Sahaj Sarup

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• OpenGLES 3 Demo on the Rock960 running Panfrost drivers

  Wednesday, May 27, 2020

  Hi all, Just a quick blog showing OpenGLES 3 applications now running on the Rock960 using the Panfrost GPU drivers. A Quick Recap on Panfrost: Panfrost is a free and...

• AeroCore2 | Zephyr Porting and Upstreaming Efforts

  Wednesday, May 20, 2020

  Introduction This Blog will summarize the recent porting efforts for the AeroCore2 Mezzanine in Zephyr RTOS. AeroCore 2 The AreoCore 2 for 96Boards provides MAV control to 96Boards compliant platforms....

• Protein Folding on Arm Devices | Helping with COVID-19 Research

  Sunday, March 29, 2020

  For the last couple of weeks I have been spending my spare cycles, along with a few other friends form the Arm Ecosystem, to get the power and efficiency of...

• 96Boards Drone Project | Part 3

  Tuesday, March 24, 2020

  In this blog I’d like to cover the hardware and the software specifics of the drone project. The Hardware The Drone The Frame: Dimensions: Wheelbase: 23.5 cm Arm: 12.7 l...

• DIY Drones need to go Digital

  Friday, February 14, 2020

  In this blog I’d like to cover what is the current situation of the DIY Drone ecosystem. What I like and don’t like about it and how we can improve...

• The 96boards Drone Project: Introduction Blog

  Monday, December 9, 2019

  Introduction The 96boards drone platform is an experimental smart drone platform with the following objectives: Continuously Evolving OpenSource Test-bed Continuously Evolving I am starting out small with this platform. Right...

• The RB3 Robotic Arm

  Monday, October 28, 2019

  The RB3 Robotic Arm Back in May of this year, I started planning out this project. The first blog laying out the plan came in towards end of the month...

• Out with Arduino, In with i2c and PCA9685 | OpenCV on RB3 Pt. 7 | Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project

  Wednesday, October 16, 2019

  Introduction As per my last blog, due to pending enablement of i2c driver in the official debian image we were still using Arduino over USB-UART to control the actual servos....

• The Ultimate Quick, Quick Start Guide for DragonBoard410c

  Saturday, September 21, 2019

  What is this guide ? This guide’s purpose is to serve as an index to all the documentation related to getting started with the Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c already available on...

• Getting Started Resource - Shiratech FFPGA Mezzanine

  Saturday, September 14, 2019

  The Shiratech FPGA Mezzanine The Shiratech FPGA Mezzanine for 96Boards adds configurability to your embedded environment using the Intel MAX-10 FPGA. With the CPU and FPGA combo, you can connect...

• It's ALIVE | OpenCV on RB3 Pt. 6 | Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project

  Monday, September 9, 2019

  Introduction It listens, It sees, It MOVES, IT’s ALIVE!!! All the code in this blog is available at : https://github.com/ric96/RB3-RoboticArm And once the project is finalized will be pushed to...

• Speech Recognition and Combining Voice with Vision | OpenCV on RB3 Pt. 5 | Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project

  Thursday, August 15, 2019

  Introduction In this blog we’ll take a look at the Voice Recognition Code and see how we can combine it with the Vision aspect of this project. All the code...

• Setup RB3 for the Robotic Arm Project | OpenCV on RB3 Pt. 0 | Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project

  Monday, July 29, 2019

  Setup Let’s take a few steps back and learn how to setup our RB3 for the Robotic Arm Project. Back in my first blog, I mentioned that the Debian images...

• Poplar NAS | A Daily Driver NAS Setup

  Monday, July 22, 2019

  Poplar NAS Backstory My personal NAS project started back in the day with an overclocked Raspberry Pi 1, a 500GB external HDD and a 100/10 LAN setup. Back then it...

• My experiments with 1080p | OpenCV on RB3 Pt. 4 | Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project

  Monday, July 15, 2019

  Vision Pt. 4 Introduction Ever wondered why none of the opencv demos and instructions run at 1080p? Why everyone prefers 640x480 in this day and age? Truth be told The...

• Gimme Code | OpenCV on RB3 Pt. 3 | Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project

  Wednesday, July 10, 2019

  Vision Pt. 3 Introduction In this blog we’ll take a look at the opencv code that’ll be at the heart of the RB3 Robotic Arm, we’ll traverse block by block...

• Threads got complicated | OpenCV on RB3 Pt. 2 | Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project

  Sunday, July 7, 2019

  Vision Pt. 2 Introduction Over the past month, I have mostly dedicated my resources towards testing out the best case scenario for running openCV on the RB3. Incase you haven’t...

• OpenCV on RB3 Pt. 1 | Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project

  Monday, June 17, 2019

  Vision OpenCV OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure for computer vision...

• Qualcomm RB3 Robotic Arm Project | Introduction

  Thursday, May 30, 2019

  Introduction to the Qualcomm RB3 The Qualcomm RB3 is one of the newly released 96Boards belonging to the consumer edition family based around the Qualcomm® SDA845 processor. The Qualcomm SDA845...

• Waveshare SPI 2.9inch E-ink RaspberryPi HAT - Shiratech FFPGA Mezzanine and RPi HAts Pt. 2

  Monday, May 13, 2019

  A bit more complex. In my last blog I talked about running a MAX7219 LED matrix HAT using the Shiratech FPGA Mezzanine. In this one we’ll talk about using a...

• MAX7219 LED Matrix RaspberryPi HAT - Shiratech FFPGA Mezzanine and RPi HAts Pt. 1

  Monday, May 6, 2019

  Starting off with a easy one. Max7219 The MAX7219/MAX7221 are compact, serial input/output common-cathode display drivers that interface microprocessors (µPs) to 7-segment numeric LED displays of up to 8 digits,...

• Panfrost Open-Source GPU Driver on the Rock960

  Thursday, April 18, 2019

  Well let’s face it, if you are using an Arm development board and want to use the on-board Mali GPU while running a GNU/Linux distro, its not gonna be a...

• Testing the Arduino IDE v1.8.9 for aarch64 on the DragonBoard 410c

  Wednesday, March 13, 2019

  What’s new with Arduino IDE v1.8.9? The Arduino IDE has supported Arm architecture for a while now, but they only released 32bit binaries, which was fine for older devices like...

• External PCIe GPU on the Oxalis

  Wednesday, March 13, 2019

  The Oxalis The 96Boards Oxalis is a Enterprise Edition board powered by the NXP Layerscape LS1012A SoC. The main purpose of the SoC and the board itself is for a...

• Binary JukeBox Project

  Thursday, February 28, 2019

  Binary JukeBox Project A Juke-Box like setup. but instead of selecting a song using decimal numbers the user punches in digits in binary! The binary jukebox is controlled via a...

• FPGA Mezzanine GPIO Library for Arduino Shields

  Wednesday, February 20, 2019

  The FPGA Mezzanine Library Check out one of my older blogs on this library: WIP FPGA Mezzanine GPIO Library The Arduino header bits of the library are now complete! You...

• WIP FPGA Mezzanine GPIO Library

  Wednesday, January 16, 2019

  The FPGA Mezzanine Shiratech FPGA Mezzanine is a 96Boards compatible mezzanine board accommodating Intel MAX10 FPGA. It is 96Boards compatible board, both consumer addition(CE) and enterprise edition (EE). The mezzanine...

• SDR FM on Hikey960 using FL2000: Hacking a VGA Dongle

  Monday, January 7, 2019

  What is SDR? “Software-defined radio (SDR) is a radio communication system where components that have been traditionally implemented in hardware (e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc.) are instead implemented...

• Lakka on Rock960

  Thursday, January 3, 2019

  Lakka Running on Rock960 What is Lakka? Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown game console. The distribution is based on LibreELEC...

• Automated Indoor Irrigation

  Monday, December 10, 2018

  The 96Boards Social Media Ticker Currently this is what the functionality is: Reads soil moisture content Demonstrates use of MCP3004 ADC on LinkSprite Mezzanine Controls Water pump when the soil...

• Unboxing the WisTrio IoT Board

  Thursday, November 29, 2018

  Uboxing and a Quick look at the WisTrio IoT Board from RAKWireless WisTrio LORA Tracker by RAK Wireless is based on the RK5205 chipset. This extremely low power consumption device...

• It's a Calendar! It's a Picture Frame!

  Monday, November 19, 2018

  The 96Boards Social Media Ticker Currently this is what the functionality is: Displays a Slide Show of Images. Tap to reveal a Calendar Displays a Customized Google Calendar Cycles between...

• 96Boards Social Media Ticker Part 2

  Tuesday, November 13, 2018

  Checkout Part 1 of the Social media Ticker The 96Boards Social Media Ticker Currently this is what the functionality is: Support the following Platforms Instagram YouTube Twitter Displays the number...

• 96Boards Social Media Ticker Part 1

  Sunday, October 21, 2018

  The 96Boards Social Media Ticker The concept of a “Social Medial Ticker” is very similar to that of a desk clock. Like a clock, this keeps you up to date...

• 96Boards Twitter Bot

  Sunday, October 21, 2018

  The 96Boards Twitter Bot You can follow the 96Boards Twitter Bot here: https://twitter.com/96boards_bot Currently this is what the functionality is: Tweet a weather forecast snippet to the 96Boards team members....

• Trying Out PYNQ on the Ultra96

  Sunday, October 14, 2018

  What is PYNQ? PYNQ is PYthon on zyNQ PYNQ is an open-source project from xilinx® that makes it easy to design embedded systems with xilinx Zynq® Systems on Chips (SoCs)....

• AOSP AndroidTV Builds for 96Boards

  Thursday, September 27, 2018

  AndroidTV Android TV is a version of the Android operating system designed for digital media players. It features a user interface designed around content discovery and voice search, surfacing content...

• Mozilla IoT on 96Boards | Part 1

  Wednesday, September 5, 2018

  Introduction This blog and probably the following blogs in this series will just be a quick look at what I am currently working on and my experience. We do plan...

• Programming The SeeedStudio Sensors Mezzanine using a PC

  Tuesday, August 28, 2018

  SeeedStudio Sensors Mezzanine The 96Boards Sensors Mezzanine adapter makes it simple and easy to connect sensors and devices to any 96Boards-compatible base board. With it you can connect your favorite...

• Audio Visualizer | Playing with the DragonBoard410c Analog Header

  Wednesday, August 8, 2018

  Introduction The idea for this project came because I wanted to create a similarly styled Audio Visualizer for the Vinyl setup at my home. There were two simple requirements: Stereo...

• Playing with the Sensors | ShiraTech LTE and Sensor Mezzanine

  Friday, July 27, 2018

  Introduction In one of my older blog posts, I wrote about the LTE side of things on this Mezzanine. However, in this one, we are going to discuss how to...

• HiKey IceCream | Arm64 Distributive Compilation Cluster

  Monday, July 23, 2018

  “I have a drawer full of Arm SBCs…” - The statement that resulted in this blog. NOTE: If you are looking for benchmarks, go read a good recipe book. Introduction...

• Building on Arm - OpenEmbedded Edition

  Wednesday, July 11, 2018

  Building on Arm, for Arm: OpenEmbedded Edition With how fast Arm processors have gotten in the past few years, compiling the Linux Kernel natively on Arm is more than just...

• Sneak Peak at the Shiratech 4G LTE Mezzanine

  Tuesday, June 26, 2018

  Sneak Peak Just a very quick look at the 4G LTE mezzanine that will be arriving this August. Without giving out much of the specs, I was able to get...

• Point Of Sales Demo

  Saturday, June 2, 2018

  POS “The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place where a retail transaction is completed. At the point of sale, the merchant calculates...

• Line Input To DragonBoard410c

  Saturday, June 2, 2018

  Line-In/AUX Input to a Dragonboard For my next project, I really wanted to do something based on audio, something like a visualizer. But… How to you take audio input on...

• Dedicated YouTube Playlists for Boards

  Tuesday, May 22, 2018

  Play lists on YouTube Hello all, Just a short announcement, the 96Boards team has started to curate a video Play-lists on our YouTube Channel dedicated to some of our newer...

• Magic Mirror Part 2

  Tuesday, May 8, 2018

  Magic-Mirror Part 2 The magic-mirror or as many would call it “smart-mirror” is a simple concept of using an bright screen running a Black and White (!Grey-scale) UI behind a...

• 3D Touch Sensor using Flick3D

  Thursday, April 26, 2018

  Flick3D 3D touch over i2c Flick3D is a fairly popular Raspberry Pi HAT. But it also has another variant called the Flick Large which breaks out i2c so that its...

• Magic Mirror Part 1 | The Qt Quick UI

  Wednesday, April 18, 2018

  Magic-Mirror Magical or just really smart ? The magic-mirror or as many would call it “smart-mirror” is a simple concept of using an bright screen running a Black and White...

• Carbon Rover Part 3

  Thursday, March 15, 2018

  Carbon Rover Part 3 In this final revision of the Carbon Rover Project I’ll be mostly taking about adding Bluetooth ® wireless technology control, using a not-so-expected method. So what...

• 1v8 to 5v Level Shifting Diaries - Part 1 - Open Drain ICs

  Sunday, February 18, 2018

  Introduction This blog was initially planned as a overview of the TXB0108 Level-Shifter, but that changed as soon as i received the TXS0108 instead and I ended up opening the...

• Carbon Rover Rev 2 | NeoPixels

  Monday, February 12, 2018

  Introduction In one of my previous blogs titled “Carbon Rover”, I wrote about creating create a rover that wouldn’t fall off an edge nor would it hit an obstacle. Riding...

• PCI Express On the 96Boards Poplar Enterprise Edition Board

  Friday, February 2, 2018

  It Works! I am very excited to let our readers know that finally, thanks to some developments in the past month, we now have a fully functioning PCIe slot on...

• Carbon Rover

  Friday, January 19, 2018

  Carbon Rover In one of my previous blogs titled: Zephyr RTOS and HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor, I talked about working with ultrasonic sensors using Zephyr RTOS. That was just one ultrasonic...

• Gigabit NAS using Poplar

  Wednesday, January 10, 2018

  Gigabit Network Attached Storage using Poplar In the last episode of OpenHours, Episode #85, I demonstrated my NAS setup using the Poplar Enterprise Edition Board. Poplar, at the moment, is...

• Hello Fedora on ARM

  Tuesday, January 2, 2018

  Hey, Nice Fedora you got there! What is Fedora? Apart from being a hat with a soft brim and indented crown, the kind of fedora we like to talk about...

• Media Server Revisited

  Tuesday, December 19, 2017

  Introduction If you are someone who has hundreds if not thousands of photos, music, and movies sitting on a hard drive in your house, but no easy way to access...

• Zephyr RTOS and HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor

  Monday, December 4, 2017

  Introduction Ultrasonic ranging module HC - SR04 provides 2cm - 400cm non-contact measurement function, the ranging accuracy can reach to 3mm. The modules include ultrasonic transmitters, receiver and control circuit....

• Full PC Version of Minecraft on Dragonboard 410c

  Sunday, November 26, 2017

  Introduction If you haven’t heard of Minecraft, “Minecraft is a sandbox video game created and designed by Swedish game designer Markus “Notch” Persson, and later fully developed and published by...

• OpenHours ep 79 Recap - Timesys

  Tuesday, November 21, 2017

  Introduction This week on OpenHours, we were joined by Maciej Halasz, Timesys Vice President of Technology. Who introduced us to the “ Timesys University 4-part webinar series — Developing for...

• VR Development using AOSP and HiKey960

  Thursday, November 16, 2017

  Introduction “Virtual reality (VR) is a computer technology that uses virtual reality headsets or multi-projected environments, sometimes in combination with physical environments or props, to generate realistic images, sounds and...

• Introducing 96Boards Pinout Website

  Friday, November 3, 2017

  Introduction I am very excited to announce a new website under 96boards.org, 96boards.org/pinout. The 96Boards Pinout website serves to provide accurate pinout configuration for various mezzanines compatible with the 96Boards...

• Implementing Neonkey Sensor Mezzanine on AOSP

  Friday, October 27, 2017

  Introduction The Neonkey packs a Cortex-M4 chip, 512 Kb flash, 128 Kb SRAM, and a hub of the following sensors: Temperature, Humidity, Pressure, Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity, Geomagnetic, Accelerator and...

• Basic Threads on Zephyr RTOS

  Tuesday, October 24, 2017

  Introduction Zephyr, a project of The Linux Foundation is a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained devices supporting multiple architectures, and without a doubt, it’s Open Source under the...

• Linksprite Touch Display enabled on AOSP for HiKey and HiKey960

  Friday, October 13, 2017

  Linksprite Touch Display enabled on AOSP for HiKey and HiKey960 Introduction This 7-inch LCD capacitive touch screen from LinkSprite features an HDMI interface and uses standard HID protocol. The screen...

• SX1509 i2c GPIO Expander with 8bit PWM Support

  Wednesday, September 13, 2017

  SX1509 i2c GPIO Expander with 8bit PWM Support Introduction Welcome to a small blog about the SX1509 GPIO Expander. It’s main fuction is to expend the number of GPIOs to...

• 96boards gets Vulkan API support with the Hikey960

  Tuesday, July 25, 2017

  Vulkan API support on the Hikey960 running Android O Preview Introduction Vulkan is the next big thing in Graphics APIs. Wikipedia cites it as: “Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D...

• Modding Arrow’s Audio Mezzanine for 96Boards

  Wednesday, June 28, 2017

  Introduction On the official documentation by Seeed Studio, The Audio Mezz is described as, “This Audio Mezzanine Board is a Grove interfaced expansion board intended for 96boards. You can connect...