DIY Hobby center GRAND opening in Philippines

My friend, Dandy, opened a DIY Hobby store in Philippines! He is selling 8051 starter kit, home automation kit and also satellite DIY kit. Recently, also start selling ARM9 (S3C2440) based development platform "FriendlyARM". The basic kit comes with 3.5" LCD, with 400MHz ARM9, which is capable of running Linux and also Android! Check out some photos here:





You can see the FriendlyARM with 7" LCD in this photo, it is really cool! Once installed the Android, you can open the WebKit browser and surf the net with Wifi.


Congratulation to him, and please check it out if you live in Philippines!
Location:http://www.electronicslab.ph/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=d6fedf7919a33df34ad9b6e65a6caf3f&/topic,15240.msg265515.html#msg265515

JTAG pinout in a single page

JTAG exists in many processors based on ARM and MIPS core. It is useful for debugging and writing flash.

There are different headers for various chip vendors, I found a good page showing a wide ranges of JTAG header pinouts:

http://jtagcables.com/jtag-pinout

Also, there is a free, powerful JTAG tool for Windows & Linux called "Openocd". It supports ARM7 (ARM7TDMI and ARM720t), ARM9 (ARM920T, ARM922T, ARM926EJ–S, ARM966E–S), XScale (PXA25x, IXP42x) and Cortex-M3 (Stellaris LM3 and ST STM32). You can use it with different JTAG dongles as well. Definitely nice to try it out.

Getting Started with BeagleBoard, with Angstrom distribution

Beagleboard is very small but powerful, with the nice integrated Anstrom distribution, you can turn this little board to a desktop like environment! I followed the beginner guide "HowToGetAngStromRunning" and successfully make it works within 30 minutes!

The good things are that all the drivers are pre-built, so whatever I plugged a USB ethernet, or a USB mouse or keyboard, all works like a charm.

Let's check out some screenshots:



1. Firefox running, I copied my Chinese TTF from my Desktop Linux to it, so it can display Chinese as well.


2. WORD processor & Game.



3. Native ARM development, with the GNU toolchains built-in the distribution, you can work in a complete ARM development environment.

Link:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard

BeagleBoard from Digi-Key.

I received the beagleboard from digi-key. Beagleboard is a low-cost TI ARM development board, featuring ARM Cortex A8, only $149 US. I haven't play it yet, Let's put some unbox photos here first:


1. Very small, but powerful!


2. With SD card slot, USB OTG, USB host, HDMI and audio!


3. a small box with cute beagle sticker.