How to build and flash a custom Android image for the UDOO Quad board. Hacking the UDOO kernel config and Android prop files to enable SATA hard-drive support and S/PDIF digital audio.
From real-time bit banging on TRIACs to HTML material design. Using remote lighting as a case study, this post proposes a full dive into all the layers involved in a modern IoT application, based on a PIC micro, a UDOO board, Android and Polymer HTML5 components.
Pictures, video and cad model of my wall-mounted home-automation and set-top-box project based on a UDOO Quad board.
How to rewrite the history of 170k commits and 2.8 million objects in 19 minutes with ~300 lines of python code. The adventures of a Git pervert, a python fanatic and a performance freak.
A quick one-liner which might come handy in paranoid occasions. It shows how to initiate a very simple and cryptographically robust connection between two hosts, which has forward secrecy properties, with a one line invocation of OpenSSL.
Forking Android for personal embedded projects can be an interesting use case. Unfortunately, due to the complexity of Android's codebase, it might not be as straightforward as forking an average standalone project, even for of a single line change. This post explains how to maintain a fork of Android on GitHub in a sensible and efficient way.
This article is a hack guide to the Siemens MC35 GSM terminal. Siemens MC35 is a common GSM/GPRS terminal that can provide embedded systems with GSM network connectivity.