How to Create a Cheap Linux Dongle for Your TV || Turn Your TV into a Linux PC

[ptales]

This is another great project from N O D E. It also utilises the ODROID-W development board and it's also about building a small and cheap Linux computer, but this time it's a dongle you can attach to your TV so you can use your TV as a full Linux computer. Description taken from the website:

This guide will show you how to make a cheap and functional dongle which turns your TV into a full Linux computer. It utilizes the tiny ODROID-W development board and runs Raspberry Pi compatible software.

It’s designed for most modern TVs which have both HDMI and USB sockets. This means the small package can plug in and get both video and power directly from the TV so you don’t need any extra cables or chargers. You just change the input source on your TV and you have a fully fledged computer that can browse the internet or whatever else you want.

The project is definitely of the rough and ready variety. It ain’t pretty, but it works. It requires no expensive equipment to make and consists entirely of off the shelf parts. It combines the ODROID-W with a cheap USB Hub, some custom connectors, with everything being housed inside a plastic ID badge holder. It only requires some basic soldering skills, so if I can do it with my shitty soldering, you can too.

Link to the tutorial

[null_scientist_44]

This is a pretty cool little tutorial, I wonder if it's possible to re-purpose a gen 1 chrome cast to do the same thing (I say without actually searching).

[proxx]

Thanks for sharing but writing a whole tutorial to setup some prebuilt ARM board is kinda gay.
Anyone who spent more than 3 day's on linux can do this without using google?

[ptales]

Well, it's also about assembling the parts, not just about using Linux. The main point, however, is the idea - I can only speak for myself, but before seeing this, I never thought about creating a Linux dongle for my TV. And, to be honest, even if at some point of time I would have had the idea to create such a thing, it would have been quite hard for me to figure out how to properly build this - not because of Linux, but because of the hardware. Not everyone's good at everything.

[proxx]

Well, it's also about assembling the parts, not just about using Linux. The main point, however, is the idea - I can only speak for myself, but before seeing this, I never thought about creating a Linux dongle for my TV. And, to be honest, even if at some point of time I would have had the idea to create such a thing, it would have been quite hard for me to figure out how to properly build this - not because of Linux, but because of the hardware. Not everyone's good at everything.

Maybe I am just being a bitch.
The hardware is quite nifty I admit.