Introduction C Tinkering Kit on Ubuntu

You're probably itching to make some fun embedded computer projects with ODROID-C. What you need is an add on prototyping T-breakout board, which can break out all those tasty power, GPIO, I2C, ADC pins from the 40 pin header onto a solderless breadboard. This set will make “cobbling together” prototypes with the ODROID-C super easy.

This kit comes with below many items.

Assembled T-breakout PCB - 40Pin GPIO Breakout board
Breadboard - 630 Tie-points with dual power lanes
40pin Ribbon cable - IDC Flat cable 100mm
40pin Male-to-Male Dupont jumper Wire 170mm
7 x Green LED 3mm
7 x Yellow LED 3mm
7 x Red LED 3mm
2 x Photo Cell (cds Light sensor)
6 x Tact Switchs
50 x 330 Ohm 1/6W resister
50 x 10K Ohm 1/6W resister

Where to buy

DIY light level meter project

Configuration tinkering kit such as below schematic.

Please refer to below links for ODROID-C2 user or details related to gpio mapping.

C1 Expansion Connectors
C2 Expansion Connectors

Linux

C example (With WiringPi)

1. Get the wiringPi library compatible ODROID

  sudo apt update && sudo apt install git
  git clone https://github.com/hardkernel/wiringPi

2. Build the library

  cd wiringPi
  ./build

3. Compile and run the example source code.

  wget http://dn.odroid.com/source_peripherals/ctinkeringkit/example-led.c
  gcc -o example-led example-led.c -lwiringPi -lwiringPiDev -lpthread
  sudo ./example-led

example-led.c

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// ODROID-C GPIO(LED) / ADC Test Application.
//
// Defined port number is wiringPi port number.
//
// Compile : gcc -o <create excute file name> <source file name> -lwiringPi -lwiringPiDev -lpthread
// Run : sudo ./<created excute file name>
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
 
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
 
#include <wiringPi.h>
#include <wiringPiI2C.h>
#include <wiringSerial.h>
#include <lcd.h>
 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// Global handle Define
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
#define DATA_UPDATE_PERIOD  100 // 100ms
 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// ADC:
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define PORT_ADC1   0   // ADC.AIN0
 
static int adcValue = 0;
 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// LED:
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
static int ledPos = 0;
 
const int ledPorts[] = {
    24,
    23,
    22,
    21,
    14,
    13,
    12,
    3,
    2,
    0,
    7,
 
    1,
    4,
    5,
    6,
    10,
    11,
    26,
    27,
};
 
#define MAX_LED_CNT sizeof(ledPorts) / sizeof(ledPorts[0])
 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// system init
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
int system_init(void)
{
    int i;
 
    // GPIO Init(LED Port ALL Output)
    for(i = 0; i < MAX_LED_CNT; i++)    pinMode (ledPorts[i], OUTPUT);
 
    return  0;
 }
 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// board data update
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void boardDataUpdate(void)
{
    int i;
 
    // adc value read
    if((adcValue = analogRead (PORT_ADC1)))    {
        ledPos = (adcValue * MAX_LED_CNT * 1000) / 1024;
        ledPos = (MAX_LED_CNT - (ledPos / 1000));
    }
    else
        ledPos = 0;
 
    //  LED Control
    for(i = 0; i < MAX_LED_CNT; i++)    digitalWrite (ledPorts[i], 0); // LED All Clear
    for(i = 0; i < ledPos;      i++)    digitalWrite (ledPorts[i], 1); // LED On
}
 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// Start Program
//
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    static int timer = 0 ;
 
    wiringPiSetup ();
 
    if (system_init() < 0)
    {
        fprintf (stderr, "%s: System Init failed\n", __func__);     return -1;
    }
 
    for(;;)    {
        usleep(100000);
        if (millis () < timer)  continue ;
 
        timer = millis () + DATA_UPDATE_PERIOD;
 
        // All Data update
        boardDataUpdate();
    }
 
    return 0 ;
}
 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Python example

WiringPi2-Python repository for ODROID

Prerequisites: You must have python-dev and python-setuptools installed If you manually rebuild the bindings with swig-python wiringpi.i

  sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools swig3.0

1. Get/setup wiringpi 2 for Python repository

git clone https://github.com/hardkernel/WiringPi2-Python.git
cd WiringPi2-Python
git submodule init
git submodule update

2. Build & install

swig3.0 -python -threads wiringpi.i
sudo python setup.py install

./build.sh

3. Get/Run the example source code

  wget http://dn.odroid.com/source_peripherals/ctinkeringkit/example-led.py
  sudo python example-led.py

example-led.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import wiringpi2 as wpi
import time
 
leds = [24, 23, 22, 21, 14, 13, 12, 3, 2, 0, 7, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 26, 27]
 
wpi.wiringPiSetup()
 
# GPOI pin setup
for x in leds:
wpi.pinMode(x, 1)
wpi.digitalWrite(x, 0)
 
adc_unit = 4095 / len(leds)
while True:
time.sleep(0.05)
 
# Read the adc value
adcValue = wpi.analogRead(0)
print adcValue
 
# Set the LEDs
ledPos = (adcValue * len(leds) * 1000) / 1024
ledPos = len(leds) - (ledPos / 1000)
 
for x in leds:
wpi.digitalWrite(x, 0)
 
for x in xrange(ledPos):
wpi.digitalWrite(leds[x], 1)

Android

Having fun with Tinkering kit GPIO on Android!