Touchstone Semi sent a demo board for the record-breaking, low power, low voltage TS1001 op-amp. We covered their design competition earlier. The demo board has a complete support circuit so the parts are ready to evaluate. It’s populated with two TS1001 op-amps, in inverting and non-inverting configurations. Attention component manufacturers: this is how to sample […]
Category Archives: dev boards
Reminder: Protostack ATmega168A kit giveaway
Tomorrow we’ll announce the winner of the Protostack ATmega168A development board and USBasp programmer. Leave a comment on yesterday’s post for a change to win the board. Get the Protostack ATmega168A kit for $19.80, and the USBasp programmer for $16.
Protostack ATmega168A kit + USBasp programmer giveaway
Protostack gave us an ATmega168A development board and USBasp programmer to give away. This is the latest version of the AVR through-hole development board, it has with a flexible power supply and huge prototyping area. We’ve watched the Protostack board evolve over several years, and it just keeps getting more refined. The introductory tutorials are […]
Papilio FPGA Shield for Arduino
Jack Gassett is developing an open source project to build an Arduino Shield with a Xilinx Spartan 3A or Spartan 6 FPGA. The shield will provide the ability to program the FPGA from the Arduino. To illustrate the project’s potential, an example of an open source software core for the FPGA will also be developed […]
LeafLabs conference call
MP3 download LeafLabs makes a 32bit Arduino compatible board called Maple. The board comes with a 72MHz 32bit STM32 ARM processor, and lots of extras like integrated LiPo battery charging. They shot us an email about the new Maple Mini. It had a snarky note in regards to our chipKIT coverage: while Microchip is getting […]
Tiny CPU boards
Big Mess o’ Wires has a review of Seeed’s PCB service: Overall I’m fairly happy with these Seeed PCB Fusion boards: decent build quality and cheap pricing. Yes, there are a few dinged and damaged boards, but given the total number of boards for the price (and the two bonus boards I received), I can […]
The Verbalizer: open source dev board for Google’s voice search
BreakfastNY has posted details on how to build The Verbalizer: your own open source Arduino based microphone dev board for use with Google’s Voice Search for Desktop. They write: With Google announcing the launch of Voice Search for desktop, we couldn’t help thinking that there was even more fun to be had with talking to […]
STM8S-Discovery hardware module provides DALI interface
The Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) standard is a communication protocol widely used in intelligent lighting applications. Its use is not limited to fluorescent tube lamp dimmable ballasts, for which it was initially designed, but also for future LED applications. This STEVAL-ILM001V1 hardware module by STMicroelectronics plugs into the STM8S Discovery board allowing you to […]
MSP430 FRAM board – 50% Off coupon
octal writes: the board cost is $29. Enter this coupon “MSP430_FRAM” (without quotes) and you got it at 50%, shipping fees are still free from TI Store. The MSP-EXP430FR5739 Experimenter Board is a development platform for the MSP430FR57xx devices. It supports this new generation of MSP430 microcontroller devices with integrated Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM). […]
CoreCommander development board
An embedded development board for Altera FPGAs: CoreCommander development board is unique in the industry. It features the Altera Cyclone III FPGA that provides more than enough room for almost any embedded design. This flexible board comes with a suite of SLS IP Cores, drivers, and application software. Delivered as a complete package, the board […]
Homemade QFP50 dangerous proto board
Homemade QFP50 dangerous proto board test CNC precision: I’m using the QFP50 dangerous proto board as a reference design to test the precision of a proxxon mf-70 retrofitted micro CNC. I’m quite happy with the results! Via the forum.
Gameduino now at Seeed
The Gameduino board which we first highlighted back in February is now available from Seeedstudio for $53.00. For more info on this board see the Gameduino projects page.
Tiny CPU: testbed for CPLD-based processors
Tiny CPU uses an Altera CPLD to emulate a simple processor. Also included on the board: flash ROM, keyboard input, JTAG header, and more. Tiny CPU is a custom “small CPU” design intended for implementation in a CPLD. Such soft CPU cores typically target an FPGA or large CPLD, but the target device for Tiny […]
Vinculum ll programming model super-duper secret
From the rumor mill: I exchanged a set of emails with VNC2 team two or three months ago. They said that they will NOT GIVE the programmer model of their CPU (internal secret) and that we have to stick the api provided with their compiler and their IDE. I can’t work or recommand working in […]
Programmable dummy load
Itead has a programmable dummy load kit. It’s open source, reuse it for that programmable power supply and load you’ve been putting off. Thanks arhi. Via the forum.
AVR XMEGA oscilloscope and signal generator
bearmos found a multifunction MSO: …it appear to be an MSO, with an OLED display, in a DIP package, for $35 The Xprotolab is the first mixed signal oscilloscope with an arbitrary waveform generator in a DIP module. It measures only 1 x 1.6 inches, and can be mounted directly on a breadboard. The Xprotolab […]
Atmel AVR Xplained dev boards
Atmel has announced their AVR Xplained series of dev boards. Atmel AVR Xplained is a series small-sized and easy-to-use evaluation kits for 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers. It consists of a series of low cost MCU boards for evaluation and demonstration of feature and capabilities of different AVR familie. Example projects and code drivers are […]
Microchip chipKIT giveaway and free shipping
Octal posted a free shipping coupon for Microchip’s new chipKIT 32bit Arduino-compatible platform. This is Microchip’s grab for some of the Arduino crowd action. They released an Arduino processing-based interface with sort of open compiler. Arduino sketches compile and run on the PIC chipKIT platform without any code changes. FREE shipping coupon for the new […]
Android ADK with a standard Arduino Uno and USB host shield
Rather than wait for the pricey Google ADK hardware, Mario Bohmer decided to hack away at Android accessory development on his own. Since the Google firmware was based on their dev board, he had to port the firmware and software for use with the Arduino Uno and a USB Host Shield. He reports success using […]
Seeedstudio announces Android Dev Kit Main Board
Seeedstudio is taking preorders for their Seeeduino ADK Main Board now. The dev board, which sells for $79.90, is fully compatible with the Android Open Accessory Development Kit. Estimated shipping date is June 20, 2011.