Development

ODROID-GO Game Kit: A Handheld Gaming Console To Celebrate Hardkernel’s 10th Anniversary

To celebrate ODROID’s 10th anniversary, we present the ODROID-GO Game Kit. It includes a special anniversary board and all the additional parts to put together your own game kit and see the workings behind such a device. It is not only a fun assembly project but also an educational tool to learn about all the hardware and software that goes into building such a device.  ▶

ODROID-XU4

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  ▶

Tinkering

Solar Powered Microserver

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 for storage. It is one of the most powerful SBCs in the market in its price range. With this in mind, I set out to convert some of my existing ODROID and SBCs to replace the common servers and computers I normally use.  ▶

Meet an ODROIDian

Meet An ODROIDian: Matthew Kinderwater (WebClaw)

I am the Director of IT Services at a company called iCube Development which is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. My role is typically involves data recovery cases, working in a clean lab performing tasks such as replacing heads, electrical repairs, and recovering data from RAID volumes.  ▶

Gaming

Arcade Box

We made our own arcade box with simple GPIO buttons and joysticks, and called it the ODROID Arcade Box  ▶

NTP server
Linux

Creating an NTP Server Using GPS/PPS

You can build your own Network Time Protocol (NTP) server using GPS and PPS on your ODROID. This system gives you very accurate time which can be very useful for specific use cases. As a result, our local server can have a very accurate time with less than 10 microseconds of tolerance.  ▶