What have you been doing lately?
1. Schematics: 40 Pages
Well - Nikolaus surely won't forget... he created page after page of Pyra schematics.
A long and exhausting work, as it needs very high concentration.
But now it's almost finished! He already sent me a preview version which consists of 40 (!) pages just for the schematics!
Next step will be to move those schematics into the PCB layout. This is partly assisted, but still some work to do.
Well, most of that work will be the CPU PCB, as the main PCB was pretty much finished for quite a while already.
Some OMAP5 CPUs (and other parts) have already been ordered, so we should be able to create (hopefully
) working prototypes soon (whatever soon means )
What's neat: The Pyra will be compatible with the devboard. That means: We can use the SD Card from our devboard and put it into the Pyra SD-Card slot - it should boot up and work. Really helpful with development
However, it also means that in theory you should be able to use TIs Android Demo images and run them on the Pyra. Or run the polished PyraOS on a devboard at home.
Speaking of the OS...:
2. First Debian rootfs created on our build server!
With a lot of help from aTc, I finished setting up the build server for the OS.
We can now automatically build images with preconfigured configs and packages - a quick test today was successful.
The image already includes our own repository and our own packages.
So far, fbturbo (for a blazing fast X.Org) has been included as well as meta-packages (which we can use to decide what stuff we want to have preinstalled on the Pyra).
As Debian has almost anything we need in their repository, we can now easily create a fully fledged desktop OS.
We still need to create our own packages and include them, for example: our kernel, glshim, First Boot Wizard, SGX driver, Config files, etc.
We already created a package for fbturbo, so we know how to do it, it's just a bit of work
3. Electronica2014
Next week we're visiting the Electronica2014 in Munich, which is a huge electronics exhibition.
We'll visit our partners there and will discuss problems we still need to solve (i.e. getting the LCD with the rotator chip to work), visit the nubs manufacturer and talk about solutions, etc.
While they all help us via eMails as well, it's always different meeting them, being able to show what we already have and speaking with some of their experts.
We're getting there
1. Schematics: 40 Pages
Well - Nikolaus surely won't forget... he created page after page of Pyra schematics.
A long and exhausting work, as it needs very high concentration.
But now it's almost finished! He already sent me a preview version which consists of 40 (!) pages just for the schematics!
Next step will be to move those schematics into the PCB layout. This is partly assisted, but still some work to do.
Well, most of that work will be the CPU PCB, as the main PCB was pretty much finished for quite a while already.
Some OMAP5 CPUs (and other parts) have already been ordered, so we should be able to create (hopefully
) working prototypes soon (whatever soon means )What's neat: The Pyra will be compatible with the devboard. That means: We can use the SD Card from our devboard and put it into the Pyra SD-Card slot - it should boot up and work. Really helpful with development
However, it also means that in theory you should be able to use TIs Android Demo images and run them on the Pyra. Or run the polished PyraOS on a devboard at home.
Speaking of the OS...:
2. First Debian rootfs created on our build server!
With a lot of help from aTc, I finished setting up the build server for the OS.
We can now automatically build images with preconfigured configs and packages - a quick test today was successful.
The image already includes our own repository and our own packages.
So far, fbturbo (for a blazing fast X.Org) has been included as well as meta-packages (which we can use to decide what stuff we want to have preinstalled on the Pyra).
As Debian has almost anything we need in their repository, we can now easily create a fully fledged desktop OS.
We still need to create our own packages and include them, for example: our kernel, glshim, First Boot Wizard, SGX driver, Config files, etc.
We already created a package for fbturbo, so we know how to do it, it's just a bit of work
3. Electronica2014
Next week we're visiting the Electronica2014 in Munich, which is a huge electronics exhibition.
We'll visit our partners there and will discuss problems we still need to solve (i.e. getting the LCD with the rotator chip to work), visit the nubs manufacturer and talk about solutions, etc.
While they all help us via eMails as well, it's always different meeting them, being able to show what we already have and speaking with some of their experts.
We're getting there
