I received a Beaglebone as a birthday gift. It is a powerful little board that contains Texas Instrument’s Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor. According to the BeagleBone website, “The BeagleBone is the low-cost, high-expansion hardware-hacker focused BeagleBoard.” You can find out more about it here: http://beagleboard.org/bone. The following are some notes I took while getting acquainted [...]
After installing Debian 6 on my new Thinkpad, I encountered a problem while trying to program an Arduino Duemilanove board. The Serial Port menu in the Arduino IDE was greyed out and I was not able to select the correct serial device. A quick fix that worked for me: # sudo usermod -a -G dialout [...]
Being a fan of Arch Linux I decided to install Plugbox on a Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar that had been sitting in my closet for some months now. Plugbox is basically a port of Arch Linux for the ARM architecture. The Seagate Dockstar, on the other hand, is a Linux powered mini-computer with some impressive features [...]
A couple of days ago WTFMoogle had an excellent post about how he opened his Seagate Dockstar and found its copper ground plane corroding. This led me to open up my new Dockstar and I found it also had some corroding on the ground plane. I tried his fix of tinning the copper pads and [...]
I hate you ^M! You suck monkey balls. Every once in a while I have to remove the ^M’s from source code files that I download. I always forget how to do it so here it is for future reference: :%s/^M/\r/g (^M is entered as Control-V Control-M)