Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. This week our favorite project gets a free QFP protoboard.
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week:
- Bus Blaster v2 was featured in this week’s status update post, the hardware is being tested now and the documentation is mostly posted
- Check out frank26080115’s open source mbed base station design and Markus’ Omnidirectional remote controlled robot in the project log forum
- Profmaad posted a Ruby library for working with the Bus Pirate
- McZ ported PyroElectro’s how-to make NTSC video with a FPGA it to a CoolRunner-II CPLD
- kinsa posted an update of the VHDL core for the Logic Sniffer
- We reviewed our flatbed scanner for PCBs, sketches, and bookkeeping in this week’s tools post
- Schazamp posted his Bus Pirate breakout board
- canghaiwuhen shared his picture of a hand-made Bus Pirate v3b
- CPLD breakouts are being tested and should drop soon
- The USB IR Toy v1 is back in stock
Next week will be busy:
- Finish documentation for several projects on the wiki
- The next projects to arrive will be the CPLD development boards and the Bus Blaster v2
- SVN cleanup and organization
- We’ll publish some more stalled projects
- End of year and estimated Q1 tax time
What are you hacking this week?
Designed a USB cell phone charger & power supply for disaster relief network equipment to be used at Tohoku area. Hopefully we will manufacture them when service providers set up mobile base stations.
Designed a controller for a RGB LED strip. Two buttons, a MCU (tiny25), three driver transistors. The PCB is 1cm wide, the same as the LED strip. I’ll use it for small, colorful household lamps.
The idea is that button 1 controls On/Off Brightness, the second button controls the color, both together give special functions (simulated fire, lightning, etc). The drivers can drive up to 2AMPs so even longer LED-strips will work.
Instead of SVN you maybe should switch to git, works a lot better in opensource environments, with external contributors.
Just my 2cents, as you’re doing reorganization anyway. ;)
I like git better too.