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.
Category Archives: dev boards
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 […]
XESS XuLA-200 FPGA/uC board
XESS introduces their new XuLA-200 breakout board. The XuLA Board packs a 200,000-gate FPGA and a supervisory microcontroller into a 2″ x 1″ footprint (51 mm x 25 mm). XESS is committed to a completely open source design for this board which features a Xilinx XC3S200A Spartan 3A FPGA with 8 MByte SDRAM, 2 Mbit […]
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 […]
WIFI development board with a PIC24FJ and MRF24WB0MB
Sjaak found another WIFI development board with a PIC24FJ and MRF24WB0MB wireless module at Sure Electronics. This is similar to the OpenPicus we covered earlier, but not open source and without the friendly development environment. Thanks Sjaak!
CPLD breakout board PCBs
A box of PCBs just arrived with the new CPLD breakout board designs. The top board is for the XC9500XL family (XC9572XL), the other boards is for a CoolRunner-II (XC2C64A). Check out the quick start guides for these parts. Both boards have all the pins broken out to header, and jumpers for IO voltage selection. […]
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 […]
Introducing the Microtouch
The Microtouch is a lightweight AVR based open source touch screen device powered by the Atmega32u4. It features a 320×240 pixel touchscreen, an accelerometer, full speed USB, a micro-SD card reader and support for a lithium ion battery. It is supported by an application framework of sorts and it is possible to run a variety […]
Vinculo Arduino clone with USB slave
ZF did a review of the FTDI Vinculum board we covered earlier: I just got hold of FTDI chip’s new Vinculo developing platform, so here’s a quick review for you! Vinculo is a 25€ development platform for the FTDI Vinculum II (VNC2) dual USB host/slave microcontroller. The board design has been copied from Arduino, and […]
Microstick dev board for dsPIC33F and PIC24H
The Microchip Microstick for dsPIC33F and PIC24H is a DIP socketed development environment for the dsPIC33FJ64MC802 and PIC24HJ64GP502 16-bit digital signal controller and microcontroller. The board is USB powered with an integrated programmer/debugger, an onboard debug LED, utility LED and reset switch. Pin header spacing is 0.025″. List price is $24.99 from Microchip Direct. Check […]
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 […]
CPLD development board
voidptr shared a CPLD development board he made a few years ago: i used few times some xilinx xc9572xl with pleasure (and few other sizes). i like the family 5V tolerance, so i can plug that everywhere… Via the forum.
No more ratsnest
Junbeom So, Lee Ji Eun, Yi-Seo Hyeon, Heo-Hyeoksu & Jeong Minhui of Yanko Design, have developed a new power cord that interlocks, reducing that ugly pet trap behind your desk. We wonder if they will tackle USB cords next. Via I new idea
RBox: DIY 32-bit game console
Rossum has released the schematic and the code for a 32-bit video game console. This prototype was constructed using a LPCXpresso devkit available at Digikey. You’ll need to replace the stock 12mhz with a very common 14.318mhz crystal. The analog joystick is a replacement part from a PSP. Features include 320×240 composite or s-video output […]
HACK: Open source USB stack on MCP2200
Microchip has a new USB->serial converter chip called the MCP2200. We suspected they made this chip from a 20-pin PIC. The MCP2200 pinout is like other PIC uCs, and it has similar reset pin and internal voltage regulator circuits. We hooked up our trusty PICKIT3 and read the device ID. The MCP2200 was recognized as a […]
Altera intros MAX V CPLD dev kit
Altera has announced the release of their MAX V CPLD line and companion dev kit. Altera’s webcast describes the dev kit and demos a few simple examples. The MAX V family of low cost and low power CPLDs offers density ranging from 40 to 2,210 logic elements (LEs) (32 to 1,700 equivalent macrocells) and up […]
Parallax releases Propeller C3 board
Parallax has released their Propeller C3 application board. Features include: Multicore Propeller P8X32A-Q44 with 5.00 MHz socketed crystal to upgrade for over-clocking experiments, 64 KB Propeller boot EEPROM holds boot image plus 32 KB extra for data, USB or external power sources, dual high-current filtered 1.5 A 3.3/5 V voltage regulators, VGA port, RCA Video/Audio […]
Free Renesas RX62N dev board
The Renesas RX62N is a demonstration kit for a Renesas controller chip. The controller has a boat-load of features: 32-bits, DMA, 9 DSP instructions, Connectable SDRam Interface, 10/100Mbps Ethernet Controller, USB 2.0 with OTG possible, CAN module, AD converter, DA converter, 100MHz max operating frequency, CRC Calculator, plus many more. The demo board has a […]
Digilent Electronics Explorer board
Digilent has come out with an electronics design workbench they call the Electronics Explorer Board. * All-in-one circuit design station * 4-channel, 40MSa Oscilloscope * 4-channel voltmeter * 2 programmable reference voltages * 2-channel Arbitrary Waveform Generator * Triple-Output Power Supply (two programmable) * 32-Channel Logic Analyzer * 32-Channel Pattern Generator * Discrete digital I/O’s […]
74F138 Xmas demo
First of all Merry Xmas to everyone! We found some time to whip up a new demo to show the Digital IO mode (DIO) of the Bus Pirate. This mode gives us full control of the pins and acts much like the binary mode. We used it to interface a 74F138 and a couple of LEDs. The 74F138 is a […]