Thanks to NextThingCo‘s recent efforts with getting Debian on their nifty little C.H.I.P. board, I was able to quickly get working my blink1-tool for our blink(1) USB LED. Let the blinky disco commence!
Mostly as a reminder to myself, here’s what I did. (based on the “Flashing with Debian” section of this document)
On the vagrant ubuntu VM, update the CHIP tools and flash the CHIP board (be sure to have the FEL-to-GND jumper in place when flashing, and remove it after):
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools android-tools-fastboot git build-essential libusb-1.0-0-dev $ rm -rf ~/sunxi-tools/ $ git clone http://github.com/NextThingCo/sunxi-tools $ make $ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/fel $ sudo ln -s $PWD/fel /usr/local/bin/fel $ cd ~/CHIP-tools/ $ git pull $ ./chip-firmware-update.sh -d $ cu -l /dev/ttyACM0 -s 115200
Once the flashing is done, remove the FEL jumper and power cycle the board. When it comes up, connect to it via ‘cu’ (the last command above), get it on the net, get the compiler tools, then download and compile blink1-tool. No changes to blink1-tool Makefile needed. Easy!
# nmcli device wifi connect todbot ifname wlan0 # apt-get install build-essential pkg-config git # apt-get usbutils libusb-1.0-0-dev # git clone https://github.com/todbot/blink1 # cd blink1/commandline/ # make # ./blink1-tool --list # ./blink1-tool --random=1000 -m 10 -t 20 -l 2