would performed some benchmarks using dacapo bench suite. Currently the Oracle JDK for ARM is only available for armel,...
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Hackberry A10 - Extra USB Ports
As discovered by Adrian on the miniand forums, the Hackberry has an on-board USB Hub (Genesys Logic GL850G) resulting in the board providing up to 6 usb ports. 1 port is used by the wifi module,...
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Hackberry A10 - XBMC
I spent some time creating a working XBMC image for the Hackberry because of the increased interest generated on the xbmc forum. Firstly a big thanks to numerous contributors...
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Hackberry A10 - Booting Android from an SD Card
Having spent many hours attempting to get a custom kernel booting for the factory Android image, I found that is was easier to first create an factory Android image that would boot from an SD card. The...
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Hackberry A10 : Ubuntu 12.10 with Razor-qt
Having heard about Razor-qt, I thought I would give it a go on the Hackberry. Razor-qt is a light-weight desktop built for simplicity and speed. It is also intended to target 'weak machines' therefore...
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