Intel HW: Moving vehicles

Experiment Goals: Learn how to move vehicles. Try to power those with renewable energy sources. Learn new Intel-related HW: Genuino101, Edison + Sparkfun extension boards Conclusions:  There was a frustrating experience that took 3 days to debug. 3 of 12 wires I have used were non-conducting. I realized that the…

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Getting started with Edison: Static IP Address

Steps: Edit the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_cli-actions.sh file: Go to line 48 which has a udhcpc command and comment this line out if [ “$CMD” = “CONNECTED” ]; then kill_daemon udhcpc /var/run/udhcpc-$IFNAME.pid # udhcpc -i $IFNAME -p /var/run/udhcpc-$IFNAME.pid -S ifconfig $IFNAME 192.168.200.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 fi Add two new lines to manually set the IP and…

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Intel Edison. Investigating IoTivity

Working Reference (After-the-post note): https://github.com/intelmakers/GETTING-STARTED/wiki/Options-for-installing-IoTivity-stack-on-Edison Experiment goal: To explore IoTivity and to execute client-server test using IoTivity discovery feature Result: Creation of and flashing Yocto image for Edison looks to be succssessfull according to logs (see the picture below) !!! but NO components named with iotivity or oic were found on Edison…

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GETTING STARTED: Intel Edison. The very first steps.

Installing & Flashing (Firmware Upgrade) Installing of Intel Edisson board drivers and ‘Intel XDK IoT Edition’ (also firmware upgrade) starts here https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/edison/downloads or here https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/downloads Chose to install Edisson Board installer. It allows also to install also ‘Intel XDK IoT Edition’ and other supported IDEs (Arduino/Eclipse) You HAVE to have Edisson + Arduino Expansion board connected…

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Intel Edison: Simple HHTP server with IoT XDK

Goal: To create simple HTTP server with Intel XDK IoT Edition SW: HelloWorldHTTPSrv Pics: Here we see that simple HHTP server answering to 2 clients: PC and Android Phone   Installing of Intel XDK IoT happened at the Edison board installation or was installed separately from this page https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/downloads Useful links: https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/lp-xdk-iot-edition https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/using-the-editor-in-the-develop-tab  

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GETTING STARTED: Yocto. Package management (update/install)

Packages installing/update opkg – open package management system opkg update opkg install curl wget – BusyBox v1.22.1 multi-call binary used to extract packages from repositories. Usage: wget [-c|–continue] [-s|–spider] [-q|–quiet] [-O|–output-document FILE] [–header ‘header: value’] [-Y|–proxy on/off] [-P DIR] [-U|–user-agent AGENT] [-T SEC] URL… Useful links: https://communities.intel.com/message/221209 http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/ddns.client

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