Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon:
- Workshop video: USB Persistence of Vision Toy firmware
- Programmable dummy load in this week’s status update post
- Dangerous Prototypes 3D project models
- CPLD breakout board ported to KiCad
- Bus Pirate mentioned in Bruce Perens open hardware lecture
- C library for the Bus Pirate binary scripting mode
- Shuckc has successfully ported the Contiki 2.5 OS to the Web Platform
- Open source soldering iron driver v1.5
- Bus Pirate Arduino Shield free PCB build
- Check out Brendan’s breakout board for the 44pin QFN ATxmega microcontroller, Drew’s Christmas LED card, SadE and Rubu’s infrared cooker for reflow soldering, Mick’s AVR transistor tester in the project log forum
Coming up:
- Workshop video: Flux trials (sorry, a rendering error prevented us from releasing it this week)
- App notes on the weekend
- Free PCB Sunday
- Free PCBs via Twitter on Tuesday
- Free PCBs via Facebook on Friday
- Weekly roundup and preview every Friday
What are you hacking this week?
I built ‘effector-12’. It is 12 LEDs controlled with AtTiny2313 receiving commands via UART. I used BusPirate, so will send you link later. On the pic he’s indicating that i have 1 new email (command is sent from Python script through BusPirate in UART transparent bridge mode): https://twitter.com/#!/thesmok/status/162958944476737536/photo/1