Want to see your PC stats in Steampunk style? How about an analog bandwidth meter hack. Ian made a USB analog gauge using a PIC 18F2550 and custom circuit at DIY Life. Thanks McZ! Original at Gizmodo.
Author Archives: Ian
Support is available on Thanksgiving
We’ll be here on Turkey Day to answer your questions in the forum. Seeed Studio will be taking orders and shipping. (We can’t claim credit for that)
Final call for t-shirt design entries
Please submit your designs for the Dangerous Prototype t-shirt by the end of the week. We’ll choose one and get it into production ASAP. Thanks to everyone who has already submitted a design in the forum or by email, they all look great!
GNUduino: Arduino in gEDA
Following from the Arduino Shield in gEDA last week, Jeffery sent a full Arduino in gEDA. Meet the GNUduino: I have designed an Arduino using gEDA (GNUduino). All the files, making etc are available in the above page. Via the contact form.
Reverse engineering an LCD
rossum guides us through reverse engineering several LCD displays. Via Hack a Day.
Make: Tokyo Meeting 06 tour and wrap up
Tayken attended the Make: Tokyo Meeting over the weekend. Make: Tokyo Meeting 06 was an eye opening experience. Lots of cool stuff to look at & play with, speaking with fellow geeks about their projects and taking lots of pictures and a couple of videos. Thanks for the followup! Video tour after the break. Via […]
USB IR Toy: Perl scripts for signal analysis
Anton and rct contributed a bunch of Perl scripts for analyzing Infrared Toy output. There are scripts for analyzing raw data in NEC, RC-5, and Panasonic formats. Another script converts IR Toy .bin files .ict files that can be loaded in IRscope (shown above). The USB IR Toy is $20, including worldwide shipping.
Eric’s FreeRTOS port for the web platform
Eric uploaded his FreeRTOS port for the web platform, give it a try: At this point I would say the code is at a pre-alpha release stage but it does run. The DHCP client will acquire an IP address and a web server will be started. The web server will read files from the /www […]
Writing code for AVR
Hack a Day posted the final installment of their AVR programming tutorial: writing code. See also: Introduction Hardware Compiling code
Free PCB Sunday: Bus Blaster
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 is the first version of […]
Claymation pointer tutorial
Learn the basics of pointers in a three minute clay animation. Via Adafruit.
Make Tokyo Meeting Nov. 20 & 21
Tayken will be at the Make Tokyo Meeting happening this weekend. If you’ll be there give him a shout: I will be attending the Make: Tokyo Meeting 06 on November 20 & 21st at Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama Campus. If you manage to come, just drop by Tokyo Hackerspace table (shared with Hackers on […]
MPLAB X beta 4
MPLAB X beta 4 is available for download. MPLAB X is the next version of the Microchip development software for PIC microcontrollers, and the first with Linux and Mac support. Check out our MPLAB X wiki for tips, and add some notes of your own. Thanks Eric! Via the forum.
Bus Pirate firmware v5.10
Bus Pirate firmware v5.10 is ready to download. This version reintroduces AVRDude compatibility, and adds features for faster AVRDude programming. There’s also some minor code changes for MPLAB X compatibility. The Bus Pirate documentation has been updated to reflect these changes. Removed space after prompt for AVRDude compatibility Added SPI write/read function (no CS) for […]
Simple SIOC programming clip
This is a simple SOIC chip programming clip (machine translation) made from a PCI socket. It looks like it works with loose chips, as well as chips already in circuit. Some nifty toolcrafting! Thanks Sjaak! Via Hack a Day.
Updated AVRDude for testing
The current version of AVRDude (v5.8) is incompatible with Bus Pirate firmware v5.0-v5.9. Later today we’ll release a Bus Pirate firmware that restores compatibility with v5.8. A more permanent fix is available though. Tim updated AVRDude to be compatible with all Bus Pirate firmwares, and take advantage of some new commands to increase the programming […]
Props to Open Source Control Systems
Tec has great things to say about Open Source Control Systems, one of our newest distributors: I got my BusPirate from Seeed and it’s great, but when I went to use it I realized I was short both grabbers and nifty colored cable to make the probes, so I went to order one online. The […]
Logic Sniffer Linux upgrade resources
Want to upgrade the Logic Sniffer under Linux? Kormus wrote an upgrade tutorial for Linux users. There’s also Linux versions of the command line upgrade utilities available in the forum. Order the Logic Sniffer at Seeed Studio for $45, including worldwide shipping. Seeed now has probe cables for $6 each.
USB IR Toy record and playback application
Check out the beta version of a new app to record and retransmit infrared remote control signals with the USB IR Toy. Direct download here. Features: Record IR Toy captures to a file Replay IR captures from the IR Toy Save captures as .sla files that can be loaded in a SUMP logic analyzer client […]
Debugging the Bus Blaster
Bus Blaster is getting really close.