Mark McKillen shared his EthNode – ATMega based Ethernet board in the forum: Taking inspiration from the good folks at Nanode and an Instructable I saw recently, I’ve come up with “another” AVR based Ethernet board that can be programmed and used like an Arduino. It’s a simple design based on the ATMega and Microchip’s ENC28J60 […]
Category Archives: dev boards
The ultimate comparison of IOT development boards
The ultimate comparison of IOT development boards: With this post we wanted to compare the latest arrived boards in the world of hobbyists electronics with devices that were already on the market. We highlighted the pros and cons of the most prominent alternatives with the aim of helping our readers to choose the one better […]
Myriad-RF open source wireless platform
Myriad-RF is an open-source project for the prototyping and creation of fully configurable wireless platforms that run on almost any communication standard and frequency. Its based on the multi standard LMS6002DFN transceiver and Altera FPGA module, allowing for the creation of applications that run on any commercial or whitespace frequency band between 260MHz and 3.8GHz […]
Homebrew Cray-1A on Xilinx Spartan-3E board
Chris Fenton has spent the last year and a half or so constructing his own 1/10-scale, binary-compatible, cycle-accurate Cray-1. He says this project falls purely into the “because I can!” category.” The actual design was implemented in a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. For vintage computing enthusiasts, Chris also provides an interesting link to the […]
Lattice sub-$30 PLD dev boards
Lattice Semiconductor is once again offering several PLD dev boards for under $30 each. The available boards feature the MachXO2, MachXO 2280, ispMACH 4256ZE and the POWR1014. Each Breakout Board is a 3” x 3” form factor and features GPIO breakout headers, USB B-mini connector for power and programming, an LED array, and prototype area. […]
NXP announces LPC800-MAX dev board
NXP has announced the LPC800-MAX – an mbed/Arduino development board based on the LPC812 – which will be released in April 2013. NXP is working with key partners to develop LPC800-MAX, a development board which combines mbed, LPCXpresso and Arduino connectivity, allowing users to choose and work with their favorite elements from each environment. The […]
GSM/GPRS micro development board
Elpis shared his GSM/GPRS micro dev board in the project log forum: It is a 70×43.7mm control board (the PCB is made from SeeedStudio) designed as a part of a bigger project. But since the beginning I was trying to make it as a general-purpose development board for the Telit GL865 GSM/GPRS module. At this version (v1.0) […]
TOS-100 Arduino stepper driver shield tutorial
Here’s a tutorial on the TOS-100 Arduino stepper driver shield. The TOS-100 is an Arduino compatible Shield capable of driving one stepper motor up to to 1.7A that utilizes the Trinamic Motion Control TMC260 motor driver chip. For added compatibility with other arduino shields, the TOS-100 allows you to choose nearly any pin for any […]
Mini breakout board for 18-pin PIC16F series microcontrollers
Embedded Lab designed a mini breakout board for 18-pin PIC16F series microcontroller: This mini breakout board is designed to simplify prototyping and experimentation work with the popular 18-pin PIC16F series microcontrollers. It is small in size (1.95″ X 0.75″) and is breadboard friendly.
RTL-SDR spectrum analyzer on the Beaglebone
Alexandru Csete, amateur radio operator OZ9AEC, has developed this spectrum analyzer running on a Beaglebone dev board. He calls the project the rtlizer, designed to be a simple real-time spectrum analyzer that uses an RTL2832U DVB-T receiver (RTL-SDR USB stick) and runs on a Beaglebone, or any other device with librtlsdr and Gtk+ installed. You […]
Open source STM32 book
Open source STM32 book at Indiana University: Lucky students at Indiana University might like to enrol on the [C – H]335 Computer Structures course run by Geoffrey Brown. If they do, they will be treated to a great introduction to the STM32 processor. The lab manual for the course is freely available to download. The […]
RGB LED driver board
Sjaak designed the RGB led controller board which was featured on yesterday’s video. I made a quick RGB led controller for the RGB strips Ian and I took with us from china last year. Dunno about ians one, but mine was totally crap (after some time the blue channel quit working). The RGB strips take […]
Another project-a-week: 3.3volt and 5volt power solution
Rwinscot is attempting a project-a-week. This week he shared his RickPAW 3.3volt/5volt power project in the forum: This breakout could be used in an automotive application where bare wires are soldered into place and the whole package wrapped in shrink tube. Or… you might want to put a barrel jack on it and use it […]
Simple ATmega325 development board
Here is an open source ATmega325 development board designed by Dilshan. The board includes a crystal oscillator circuit for the MCU, a MAX232 serial driver, hardware reset button, and breakouts for all the MCU pins. This post is about simple Atmega325 development board which I was designed and build to test some large AVR systems. […]
Raspberry Pi sandwich plate inspired by Sick of Beige
Boisblas tweeted a picture of his Raspberry Pi setup, inspired by our Sick of Beige case. The Pi is mounted on a plastic plate with hex standoffs. Like our cases it’s not fully enclosed, but it does provide some protection from those pesky shorts when the board is placed on conductive materials. Raspi sandwitch plate […]
{AVR|PIC} Stamp dev board is simple, fast, has lots of I/O and serial
Bertho is working on an {Avr|Pic} Stamp development board for his local hackerspace. These USB interface boards are based on the ATmega32A and PIC18F46K22 microcontrollers. Both boards use the MCP2200 USB-to-Serial IC to interact with computers over a USB virtual COM port. There are often things you want to test quickly when designing something. Most […]
Loki – a new PSoC based development board
Nickjohnson posted his Loki PSoC based development board in the project log forum: Loki is an arduino-esque development board I’ve been working on based on Cypress’s underappreciated PSoC series of chips. The PSoCs are novel in that instead of predefined peripherals, each chip has a set of programmable digital logic blocks, as well as analog […]
Free Stellaris Launchpad webinar
TI is offering a free webinar designed to introduce attendees to the Stellaris Launchpad ecosystem as well as feature a live demonstration of the hardware and software. The event is set for Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 11:00am ET. TI says attendees will also receive a chance to purchase up to 5 different LaunchPad parts […]
Stackable 24 Channel Servo Controller
Carl from SolderSplash Labs writes: We are creating a range of useful development boards to plug in to our SplashBase board We are just finalising the design of our 24 Channel Servo Control SplashBridge. Were using an LPC11U24, it has a built in USB Stack in ROM with a Mass storage device bootloader so updating code […]
Stellaris Launchpad OLED display progress
Bluehash is porting The Terminal user interface for the MSP430 to the Stellaris Launchpad. The 43oh OLED Display – The Terminal has been a suitable UI platform for the MSP430 Launchpad. I wish to extend the same functionality to the Stellaris Launchpad too. Via the contact form.