Things are just falling into place with this Beagleboard. The Ubuntu distro, although slow on installing packages is pretty damn robust. I have installed a bunch of packages without a hiccup. X11VNC works without any issues, and can access with ultraVNC without much screen lag. My UVC webcam (which can be seen in motion in …
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Month:December 2010
New Tangent – Vortex86SX is History!
OK. Why spend so much time on a frankly, underpowered system board. Chalk it up to learning experience I guess. That Vortex86 may have been the cat’s pajamas (pulled that from nowhere) about 5-10 years ago with 300Mhz, but the lack of FPU or math coprocessor cripples it nowadays. Less operating systems will use it, …
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Back to Linux
It has been awhile sinced I posted on this. My wife and I have been travelling and other projects have been sandwiched in between (like a whole diversion into circuit building and green energy, etc.). Anyway, I am back to hacking processor boards for robot integration. I am blogging about this because it may help …
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