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Yocto Quick Start

I've mentioned the Yocto (1) embedded framework in previous blog posts. Some people may have shied away from trying it because they have heard it has a steep learning curve. While Yocto is complex, it is very easy to get started and you can do so without any embedded hardware. In this post I'…

Yocto on the Raspberry Pi

Yocto(1) is a software framework for embedded Linux systems. We've looked at it in previous blog posts(2). It forms the basis of many embedded Linux distributions, including The Qt Company's boot2qt that is part of their commercial product Qt For Device Creation(3).Knowledge of Yocto is a very…

The BeagleBone Black - A Low-Cost Embedded Platform, Part 3

In part one of this series I introduced the BeagleBone Black, a low-cost embedded computer platform that supports Qt. In part two, we looked at how to get Qt 4 up and running on this platform. In this installment, we'll look at how to get the latest release of Qt, Qt 5, running on the…