New Plastic Box design for A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 with LiPo6600mAh battery

Few days ago we got parcel with some plastic parts sent to us from Mike Bosschaert.

we inserted LIME2 inside, the tolerances are tight and it’s hard to put the board in but even harder if you want to pull it from the plastic.

There is place for LiPO6600mAh battery with holder, but the battery cable is too short to plug in the board connector and need to be cut and extended. If the battery is put at left side of the PCB the cable may be enough.

The assembled box looks nice! Mike wrote that he designed it with FreeCAD and the model is printed in PLA using a Felix Pro 2 FDM printer. He provided all STL files under CC BY-SA 4.0 licensee and we add to OLINUXINO GitHub repository.

 

REDS.box – Home cloud server based on A20-OLinuXino-LIME on Kickstarter

REDS.box is new Kickstarter project which use A20-OLinuXino-LIME to create your own home server to keep your files safe and available on the net.

People who use a cloud app these days have to store their data on servers of the companies that provide the app. Without knowing what will happen to your data and who else has access to it, you are asked to trust those companies – which means you are losing control over your data and privacy!

With REDS.box you know exactly where your files are – on your own server where only you have the access rights.

 

Nice LIME box made with laser cutter

via Twitter

Ekaitz Zárraga posted nice project how he made LIME enclosure with laser cut and posted the details here.

Building Debian Linux image for A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 with mainline kernel 3.19 new tutorial by Remy van Elst

 

A20 is now in mainline which means you can build mainline kernel and it will work on A20-OLinuxino-LIME2.

Remy made blog post how to build Debian Linux with latest Kernel 3.19 from scratch – you can read how he did this here.

Shrinking the Penguins or How Remy van Elst shrink our Debian images to just 177MB size!

Building Linux images is magic, we still learn … When we make the Linux images for Olinuxino we want to put the maximal functionality and include in everything we can think of so our customers do not have to worry to build custom kernels etc for different modules and USB sticks, unfortunately this comes to it’s price … huge files for download and write on the SD cards.

Remy van Elst set his goal how small he can shrink our images and he did remarkable job which blogged here.

Following what he did was quite educational at least for us!

For instance we never knew apt-lists contain 100MB of info which anyone can easily download with apt-get update instead to put in the SD card image 🙂 but you learn while you are live!

Great job Remy!

Now the small images lovers can download just 177MB basic image for LIME2.

We are taking notes and will make srink images for all our boards as alternative to the (we have everything fat) images we have now on our server for download!

Alternative Linux images for LIME and LIME2

Igor Pecovnik has created optimized Debian image for Cubie board named Cubian, he asked for sample board and we sent him LIME2 so few days after he received the board he generated optimized Debian image for LIME2, you can see the instructions and images on his blog: http://www.igorpecovnik.com/2014/11/18/olimex-lime-debian-sd-image/

Remy van Elst did minimal Debian 7 for A10-OLinuxino-LIME https://raymii.org/s/articles/Olimex_A10-OLinuXino-LIME_minimal_debian_7_image.html

Android 4.2.2 image for A20-OLinuXino-LIME

NAND Flash image for Android 4.2.2 with 7″ LCD 800×600 pixels

NAND Flash image for Android 4.2.2 with 10″ LCD 1024×600 pixels

4GB SD-card image for Android 4.2.2 with 7″ LCD 800×600 pixels

A10-OLinuXino-LIME Open Source Hardware Linux Computer now in Kernel 3.15

 

We just got note from our friend Benjamin Henrion that A10-OLinuXino-LIME is in Linux Kernel 3.15 DTS

http://linuxfr.org/news/sortie-du-noyau-linux-3-15

 

A10-OLinuXino-LIME-4GB Android preliminary image

We completed A10-OLinuXino-LIME-4GB preliminary Android image.

The DDR3 is clocked at 480Mhz, RTL8188 and Ralink RT5730 WIFI adapters are supported.

A10-OLinuXino-LIME Wiki page is updated with the new image too.

A10-OLinuXino-LIME is back in stock

We have A10-OLinuXino-LIME back in stock. Sorry for the delay, simple component delivery caused 2 weeks of non-production, then we needed another week to assembly boards and test them, but now they are on stock and we take measures in our ERP to prevent situations like this in future.

For these who waited long our SOM modules we have good news too 🙂

A20-SOM and A20-SOM-EVB first 100 pcs developer edition will be in stock next week, same for AM3352-SOM and AM3352-SOM-EVB. In May these two SOMs and EVBs will be in production state and in stock in volumes.

RK3188-SOM is on prototype stage but there is long way for the software to transform from Android to usable Linux, so if there are people who want to give a hand for this we can provide prototypes.