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Quick Start of pcDuino without a HDMI Monitor and Serial Debug Cable

Posted by: admin , September 29, 2014

pcDuino is platform that bridges open source software community (Linux) and open source hardware ecosystem (Arduino). It has an Lbuntu desktop GUI. The desktop outputs from the HDMI interface.  What we have learned is that not every people have access to a HDMI monitor.

In this post, we show a quick start for users that don’t have access to a HDMI monitor and serial debug cable.

For a quick start, we need a laptop (in our case, it runs Windows 7), a Ethernet cable, a micro USB power cable (which can run 2A current) and power supply.

Our laptop has WiFi connection. First, we need to  bridge the WiFi connection to pcDuino, so that pcDuino can access the Internet  The detailed steps can be found at here.  Once we are done with bridge, we will see a ‘Network Bridge’ icon as following:

bridge

We connect the one end of Ethernet cable to laptop, and the other end to pcDuino.

pcDuino_without_HDMI

Now, we power cycle pcDuino. At first, the two LEDs ‘RX/TX’ are off, and when they are both on, that means the system is up running.

pcDuino_boot

We are ready to use a tool named Nmap to scan the local subnet to find the IP address of pcDuino. We install nmap and open it:

nmap_1

The command is “nmap –top-ports 10 192.168.1.*’:

nmap_2

We found the device that has ‘ssh’ service open. It is pcDuino. So the IP address is ‘192.168.1.5’ in our case.

pcDuino 05312013 version has VNC server built-in. We use RealVNC to connect to pcDuino.  The VNC server is ‘192.168.1.5:5900′. Port 5900 is the VNC server port.

realVNC_1

realVNC_2

Hit ‘Continue’:

realVNC_3

The password is ‘ubuntu’.

 

realVNC_4

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