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Balloonboard Wiki

This is the Balloon Project Wiki

Here's a bit of an index so you can find either the info you want or the place to fill it in.

All developers working on or with balloon feel free to edit away. See HelpForBeginners for details of how to use it if you haven't done the Wiki thing before.

• Balloon3Status

• OpenHardwareLicense (Draft for Discussion)

• Hardware info

  • HardwareStatus Status of peripherals

  • BalloonPowerOptions

  • Balloon3BuildVariants

  • Balloon3Audio

  • Balloon3HoppyUSB: Hoppy's Balloon 3 USB breakout board

  • Balloon3ConnectorLocations

  • Balloon 2 Hardware info

    • BalloonSpec

    • Balloon2.05To2.06Changes

    • BalloonConnectors

    • BalloonTCLVariant

    • BalloonGuralpVariant

    • BalloonAlephVariant

    • BalloonLCDInfo

    • BalloonLEDs: What do the LEDs mean?

    • BalloonUSBCable: How to make a cable to connect the balloon to a standard USB port

    • ExpansionConnector: Info on making a board to plug in to the expansion connector

    • HardwareMods: Mods needed to correct known problems

• Software/Use info

  • BalloonBoardType: Telling the bootloader which hardware you have present.

  • BalloonSoftwareLoading: Taking a naked balloon board and getting it to boot Linux.

  • Balloon2GettingStarted: 'Getting started' info - what to plug in where - what you should see if it's working.

  • BalloonJTAGing: Hardware and software for useing JTAG to initially program boards.

  • BalloonBinaryLoader: Tool providing all the software you need to program a blank balloon.

  • BootLoaderInfo: Useful bootload commands, and how to update it.

  • BalloonArmLinux: kernel versions and distributions available.

  • FileSystemImages: Bootloader, Kernel and Root images to download.

  • USBNetworking: Using the USB client connection to network your Balloon.

  • BalloonCFLinux: Using the CF slot under Linux.

  • BalloonNFS: Setting up NFS on the Ballon and Host.

  • SoftwareBuilding - compiling the world for your balloon.

    • QuiltHowto: Using quilt to manage kernel patches

  • BalloonI2C: I2C Support on the Balloon.

  • BalloonRealtime: Realtime Linux options for the Balloon.

  • DistroV02Tips: Wrinkles that Chris Jones discovered about binary distro V0.2

• BalloonPics

• Admin

  • ToDoList: for coordinating development activity (Updated with November 2006 Meeting Actions)

  • MeetingNov2006: Meeting Minutes.

Background info on this wiki:

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working

• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

• SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax

• SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

• WikiNode: a brief overview of the Balloon board project, and links to related wiki.

How to use this site

A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

• Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page

• Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with ["quoted words in brackets"]

• Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page

• See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

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