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Debian on Ouya
Ouya is a 99$ Tegra3 based gaming console without a display. My goal is to use Ouya in my robotics project for video encoding but first I want to have Debian running there with hardware accelerated...
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Pleco Phase02 completed
It’s been two years already since I posted about Phase01 being completed. It was a simple track based vehicle using cheap DC motors and the hull was built from Meccano parts: For Phase02 I decided to...
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Debian on Ouya: All Systems Go
I finally got all the major subsystems working and Debian is now usable on Ouya. I prefer Debian but Ubuntu should work similarly. In the above screenshot I’m playing 1080p H264 while running...
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My first 3D print
Mechanics has always been a problem in my robotic projects but now that the 3D printing is such a hot topic I decided to test it out. It seems that the 3D printing services use STL format and many of...
View ArticleSteam on Debian Stable
I like the idea of being able to play games on Linux, so the announcement of Steam for Linux was a big thing. Too bad Debian Stable has too old C-library for it. During the past year I’ve occasionally...
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Ubuntu on Ouya
[Update 2014-09-20]: The latest patches from Markus for the Jetson TK1 work also for Tegra3! I was testing Markus Tavenrath’s EGL branch of the XBMC on my Ouya and noticed that OMX_UseEGLImage...
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XBMC for Tegra with full HW acceleration
XBMC running at UltraHD resolution on Jetson TK1. Thanks to Markus Tavenrath there is finally a fully accelerated Kodi (previously known as XBMC) for Tegra K1 based devices like the Jetson TK1. Some of...
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Wireless MCUs and power consumption, part I
Electricity is expensive and being low power is environmentally friendly. And what is more motivating than seeing the total power consumption in real time? There are plenty of commercial products out...
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Wireless MCUs and power consumption, part II
In the Part I I described my real project with the radio: a wireless power consumption meter. But it is supposed to be a low power MCU so why not run it indefinitely with a renewable power source?...
View ArticlePleco Phase 03: Finally drivable
I wrote about Phase 02 in September 2013 and listed goals for the Phase 03. Most of the goals are implemented and finally it is a joy to remote drive the car. I attached a wide angle lens to the...
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