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Mar
20
New-slideTonight at 6pm PT we're launching the Getting Started with Intel Galileo Maker Sessions. Join our Hangout to learn more about the Intel-based Arduino-compatible board.

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Mar
17

Join Us for Intel Galileo Maker Sessions, Launching Thursday

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fig00The Getting Started with Intel Galileo Maker Sessions are just around the corner! Join our Google+ Community to connect with other makers and watch the Hangout On Air this Thursday evening.

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Feb
27

WebsocketClient for Intel Galileo + Spacebrew

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The SmartUp Team submitted on Intel Community a project developed in their new digital fabrication laboratory, tinkering with  Intel Galileo boards and Spacebrew.

Spacebrew  is “an open, dynamically re-routable software toolkit for choreographing interactive spaces”, basically a way to connect smart objects of any kind using the WebSocket protocol.

Basically, they modified the Arduino WebsocketClient library to use it with Intel Galileo and specifically with Spacebrew:

The received situation was of a version of the Arduino WebsocketClient library: https://github.com/labatrockwell/ArduinoWebsocketClient (oriented to Spacebrew) adapted from: https://github.com/krohling/ArduinoWebsocketClient (implementing the online websocket protocol) neither of them supporting Galileo, an Intel SoC Pentium-based board. It has been revised, modified, and integrated, so that this version runs on Galileo and works for both the connection to a server such as echo.websocket.org and Spacebrew. This version includes extended tracing facilities for debugging (see WebSocketClient.h). The main changes with respect to the previous versions are marked by slash-slash-star-slash-slash.

You can explore the library on Github.

Feb
07
Galileo in ShedThe Maker Shed has just received a limited quantity of Intel's X86 based microcontroller, the Galileo. Designed in collaboration with the Arduino team, the Galileo is compatible with Arduino sketches and R3 compatible shields. Get yours now before they're gone!

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Gen
29

Creating a moisture sensor system using nails and Intel Galileo (now in the Arduino Store!)

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Manoel Ramon was at Maker Faire Rome last October and created a cool project, in a couple of hours, based on Intel Galileo.

As many of you already know Intel Galileo board is the first product in a new family of Arduino Certified boards featuring Intel architecture. Starting today is also available for purchase in the Arduino Store!

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You can get started with Intel Galileo following the tutorial on the moisture sensor  system made by Manoel. It’s based on two sensors, each of them built using galvanized nails connected to an analog port and making a resistor division with another resistor. The system is simple, cheap and allows you to monitor soil only using nails.

nail sensor

Check the code and the steps to make it work!

Dic
10

The $40 x86 Arduino

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Every week the Hackaday tip line receives an email about a new dev board. The current trend is towards ARM devices, and only once have we seen an x86-based device. Today that count went up to two. It’s called the 86Duino and stuffs an old Pentium II-class machine capable of running DOS, Windows, and Linux into the space of an Arduino,

The 86Duino Zero features, of course, an x86 Vortex86EX processor running at 300 MHz. This board also features 128 MB of RAM, 8MB of Flash and the usual compliment of Arduino pins in a Leonardo-compatible layout. Also on the SoC is a PCIE bus, Ethernet, a USB 2.0 host, and an SD card. There’s a lot of stuff on this board for such a small size.

Compared to the gigahertz-fast ARM boards around, the 86Duino isn’t really that fast, but that’s not the point. There’s obviously a market for extremely tiny x86 boards out there as evidenced by the Intel Galileo, and this board is $30 cheaper than the Intel offering.

There’s no video out on this board, so someone will have to figure out how to attach a graphics card to the PCIE connector before we build a miniaturized old school DOS gaming rig. Still it’s a very neat piece of hardware. If you need to have it now, here’s a vendor.

Thanks [sohaib] for sending this one in.


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Dic
06

A step-by-step tutorial for Intel Galileo: getting started with Mac OS X

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Today we start the first of a series of monthly blogposts dedicated to Intel Galileo. Stefano Guglielmetti, who’s already blogged about the Arduino Yún some time ago, shared with us his tutorial about how to get started with the Arduino Certified board.

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IMPORTANT: Connect your Intel Galileo to the 5V power supply before any other connection or you will damage the board.

During the Maker Faire Rome, I was lucky to get an Intel Galileo. But when I had to use it, it was suddenly clear that it’s not as straightforward as Arduino. I had to resort to desperate measures and do something that really only a very restricted class of noble people do, I had to read the manual.

The getting started guide by Intel really helped, but the problem is that it’s clearly written by engineers, while the Galileo board wants to attract makers, designers, artists and many people that are used to the “tutorial” or “step by step” approach and are not really into manual reading.

I used to be an RTFM fanatic, but I’m getting old, and I have learned to appreciate when people help me, so I’m very happy to contribute and give some help to those in need.

So. You have an Intel Galileo board, a Mac (I assume you have Mac OS X Mavericks installed), and you want to run the very first basic example: the “Blink” sketch from the Arduino examples. Right?

Intel Galileo

This is what you have to do, straight and easy.

So, let’s start:

  1. Download the Galileo software from the Intel website. If you already have the Arduino IDE, don’t overwrite it. Even if the Intel software is based on the Arduino IDE, it is not 100% identical, and it will only manage the Galileo board, so if you want to use them both, simply unzip the Intel software, rename it into “Galileo”, and move it into your Application folder. Don’t rename it into something with spaces, and do not put it into folders with a space in their name, because it won’t work.
  2. Plug the 5V adapter, wait 10 seconds and then connect the USB client (the little usb port next to the ethernet plug) to your Mac’s USB port
  3. You have to wait a minute: it takes a little while for the USB stack to start on the Galileo board, then you can start the Galileo IDE
  4. Go to Tools > Port menu and select the /dev/cuXXX serial port. If you don’t see the port, close the IDE, wait a minute, and open it again.
  5. Now, you have to update the Galileo’s firmware, so, go on Help > Firmware Upgrade. If everything is ok, you should see a message asking for confirmation if the 5V power cable is plugged in. Since you have followed these instructions, it should be, so click yes, do the same on the next dialog and the process should begin. It will take 5-6 minutes. During the process, avoid touching the cables or the board or the IDE. Just sit down and relax.
  6. When the process is complete, the “Target Firmware upgraded successfully” message is displayed. Click OK to close the message.
  7. Now choose the blink example from File > Examples > 01.Basics > Blink

Upload the blink sketch and you’re done! It’s time to celebrate! :)

P.S. The Quark processor can become very hot, don’t worry it’s normal.



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