We are at Computex 2013 in Taipei and the Wandboard i.MX6 Quad is on display at the Freescale Booth (WTC Hall 1 booth A0703).

 
 

Sorry for not posting many updates in the past weeks. However the whole team has been extremely busy with updating software (Ubuntu, Linux, Android Jellybean). A lot of the updates have been posted in the past weeks and we hope you all like the progress. We still encourage you all to submit patches. It's not a one way road.

Today we have an exciting update. Wandboard Quad and it's a big update. We not only update the Freescale i.MX6 to a Cortex-A9 Quadcore (that is 4 cores at 1Ghz) but the Freescale i.MX6Quad also integrates the Vivante GC2000 videocore adding higher graphic performance. We took one more step by also doubling the memory to a total 2GB DDR3.

The current status is that we have 60 working samples in our hands and a production run of Wandboard Quad's will ship to distributors early June.



Wandboard updated specification flyer : http://wandboard.org/images/datasheets/wandboard.pdf
 
Wandboard modules only specification flyer : http://wandboard.org/images/datasheets/wb-edm-imx6-modules.pdf  

If you like a very compact and easy way to customize your embedded linux environment you might have heard of the Yoctoproject.

As of today the Wandboard has been added in Yocto 1.4 release Freescale i.MX6 branch. 

If you live in Japan and you like the Wandboard.

Get the magazine. There is so much information in the article to get you started playing with the Wandboard.

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/MAG/20130401/467736/

UPDATE: We just were informed that you can win a Wandboard Dual when you buy the magazine.

Initial board support for Wandboard dual-lite has been sent and it is available at:

https://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/shawnguo/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=daf8392b66dd21c42a8100105a449ca69ec13f0b

"Muito obrigado" for your help Fabio Estevam.

 

For those interested in helping to improve Wandboard support in the mainline kernel, please join us at the Wandboard forum.

 
The Wandboard is mainline u-boot as of today. We want to thank Fabio Estevam for his hard work to make this happen.

http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-imx.git;a=commitdiff;h=e2d282a1b468559c5f7e847db75eeca99644148a;hp=209b5710649cb855abe362268348df91bede6565
 

We asked you all what you plan to use the Wandboard for now the unit is shipping.

With 46.7% (321/688) multimedia players and streaming solutions were clearly taking the lead.

We are only wondering if one of the 37 people that voted to create a coffeemachine out of the Wandboard is already successful in achieving his task. If you do so.

Please send us pictures, sourcecode software and tell us how the coffee taste. You can do so in the forums and we will ask you to write a post about it that will be featured on the Wandboard homepage.  

 
So you got yourself a Wandboard with enclosure and you are wondering how a mold is actually manufactured in order to make a simple plastic enclosure.

The pictures above show the process after the 3D files are created and the "actual work" starts where a design is turned from a computer screen to a real life 3D product manufacturing tool. The whole process took a bit over a month.

From Left to Right (Top row) 
 
1.       calculating  moldflow for  the enclosure's design
2.       first milling of the tool
3.       EDM parts (the other EDM: Electric discharge machining)
4.       EDM process

From Left to Right (Bottom row)
  
5.       After the EDM (bottom)
6.       After EDM (top)
7.       final tool
8.       Tool inside the injection molding machine (the parts that stick out are the ejector pins) 

We are shipping the Wandboard and the first Twitter tweets start to appear.

Hello from Wandboard! twitter.com/_hito_/status/…

— hito (@_hito_) February 16, 2013

It works ! My first tweet send using my Wandboard using Firefox on Ubuntu

— Karl de Boois (@karldeboois) February 16, 2013

1 :Download the android from wandboard.org 2:Put that on an SD card 3:Inserted that into the board.Android on Wandboard ready !!

— ram (@ram_tenet) February 13, 2013

 
The Wandboard started shipping a few days ago.

As promised. The userguide and complete schematics can be found in the download section. 

Now it's your turn.