September of last year I backed the Pixy CMUcam5 project on kickstarter. Back then the people behind the project (Charmed labs) promised a November delivery date. With over 2000 people backing the project things turned out a bit differently. I only received my Pixy last week. I also had the bad luck that the package […]
Well well I have finally managed to compile and install an AVR toolchain that works with Arduino on my Gentoo workstation. This was after 3 attempts to install the AVR-GCC toolchain. After installing, it would never compile without errors. Some people have written guides on how to install the toolchain, but they never worked for […]
Rant: Installing Arduino on Gentoo is a b*tch. For Arduino you need the avr gcc toolchain, this you can install through a portage overlay. But because of some bugs in avr gcc this won’t compile correct code for the Mega 2560. After googling for hours and reading dozens of forum and blog posts I got […]