Author Archives: DP

Workshop Update for July 16th, 2012

Free PCBs are being mailed. We’re trying really hard to find a way to go to Singapore’s first Maker Faire at the end of the month. Our USB talk was accepted to the Open Hardware Summit so we’re working on the presentation now. In response to Dave’s suggestions we made modifications to our Bus Pirate […]

Bus Pirate on EEVblog and 2×8 connector support on LCD adapter

Dave over at EEVblog tested an HD44780 LCD, and he used the Bus Pirate and LCD adapter in his demo. In the video he works with an LCD that has a 2×8 header, but the LCD adapter only supports a 1×16 type. Here’s a prototype LCD adapter board updated with an optional 2×8 LCD header. […]

SketchUp tip: How to make 3D previews

Squonk shared a small tutorial on how to make ‘3D Warehouse‘-like previews for your SketchUp 3D Models. It involves installing and using the SketchUp Web Exporter plugin: This tool will create in the given directory a collection of JPEG pictures and an HTML file containing the JavaScript code to animate the panorama, as well as […]

App note: Using LT5400 high precision resistor neworks in high precision analog designs

  Here is a design note from Liner Technology explaining how using their LT5400 matched resistor networks in your analog design can improve it’s precision by an order of magnitude. The actual performance of precision amplifiers and ADCs is often difficult to achieve since data sheet specifications assume ideal components. Carefully matched resistor networks, such […]

App note: DSP library for LPC1700 and LPC1300 microcontrollers

Here is a reference guide from NXP for the DSP library made for LPC17xx, and LCP13xx microcontrollers. You can download the library here. The DSP library has been developed as a commonly used set of DSP functions optimized for the NXP Cortex-M3 LPC1700 and LPC1300 family products. Most functions have been implemented in Thumb-2 assembler […]

App note: Using Atmel’s DataFlash ICs

Atmel describes their DataFlash memory chips and how to interface with them: The DataFlash is perfectly suited for digital voice-, image-, code- and data-storage applications, especially where low power consumption is required. In these storage applications, the DataFlash’s small page size not only  makes it easier to manipulate data, it also increases storage efficiency.

App note: More about capacitive touch sensing

A while back we wrote an app note post about the Capacitive Sensing Module available on some PIC microcontrollers. As a follow up we are posting a guide to the CSM module written by electronicsbasecom in the forum. Recently I started to work with mTouch CSM module. It sounded like extremely interesting and high performance hardware […]

Workshop Update for July 13th, 2012

We played with the site theme a bit. There’s a temporary theme on the wiki right now. We sent a few projects out for a quote, including an acrylic case for the ATX power supply. WordPress, plugin, and server updates went smoothly today. In hardware design we fixed the little spelling mistake on the Part […]

Nehebkau: Laptop controlled keyboard and mouse emulator

Frank designed, and built a Laptop controlled keyboard, and mouse emulator for his Raspberry Pi. It is designed around two microcontroller with USB device capability. One is connected to a Laptop, from which it receives it’s mouse and keyboard data, while the other is connected to the Raspberry Pi to which it emulates a mouse, […]

Week in (p)review July 13, 2012

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. WORKSHOP VIDEO: Favorite Bus Pirate features PARTS LIBRARY: 85×56 credit card sized standard PCB template 3D Model: FT2232H Breakout Board v1a Only 16 ATX Breakout Boards left Logic Sniffer back in stock at Seeed Another Eagle 6.xx library […]

Unboxing of the Meizu MX Android phone and gaining root access with the Bus Pirate

Adam unboxes the Meizu Mx and gets root access using the Bus Pirate. The phone is torn down to the main-board to gain access to the UART test points on the board. After that it was a simple matter of connecting the Bus Pirate to the phones UART lines. Also check out Adam’s rant on […]