Small form factor board, with a STM32L151 ARM Cortex M3 for around 5 dollars. This is the target of the MCHCK development board. The board was designed to be cheap enough so that you can develop a project with it, and not have to re-purpose it for the next project, but get a new one […]
Category Archives: ARM
Olinuxino 1.2 GHz single board computer
Development board maker Olimex is brewing up a single board computer, the Olinuxino. The latest revision uses an 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 based Allwinner A13 SoC, which by the way, comes in a very reasonable 176pin TQFP package. For reals. The new board will feature: A13 Cortex A8 processor at 1000Mhz, 3D Mali400 512 […]
AVR emulating ARM Cortex M0
First, an AVR that boots Linux. Now a Cortex M0 emulator for the ATtiny: I like writing emulators. Since my last one (ARM emulator that booted linux), I was wondering how much faster one could emulate an ARM cpu on an atmega device. The C-language core netted 10KHz. This time I decided to reduce the […]
Running Linux on a 8bit AVR
A common assumption is that you need a 32bit processor and lots of RAM to even consider running Linux, but Dimitry pulled it off with just an 8bit AVR. It is common to see newbies asking in microcontroller forums if they can run Linux on their puny little 8-bit micro. The results are usually laughter. […]
Simplecortex ARM Cortex M3 dev board
Riktw designed, and got ITead Studio to produce, a Cortex M3 based Arduino compatible board called Simplecortex. The board uses the LPC1769 microcontroller from NXP: The Simplecortex is a microcontroller development board that is shield compatible with the Arduino. The Simplecortex has a fast microcontroller, the LPC1769 from NXP. This is a ARM Cortex M3 […]
Cotton Candy: thumb sized Linux computer
Cotton Candy is a mini Linux box in a package resembling a USB thumb drive. FXI Technologies, Inc., a Norway-based hardware and software startup which developed the product, has launched cstick.com, a community website and technical forum where Cotton Candy development units are immediately available for pre-order. (Unit shown in above video is an engineering […]
Transparency Grenade blows WiFi privacy out of water
Created in January, 2012, by Julian Oliver for the Studio Weise7 exhibition at Labor 8, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the Transparency Grenade represents a more physical approach to fostering the process of corporate and government transparency than the slow, tedious process of policy reform. Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless […]
Raspberry Pi PCBs
Drone writes: The Raspberry Pi production PCB’s have arrived. Look at the comparison to an actual credit-card; and those tiny yet crowded BGA footprints. It is amazing how the BGA parts are actually solderable – and with high yield! Read more about the Raspberry Pi dev board and the availability of these PCBs at the […]
ARM announces 64-bit ARMv8 Platform
ARM announced that they will release 64bit microcontrollers. The ARMv8 uC will feature a 64bit instruction set, as well as extended virtual addressing. The uCs will have two execution states, AArch32, and AArch64. While the AArch64 handles the 64bit instruction set, the AArch32 executes the existing ARM 32bit instruction set. A compiler for the new […]
NXP Cortex-M0 microcontrollers in TSSOP and SO packages
NXP Semiconductors announced a new 32bit Cortex M0 microcontroller in low-pin-count packages. SOIC, TSSOP, and DIP versions are currently available for their LPC111x devices. With Microchip also planing to release their PIC32 devices in similar packages, hobbyists will now have a choice of 32bit uCs in DIY friendly packages. Via the forum.
Atmel and Arduino Collaborate on AVR and ARM-based Development Platforms
Atmel and Arduino have announced a cooperative effort to produce three new AVR and ARM-based dev platforms debuting at the Atmel-sponsored Arduino Pavilion at Maker Faire located in Queens, New York, September 17 and 18, 2011. According to Atmel’s press release: Atmel and Arduino will be demonstrating several platforms in the Atmel-sponsored Arduino Pavilion including: […]
A little Atari 810 disk drive
Rossum has a new project out, a little Atari 810 disk drive: My first computer was an Atari 400. My first disk drive was the magnificent Atari 810. Overwhelmed by a recent wave of nostalgia from playing Zork for the first time in 30 years I have built a working model of an Atari 810 […]
Raspberry Pi tiny Linux computer platform
This tiny USB stick PC was featured on Slashdot and many other sites. It’s intended as a $25 throw-away computer education tool, and uses an ARM11 with 128MB of RAM: David Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has a HDMI port in one end and a USB port on the other. You […]
STM32VL-Discovery with ChibiOS/RT
Getting started with STM32VL-Discovery board and ChibiOS/RT: ChibiOS/RT is a complete, portable, open source, compact and extremely fast Real Time Operating System. ChibiOS/RT offers an excellent support for the STM32 platform. All drivers are “native” in order to minimize the memory footprint, the bulky ST library has not been used (but is supported). The STM32 on […]
NXP Cortex-MO marketing fail
A few weeks ago NXP sent us a survey and offered a free LPCXpresso board for completing it. We filled out the survey and expected a dev-board or breakout board, and a CD with datasheets, compilers, etc. Something like the STM8/32, MSP430 LaunchPad, and other simple boards other manufacturers have been giving away. Today we […]
FEZ Mini .NET ARM development board
TinyCLR is the newest designer to release a project through Seeed Studio: FEZ Mini is a tiny board running Microsoft .NET Micro Framework. This means you can write code with much more efficiency using the C# programming language under free Microsoft Visual C# express. The pinout is BasicStamp2 compatible. Includes USB cable. Many libraries are […]
Free LPCXpresso board followup
PALMA 13 shared pictures of the free LPCXpresso development board we covered earlier. Anybody else get one?
Arm development board giveaway
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 […]
Free LPCXpresso ARM development boards
Pavel tipped us to an LPCXpresso ARM development board giveaway: Watch how others in the industry have broken their 8/16 bit habit! And, if you show us what you would do with your old 8/16 bit in order to switch to the new Cortex-M0, we’ll send you a FREE LPCXpresso! So don’t delay as supplies […]
Vote in the BeagleBoard open source design challenge
Texas Instruments is conducting a design challenge for students at the University of Texas at Austin to determine the most innovative idea implemented on a BeagleBoard ARM Cortex-A8 processor-based system in the form of a practical application. Ti.com has posted the entries and wants you to vote for your favorite! Voting is open through February […]