ODROID Magazine

Linux Gaming - DOSBox, an x86 DOS Emulator: Play Your Original DOS Games in HD

December 1, 2018

DOSBox is an x86 DOS Emulator that not only emulates the x86 architecture, but also emulates a common 1990s-era DOS environment. With DOSBox, you can replay your old games and play them on modern hardware, since there are many interesting and legendary DOS applications that aren’t available for Windows or ▶

Coding Camp - Part 9: Make A Portable Handheld Weather Station

December 1, 2018

Let us learn how to access various weather data and share it with your mobile devices via WiFi connectivity.

The ODROID-GO Tricorder Project

December 1, 2018

For those of you who do not know what a Tricorder is, allow me to explain: In the newer Star Trek series, characters often carry a mobile device used for things like measuring rips in the space-time continuum and declaring “He’s dead, Jim.”

Building a Commodore 64 Emulator

December 1, 2018

This emulator allows one play to games designed for the Commodore 64 8-bit system.

Coding Camp - Part 10: Measure the distance with Ultrasonic

December 1, 2018

Let us learn how to use GPIO output, IRQ input and system timer with a Ultrasonic distance measuring module

Introducing NEMS Linux: Part 3 - Configuring Service Monitors on NEMS Linux

December 1, 2018

The intention with these articles has been to introduce you to NEMS Linux in such a way as to arm you with useful knowledge that gets you up and running immediately. These aren’t intended to appear as documentation, but rather a technical article that gives you ideas as to how ▶

ODROID-H2 Part 2: Bios Features and Remote Access

December 1, 2018

Like a generic PC, the ODROID-H2 has a soldered 8MiB BIOS Flash ROM on the board. It meets the UEFI Specification 2.6 and the PXE boot requirement. However, Intel UEFI firmware doesn't support CSM version 2.0 for legacy OS booting such as DOS, XP, Windows 7, and so on.

Building RetroArch

December 1, 2018

If you are looking for a frontend to game emulators, you can try RetroArch. It has been ported to the ODROID-XU4 family of Single Board Computers (SBC’s). You can follow the steps below to install and use it on your system.

Meet An ODROIDian: Kamots Tech

December 1, 2018

I live in Florida (aka the Sunshine State), where I was born and raised. I have always lived in Florida because it is warm, there's so much to do, and the IT industry has been growing steadily with a lot of promise on the horizon. I went to college for ▶

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 ▶

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 ▶

ODROID-GO Advance Black Edition

June 1, 2020 0

The GO-Advance on a spiffy new version! ▶

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. ▶

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. ▶

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. ▶

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? ▶

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. ▶

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? ▶