October 24, 2018Time for Android 8.0.0 OreoAndroid Nougat is no longer the sweetest release yet, that honor now goes to Android 8.0.0 Oreo. The waiting for…
November 16, 2017Pre-order your NXP i.MX8M community board with advanced video and audio capabilities todayStarting today you can pre-order the WandPi-8M and be one of the first to receive them as early as spring…
November 15, 2017Explore blockchain and embedded computing – Ethereum now available for WandboardBlockchain holds so many amazing possibilities – some already in the process of being realized, most notably, with the Bitcoin…
October 15, 2017Pico Pi Pro Maker Kit Setup GuidePico Pro Maker Kit Follow these instructions to set up your Pico Pro Maker Kit. What’s in the box Open…
September 28, 2017Android 7.1 Nougat is available for WandboardBored of running Android 6.0 Marshmallow on your Wandboard? Then why not get your teeth into some fresh and sweet…
March 30, 2017Wandboard Reload (and better)The Wandboard has been around for the 4.5 years (or 32 dog-years). All this time we have been truth to…
April 29, 2016Android 6.0 Marshmallow Available for WandboardAs of today the Wandboard i.MX6 has support for Android Marshmallow. The 4TH Android version we support on this board.…
January 26, 2016Wandboard Android 6.0 MarshmallowA picture says a 1,000 words. Yes that’s right. Android 6.0 Marshmallow will come to the Wandboard this coming spring.
December 24, 2015Wandboard Android Lollipop with AP ModeMerry Christmas Wandboard fans. This years gift from us in the Wandboard team is working AP mode in Android Lollipop.…
December 9, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – Canoncial Ubuntu 15.10Time for another Wednesday scavenger hunt. This week we have dug up a somewhat fresh Ubuntu 15.10 from Canonical. The…
November 4, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – Debian 8After several months without Scavenger hunts. We are back and this Wednesday our Wandboard Scavenger Hunt is Debian 8. Runtime image: http://wandboard.local/images/downloads/debian-8-xfce-wandboard-20150514.zip Hope…
October 4, 2015Wandboard Webserver Burndown and AftermathAs many have experienced. The Wandboard downloads have been down last month and we can let you all know. They…
July 15, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – OpenWRTOpenWRT is this Wednesday our Wandboard Scavenger Hunt discovery. Runtime image: http://wandboard.local/images/downloads/openwrt-1407-wandboard-20150512.zip And we have to say “Thank you” to the folds that…
July 8, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – OpenSuse 13.2Every Wednesday we have a new Wandboard Scavenger Hunt and this week we worked with the Opensuse community. Runtime image: http://wandboard.local/images/downloads/opensuse-13.2-wandboard-20150511.zip Origin:…
July 1, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – Android LollipopEvery Wednesday we have a new Wandboard Scavenger Hunt. This week is a treat from the Wandboard team. We released a full…
June 16, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – FreeBSDEvery Wednesday we have a new Wandboard Scavenger Hunt and the discoveries keep coming. This week we take a closer look at…
June 10, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – ArchLinuxIt’s Wednesday….Wednesday….Wednesday….and that means it’s Wandboard Scavenger Hunt Wednesday again. This week we take a closer look at ArchLinux and here are…
June 3, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – OpenMandrivaIt’s Wednesday Scavenger Hunt again and this week we take a look at OpenMandriva and the very active community behind…
May 25, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – Ubuntu 15.04Another week passed and it’s “Wandboard Scavenger Wednesday” again. This week’s “Scavenger Hunt Discovery” is about Canonical Ubuntu 15.04 and as many…
May 20, 2015Wandboard Scavenger Hunt – Fedora 22It’s Wednesday and that means it’s “Wandboard Scavenger Wednesday”. This week’s “Scavenger Hunt Discovery” is about Fedora 22 and as many of…
April 15, 2015Wandboard Solar PoweredWe have been following Ronald van Luijten’s Wandboard project for the past several months http://swissdutch.ch/ and back in September we read that…
April 6, 2015Wandboard is a “development” boardOn a daily basis dozens of new Wandboard users get their hands on a Wandboard for a first time. We…
February 13, 2015Wandboard Valentine gift for youAndroid Lollipop BETA is available now. Yes that is right. Wandboard is the first Freescale i.MX6 board that has the…
January 12, 2015Howto Android Kitkat 4.4 PlaystoreThe nice guys at BYTESNAP in the UK wrote a blog post how to add Play Store on the Wandboard…
December 24, 2014Wandboard LollipopAndroid Lollipop (5.0) will be coming to the Wandboard. We currently have initial booting support but we still have lots…
December 4, 2014Wandboard at FTF JapanThe Wandboard was once again featuring in the land of the rising sun. This time at Freescale Technology Forum (FTF)…
September 24, 2014Wandboard Octopus Cluster InterviewWorking on an interesting project that uses the Wandboard and want to share with the community about your experience or…
August 18, 2014Android KitKat for the WandboardAndroid KitKat support is now available for the Wandboard. Runtime demo image: http://wandboard.local/images/downloads/android-4.4.2-wandboard-20140815.zip Source code can be found at the following…
July 24, 2014Wandboard is the demonstration board in the “Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project” bookThe Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project. book has been released last week. The book is composed by 14 chapters…
July 2, 2014Wandboard Soft-AP Camera Streaming DemoE-CON Systems created a nice video that demonstrates Streaming Video over SoftAP from WandBoard with e-CAM51IMX6 – 5MP i.MX6 camera…
June 18, 2014Wandboard ClusterThe University of the Witwatersrand High Energy Physics (HEP) Group designed a cluster with a custom PCI-Express adapter carrierboard. Enjoy…
June 9, 2014Wandboard Sumo RobotWandboard robots are among us and joined a Sumo Robot competition. For more information go to : http://embeddedexperience.blogspot.tw/2014/04/wandboard.html Talk back and…
May 19, 2014Wandboard REV. C1Upon many requests in the forums. We are happy to announce that we start shipping Wandboard REV C1. On the…
April 9, 2014FTF – Wandboard Webcam in the techlabWe are at FTF (Freescale Technology Forum) in Dallas and our Wandboard friend John Weber is showing off his wandcam…
April 4, 2014FTF Wandboard running JavaWe are at FTF (Freescale Technology Forum) in Dallas and our Wandboard can be found at the Oracle booth as…
March 15, 2014Build your own Wandboard ClusterWe all heard about CERN over the past years. (Large Hardon Collider). Searching for the magic particle. The holy grail.…
March 3, 2014Freescale Univerity Program uses the WandboardLast week at Embedded World the Wandboard was used in the Freescale University Program controlling remote controlled cars by running…
February 25, 2014Wandboard goes Embedded World (again)We are in Nuremberg (Germany) at Embedded World (again). This year once again the Wandboard is featured at the Freescale…
February 12, 2014Virtual machine for compiling Android 4.3Sometimes, setting up an envirnonment for building Android can sometimes be a little trouble. The required packages might not be…
January 23, 2014Video playback using the Wandboard VPU, part 3This article conlcudes the article series on gstreamer by sketching on how gstreamer acceleration is implemented on Freescale iMX6. Gstreamer…
January 20, 2014Video playback using the Wandboard VPU, part 2This post is the second article of three about hardware accelerated video playback on the Wandboard. Todays topic is gstreamer…
January 17, 2014Video playback using the Wandboard VPU, part 1This is the first part of three in a series of articles about hardware accelerated video playback. The very first…
January 13, 2014Wandboard meets the WandcamAvnet has created a camera board for Wandboard and they call it WandCam. WandCam uses an OV5460 MIPI image sensor…
January 8, 2014Yocto 1.5 with Qt 5 for the WandBoardWe recently released an updated version of Yocto 1.5 demo image for the Wandboard. This time it comes with Qt…
December 26, 2013Introducing SPL u-boot for the WandboardAs some of you may have noticed, the recent Ubuntu and Yocto demo images are no longer separate for different…
December 10, 2013Fedora 20 adds the WandboardToday is a big day with the release of Fedora 20 where our beloved Wandboard is among the few ARM…
November 19, 2013Wandboard Java Hands OnIn today’s tutorial we are showing how to quickly install Java onto the Wandboard and explorer the Java2Demo applications. To…
November 19, 2013Free BSD on WandboardThe Wandboard is now also supported by the FreeBSD project. If you are interested in FreeBSD. The sources and kernel…
November 4, 2013Wandboard camera says “Cheese”Over the past couple months we have seen multiple requests in the forums regarding MIPI camera’s that can connect on the Wandboard…
October 28, 2013Wandboard GPIO hands onIn this tutorial we show you how to connect a LED to the Wandboard GPIO and how you can easily control it. For this…
October 19, 2013Yocto 1.5 BSP loves the WandboardLots of new features are available in the new Yocto 1.5 release for the Wandboard (solo/dual/quad). Get it now : http://freescale.github.io/doc/release-notes/1.5/
October 17, 2013Wandboard SATA Boot (THIS VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY)Not scared of using a solder iron and voiding your warranty? Remove 2 resistors and place one resistor back at the bottom…
October 7, 2013Wandboard Icecream Sandwich WannabeOur beloved Wandboard as any freshman in college sometimes gets homesick and just want cuddle old friends. So touching and heartwarming. Wandboard…
September 23, 2013bigboards.io and WandboardTell us a bit about yourself/team As our website http://bigboards.io indicates, we are 4 professionals with various backgrounds in software and technology.…
September 11, 2013Wandboard User ShowcaseWorking on a project where you use the Wandboard in your design and want to share it with the world?…
September 5, 2013Wandboard UnpluggedDid you know that you can use Wandboard unplugged from it’s connector board by connecting a 5V poweradaptor to the…
August 23, 2013Wandboard compatible carrierboards start to launchWe got our hands on a EDM1-FAIRY-START board from TechNexion and we checked it out with the Wandboard core module to make…
August 21, 2013XBMC on the WandboardYou like the Wandboard and you love XBMC. Send your thanks to Stephan Rafin because he did a great job…
August 12, 2013Wandboard gets a WikiAre you working with a Wandboard and you have something interesting that you want to share with others. Or you…
July 30, 2013Timesys Linuxlink support comes to the WandboardTimesys brings its award-winning, easy-to-use LinuxLink suite of embedded Linux development tools to the Wandboard community. LinuxLink combines a free, intuitive…
July 28, 2013Wandboard now with ArchLinuxArchlinux added Wandboard to their supported platforms. You can find installation tutorials and all documentation on their homepage : http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/freescale/wandboard
July 18, 2013Future Electronics adds Multitouch to WandboardThe nice guys at Future Electronics put a lot of energy into bringing a 7 inch multitouch display to the Wandboard…
July 17, 2013Wandboard Quad goes mainline kernelThe Wandboard Quad will be included with Kernel 3.12 and joins his brother Wandboard Dual with mainline linux support.
July 2, 2013Wandboard Modules 10Pack Now AvailableMany people asked us. “Can I buy the Wandboard Modules without the carrierboard to use on my own EDM carrierboard”.…
June 26, 2013Wandboard Quad mainline u-bootThe Wandboard Quad will be included in u-boot 2013.07. Thank you Tapani, Otavio and Stefano for making this happen. Next step. Mainline…
June 6, 2013Wandboard at Computex TaipeiWe are at Computex 2013 in Taipei and the Wandboard i.MX6 Quad is on display at the Freescale Booth (WTC Hall 1 booth…
May 27, 2013Wandboard QuadSorry for not posting many updates in the past weeks. However the whole team has been extremely busy with updating…
April 28, 2013Yocto support lands on the Wandboard i.MX6If you like a very compact and easy way to customize your embedded linux environment you might have heard of…
April 12, 2013Wandboard in Japanese MagazineIf you live in Japan and you like the Wandboard. Get the magazine. There is so much information in the article…
April 8, 2013Wandboard on its way to mainline kernelInitial 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…
March 20, 2013Wandboard mainline in u-bootThe Wandboard is mainline u-boot as of today. We want to thank Fabio Estevam for his hard work to make this…
March 11, 2013Wandboard Usage PollWe asked you all what you plan to use the Wandboard for now the unit is shipping. With 46.7% (321/688) multimedia…
February 23, 2013How the Wandboard Enclosure was madeSo you got yourself a Wandboard with enclosure and you are wondering how a mold is actually manufactured in order…
February 18, 2013We are shipping the WandboardWe are shipping the Wandboard and the first Twitter tweets start to appear. Hello from Wandboard! twitter.com/_hito_/status/… — hito (@_hito_) February 16,…
February 8, 2013Userguide and SchematicsThe Wandboard started shipping a few days ago. As promised. The userguide and complete schematics can be found in the…
February 7, 2013Android Jellybean BetaWandboard + Android Jellybean. Find the Beta preview in the download section.
February 6, 2013Ubuntu Preview for WandboardWe just uploaded preview images of Ubuntu. You can find them on the download page. Please select the right image for…
January 24, 2013Wandboard Software PollFor the January Poll we asked you all what software support you would like to see when we are launching the Wandboard and…
January 22, 2013Wandboard Quick Start GuideWhat can be more frustrating than receiving a Wandboard and not knowing how to get started? Check out the Wandboard…
January 15, 2013Wandboard to DevelopersToday we shipped a small batch from the production Wandboards i.MX6 Solo and Dual to partner developers around the world to let them…
January 10, 2013Thermal and Power Consumption Test ResultsWith just one week to go before we start shipping Wandboard towards distributors and few weeks until people get their hands…
December 26, 2012Wandboard Production CrunchtimeWith the first couple thousand Wandboard PCB’s incoming in the next week (INDEED A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND A VERY…
December 19, 2012Wandboard in a box2 plastic parts + 4 screws + 4 tiny rubber feets + Wandboard + guy with 2 left hands using a screwdriver = Wandboard in…
December 18, 2012Wandboard Enclosure SamplesMany emails over the past 2 weeks regarding the enclosure. We got the samples earlier today delivered and immediately took pictures. Tomorrow…
December 5, 2012Block DiagramThe Wandboard blockdiagram explains clearly which signals are being used and how they are routed from the System-on-Module (SoM) towards the EDM…
November 27, 2012Wandboard EnclosureWe asked a few friends to design a nice, cheap and easy to assemble enclosure for the Wandboard. Today we…
November 22, 2012Wandboard goes IndiaThe Wandboard is coming closer to people in India. Tenet starts promoting the board in Bangalore India to students and engineers. Nice…
November 20, 2012Wandboard Pre-Order Begins in JapanExciting news. We received a fair bit of media attention in Japan. (magazines coming out next month). Pre-ordering Wandboards in…
November 7, 2012Pre-Production Run Wandboard DebugThis week we have been busy with software and hardware validation. For those not aware of how hardware development works,…
October 24, 2012Wandboard PicsToday we received validation samples of the Wandboards back from the SMD line. Plugged in the System on Module in the…
October 9, 2012PC Gerbers and Expansion HeadersAs we promised just a few days ago. We got some additional information for you all. Just click on the…
October 4, 2012First Wandboard NewsWaking up this morning and checking what happened. Guess what. Wandboard links everywhere on google and the team goes crazy…
September 27, 2012Wandboard sees the lightWe start to spread the word that the Wandboard is coming fairly soon. We have revision 0.2 boards in manufacturing…