Our QFP breakout boards were pretty popular. They’re back in stock at Seeed Studio today. Available in 0.50mm, 0.65mm, and 0.80mm for $3.
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Logic Sniffer: Demon Core v3.07 and firmware updates
Dogsbody released Demon Core v3.07 for the Logic Sniffer with the following fixes: Fixes problem with demux DDR captures causing bogus glitches Fixes missed samples when armed. Ensures the finish-now command works cleanly Minor tweaks to the adv-trigger. A full spec Note: Please be sure to use Jawi’s 0.9.3 release (or newer)! We released an […]
FT2232H breakout board back in stock
The FT2232H breakout board is back in stock at Seeed Studio. Get one for $27.
Reflow oven controller prototype
robots posted pictures of his reflow oven controller prototype. Software development is in progress, and menus have been added. Via the project log forum.
Trivia game punishes failure with electric shocks
Do you like games the fight back? Always wanted to be on a Japanese game show? israelff documented a Flash-based game that delivers electrical shocks to the players. Use with care! Via the tips line.
Watterott Electronic has the Web Platform
Watterott Electronic now stocks the Web Platform, Bus Pirate LCD Adapter v2, #Twatch and the Bus Pirate in Germany. Thanks for supporting our projects. If you’d like to be distributor please drop us a line. Hacker Spaces get distributor pricing too.
PROTOTYPE: ENC424J600 breakout board
We forgot to release this stalled prototype during the Seeed Studio holiday. We put a lot of work into these projects, but they’re still missing major components and testing. If an abandoned project sparks your interest, we may have PCBs to get you started. This is a breakout board for Microchip’s ENC424J600 100/10 Base-T Ethernet […]
Eridani giveaway selections
Teholabs selected the Eridani development board winners. There were a lot of great project proposals for the board, read them all here. I am planning on building a custom USB drive that handles at minimum the RSA side of the SSH protocol and preferably the whole process just sending and receiving packets to the host […]
Light controlled screamer with 555s
Makerdino shared his light controlled screamer with 555 chips in the project log forum: Here’s a fun project to make with the 555 chip. It can be built as a stand alone circuit or you can put it inside a doll, toy or whatever! I’m entering this one in the 555 Contest in the Art […]
Wanted: Dedicated Logic Sniffer test squad
Development on the Logic Sniffer client is blazing forward. Jawi, and a few new contributors, are adding features daily. The development team is looking for a few dedicated beta testers on various platforms. The squad will test whether a pending release is functioning properly on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, before it goes live. If […]
Week in (p)review: February 20, 2011
Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. This week our favorite project gets a free SOIC protoboard. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: A new firmware and PC application to program CPLDs and FPGAs with the Bus Pirate MOD for the phpBB3 forum stops almost […]
Free PCB Sunday: xQFP breakouts
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. Our PCBs are made through Seeed Studio’s Fusion board service. This week we’re giving away two […]
Reflow oven controller
robots shares his design for a reflow oven controller: I have bought [an] oven. The main reason for this was to bake some PCBs. As with every reflow oven, this one needs temperature control as well. I have baked several pcb without problem with unmodified oven. But that might be luck, as the temperature profile […]
PIC18F14K50 phantom of the floppera
Now here’s something to do with outdated floppy disk drives. Connect them to a MIDI controller and grind out some tunes from your own floppy disk opera. Via the forum.
OLED display sine-scroller
Markus demonstrates his OLED display sine-scroller: The OLED board sold by SeeedStudio used I2C to communicate with the MCU. I found that updating the screen this way takes too long to get a descent refresh rate, so I modified the board to be able to access the driver chip using its SPI interface. Updating the […]
Muscial web platform: TinySID on a 16bit PIC
Markus Gritsch ported TinySID, a retro music file player, to the Web Platform. After successfully getting the TinySID library running on a PIC32 some time ago, I recently wondered, if the 16 bit MCUs from Microchip would also be fast enough to run the code. It turned out, that they are, at least the 40 […]
App note: Locked-sync sine generator
rsdio sends an app note: Locked-sync sine generator This circuit synchronizes a sinewave output through three decades of frequency (20Hz to 20kHz) while maintaining low THD and constant amplitude. Thanks for the tip!
NEW APP: Bus Pirate CPLD/FPGA programmer
It’s easier to program CPLDs and FPGAs from the Bus Pirate with a new firmware and PC application. The Bus Pirate has done JTAG with OpenOCD for a long time. OpenOCD is usually overkill for a simple CPLD or FPGA project though, and many find it difficult to get started. Clear back in Bus Pirate […]
Bus Pirate in a Hammond 1551HBK case
Toley posted pictures of a his Bus Pirate case made from a Hammond 1551HBK box. My Bus Pirate is the one from Sparkfun and it fits perfectly inside the Hammond 1551HBK box that can be buy from Digi-key for around $2. Here’s some other user-submitted cases. Thanks for the tip! Via the forum. Get your […]
Midweek forum roundup
The forum is brissling with activity this week. Check out some of these projects, feel free to join in, or start your own: irrenhaus is working on capacitive touch sensors, maybe with the Atmel QTouch our friends at Teholabs are giving away their new Eridani ARM development board See how pppd cloned infrared remote control […]