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Make Debian Wheezy rootfs from scratch

If you have an awesome Acme Systems Aria G25 board you can boot it with the provided Debian Squeeze distribution. If you want to upgrade to the new Wheezy you can follow my previous tutorial, but if you want to … Read more

RFID

In this post I will show how to read RFID TAG in Node.js using an Acme Systems board and an RFID reader.
To accomplish this task you need:

One Acme Systems Terra board or
One Acme Systems Fox board with one Daisy-1 … Read more

Easy compile Linux Kernel on Acme Systems Aria G25 SoM

The awesome Acme Systems Aria G25 SoM use a bootable image with Linux Kernel 2.6.39. If you want customize your kernel, you can follow the detailed steps provided by the official website. If you want a ready to use development … Read more

How to manage GPIO on ARM based SBC Aria and Fox G20

If you have a new amazing Acme Systems Aria board or a FoxBoad G20, you can easy manage GPIO using Node.js and my last aria_fox_gpio node module and also the daisy_gpio to manage Daisy board for fast prototyping. The aria_fox_gpio … Read more

MySQL remote access using SSH tunnel from remote machine

Scenario:

you have a Linux remote host with your MySQL database server
you have enabled SSH server on your Linux Server
you want manipulate your MySQL server using a remote machine (in this case I use a Mac).

To manipulate your MySQL you could … Read more

A new product is coming

Do you remember our announcement of 11 november 2011? The first prototype of our new product for security (with a lot of home and industrial applications) had begun to work. Today I’m happy to announce that this product is close … Read more

How to install Node.js 0.8 on ARM based SBC Fox Board G20

NOTE: This post refers to Node v0.8.x. For new v0.10.x please visit this.

In my previous post I’ve described how to install Node v.0.6.19 into your Fox Board G20. Now I will show how to install the “fresh” 0.8 release of … Read more

Useful Node.js modules

This is my personal list of useful Node.js modules. This list may grow over time, so check often!

Express

Simply the best Node framework. It enhances development speed.

Expres-load

This very useful module provides the ability to load scripts into an Express instance from … Read more

How to install CouchDB on ARM based SBC Fox Board G20

For most embedded applications a requirement is a database to store documents, settings, etc. A most powerful NoSql database is CouchDB, developed using the high performance language Erlang. I’ve selected this database for my application because it is a document … Read more

How to install Node.js on ARM based SBC Fox Board G20

NOTE: This post refers to Node v0.6.19. For new v0.8.0 please visit this.

On Node.js website I read:

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that … Read more