Embedded Linux meets Arduino with the Rascal Micro

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Behold the Rascal Micro. It's running embedded Linux and has a dual-row of pin headers which probably seem pretty familiar. The idea here is to bring Arduino hardware (ie: shields) to a party with a powerful web server. The image above is the beta version of the hardware. What's being shown off in a recent Engadget demo is a version that slides two USB ports in between the barrel jack and the … [Read more...]

Twiddling an LED using the BeagleBone’s embedded Linux

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If you comfortable working with 8-bit microcontrollers, the thought of moving to a hardware platform running embedded Linux may be a bit daunting. After all, there's a lot going on between you and the chips on a board like the BeagleBone seen above. But [Matt Richardson] shows how easy it can be to get at the pins on this device. He put together a primer on hardware control from the embedded … [Read more...]

Leapfrog Didj: Handheld Linux on the Cheap

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Today our good friends over at Woot! are selling the Leapfrog Didj, a low cost educational toy aimed at little kids. Lucky for hackers out there, the Didj is actually a linux device, and gaining serial console access is as easy as soldering two wires. The documentation out there is a little outdated, with a number of broken links and stale wikis, but $25 for a portable linux device is a hard deal … [Read more...]