A couple of months ago we announced a bounty to the first person that successfully mates the Raspberry Pi camera module to the Parallella board. More information on the bounty can be found HERE. It doesn’t surprise me that hacker extraordinaire Sylvain Munaut has now claimed 3/4th of the bounty. There isn’t much he can’t accomplish when he sets his…
When we last looked at the Parallella I had explained the basics of the timers within the epiphany and promised to follow up with a few simple examples, so in this blog that is exactly what we are going to do. We are going to use the both timers within the Epiphany to demonstrate simple concepts like how we can…
I have a few Parallella related presentations coming up over the next few months. Send me a note if you want to meet up at these events! Cheers, Andreas HotChips: Cupertino, CA, Sunday-Tuesday, August 23-25, 2015. Session: Implementing Software Defined Radio on the Parallella DARPA: Wait, what? (St Louis, Sept 9-11, 2015) Session: “Technology By the People, For the People” IEEE High…
(email sent to PAL developer list) ———– Hi all, I hope everyone is having a great summer. This email is going out to the 32 developers who have put significant time into PAL so far. Pretty incredible how much the library has progressed in the last month! Ola has put together some scripts and bench-mark code to show where the…
The goal of this guide is to get you through your first code contribution to an open source project. The Parallel Architectures Library (PAL) will be used as the example. (“git” is a distributed revision control system started by Linus Torvald in 2005. GitHub is a startup that offers Git repository hosting service.) Step #1: Set up a GitHub account Free for all open development (private…
Technical Musings is a transcribed collection of the teaching materials I developed over the last year to assist my students in learning about the Parallella and Epiphany architecture. It contains a series of tutorials and walk-throughs for first-time users of the Parallella. Posts include: Setting up your Parallella Using SSH with your Parallella Overview of the Epiphany Architecture Walk-throughs of…
If you haven’t heard of the Amp Hour, you are missing out. Chris and Dave have done over 200 Podcast, interviewing luminaries like Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Chuck Peddle. I had a blast talking to Chris and Dave this week and considering the other guests that have been on the show I am honored that they invited me. You can listen…
Those of you that know me well understand that optimism is probably simultaneously my biggest strength and biggest weakness.:-) Without eternal optimism there is no way I would have kept going with Adapteva for 7 years. Unfortunately, optimism has also caused me all kinds of pain: over-committing on schedules, aggressive pricing, and over estimated market demand. By most standards the…
Since announcing the “One board for one C function” offer for the Parallel Architecture Library (PAL), the number of contributors to this project has grown from 5 to 26! Wow!! Still, given how many people PAY to do assembly programming recently (TIS-100), you would think we could do even better.:-) Some of the key contributions so far: Image Processing DSP…
The Parallella was once again voted one of the top ten Linux Single Board Computers. Considering that there are now literally hundreds of inexpensive SBCs in the market. Considering how different the Parallella is, I think it’s pretty awesome that we made the list. Thank you!!! Some highlights from the Top 10 List: Raspberry Pi, Bealebone are still the most…
