I have wanted to work on a high-level OS on an embedded system for a while. I built a reference distro a few years back but never got into it too deep due to a lack of focus and no specific goal in mind. For one of my latest work projects, I utilized freeRTOS which got me interested in creating a multi-threaded web application in an embedded context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before I get into my plans for the project I want to briefly discuss why I’ve started this blog. For personal projects (really all projects\ud83d\ude2c), documentation has always been a struggle; but no longer! I’ve decided to use this blog as a means of forcing myself to think about what exactly I want to accomplish with a given project and how I want to go about it. I can easily reference it from any device, and it serves as documentation so future me can learn from past mistakes and (hopefully) motivate me to see projects to completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, to get into the project I’ve started working through a book I got a few years ago called: “Embedded Linux Systems with the Yocto Project” by Rudolf J. Streif. My intention is to work through this book with the reference “poky” distribution until I am confident enough to jump into making my own Linux distribution which will just act as a host for a web app and the hub for a mesh network. My goal is to develop a simple data acquisition web app and use an ESP8266 (or similar) microcontroller to transmit data from some sensor attached to it to the hub. The purpose is to create a distributed data acquisition system with excellent scalability and portability. I don’t have a firm idea of what application I want to use this for, but once I have the base system designed I can figure that out. \ud83e\udd1e<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanks to Windows 11’s ability to serve graphics through the WSL I was able to easily run the Qemu emulator to test out my poky build. The next steps for this project are to continue through the textbook I referenced previously until I am confident enough to start working on my custom distribution and application. I’m not sure which web stack I will use to develop the app but I’m thinking MEAN just because I am somewhat familiar with it already. The hub will be a raspberry pi that I expect to receive sometime this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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