First I was really excited as the packet from China arrived. Content : The GK802 Android stick. Powered by a quad-core Freescale 1.2 GHz CPU, 1 GB SDRAM DDR3 and storage upgradable to 32 GB. Nice. I don’t know if it’s the official predecessor of the MK808 but the higher CPU clock made me buy…
Author: Ianmcmill
China in your hands #1
When I window shop chinese ebay shops I can hardly humble myself. Must feel like Dr. Jones in The Raiders of the Lost Arc. Arduino Pro Minis for 2€ + 1€ shipping. Arduino MEGA 2560s for 14€ including shipping and INCLUDING a 20×2 LCD shield. Nema 17 Stepper Motors for 5 €…Insane. Oh well but…
[HOWTO] TL WR703N extroot for the greenhorn
After several tries and a lot of serial console usage I finally got extroot working. I am new to digging in the guts of linux and started my journey about extroot in the openwrt wiki. As this is very technical I got confused and…long story short here is a howto for beginners on how to…
USB to serial cable part 2
I recently got my TP Link WR703N ultra tiny router. Neat little thing. But what makes this small electronic piece even more neater ? Flashing custom firmware, of course !! So long story shorts. I successfully bricked my device. Totally. Not even failsafe was working anymore. So I had to get access to the console…