This is the new home for Technical Musings, the technical blog I have maintained for a number of years. Virtually all the posts prior to 2022 were ported directly from the old github.io site. I also addd a bunch of news items (from my old personal website) that are now curated under the News category. While my old github.io blog will be perserved for posterity, all current/future updates will occur here.

Setting up SSH for your Parallella

The goal of this tutorial is to allow you to connect to your Parallella board from your laptop using an SSH connection. If you don’t have an HDMI monitor, SSH is the the principle way to run programs remotely and transfer files between the Parallella board and your computer. This page is based off of the original tutorial I wrote in November 2014. Special thanks to 2LT Zach Ramirez and Jim Beck for their help in putting together the initial draft of this tutorial.

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Parallella Setup Tutorial

The goal of this tutorial is to allow you to set up your Parallella board for first use. These instructions are adapted from the original SD-card guide provided on the Parallella website (update: these instructions have been improved quite a bit since I wrote this tutorial.) This page is based off of the original tutorial I wrote in November 2014. What you will need This tutorial assumes that you bought a Parallella Desktop Edition and have access to a Windows machine.

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