ST micro is organizing free seminars in North America, about their STM32 F0 (ARM Cortex M0) microcontrollers. All attendees will receive a free STM32 F0 Discovery Kit. Check out the seminar schedule below.
Category Archives: dev boards
Using the MSP430 LaunchPad to program MSP430 microcontrollers
Kerry wrote a tutorial on how to use the MSP430 LaunchPad to program external (off board) standalone MSP430 microcontrollers. To program an external MSP430G2 device, you need to simply remove all the jumpers from the LaunchPad develpment board and connect the TEST, RST and ground pins with your target device (see picture below). Since the […]
Cheap AFSK terminal node controller
Robots shared his cheap AFSK terminal node controller design. It’s a cheap alternative to the commercial TNCs, based on a STM32VL discovery board and a small adapter board. Audio Frequency Shift Keying is an old, low speed packed based radio standard, now primarily used in HAM radios for APRS communication. What is needed for APRS […]
MicroSD card module from EmbeddedMarket review
Here is a review of the MicroSD card module that is sold through the Indian online store EmbeddedMarket. The board is well designed, and is capable of both 3.3v and 5v interfacing. End Verdict: I have successfully used this without any hitches with a PSoC3 board of mine(post on that soon!),and I am happy(except for […]
Update on the Little Wire AVR programmer
Little Wire is a ATtiny-based open source AVR programer, we wrote about it previously. This project should soon be available at Seeed Studio in kit form. Here are some updates since our last post: I finished the C and C++ libraries. I created examples for C and C++ , doxygenreference page for C++, documented and […]
SenseMote wireless sensors and actuators via Arduino
SenseMote is an alternative firmware for the Ciseco XRF CC1110 module. It enables you to build wireless sensors and actuators via an Arduino-like sketch language. I believe that the gateway, the “sensehub”, has a lower BOM cost than Nanode or any other open source wireless gateways and has more flexibility due to the CC1100-style radio. […]
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 […]
MAKE How-To: Get Started with the BeagleBone
Matt Richardson from MAKE provides this introduction to the BeagleBone dev board. BeagleBone is an TI AM3358 ARM Cortex-A8-based microprocessor board that ships with a 2GB microSD card with the Angstrom Linux Distribution with node.js and Cloud9 IDE. It retails for $89 from MAKE and Adafruit.
CUI32Stem: A Groove compatible PIC32 board
One of our favorite designers Marcus, creator of the Hybrid SID player, made a PIC32 development board that works with the snap-together Grove rapid development system. An operating system called StickOS runs simple BASIC programs. His work is now on sale at Seeed Studio. Via the forum.
PC/XT Compact Flash adapter
J1mbo designed a PC/XT to Compact Flash adapter. This board gives vintage XT PCs, often found in industrial and medical systems, the ability to use Flash cards as hard drives. It’s loosely based on our XT to IDE hard drive CPLD board, which is itself a CPLD-based knock off of the Vintage Computer Forum’s XTIDE […]
BB313 – ATtinyX313 breakout board for breadboards
John designed a breakout board for the ATtiny2313/4313 microcontrollers. It features a power supply, decoupling capacitors, ceramic resonator, a FTDI 6pin header, and a programing header. The board is designed so it is easy to interface with breadboards by putting all the breakout pins on one side. We’re calling this breakout configuration the ‘blade’ breakout, […]
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 […]
PROTOTYPE PREVIEW: New protoboard under way
Don’t you hate it? A big bag of SMT parts arrive from Mouser, DigiKey or eBay, but your carefully manufactured PCBs are still under way? Or the firmware needs to be done ASAP? Or you got this super cool USB SOIC uC you’d love to try out and you can’t wait? We run into this […]
Alpha testers needed for RX/TX Lab’s open source solar powered GPRS/GSM sensor platform
TX/RX Labs open source project BACON is nearing the alpha testing stage. They have released an announcement asking for any developers wishing to get involved with Alpha testing to contact them. Project BACON is MSP430 based solar powered GPRS/GSM sensor platform. It has on-board battery management, GPRS/GSM modem, 3 axis accelerometer, mems mic, GPS, temperature […]
TI’s CC110L RF Module BoosterPack
asdf informs us that TI has the CC110L RF Module BoosterPack now in stock and available for $19. According to TI: The CC110L RF BoosterPack is a low-power wireless transceiver extension kit for use with the Texas Instruments MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad development kit. Based on the CC110L device, the on-board Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) A110LR09A radio […]
Raspberry Pi first batch will be manufactured by February 20th
Raspberry Pi’s first batch will be manufactured by the 20th of February and should be on sale by the end of the month. These credit card sized boards support a full Linux operating system. A nice addition is that Broadcom released some documentation related to the BCM2835 system on chip used on the Pi. Previously […]
Demiduino, another tiny Arduino compatible board
Wade made a tiny Arduino compatible board. It has 8 Digital I/O pins, 4 Analog pins, and an on-board lipo charger. The ATmega32U4 microcontroller has more memory than the original Arduino. Digital pins 0-7, Analog 2-5, and a RST, V+, and GND pin are broken out to two rows of pins, maintaining about half the […]
PIC32-based Cerebot development boards with chipKIT prototyping capabilities
Digilent an Microchip have announced the release of their new line of Cerebot development boards. Microchip and Digilent announce several new 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller (MCU)-based Cerebot development boards with prototyping capabilities for the Arduino compatible chipKIT development platform. The Cerebot MX3cK, Cerebot MX4cK and Cerebot MX7cK (MX3/4/7) boards provide a single, general-purpose development platform for […]
Review of the iCA05 Graphic LCD development kit
Raj wrote up a review of the iCA05 Graphic LCD development kit. The kit includes a 28pin PIC development board, a 128×64 GLCD, and the cabling required to connect them together. Raj quickly programed the PIC16F886 microcontroller that comes with the board, and was able to get a simple “Hallo World” message on the display. […]
PIC18F26J50 dev-board for Flowcode4 graphical programming language
Element14 and Microchip released a evaluation kit for the PIC18F26j50 microcontroller with USB. It’s designed to be programmed using Flowcode4, a graphical programming language. element14 and Microchip together presents PIC18 MCU based the PIC18F26J50 EVK Flowcode Development Kit, it’s a development and demonstration kit designed to provide developers a hands-on approach to learn Flowcode 4 […]