Mats writes:
Most of the PAWs are rather simple but I’d like to to some more involved/advanced projects every now and then. So I would like to propose a new series of projects – the COLDES – Collaborative Design.
Where we are a few that uses our shared time and experiences to come up with a design and then as a team makes a few PCBs and writes the firmware.
I suggest that we keep the pcb files at Github and the rest of the design documents at Google Drive.Just to get the ball rolling, and to check if there are any interest in this, I’d like to do a fairly simple project first. I came up with a idea of making a small module that can be plugged in as as replacement (or possibly in parallel) with a standard HD44780 LCD display and emulate the LCD onto a TV screen via a composite output.
I can’t recall that I’ve seen something like this, but I haven’t actively searched for it either so it might already exist a gadget that does precisely this.
So if anyone is interested to collaboratively work on this project (at any pace, slow or fast) please raise your hand here so we can figure out how to do this practically. There’s no need to be an “expert” or anything like this, I think that most people can chip in with something, coding, doc, ideas, testing, hardware, whatever….