April 28 2013 - Yocto support lands on the Wandboard i.MX6

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If you like a very compact and easy way to customize your embedded linux environment you might have heard of the Yoctoproject.

As of today the Wandboard has been added in Yocto 1.4 release Freescale i.MX6 branch. 



April 12 2013 - Wandboard in Japanese Magazine

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If you live in Japan and you like the Wandboard.

Get the magazine. There is so much information in the article to get you started playing with the Wandboard.

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/MAG/20130401/467736/

UPDATE: We just were informed that you can win a Wandboard Dual when you buy the magazine.

April 8 2013 - Wandboard on its way to mainline kernel

Initial board support for Wandboard dual-lite has been sent and it is available at:

https://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/shawnguo/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=daf8392b66dd21c42a8100105a449ca69ec13f0b

"Muito obrigado" for your help Fabio Estevam.

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For those interested in helping to improve Wandboard support in the mainline kernel, please join us at the Wandboard forum.

March 20 2013 - Wandboard mainline in u-boot


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The Wandboard is mainline u-boot as of today. We want to thank Fabio Estevam for his hard work to make this happen.

http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-imx.git;a=commitdiff;h=e2d282a1b468559c5f7e847db75eeca99644148a;hp=209b5710649cb855abe362268348df91bede6565
 

March 11 2013 - Wandboard Usage Poll

20130311-usage-pollWe asked you all what you plan to use the Wandboard for now the unit is shipping.

With 46.7% (321/688) multimedia players and streaming solutions were clearly taking the lead.

We are only wondering if one of the 37 people that voted to create a coffeemachine out of the Wandboard is already successful in achieving his task. If you do so.

Please send us pictures, sourcecode software and tell us how the coffee taste. You can do so in the forums and we will ask you to write a post about it that will be featured on the Wandboard homepage.  

February 23 2013 - How the Wandboard Enclosure was made


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So you got yourself a Wandboard with enclosure and you are wondering how a mold is actually manufactured in order to make a simple plastic enclosure.

The pictures above show the process after the 3D files are created and the "actual work" starts where a design is turned from a computer screen to a real life 3D product manufacturing tool. The whole process took a bit over a month.

From Left to Right (Top row) 
 
1.       calculating  moldflow for  the enclosure's design
2.       first milling of the tool
3.       EDM parts (the other EDM: Electric discharge machining)
4.       EDM process

From Left to Right (Bottom row)
  
5.       After the EDM (bottom)
6.       After EDM (top)
7.       final tool
8.       Tool inside the injection molding machine (the parts that stick out are the ejector pins) 

February 18 2013 - We are shipping the Wandboard

We are shipping the Wandboard and the first Twitter tweets start to appear.






February 8 2013 - Userguide and Schematics


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The Wandboard started shipping a few days ago.

As promised. The userguide and complete schematics can be found in the download section. 

Now it's your turn.

 

February 7 2013 - Android Jelly Bean BETA


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Wandboard + Android Jellybean. Find the Beta preview in the download section.

February 6 2013 - Ubuntu Preview for Wandboard


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We just uploaded preview images of Ubuntu. You can find them on the download page.

Please select the right image for your Wandboard (SOLO or DUAL). 

Check them out and let us know what you think in the forums.  

 

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Wandboard Specifications

 

Solo

Dual

Processor Freescale i.MX6 Solo Freescale i.MX6 Duallite
Cores Cortex-A9 Single core Cortex-A9 Dual core
Memory 512 MB DDR3 1 GB DDR3
 

 

 

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