Compiled Kernel Files For Chumby Falconwing Version 1.0.7 Build 1.0.3454

Need to manually update your Chumby One to Falconwing version 1.0.7 build 1.0.3454 but don’t want to build the kernel yourself? Use the files included in this post!

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Enable the Chumby Keyboard Hack Manually

This tip shows you how to enable the Chumby keyboard hack manually.

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Accessing the Chumby Analog-To-Digital Converter

This article shows you how to hack the Chumby hardware to access one of the 12-bit low-resolution analog to digital converters and use it to monitor an analog signal from your robot.

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How To Change the Chumby Serial Port Into Two PWM Outputs

If you disassemble a Chumby One, you will find that is contains an easily accessible TTL serial port. This article shows you how to turn the serial port TX and RX signals into PWM outputs.

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Unlocking the Potential of the Chumby Accelerometer

The Chumby contains a very capable accelerometer, the Freescale MMA7455. However, the accelerometer daemon running on the Chumby is not optimzed for applications that need rapid updates from the accelerometer. This article explains how you can write C code that unlocks the full potential of the Chumby accelerometer.

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Two Workarounds To Try if Your Chumby Stop Responding to ssh Commands

When I use ssh to access my Chumby from my Windows 7 machine, the shell stops responding after about 30 minutes. After a bit of searching, I discovered that other people have this problem too. In this post I summarize what I found, and I provide two techniques to work around this problem.

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