C.H.I.P. Firmware / Flash Archive

Hey guys and gals,

with death looming over NTC and our beloved C.H.I.P., I thought I’d do my share in helping to preserve the C.H.I.P. I uploaded everything necessary to keep your C.H.I.P.s alive to the Internet Archive so it may stay online forever.

https://archive.org/details/C.h.i.p.FlashCollection

The package consists of the following:

CHIP-SDK.ova - Virtual machine, created with Vagrant for flashing C.H.I.P… Contains all C.H.I.P. Images CHIP-SDK.zip - Contains vagrant file to re-create the VM, contains a script to setup Ubuntu 14.04 for flashing CHIP-tools.zip - Scripts for manual flashing, requires android-tools-fastboot sunxi-tools u-boot-tools (for Debian) flash-collection.zip - Every flavour of flash images and rootfs (server, gui, pocketchip, buildroot) in both stable and testing opensource.nextthing.co.tar.bz2 - Mirror of NTCs APT-Repository

flash-collection.zip and CHIP-SDK.ova contain the following builds:

Stable: Builroot b34 GUI b149 PocketC.H.I.P. b126 Server b149

Testing: Builroot b23 GUI b543 PocketC.H.I.P. b667 Server b543

Using the items in the archive, you should be able to flash your chip using either the VM or just the scripts. In either way, all Images are contained. I’ve downloaded the server, GUI, PocketC.H.I.P. and buildroot images in both testing and stable flavours for Hynix and Toshiba NAND. Should you consider using the Vagrant VM, you don’t need the flash-collection.zip since all Images are present in the VM. For manual flashing, consider the brief instructions in the Readme or follow the instructions on https://yoursunny.com/t/2018/CHIP-flash-offline/

Hope this helps to keep your C.H.I.P.s alive. I’m fairly positive this all works, however I wasn’t able to test because,

SHAMELESS SELF PLUG:

I never got my fingers on a C.H.I.P. Still, I love the community. It’s part of what made the C.H.I.P. awesome. Maybe one of the community can do me a solid and offer me a spare C.H.I.P. for a reasonable price. Of course, DIPs would be awesome too, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Anyways, I hope this helps.

Cheers,

-joe