ODROID Magazine
Thundroid: The Perfect Bitcoin Lightning Node
Bitcoin is a native digital currency for the internet age. It could be considered just another international currency, but one without a native country so it defies borders, trade policies, and arbitrary inflation. In the 2008 whitepaper (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto it is described as “…a purely peer-to-peer ▶
OGST Gaming Console Kit for the ODROID-XU4
The OGST Gaming Console Kit for the ODROID-XU4 kit allows you to build your own gaming console with a powerful ODROID-XU4 or ODROID-XU4Q. Its attractive design includes a fancy 2.4” LCD to show programmable game logo animations, and is specifically designed to work with the popular ODROID GameStation Turbo disk ▶
Linux Gaming: Nintendo 64 Emulation – Part 1
It took a while to get N64 emulation to work on all the ODROID boards under Linux. However, now that it’s functioning, it’s quite fun and opens up lots of opportunities for classic gaming. Hopefully in the future, we will see more improvement and have even better support for N64 ▶
OS Spotlight: ODROID GameStation Turbo
One of the biggest projects that I am working on for the ODROID community is the ODROID GameStation Turbo image, which works as a frontend for both games and media playback. It’s intended as an entertainment system that allows you to control your ODROID just by using a game controller ▶
Android Development: Using GitHub
Welcome back, appdev initiates! If you’re like me, you’re more than ready to increase your app development skills. As mentioned previously, the 800-pound gorilla of online open source projects is GitHub. There are several Git-based choices in the marketplace, but for our purposes, we will use GitHub for this column, ▶
Linux Gaming on ODROID: Saturn Games – Part 4
We are back again with the ODROID-XU4/XU4 and Sega Saturn games. This time I want to look into games starting with the letter “S” like in Saturn, or as in “shmup”. There are so many great games for the Sega Saturn that start with the letter “S” that I enjoy ▶
ODROID-XU4 Home Server
Back in December 2017, I rebuilt my Odroid XU4 home media server (https://goo.gl/6tT6rt) because I was having some issues with the previous setup. Unfortunately, that rebuild was not focusing on aesthetics or cable management, just functionality, because I needed the server up and running and did not care how it ▶
Carputer – 7″ Touch Screen Android
This is a 7″ Touch Screen Android Carputer with super accurate USB GPS, Bluetooth 4, 3.5MM Audio in/out, WiFi, and an adjustable magnetic screen. A sketchup file is available for additional customization and resizing as needed at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2720349. As an IT Field service tech of 28 years, I built this ▶
Introduction to BASH Basics – Part 2: Useful BASH commands for Single Board Computers
Last time, we learned about the ‘ls’ and ‘tree’ commands. While looking at things is nice, it’s more fun to actually do something with our data. This article contains a list of the common commands for manipulating data. The command and its explanation are kept very brief to avoid writing ▶
Linux Gaming: Nintendo 64 Emulation – Part 2
Part 1 of this article introduced the latest version of the Nintendo 64 emulator for Linux and compared its performance on all of the current ODROID boards. This second part presents an overview of some of the more popular Nintendo 64 games, including Mario Kart, Mario Party, Paper Mario, Star ▶