Sourcing our own IoT Dev kit

[Michael_M_Intel]

I know I'm jumping the gun a little on the IoT Dev kit, but it would be nice to be able to created our own kits if we already have a Galileo board. From what I can gather, we need:

• Galileo board
• USB-to-serial-to-3.5mm jack cable (single cable or combination of 2)
• USB stick with Yocto Live ADT Image flashed to it (option for VM appliance image would be nice)
• microSD card with Yocto image flashed to it

It would be nice to spec some of these components as well as flashing instructions. Did I miss anything? I'm waiting for the 3.5mm audio to serial cable, so I haven't tested yet.

Thanks,
Mike

[Brendan_L_Intel · Accepted solution]

The post here http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/506595#comment-1781401 has instructions for writing the uSD image.
 

A 'basic' iot-devkit can be made with what you've listed. The serial cable is easy to hack yourself, unfortunately alot of the ones on sale have pin2 & 3 inversed so you may have to do a bit of tinkering. But you really don't need to do that, plug yourself into an ethernet router, boot and you'll get a dhcp address & ssh should work - serial cable not required :)

[Daniel_H_Intel]

I ordered a serial cable from Amazon.com that specifically stated that pins were correct.

Pin 2 Tip - Left
Pin 3 Ring - Right

However, the cable that I received had these two pins reversed and I needed a null modem to switch them.

Here is the URL of the cable. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004T9BBJC/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[BAFWA]

Am aleader of a hacker community here in  Kenyatta university and we are lucky to have benefited from the galileo board donation to students but hey are very few about 6 for a group of over 120 hackers how can you help me please to secure some boards for thes entusiastic students imagine we have to lock out some udents from the competition

[Michael_M_Intel]

This cable worked for me right out of the box:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IY4L86/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1