Saturday, December 10, 2016

CHIP - my new linux toy!

Few days ago I have received my CHIP board.
It is a 9$ board which has very nice set of features:
  1. Runs Linux.
  2. Open source hardware.
  3. Good documentation.
  4. WiFi B/G/N Built-in.
  5. 1GHz Processor
  6. 4GB of Storage
  7. 512MB of RAM
  8. Bluetooth 4.0

The first thing I did is downloading a debian server image and installed it via CHIP flasher utility. I work with Linux Ubuntu which is supported very well, just had to install the flasher utility which is made as Google Chrome plugin.

Next, I connected to the board via serial emulation:

minicom --baudrate 115200 --device /dev/ttyACM0

(user name: chip, password: chip)

To turn it off safely, do:
$ sudo shutdown now

I will present you many experiences which I will do on that board, so be tuned ;-)

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