Ships in about 4 weeks + 3…
Dont know if there is allot of talk on this in the insiders club. But throw the rest of us a bone as to whats going on. Still extremely interested in this.
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@ VersaModule - we finally pushed all “three” boards into production. Finger crossed, it should be 2 weeks now.
I guarantee you will love the changes we did. Worth the wait 
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I am sure I will not be disappointed. you guys have a good track record. Just PLEASE do us all one favor and don’t be like so many other companies out there when it comes to documentation, and that is either very limited, or poorly explained. Not saying that you guys do this, but we all want to get off to a great start.
I think you were just passively-aggressive and told us we suck… :whistle:
Who me 
Na… embedded linux has been a new, long and hard road for me. Tried far to many kits in which things did not work as documents said, or things in the documents were just plain missing. I want to think of this as a fresh start, so just passing along my regrets from the past in hopes that this will be far better than all the rest.
@ VersaModule - lol…fair enough, I will let @ John to know to make sure the documentation is good before we send you your board. ;D
Perfict! 
Are you guys going to provide the schematic for the OSD3358 Development Board ?
Three boards eh ?
Wonder what the third one is ? Minimal header board … a demo board ? Or a beaglebone blue ?
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When the time is right
Is the OSD3358 Development Board really still more than 4 weeks out?
@ Versamodule. Do you have any good links to how to setup, compile and debug an embedded Linux board from Windows? All the ones on the Derek Molloy youtube channel are running from a VM under Linux or Windows. I’d like to be able to do this natively from Eclipse under Windows.
Some sites I gave found are running Eclipse on the Linux machine. I don’t want to do this.
Also, any recommendations for a GUI development environment for the Linux systems?
Cheers.
I hear ya! I am in the same boat, I want to develop on a PC, Why this is not more popular I just dont know.
I did do video example many moons ago doing exactly what you wanted, but I will have to find it and get back to you on that if you want to use Eclipse. Derek does have one for cross compiling under windows here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77xZOT3xer4
I was using that method for a while until i found VisualGDB, which IMHO blows everything else that I have seen away!
Its a plugin for VS, and even better you can use the free VS Community Edition.
Nothing I have tried could be easier to install, run and code with. Here is the main site
They even have the Beaglebone and RPI already built into it, check it out here: Creating a C++ Beaglebone app with Visual Studio – VisualGDB Tutorials
So I would imagine it would work perfect with GHI’s new board.
What I love about it is that you really don’t need to do anything, It checks the remote device and if its missing anything it will automatically download and install it there. So then its just simply coding your project and upload it. Piece if cake.
For your GUI development question they also have this, but I have not tried it yet. .
http://visualgdb.com/tutorials/linux/opengl/
To see other things they have which is quite a bit you can check here
http://visualgdb.com/intro/
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Did you check Derek’s video on Qt ? This may be a good choice. I have used Qt (few years ago) to build the entire UI for a set top box. You may want to check it out. Derek may have another video on using vanilla GTK.
+1 for Visual GDB
Also check out the VS extension
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/30/visual-c-for-linux-development/
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@ Dave McLaughlin -
I do a lot of GUI development for the Raspberry Pi with .NET Forms and Mono. Most of the time, I organize my architecture to allow me to do most of the debugging under Visual Studio 2015 on a PC, and then transfer the compiled assemblies over to the Pi for execution under Mono.
Sometimes, usually when an issue involves hardware which I can not use with a PC, I copy the entire VS solution to the Unix system, and debug it with MonoDevelop.
MonoDevelop is a GUI development systems, which support C# and C++. Maybe also VB. If you use Visual Studio, you will feel at home with MonoDevelop. Full debugging, intellisense etc.
The only “downside” of MonoDevelop is that it does not support graphic development of Forms projects. Only Qt projects.
I have not done any C++ development with MonoDevelop. Lots of experience with C++ and Eclipse under Linux. I used Eclipse with C++ commercially for about four years. Never liked it, but it does get the job done.
Concerning the OSD3358 Development Board, since its post this friday will be week 4. I understand your doing some extra stuff of the modules, but whats the story with the OSD3358 Development Board ? May we get at least an update on that ?
A quick update: We are about done with improvements on the development board. It has a brighter 5" capacitive display now. We are also adding a through hole board with the OSD SoM at its heart, perfect for wires and breadboards.
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@ Gus - Aw, no mounting holes. so I have to build a carrier board for it, I can’t just use it naked.
@ Mr. John Smith - I will pass this note onto the team. The board is preproduction so it may still be possible.
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If you could make a version of this that was basically the size of the 5" display and had all the connectors on the back side, it would be a brilliant compact solution for lots of applications.
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