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Thundroid: The Perfect Bitcoin Lightning Node

June 1, 2018

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

June 1, 2018

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

June 1, 2018

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  ▶

Digital Photo Frame: 55 inch 4K Digital Photo Frame Display for Around $400

June 1, 2018

There are lots of tutorials on how to make an awesome digital photo frame with a Raspberry Pi.

OS Spotlight: ODROID GameStation Turbo

June 1, 2018

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  ▶

GameSir G3w

ODROID GameSir G3w USB Controller Joystick

June 1, 2018

The GameSir G3w is a high-quality gamepad that adopts a 32-bit MCU chip, with a computing capability that is up to 48 million operations per second. And it is supported on the official Linux and Android operating systems offered by Hardkernel.

Solar Powered Microserver

June 1, 2018

Blackouts are not just annoying, but cause a series of problems impacting almost all aspects of modern life, so after months in the dark, I took the plunge an built a small solar power system.The ODROID C2 has a 64-bit quad-core ARM CPU, 2 GB of RAM, and support eMMC  ▶

Android Development: Using GitHub

June 1, 2018

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,  ▶

Sega Saturn Games on ODROID

Linux Gaming on ODROID: Saturn Games – Part 4

June 1, 2018

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 home media server

ODROID-XU4 Home Server

June 1, 2018

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

June 1, 2018

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

June 1, 2018

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

June 1, 2018

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  ▶

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Setting up the ODROID-H2+: Installing the H2+ NIC Driver

July 1, 2020 0

The original H2 and H2 REV.B carried two 1GbE NIC whose driver is included in both Windows 10 and recent Linux distributions. On the other hand the ODROID H2+ is equipped with two 2.5GbE NIC based on the Realtek 8125B chipset. This chipset is rather recent and its support in  ▶

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ODROID-H2+: The New And Enhanced X86 Platform

July 1, 2020 0

The ODROID-H2 is back, this time in a slightly upgraded form - named aptly, the ODROID-H2+! Accordingly the board revision code is REV-B+ (while the previous production batch was REV-B). We announced the original ODROID-H2 back in November 2018, as a new generation of single board computer (SBC) - an  ▶

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ODROID-GO Advance Black Edition

June 1, 2020 0

The GO-Advance on a spiffy new version!  ▶

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Selfhosting with ODROID-XU4 CloudShell2: From hardware setup to up and running with Docker

June 1, 2020 0

Easy to spin up and try out new applications, conversely its equally trivial to completely remove applications one may no longer interested in.  ▶

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ODROID-GO Advance Cell Phone: A Custom Built and Coded Cell Phone

May 1, 2020 0

Recently, I decided to build my own cell phone out of an ODROID-GO Advance using a SIM800L module which included a speaker and mic. Thanks to the ample space inside the case, this hardware installation was pretty easy. For this build, I used a Debian Buster image with the SIM880L connected to the ODROID-GO Advance’s UART2.  ▶

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Assist With Coronavirus Research: Using Rosetta@home To Help Find A Cure

May 1, 2020 0

It is now possible to use your 64bit ODROID to assist with Coronavirus Research. Thanks to a new application update for Rosetta@home, made possible by the Arm development community.  ▶

Linux

Multi Screen Desktop Using VNC - Part 2: An Improved And Simplified Version

May 1, 2020 0

Looks to me everyone has been stuck indoors for longer than they desired. Some of us had to work during this time too. Working on a small laptop screen is no fun task, and using HDMI cables while kids run around is not fun either. So, how about we use an ODROID as a secondary screen?  ▶

ODROID-C4

Introducing the New ODROID-C4: A New Generation Single Board Computer

May 1, 2020 0

The ODROID-C4 is a new generation single board computer that is more energy efficient and has higher performance than the ODROID-C2 which was introduced over four years ago, as the world's first affordable ARM 64-bit computer. The ODROID-C4 features an Amlogic S905X3 CPU which is a quad-core Cortex-A55 cluster with a new generation Mali-G31 GPU. The A55 cores run at 2.0Ghz without thermal throttling using the stock heat sink, allowing a robust and quiet computer. The multi-core performance is around 40% faster, and the system DRAM performance is 50% faster than the ODROID-C2.  ▶

Gaming

ODROID-GO Advance Tips And Tricks: Unzip ROMs While Maintaining Box Art And Game List

May 1, 2020 0

This is a short tutorial to help you with your ROM sets and the ODROID-GO Advance. Many of us have ROM sets with accompanying media files like box art, screen shots, logos, etc. Sometimes these ROM sets have compressed files. Now do we really want to be using up precious battery power to decompress games before we load them up?  ▶

Gaming

Shall We Play a Game? – Play the Promise of Google Stadia, At a More Practical Bandwidth

May 1, 2020 0

The lackluster launch of Google Stadia left many gamers in the lurch. Sure the lure of playing AAA games inside your browser sounded very attractive, but bandwidth became a bugbear which could not be overcome, yet.  ▶

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