GIVEAWAY: Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board
Simplecortex v1.3 is a Cortex M3 dev-board with an on-board debugger. It’s Arduino shield compatible, so you can turbo charge shields with a 32 bit ARM processor. It features a LPC1769 Cortex M3 microcontroller from NXP with 512KB of flash, 64KB of RAM, and a 120 MHz top speed.
To make sure that the Simplecortex is easy to use we made tutorials for almost every peripheral on the chip and examples to get you starting. There are tutorials for simple stuff like IO control up to more advanced tutorials for MicroSD cards. If you have ideas for a new tutorial or made a tutorial yourself, feel free to drop an email or post it in the forum. The Simplecortex also has an onboard debugger. It can also be used to program external devices like a self made PCB for your own project. No more microcontrollers with pre-programmed bootloader needed.
The Simplecortex team provided us with a board to give away this week. Leave a comment on this post with a project idea, and this board could be yours on Thursday.
The Simplecortex v1.3 is available for $45.00 from ITead Studio.
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It could be used for a home automation project, controlling some PIR and magnetic sensors.
I want one to make a smarter controller for my robomower… to enable multi-zone mowing and chasing cats mode.
This could be good for making an automated law care device with computer interface for scheduling.
I can build an image processing based chess robot with this board. It will see positions of the pieces through a camera and process it with an open source chess algorithm.
This could be a good base for making a DIY biomedical project.
Could be the brains of a autonomous mapping robot . Can be quite in handy in the current project I’m working
I can use this for a robotic project using lego with labview and rfid / nfc project.
I would use it for sampling and logging alternator phase voltages and currents from my vertical axis wind turbine generator. With the enormous processing power of the LPC1769 and 64KB of RAM the Fourier transformations might be possible for all phases -> processing and logging useful data on the fly :)
This can control a mean robot!
it could make a nice video center, to group and digitize the video cameras around tge house.
so the pictures could be seen on internet.
would like to get one ! thanks.
Robot controller for the study of socialization with children with autism. The project is to build a cheaper version of the robot Leonardo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilmDN2e_Flc), applicable to third world countries. In my university we have done similar projects with PIC and AVR, but due to the integration of Ethernet and proprietary code designs, costs are high. We’ve taken the next step with Arduino, but it would be interesting to test our systems with ARM controllers(to increase motor speed, and communication capabilities) . Overall the project would be a Motored Teddy Bear controller with a camera.
This board can be used to develop a ship management system (park at harbor) where multiple sensors (analog and digital) are installed to monitor the ship conditions. Besides, it can be used to interface with other marine devices (course, speed, gps, ais and etc) which rely on heavy processing of data string. Information can be sent back to server/database via ethernet for future references.
Greenhouse controller, with humidity sensors, temperature sensors, and irrigation automation, all synchronized and monitored through Ethernet (a very cool twittering greenhouse)
I would use it to extend my home automation system – I only have a license for 40 outputs – with this board I can extend it very simple.
Could use it with a VGA screen and kaybord as a ssh terminal :)
Nice for a Mobile Workforce Management system for my family and friends. Just a GPRS shield, a GPS, a TFT display and a keyboard, and i can send a “go to the grocery store” work order, jajaja…
I would use it to automate my workbench in my basement, keeping temp , humidity and pressure tracked, and controlled with heat coils and Dehumidifier,maybe track data on thingspeak, an intrusion allarm, an air quality allert (when I soldering) with emails alarm…
maybe use it as protocol bitband or analyser…
It would be great to use it for my scientific group next project: scanner of wi-fi coverage in big polish city.
It could be useful for creating a digital guitar effects processor.
Or maybe can be useful for the 80s FM Synthesizer?
What about a mini-video game set? Drive composite/VGA signals? All in one? :)
Big things come in small packages!
i would like to create an arcade mega dongle to help arcade owners prevent loss of hardware dongles by cache the expensive dongles so they do not have to worry about theft from employees
I would use this to make a bpm counter and a spectrum analyzerthat uses fft that has a full graphic display. It looks like a great dev board especially for the price.
my, idea is to use this board on a system home automation combined with a weather station, something like:
- outside sensors for humidity, light, temperature, wind, etc
- inside humidity and temperature in each room, close to the heater
all of those sensors create a graph with all the evolution in time, and with the software create different alarms, like when is to cold inside the house to start the heater until the temperature is back to preset value.
Also because the board has internet connectivity, connect the board to the internet and using the phone or a browser to control different aspects of the home, like light, heater, garage door, view remote the battery state of the photovoltaic installation, something like, this
how do you think of my ideea?
i would love to play around with this
I could use it as a small web server to keep my site up, or a Twitter enabled home automation project, this way i will always know when i leave home that the light is on or the door is unlocked and i could close them.
The board could extend the heating controller within our house.
I’ll add a high quality DAC and build a network music player.
A small touchscreen would allow to display playlists, cover art, lyrics etc.
I would design it so that you can have multiple players at your home that are synchronized and play the same song everywhere. It has to be really good in sync to sound good, especially when you are between two players and can hear both.
I’ve been looking into a web-controlled solar powered plane. RC is fun, but I wanted to try something a little different. :-)
I think I would use this to make an analog clock.
I recently found out that I fall to sleep quicker when I can hear a clock ticking at the side of my bed. I could just buy and use a cheap analog clock but that would be too easy.
Cheers
I would love to set this up as a relay server that would be connected to my Arduino Uno board that will feed my cats with either a simple tweet or a command line prompt from anywhere.
Cats love electronics!
For 45, great price point for a bootloader dev board. The process for loading up a bunch of addressable, wireless LED wristbands could be streamlined…
I would use it to designed and built a system to automatically orient a solar panel for maximum efficiency, record data, and safely charge batteries.
This board can calculate what the sun’s current location is and orients the panel to the appropriate angle. It can also utilize light-detecting diodes to correct for short-term light obstruction, such as clouds. Data can transmit through Ethernet to allow the user to visualize the efficiency gains and power consumption.
It wolud be a goog platform for a web server used to monitor weather stations. These can be connected using USB port. A web server can be used to display data and data can be sent to web services such as meteoclimatic.
Some people are using old PC’s for this purpose so Simplecortex would result in a cheaper and power saving substitute.
It will perfect full fill my need for my project off multimedia alarm clock that will integrate a sofware mp3 codec , ntp alarm clock, color lcd , touch and touchscreen
Hope this will be mine.
I would use it to run OpenCV and do some funky image processing, or making a local network server to stream all kinds of media all over my house !
Cheers from France !
A good project, in my opinion, would be to pull server data, CPU states and server loads and then display it using any number of display technology ie: multi-color LED matrices, or lasers on a wall ( or in a shark tank if you you are that cool ).
Now, that’s a nice board. Tempting at $45 from iTead. My daughter is looking for a micro to control an array of 16 Class 4 lasers and Arduino is falling a bit short. I suggested that she go bigger. This just might do the trick.
We’ve been looking at this dev board as a processor for low cost unimorph disk scanner based scanning tunneling microscope. Hook up a beefy ADC, give it some storage and a dispay and use the grunt behind the LPC1769 and Bob’s your uncle.
I would like to turn it into a portable home-made digital storage oscilloscope for taking measurements away from the lab…
I would use it to blink a LED.
After it would make a nice chess player.
I would use it to get started with ARM OS-development.
When there’s a nice lil’ OS done*, I’ll get into driver-hacking for various, interesting/useful shields thus creating an easy to use/upgrade HW/SW system for other projects.
*) previous experiences with OSdev on AVR make the “if” a “when” ;)
I’m working on a controller for a RS485-networked LED node lighting system we have developed which is synced to music. All audio analysis and control is currently done in a Java app, but we want to move it to dedicated hardware for low-latency. The power of the Cortex M3 seems like a good fit, and this dev board could help us get started with a prototype quickly.
I’d use it to make a NAS server!
I would use it on an autonomous vehicle, it will navigates using image processing using a simple CMOS camera.
This would be perfect to use with, for example, a gameduino for making a small videogame system.
I would implement a WSN with sensors, actuators and even audio channels for house automation, and use this board as access point to merge all data produced and display it on a web interface anywhere.
I will have the ‘ultimate’ 3d printing rig set-up where the board will control the electronics consisting of stepper drivers,extruder/s,a glcd with a few encoders for the standalone user interface using a memory card,intervalometer.The intervalometer would make beautiful timelapse videos and publish them to my website and tweet about it too or it could be used to stream the live printing.The fast processors could make the printing faster and more efficient.
A walking or rolling robot with lots of smart sensoring.
This would be a perfect fit for my automated pool controller project. Chlorine control, solar panel PID control and connected to the web to show ressource usage and to send me email at job to piss me off.
Mini terminal with VGA, USB and PS/2 keyboard + either SSH or serial – for wireless router hacking!
I would use it as a board for students to learn embedded programming, the on-board debugger looks so cool …
I will use the board as the brains for a model train controller, controlling multiple trains and tracks.
Perfect to replace the LPCExpresso I’m using and dump the CodeRed IDE. USB Is an extra nice feature! The goal is to have a General-purpose multi-stepper controller front-end via telnet, http and USB.
This would be great for a computer vision/motor control project given that Arduino doesn’t have enough horsepower to be able to process video realtime. I’d use Cortex m3 dev board and arduino motor control shield to build a biometric image based door lock.
I would love to use that board for my 8 legged spider robot. My spider uses right now a Arduino Mega and this is just for controlling the sensors and servos. With this board I finally could transfer the real time inverse kinematics from my PC into the spider itself. The Atmega is way to slow for that…
This would be great to replace a Arduino Mega. I am working on a home security robot and with all the sensors and motor control the mega just can’t cut it. This would be perfect upgrade so I can handle all 4 encoders as well as keep up with sensor data and user requests. I am hoping this robot can turn into a lot more but want to get the base hardware working which is where the Mega is lacking.
Thanks.
This one can be great for my first robot platform to give my little daughter nice toy to play with.
Ooohhh
Fun toy!
Could use this for so many projects I’m drawing a blank for examples…
I always wanted to do something with digital sound effects (for my guitar). Altough it’s not the M4 (The DSP brother of the M3), it would still be albe to do the trick. Using one of the USB-ports in host mode would even enable recording, or perhaps some streaming over the ethernet port…
Several ideas in this comment thread really seem to call for a M4-based platform. (I have a couple of those ideas too.)
Nobody seems to make a cheap and easy board like with those for the M0 and now M3 chips though, and that seems a shame – there is definitely a market for it.
But this one at least has I2S, so I hope we see some cool audio projects for it!
4.5 inch touch screen, wi-fi module, sd-card and lots of code,ir sensor = wall mounted internet radio (media center) for the kitchen.
All these ideas are LAME! Software defined radio is where its at! I would use it to control an SDR platform. It would monitor multiple bands ( as in > 10) for a cognitive radio-like project. Basically, cognitive radio for the ISM bands. For example, if you would like to transmit some data in the 900MHz ISM band but its blocked, you could switch to the 2.4GHz ISM band or better yet, a HAM band down at 400MHz. The SDR could dump the spectrum into the cortex. A nice cortex would be required because you would need to monitor many bands in order for this experiment to work well. The bandwidths would be HUGE. Currently, there ARE NO SDRS that do this effectively.
How old are you? If someone has an idea, and it doesn’t match yours, it’s not LAME, it’s just different then yours. Try to be a bit more polite and respect the others, even if you think they are no match for you.
Thanks.
I could use it as a control unit for a quadcopter! the USB interface could also be used to make a user friendly GUI (graphical user interface) for tweaking ESC settings and Sensor settings and PID settings!
Remote internet monitoring of data and remote control of a Windmill.
- I would love to use this module to implement this project
I could use it to harvest ideas from the internet for my next project.
a web enabled reef tank
I’d use the board in a “contest” between various Arduino compatibles.
I’d compare execution speed and code size (absolute and relative to the total space available).
Right now I have the Arduino and the Chipkit, so a three way comparison is a good start.
And then once I’m done testing, then the board itself can be used as a low speed logic analyser or oscilloscope.
I would definitely use this as the primary control board for a quadcopter. All the power and I/O would be perfect for
attackingflying over the neighboring fields.I think I can use it for my Butler robot, http://letsmakerobots.com/node/32217
I would use it in combination with op amps to make an audio passthrough box that would add binaural and or isochronic beats to the audio signal.
I would build a 3d printer with a radial bed and an integrated 3D scanner – in essence a 3D photocopier. This may make it far more accessible to individuals and help with quick replacement parts.
The printer will use pellets as feedstock and extrude them as a continuous filament building the parts. Pellets are far cheaper than filament and take less storage space than a spool. When the printer runs low, just pour more into the hopper – far simpler than splicing a filament.
I already have geared DC motors and will control these with an adafruit Motor Shield. Feedback will be from magnetic encoders.
I see that is more powerful than any Arduino, but it’s compatibility with its shields, which is great.
It would be perfect for my project I work: patient monitoring with pulse, blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, temperature and ECG. The major advantage is that I could plot the patient’s vital functions directly, due to performance ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller.
I apologize for the English, but not my first language.
Looking for a new Internet Of Things (IoT) Gateway so this would be ideal. Arduino shield compatibility would mean being able to use various RF module shields to communicate with remove sensor devices.
I always wanted to experiment with balancing a ball on a plate using some control techniques (PID for example) and this board would be great for that…
How about a very funky Room Access Control System…? It just came to me by looking at some apparently random stuff lying around in one of the many “junk boxes” that I gathered : an SPI fingerprint sensor, a microphone, some solid state relays and a solenoid, a 4×4 matrix keyboard and a small character LCD. What would it take to put all of that toghether into a simple (or as complex as you wish) RACS? I guess the Simplecortex board would do just fine.Actually, I don’t need guessing, I can tell it would! Good luck to everyone!
Wow, I was going to build my own board with an lpc processor on it for a project… but if the price is that low I may just end up making a shield
Oh, and my project involves a laser lightshow controller. Already have one proto built up, but I want more power!
A teaching platform. An entire syllabus could be made for this board. In a third world country, this could be used as a learning and teaching platform to high school students in my area who have little or no means in terms of monetary resources. This could be used in teaching programming and embedded development to aspiring young developers alongside the Arduino.
I’ve built a wifi shield in the hopes of using it with an arduino to build a wifi enabled LED light controller. It would be posible to control the LED from my smartphone or any internet enabled device. It would be usefull for when I dont want to stand up top switch off the lights (yeah I’m that lazy) or to turn them on when I’m not at home like when I go on vacations.
Unfortunatelly, the arduino just won’t do it, its too slow with with very litle memory. I thought I had wasted time and money building a shield but it seems like with this board I would have access to a hfast ARM uC but I can still use the shield I built.
I would use it for porting the Sphinx voice recognition to the Cortex M3. I want to build a personal assistant who can control certain tasks in my room like turning the radio, lowering the blinds, turning the lights and making me even more lazy… i mean increase my productivity. The peripherals on this board make that optimal.
I’d use it for some nifty basic video tracking algorithms I have planned for my quad!
This could make a much more powerful control board for the CNC machine I’m building right now.
It would make a great base for a small footprint auto(mobile)-automation project!
I’d use this to control all my expensive chemistry lab equipment(spectrophotometers,XRay Diffractometers etc) remotely over the ethernet,since I often work with biomedically hazardous substances in these machines.
As a mere mortal, I can not best any of the previous posted ideas, for me the whole step-up to 32bit ARM would itself be a project, but one I would love to undertake. As I have no feeling for how powerful it is, I can not really think of any specific usage, but that could of course change if I have this in my greasy shaky hands.
Automate my aquaponics and take readings. Measure growth via water displacement.
I would first use this as an educational tool for myself to learn how to program these chips, since I am only used to 8- and 16-bit PICs. I’ve been wanting to learn how to use these for quite a while now. Of course, having the on-board debugger is a huge bonus, since I then don’t have to buy a programmer/debugger before starting.
While learning the ARM environment, I would use this board in an automation project I’ve started planning at home. This project is mostly focused on electrical/water efficiency, especially since the electricity costs are rising rapidly in my country (South Africa) and water is getting ever scarcer.
I will start by automating my sprinkler system, then move on to the geyser (water heater) and after that the lighting of the house. I want to be able to control the schedules over the internet, so this board would be ideal as a main controller with its on-board Ethernet and MicroSD.
Of course, after I’m done implementing all of the above, expanding the automation across the home is not that big of a deal. But I think what I’ve mentioned will already keep me busy for a while.
I’ve been thinking of building a “smart” alarm clock. I would define times I need to be up by and it would control LED strips to activate and illuminate my room bulling me out of REM sleep before sounding an alarm.
With the processing power of this board I could include additional sensors that detect when I got into bed as well as using GPS coords. to calculate sun rise and sunset times.
i would use it to make a cane for blind people that could help them with walking and also for it to talk to their mobile
This looks so cool :D
I’m starting to design an integrated system for managing bikes (powerful lights, anti-theft device and bluetooth connection to my cellphone for graphing and storing speed/distance/time/place/battery state)…
An ARM might be pretty neat for USB sync/Bluetooth/Storing stuff.
Hi Ian,
I’m currently working on a laser projector system, please have a look at
http://www.traussnigg.com/promef/
The Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board appears to be the missing element for the phase synchronization of the top plate.
It should work …
Thank you very much
Have a nice day
Skappy
I will use this to make a bug-out style perimeter notification system. Using traditional trip wires, prox sensors, vibration sensors and so on. Purhaps a few servos for retaliation :P
I am currently working on an On-Stage Lighting/VJ support unit for DJ music performances, where a LED light DJ Tableis combined with other LED Effect modules (Headphones, gloves, …).
I could use the board to realize all the controll/processing/interafcing tasks for my project.
I want to make my Boe-bot unbeateable using the BOE-shield and the ultra-powerful CORTEX proccessor!
Wow after reading some comments i have to say that there are a lot of complicated project going on…i just want to experiment with this little usain bolt :D
I’d like one of these that I could start doing workshops on ARM architecture at my hackerspace.
Nice dev-board. It is an ideal device for an OSC (open sound control) over ethernet control interface for musicians and other live performances. I wish i had one.
I would include it in my 1 KW (yes, kilowatt) electronic load to control it over ethernet. The electronic load does regulation of constant current, constant power, constant resistance and constant voltage.
The board would be usefull for adding an arbitraty function… so that the load is no longer constant but could be controlled over time.
Because I am member of a local hackerspace, I would do workshops around that also.
I would like one of these to implement a USB-MIDI based 8-10 Chanel chip tune synth with variable programmable wave forms.
I would try to get Microcontrollers taught in my son’s school because this microcontroller has tutorials but one of the problems is price so devices like the MSP430, The ST line of microcontrollers for $15 and Arduino are probably more affordable.
This will be a perfect fit for a current project. I’m currently using a mbed board, but I have already used up all the IOs on it. This board not only would allow me to add all the peripherals I need, but it also comes with the required Ethernet connector and a SD card slot – I needed to add them manually to the mbed. So I would save much board space.
The project is called ‘family information system’ (nickname ‘the wall’ :). It should allow to manage our family life better. It should show all information we need every day, like all the schedules for the day, the current weather (and the forecast for today – with a kid going to kindergarden you should know whether it might rain in the afternoon or not), the to do’s (don’t forget to move the waste container outside), when the next bus will leave and so on. I can send tasks and schedules per mail to it, and I will try to incorporate it with Google calendar. Normal use is done via touch screen (with a stylus), and one of the next steps is to add the capability to add task via it.
The integrated debugger will also make developing much easier than with the mbed online IDE (finally, I can set breakpoints :)
I’ve started getting into ham radio recently, especially SDR related stuff. I’ve been looking for a simple platform to start building a SDR HF receiver that I could leave at my parent’s place (no room for an antenna at my city apartment) and stream and control it over the internet.
A small AMR-based platform with plenty of I/O for a decent ADC and control circuitry, processing power for simple DSP and ethernet connection would be just perfect for this.
I would use this to measure the dust that will collect on it while it sits on my desk… and blink an led :)
I would use it as a NAS server, but also to host a Node.js server connected to a microcontroller via the serialport.
Why not send it having fun in France ?
I think I might use it for some sensor data logging and web access to the recorded data.
I’m building an LED dance floor and making my room ‘party compatible’ with strobes gobos and other fun stuff. This would work awesomely well as my ‘party supervisor’ to automate and handle functions.
I would like to use this controller to build an early warning system for my grandmother, who would only have one button mushroom that would trigger emergency calls / sms warning to all the relatives through an automated voice that she is in trouble.
Pretty basic, but I still have a need for a home temperature & power consumption data logger. The board looks like a perfect fit for the job.
I am about to equip my green house with sensors, automatic irrigation and ventilation and this looks like a pretty good board for the job.
I would like the Cortex M3 as the brains for an autonomous mapping robot that has the ability to deploy and maintain a Wireless Mesh Network. I am currently working with an Arduino Pro, but i have had plans to upgrade to the Arm Cortex line after some initial prototyping. There are plans for a build log, but i have not gotten around to that just yet.
add a sound-chip and try to use it as an simple apple airplay receiver
Open source robotic vacuum cleaner.
Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board would be a good candidate for my project to build a safety and remote surveillance system for a complex vacuum system of surface analitical instrument at my workplace.
The main task is to collect data from severeal sensors (vacuum level, cooling water flow, status of valves, noise of the mcehanical pumps, temperature etc), and to recognise the actual situation (is there any irregularity in the system, should we interven the system or not). I think, the Cortex-M3 MCU has enough power to be “intelligent enough” so tha it coud prevent any serious trouble autonomously (closeing certain valves and/or switching off certain units), and – through the builtin Ethernet interface – can alert me, or make it possible the user intervention remotely.
Formerly I was hesitating to by an LPC1769 Xpresso board, but the Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board is better because it is Ethernet-ready…
One word: Tricorder.
Clearly this should be used in a reprap style printer as well as a UAV, plenty of grunt for both.
I would use this board to monitor and control the temperature in each room of my house. It would open and close vents and turn the A/C or heater on as needed. Over time, it would learn the habits of my family and be able to more accurately set temperatures for us!!!
I would use this for a digital storage oscilloscope/ logic analyzer project.
I would like to use it as a “shrimp fishpond” automation at my neighborhood, it will enough to put a Ph balance sensor, environmental sensor, water-pump relay, etc.
Just one…Thats all i ask for !! WOuld be useful in my next project !!
Ide like to rebuild the wireless energy monitoring system that uses ADE7758 energy metering ASIC and publishes energy data through the local network – making energy utilization trending possible all through out the network :)
I’d like to see this as the base, for developing FPGA projects. With a focus on high-speed DSP.
A plug-in with FPGA (and high speed ADC) can pre-process data, with overall control coming from the M3. Fourier transforms, FIR filters etc. would be ideal.
“Software Defined Radio” is a cliche now, but any data that can be compressed and sent over ethernet would be a valid target. Heck, with enough power you can do basic MPEG, and send VIDEO. Home security cams, perhaps?
I’m looking into creating my own car stereo from scratch… because nothing out there suits what I’m after. I’d use it to interface to a touchscreen LCD, read from SD cards and possibly more advanced data storage, and decode MP3 files. It’s got the extra power over an arduino or the like to do the decoding stuff onboard, which saves a lot of time and money getting a project to work.
It’s the perfect starting point for my project!
I use it my next project, which is a full automated car computer debug system.
With the onboard ethernet, this looks like it would be ideal to form the base of a home automation data collection hub. There is enough grunt here to perform all the integration and post processing for a house full of sensors and then send the data to pachube
We are using a similar controller (Fez panda ii) to automate a chess board at uni. A x-y table moving a magnet to control pieces from underneath the board. This board would help a lot when trying to implement network/internet play.
But i was thinking a networked controller for Christmas light display would be a good project.
This could be used together with optodiacs and triacs to dim in the morning two 500 Watt lamps such that a raising sun is simulated. Together with playing some funky sid tunes or alternatively mod tunes. Of course if you want to wake up less nerdy you could switch to sea beach or forest birds background noise.
Multiple telescope control/autoguider with roll-off roof control and starmap display.
We are currently trying to develop a surveillance system in which a camera will have a peripheral vision composed of motion detectors, passive infrared sensors and omnidirectional microphones situated both side of a camera and can track a moving object or person (face-recognized or full body form-recognized). Now, the camera can handle multiple motion senses because all the cameras in the surveillance system is synched and so a camera will only focus into one of the many simultaneous disturbances occurring. A subsytem of the cameras are controlled by your unit (or multiple MCU including your unit) and then a larger system that controls all the subsystems that makes a corporate surveillance system.
I’d like to build a datalogger system that collect data from an inclinometer, an 3-axis accelerometer, a geophone and an Acoustic Emission sensor, that will be positioned in a site that I’m supposed to monitor in the Dolomites Area.
Solar powered, SD card, GPS module, GPRS modem are mandatory for the specific site.
Luca
If I had one, I would surely use it to run the Open Accessories for Android and communicate with my Galaxy nexus. Since it look like this board is similar to mbed, using it in USB host should be easy.
I’m planning on developing a Web based function/signal generator. I would interface it with a high speed DAC (probably TI DAC904) and generate an analog signals from 2KHz to a stable 20MHz.I don’t want to have a cheaply made that will only go to a few MHz.
I don’t have a function generator because a good one cost alot and I’m a student so not much money to spend. Also, in Quebec, education fees are about to get alot higher! I would still like one for my bench but I don’t have alot of space either. I do have a computer which could be used to control it. I would also interface an LCD screen (240128 possibly) to allow the device to run in standalone mode and load generated waveform files from MicroSD or USB device (since there is no eeprom).
This board could be great as it have alot of RAM and flash to implement a good looking web interface along with FAT support for MicroSD and USB devices and still be speedy enough to drive the DAC at a good speed to produce a faithful analog signal.
Please pick me!!
Remote weather station with ultrasonic wind speed sensor.
HEY YOU AL…THIS ONE IS MINE…So GIVE IT UP !!! lol
I would love to try and interface this with my Android phone, and use it to explore all the features of the Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board. I would even like to try out a simple neural network on the board. I would also blog about my findings. Looks very exciting. I will probably buy one, but winning one would be even better.
Great board. Would be interesting to experiment with generating software DDS signals using WEB interface.
Home automation web-server with scripting capabilities!
I have expansion boards for the outer world already available
I’d use it to build autonomous RC car. that will be able with addition of gyro and accelerometer sensors to perform autonomous sideways drifting
I’d have to go with sensor fusion. Add an RF shield and the RF motes I’m working on and I could use it to provide a brain to all my distributed sensors.
I would have it to try MADE quadro od hexa contorller
If I was getting one, I would probably use it to try to make my old desktop laser printer into a standalone network printer.
I work with highschool kids on a FIRST robotics team. Currently we have an RFID based time logging system running on an arduino. If I had more horsepower from this board, I could give better feedback to the kids when they swipe their token.
I would use the dev board with a FPGA shield (like Ubershield) and an ADC (fast) to make a software defined radio receiver. With a fast enough ADC, you could receive HD FM stations as well as Ham radio.
This would be great to build my home automation system and a wonderful birthday present.
I’d use it for getting familiar with networking on embedded systems
I’d mess around with it for a while. I’ll compile the sample code and test it out. Then write my own code to maybe blink a few LED’s or something. Then I’d forget about it for a while. A year or two from now I’ll stumble upon it and think, “Oh wow, I forgot all about this.” I will then use it in the autonomous guard robot I’ll be building to protect my home from the coming invasion.
As only know i noticed i had to actually explain the project, here it goes…
As i never get lucky in these things, id develop a way of automating the free give aways in this website here and try to get at least one FOR A CHANGE, as i never do anyway… BUT HEY- Im just dreaming, because that would never happen !!
Hi, This will assist me to build my next project – mini plants eco-system (monitoring and controlling temp, water, humidity and so)
Thanks!
i would snap an sdcard on it along with an lcd and a couple of pushbuttons. the device itself would be a password store: a hid keyboard that, when one of the buttons are pushed, emulates entering the password. the sdcard could be used as a storage for passwords, while on the lcd display i could select which password i want. otp could also be supported.
There are SO MANY development boards and ideas out there – and these days, each one attaches via USB port. FTDI even publish notes about driver management and conflicts. This board, however, uses Ethernet- and has multiple USB connectors.
SO- one use of this board is as a “sidecar” to plug your other USB-controlled development board into. Have a Bus Pirate and a Papilio plugged in, with the Pirate’s display re-routed to an Arduino LCD shield.
The Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board would be a perfect brain for my low altitude guidance system.
The project idea is a guidance system for low flying crafts where it follows a preprogrammed route by GPS-cordinates or other mission objectives.
However it should be able to fly low and avoid obstacles.
To do this i plan on using one or several special cameras with an resolution of only 30*30 to 60*60 pixels.
The idea is basicly a guidance system same as for a cruise-missile but for a RC-plane or heli/quad.
This brain will provide enough processing power and have good pheripherials i can use.
web interface, to be able to remolty operate things, and i would like to also have a go at home automation
A temperature monitoring controller and web interface where 1980 sensors will be monitored and administered.
TOILET SEAT AUTOMATION never worry about leaving the seat up again :) keep her indoors happy and your free to tinker with other projects !
I would like to use it as a networked connected mp3 clock radio !
Definitly hang some temperature sensors off for Datacenter environmental monitoring. Maybe some LED strips too for warning lights.
Controlling smarter and faster laster pointer cat toys.
Oh, oh, oh – did I make it in time?
This looks like a great controller for my home made digitizing arm. (For times when 3D models made from photographs just aren’t accurate enough!)
Electricity is really expensive here in South Africa
Idea :
I will use this board to control green energy.
1) Logic to control solar panels.
2) Monitor and record electrical usage in the home.
3) Suggest elasticity usage and provide real time statistics