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(3)The 60 pin expansion socket has a [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=184 breakout-vx] card to allow access to the I2C signals, serial ports, and various other GPIO possibilities. | (3)The 60 pin expansion socket has a [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=184 breakout-vx] card to allow access to the I2C signals, serial ports, and various other GPIO possibilities. | ||
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| − | (2)Additionally, [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=148 4V power adapters] | + | (2)Additionally, [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=148 4V power adapters] |
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(10)screw and spacer [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=161 kits] are needed. | (10)screw and spacer [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=161 kits] are needed. | ||
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| + | (2)[http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/S13-SERIAL-INT-CONN.html TTL to serial adapters] | ||
===Software=== | ===Software=== | ||
[http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Main_Page Gumstix Documentation Wiki]<br/> | [http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Main_Page Gumstix Documentation Wiki]<br/> | ||
Revision as of 21:53, 15 September 2009
Hardware
(2)The gumstix motherboard has a 600MHz Marvell XScale processor, 128MB of RAM, and 32MB of flash.
(2)The 80 pin expansion socket is attached to a network interface card for TCP/IP networking.
(3)The 60 pin expansion socket has a breakout-vx card to allow access to the I2C signals, serial ports, and various other GPIO possibilities.
(2)Additionally, 4V power adapters
(10)screw and spacer kits are needed.
(2)TTL to serial adapters
Software
I2C installation
cgi-bin programs
Boa Webserver is the webserver on the Gumstix.
cgicc is the C++ library used for handling web scripts.
Buildroot is the system used to build the root image for the gumstix.
Tutorials
I2C Linux from userspace.
[http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialC++CGI.html libcgicc
Misc
Setting the date
The busybox date -s accepts a very limited format. Use it from another Linux box as follows:
ssh root@134.50.203.56 "echo date -s `date +%m%d%H%M%Y`"