The third issue of The MagPi, the Raspberry Pi community’s free-to-download magazine has been released. This issue includes articles on Debian essentials, GPIO interfacing for beginners, making ribbon cable and more. All issues of The MagPi are available for download from the MagPi magsite. Ash, Jaseman, Meltwater, Chris and The MagPi team are looking for […]
Category Archives: dev boards
OLinuXino-Micro ARM9 Linux board hits the streets
Olimex released their OLinuXino-Micro, an ARM9 development platform that supports Linux. It runs at 454 MHz, has 64 MB of RAM, an SD-card reader, TV PAL/NTSC video output, one USB High-Speed host port, and an a Pi-tossing 60 GPIO pins broken out. It’s priced around 24 Euros (30 bucks). Via the forum.
PIC12F development board
Raj designed a development board for the PIC12F 8pin microcontrollers. It features a reset button, a 5v power supply, programing header, breakouts for all the pins, and a small prototyping area. He had 12 PCBs manufactured, and is selling 5 of these for $7.99 a piece. The following project board is designed for fast and […]
Renesas RX210 demo board promotion
Renesas is making the RX210 promotional demo board available free to eligible registrants. This board is based on the RX210 ultra-low power, low-voltage Flash MCU. You can download the board’s schematic here. This promotion is open to residents of the United States, Canada, Mexico & South America. Other restrictions may apply. In order to qualify, […]
Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board winner
Today we announce the winner of the Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 Dev Board with onboard debugger! There were lots of great ideas, thanks for your submissions. Congratulations to Ruiner, his idea for a network music player scored him the Simplecortex v1.3: I’ll add a high quality DAC and build a network music player. A small touchscreen would allow […]
GIVEAWAY: Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board
Later today we will announce the winner of the Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 Dev Board with onboard debugger! Leave a comment on the original contest post with an idea for a cool project. The Simplecortex v1.3 is available for $45.00 from ITead Studio.
GIVEAWAY: Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board
Tomorrow we’ll give away Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 Dev Board with onboard debugger! Leave a comment on the original contest post with an idea for a cool project. The Simplecortex v1.3 is available for $45.00 from ITead Studio.
GIVEAWAY: Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board
We are giving away a Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board with an on-board debugger! Leave a comment on yesterday’s post with a project idea, and this board could be yours on Thursday. The Simplecortex v1.3 is available for $45.00 from ITead Studio.
GIVEAWAY: Simplecortex v1.3 Cortex M3 dev-board
Simplecortex v1.3 is a Cortex M3 dev-board with an on-board debugger. It’s Arduino shield compatible, so you can turbo charge shields with a 32 bit ARM processor. It features a LPC1769 Cortex M3 microcontroller from NXP with 512KB of flash, 64KB of RAM, and a 120 MHz top speed. To make sure that the Simplecortex […]
SARduino644 Arduino project board v1.0
Space Age Robotics Arduino-compatible project board hit version 1.0: I’ve made a new release, v1.0, of the SARduino644 board: There are some more photos and details here The main changes are better prototyping area (separated from the MCU pins) and more power rails. I also put the auto-reset circuit in (now that I have an […]
Freescale demo board for S08P family
Freescale is offering their
Schmartboard giveaway
SchmartBoard is giving away one new SchmartBoard SMT Arduino Prototyping Shield. To enter, visit the SchmartBoard giveaway page and fill out the registration form. You only need to enter once to have a chance to win every month that the contest runs.
Review: BlueBoard-LPC1768
Jeffrey wrote a review of the NGX technologies BlueBoard LPC1768 Cortex-M3 development board. It comes with a unique USB bootloader that appears as a USB flash drive. Just drag a firmware update into the drive. The greatest advantage of this board is that it can be flashed using its USB port. There is no seperate […]
IAR KickStart kit for TI MSP430FR5739
IAR Systems is offering the MSP-EXP430FR5739 Experimenter’s board as part of an IAR KickStart Kit. The kit includes Integrated TI MSP430FR5739 device, USB debugging and programming interface, 3-axis accelerometer, NTC thermistor for temperature sensing, 2 user input switches and a reset switch, 8 LEDs for output display. The board also provides for connectivity to the […]
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 […]
HOW-TO: Learn PIC serial UART with your Bus Pirate
The Bus Pirate is a handy debugging tool, but it’s also a 16 bit PIC 24FJ64GA002 development board. You don’t need a programmer to play, just upload the firmware over USB using the Bus Pirate’s nearly-impossible-to-brick bootloader. It’s easy to go back to the original Bus Pirate firmware at any time. This demo is step […]
Freescale Tower Trivia contest
You may be familiar with the Tower modular development system by Freescale. The Tower system consists of a family of MCU, sensor, RF and related modules which assemble into a cube-like structure through the use of side bus support panels which carry power and signals between modules. Freescale is currently conducting a Tower trivia contest […]
Atari Pokey sound emulator on a PIC32
Marcus got an Atari 6502 CPU and the POKEY sound chip emulator running on a PIC32 development board. He stored around 2.5 hours of old school 8bit music in the flash. I successfully compiled the ASAP (Another Slight Atari Player) library [1] for a PIC32MX795F512H. ASAP emulates a 6502 CPU and the famous POKEY sound […]
GSM/GPRS & GPS modem with SIM900/SIM908 module
Boris suggests we look at this GSM/GPRS and GSM modem. A modem GSM & GPRS with SIM900 or SIM908 module. Allows you to create data connections on the GSM network through a standard USB interface. The cellular modems, particularly USB-stick ones, are now at very affordable prices, however they’re limited: they are explicitly designed for […]
Another PIC18F2550 USB development board
Palma made a USB development board for the PIC18F2550. These chips are really popular, and there is a bunch of projects floating around the internet with them, even our own USB IR Toy, and USB LCD Backpack use them. This board is basically a breakout board, with decoupling capacitors, and a USB jack. We like […]