In “Building NuttX, In Ubuntu, From Scratch“, we showed briefly how to use “make menuconfig” to launch NuttX configuration. Lots goes on behind the scenes to make that work. The process of building the Linux kernel has two parts: configuring…
Meet the Reclone Rise
The Reclone Rise will be a friendly and flexible reconfigurable computing platform geared towards education and enthusiasts. Its design will be completely open-source, along with a support forum, readthedocs, and SDK. Initial prototypes will be designed and assembled in the…
Building NuttX, In Ubuntu, From Scratch
Until recently, I was a loyal FreeRTOS fan – it’s a simple, lightweight task scheduler without any baggage. Anything extra can get integrated from scratch, or from third-party libraries. However, Reclone will need an RTOS with filesystem, networking, USB host,…
Fast, Cheap WiFi for Microcontrollers
Ethernet is nice, but who wants to be tied down? Meet the ESP8266 – an inexpensive WiFi chip that’s taking the IoT hobbyist community by storm. The ESP8266, being such a popular little chip, has a decent SDK and lots…
Motivation
Reconfigurable computing is awesome. Why isn’t it more mainstream? In the electronics maker community, when picking a board to run your project, there seem to be three realms of embedded design platforms: microcontroller-based (Arduino, Gadgeteer, Micropython, NodeMCU, STM Discovery, TI…