VOIPAC iMX8M Industrial Development Kit Review – Part 1: Specs, Unboxing, and first boot
The rest of the packages include a product brief for the module, a Quick Guide for the development kit, a USB-A to USB-C cable, an Ethernet cable, and two antennas with SMA connectors for WiFi and Bluetooth. The Quick Guide provides extra details about the hardware and instructions to flash Linux to the board, but we won’t need the latter as the board comes preloaded with Linux.
You’ll note that the devkit does not come with a power supply by default, but I found a 5V/3A power supply that should do the job for most use cases. I also connected the board to a TV through HDMI, added an Ethernet cable, and two RF dongles for a mouse and keyboard…
and pressed the power switch, and within a few seconds, some Linux-based interface showed up on the TV display. Please ignore the vertical lines on my test TV, as it’s just a problem with my LG 42UB820T 4K television which has been that way for close to 7 years…
Now that we are in the terminal, we can get some information about the board and the Yocto-based Linux distributions installed on the board.