Brian has finished a development board for the Luminary Micro LM3S3651, and will be giving away 2 of these boards.
I want to give two of these away to people in the Dangerous Prototypes community, just tell me what you would do with it. I will pick two out of the first 50 ideas or 2 on Friday whichever is first. Just post your idea here. [Preference will go to US to help reduce shipping cost but if you have a great idea I will mail you one anywhere.]
Via our forum
I think this might be the link you are looking for in the forum.
http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1857
Looks like a cool little board.
hi
If I were to win one of the development boards I would use it to introduce me into the world of embedded systems. I am a computer engineering student and I have a lot of courses that teach around the subject but I wont be creating anything cool in those classes until third year, so I’ll use this for all the projects that I have created.
A friend and I are currently fooling around with analog circuits (op-amps: band-pass filters) but we would like to start getting into digital circuits and maybe even start a club (our school just opened a new building for student clubs/projects).
I do not have any specific ideas for what we would do but I do know that we would use it every day to learn and create amazing things :)
Hello,
I would like to get the free board to develop a Laser light Show projector.
Thanks,
Jose D. Hernandez
Chester, NH
USA
If you give me a board I will start a project at the makerspace lvl1.org. This project would be exposed to more than 40 members and guests.
Currently we are working on a project based on the Atmel avr microprocessor that if successful will be the first amataur balloon to cross the Atlantic ocean. http://whitestarballoon.com
My thoughts are; it would be better to based the project on an ARM processor.
Thanks
I would like to receive one of the boards to develop a control system for my niece who has cerebral palsy. She is confined to a motorized wheelchair and has difficulty moving the controls with her hands. An imbedded system would help her to control the chairs many functions without having to use her hands.
Thanks
Stephen Kuhl, Sr.
Fort Smith, AR
USA
Hey everyone please use the forum so I can contact you via a PM, since I don’t run this site I can’t if you just comment here!
I would create a signal analyzer and interpreter. There are many signals that I need to test for as they pass through and entire system. it would be nice to have a board that could be hooked up to a big boy mobile display and be able to tell me in normal language what just happened, if there was a problems, and show me in real time what is going on with the signals in the system. I have an atmel controller doing something similar, but it is very limited by speed and how much it can look at while driving an LCD.
Help me make something useful, configurable, and portable!
Hi there,
I have been trying to parallel/simultaneous interface with 3 USB 3G modems (can be scaled up, though the usb port throughput and communication overheads should be considered) using a single router, the reason being i am [b]SICK AND TIRED OF MORE AND MORE ISPs ADOPTING STUPID “FAIR USE POLICIES” FOR UNLIMITED BROADBAND SERVICES INSTEAD OF UPGRADING EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE[/b], this set-up essential makes me 3 low-speed users instead of 1 high-speed user to the ISP, while maintaining the same costs, and since the ISP can only throttle your min speed so low, multiple that by 3 and you get truly unlimited broadband at a reasonable min speed. The process is described below.
1. say i type in the google homepage and hit enter on my computer that is connected to this single router
2. all 3 USB 3G modems send out a request (using a different router MAC id for each USB 3G modem request, as programmed in the router micro-controller) and receive 3 identical responses, including a list of web-page elements to be loaded
3. the router micro-controller takes this list and orders them in any way you want (i prefer alphabetically), then assigns 1/3 of the entire list to each of the 3 USB 3G modems for loading (Modem1 gets elements 1,4,7,10 etc; Modem2 gets elements 2,5,8,11 etc; Modem3 gets elements 3,6,9,12 etc)
4. the 3 USB 3G modems load their respective elements and feed them back to the router micro-controller which joins everything together into a single connection stream (may it be via wifi or a RJ45 cable) to communicate with the computer in question.
5. Limitations => in applications that require a single continuous connection such as video streaming, this set-up wouldn’t give the X3 speed boost, however if you download the same video via a multi-connection download manager, it would give the X3 speed boost. (and yes, i works especially well with torrents ^_^)
The main problem now is that the router micro-controller is too miserly both in processing speed and memory space, most of which is taken up pseudo-USB support for the 3 USB 3G modems, so i would appreciate it if i could get 1 of your boards so i can further develop this technology that could [b]POTENTIALLY FORCE ISPs TO UPGRADE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE, AS THEY WOULD HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE[/b] (add evil laugh/chuckle).
If i do win pls e-mail me at my YAHOO E-MAIL ACCOUNT under user “mrjohngoh” (the anti spam is preventing me from typing my e-mail, sigh)