Facebook free PCB Friday is on the way. Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum.
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week:
- Huge progress on the open srouce USB stack. USB IR Toy test firmware v20 and a bootloader for Bus Pirate v4
- Dangerous Prototypes has a stamp for your hackerspace passport
- The FT2232H USB 2.0 Hi-Speed breakout board is back in stock
- Our breakout at the Open Hardware Summit: Fast forward from alpha – Agile Open Hardware Manufacturing
- An updated mobile theme is running on the forum
- Sandbox Electronics pays royalty for third-party Bus Pirate sales
- Bus Pirate v3.5 free PCB build
- Bus Pirate v4 has a 100% open source USB bootloader
- We highlighted LEDs in this week’s partlist post
- Dockstar debricking using the Bus Pirate and JTAG
- Check out hak8or’s power supply build using a 1U rack chassis and rover hacking with the Bus Pirate in the project log forum
- fcobcn milled a Bus Pirate case
- XT-IDE adapter with CPLD build is complete and working
- PCB store survey results, we’re going to try to sell a PCB or two
- Logic Sniffer reviewed
Coming this week:
- More open source USB stack updates, probably a final IR Toy v20 firmware
- Thermal Tweeter case build
- Soldering videos
- A new partlist post on Wednesday
- 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?