VOCore Tutorial Gets You Started With Tiny Router

[Vadim] wrote up this brief however candy tutorial on getting started with the Vocore (tiny) OpenWRT-router-on-a-stamp. If you want extra computing energy than you may get with an ESP8266, and also you need an open-source Linux-plus-Wifi resolution in a sq. inch of board area, the Vocore seems to be fairly candy.

We covered the Vocore a while ago. It has 28 GPIOs, all accessible from system calls in OpenWRT. It turns into far more computer-like if you happen to add a dock that breaks out the USB and Ethernet performance, however that additionally doubles the value.

Getting began with a no-frills Linux field (chip?) might be intimidating. So it’s a superb factor that [Vadim] particulars a primary setup of the Vocore over WiFi and SSH, after which takes you thru a button-and-LED model ‘Hello World’ software that makes easy use of the GPIOs.

He says he’s going to interface it will definitely with a TI CC110 sub-gig radio unit, however that’s going to contain writing some drivers and can take him a while. We’d like to see join peripherals, so we’re ready with bated breath.

[Vadim] additionally helpfully included an un-bricking script for the Vocore, which restores the default firmware and will get you out of no matter gap you’ve managed to dig your self into. Basically, you hook up with the system over a USB-Serial adapter, run his script, and you need to be set.

Any of you on the market utilizing a Vocore? Or different OpenWRT routers? Give [Vadim]’s tutorial a look and tell us what you suppose.