I critically wounded Edison and used my cleric powers to restore it to super shape! (Or the story of what to do to restore an Intel Edison by U-Boot)

Prelude to disaster

Over the last couple weeks I continued trying to tame my Intel Edison but I must admit that I did go a little too hard on it for is own safety. At first I was going to solder wire directly on the breakout board but when I began thinking about it, I decided to solder a female header instead. I made a little order at the RobotShop online store for the hardware I needed and after a couple of days I received them. This is when the fun began. I did not have the chance to solder anything for the last 10 years and I was never really good, but I ordered a third hand to help me and this changed my life. For good measure I looked at some video tutorial on Youtube and made extra caution not to touch any IC on the Edison. At first I was not very good but I soon learned to keep the iron a little longer after I removed the solder wire to let it enter the hole.  I did the same for the OLED display I will try to use for my Meteo Notifier V2 project. So with my Edison breakout board ready for some prototyping, I tried my hand on some NodeJS program to control a LED using the blink sample. I played a little bit with it to make some fun and began looking at how to make the display working.

Hand on with Intel Edison

I finally got my hand on this little impressive SoC from Intel. Since I learned about this board some time ago I was eager to get my hand on one to see what it can do. I am currently working with different model of Bay trail at work and we recently tested some platforms to find a low cost, low power solution for an embedded product. So I also had professional motivation to work with this beautiful system.