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ESC Beagle Board Class Wrapup
This week I attended the Build Your Own Embedded System (BYOES) classes at ESC 2009. The BYOES classes were primarily focused on the Beagle Board, an ARM Cortex-A8 based single board computer developed...
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Building a Wifi Radio – Part 9, A Few Odds and Ends
This is the ninth part of an ongoing series about building a low cost, open source streaming internet radio based on the ASUS WL-520gU Wireless Router. If you haven’t already, check out the previous...
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Sneak peek at my finished Wifi Radio project!
While I’m busy working on part ten of my series on building a wireless router-based DIY streaming internet radio, I couldn’t resist sharing a few photos of the finished project. If you want to see the...
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Building a Wifi Radio – Part 10, Building the Box
This is the tenth and final part of a series about building a low cost, open source streaming internet radio based on the ASUS WL-520gU Wireless Router. If you haven’t already, check out the previous...
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Building a Wifi Radio? Leave a comment here!
Did my Wifi Radio project inspire you to buy a wireless router and start hacking? If so, I’d like to hear from you! Leave a comment below and let me know how your project is coming along. Even if...
View ArticleRun avrdude on Ubuntu without root
A quick tip for Ubuntu users: As installed by the avrdude package on Ubuntu, avrdude needs root priveledges to work properly with the Adafruit USBTinyISP AVR programmer. This gets annoying pretty fast...
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Measuring network performance with iperf
My new place in Austin came with a huge perk for a tech geek like me – it came pre-wired for ethernet in every room. (Well, technically not every room is wired. The laundry room, bathrooms, and...
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AVR Toolchain Installation Instructions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Mitch Altman and I are in the process of writing a book about Making Cool Things with Microcontrollers (for people who know nothing.) The book features several DIY projects that use AVR...
View ArticleAtmel AVRISP mkII working in Virtualbox
In the past I have had problems getting the Atmel AVRISP mkII to work with Virtualbox. This can be really irritating if, like me, you want to write code in Linux but are forced to run Windows for...
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Wifi Radio project mention in Nuts and Volts
The March issue of Nuts and Volts features an article by Craig Lindley about how to Build Your Own Wi-Fi Internet Radio. In the article, Craig mentions that my Wifi Radio project gave him the...
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