TIDeals is offering the Piccolo TMDX28069USB controlSTICK at $33 including free international shipping. This is a 25%15% discount off the regular $39 price. They say: Start designing with C2000’s 32-bit Piccolo MCUs which help you do more with less. And, the easiest way to get started is get the F28069 controlSTICK which has everything you […]
Category Archives: dev boards
Adafruit’s wearable electronics platform and accessories
Adafruit announced a new line of wearable electronics called FLORA. It is a Arduino compatible circuit designed to interface with various wearable electronics devices like sensors, and LEDs. For the last few years Ladyada has been thinking about everything she wanted in a wearable electronics platform for Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers […]
Review: 8devices Carambola
David has taken a closer look at the 8devices Carambola (which we posted about a couple of months ago) and posted this review on his Nut and Bolt website. Via the contact form.
Raspberry Pi Linux boards are in production
Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized Linux development boards, are now in production. The first boards will start rolling off the manufacturing lines at the end of January. Raspberry Pis started being made a couple of days ago, but I was forbidden to tell you about it until signed contracts and receipts for payment had arrived […]
DuinoMite: MaxiMite-compatible BASIC computer
Olimex has introduced the Duinomite line of dev boards. DuinoMite is a MaxiMite Compatible Basic computer, originally designed by Geoff Graham, with additional features and Arduino shield-like layout. DuinoMite allows you to program in the BASIC language and have VGA and Keyboard interface, so you can develop and write your code in Basic without the […]
PIC32 development board giveaway
Olimex is giving away 1000 dev boards at the Embedded World Exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany: If there are developers from Europe on this forum I would like to let them know that Olimex and Microchip will give away 1000 pcs PIC32MX220F032D development boards on Embedded World exhibition. These boards are PINGUINO compatible, and are based […]
WiFi-Jacket: Atmel-based MRF24 WiFi development board
Léon and a couple of his mates made a development board for the Microchip MRF24WB0MB/RM WiFi module. It’s based on the Atmel ATmega328 microcontroller and features lots of breakout pins, as well as some LEDs and buttons. Via the contact form.
Little Wire – Minimal AVR programmer update
Ihsan made some updates to his Little Wire project. In order to reach more people out there , i wrote a Processing library for the Little-Wire. It’s still in progress but i’m uploading an example Analog voltage plotting program screenshot that i tested. I used mainly two sources to achive this library. Here is one. […]
Flower 2.2 Arduino Mega protoboard shield
Wortelsoft has a review of the Flower 2.2 protoboard shield for Arduino Mega. It has a unique solder pad that can be used with surface mount parts, and a via in each cluster of contacts can be used with through hole parts. The Flower protoboard is a clever new design which makes it easy so […]
Breakout board for 18pin PIC16F microcontrollers
Raj made a breakout board for 18pin PIC16F microcontrollers. There are two tact switches on the board: one for reset and other for user input. Similarly, there are two LEDs: one for power-on indicator and the other for user output. The input tact switch and the output LED can be connected to RB0 and RB1 […]
openHiFi open source music player update
Brian made a video of the latest updates to his openHiFi project. openHifi is an open source music player based on the Procyon Cortex M3 development board. The most recent update reads Vorbis comments from the file metadata. Now it loads and assembles a list of all the song files on a connected storage device. […]
Save to a microSD cards with simple serial protocol
This is a UART driven microSD module that supports cards with up to 2 GB of storage. It stores data using the FAT16 file system, so any computer can read and write files to the cards too. It’s controlled with simple serial commands from a microcontroller. Most micro-controllers have small and limited on-chip memory. For […]
TIDeals on Stellaris dev board and Micrium OS textbook
TIDeals has announced two year end specials. “First up is the Stellaris Ethernet-enabled Intelligent Display Module with PoE RDK. Basically, this little number is the Stellaris Intelligent Display Reference Design Kit (RDK-IDM), and it offers a complete, open-tool graphical touch-screen user interface design solution for control, automation, and instrumentation applications. Included in the RDK-IDM is […]
DIY PIC16F883 breakout board
Phil made a DIY breakout board for the PIC16F883 microcontroller. The board uses a surface-mount single-layer design, and the parts are nicely spaced. It’s an easy board to make at home using the DIY toner-transfer method of PCB etching. You can download the source files and other design data from his site. Via Jumperone.
Sure Electronics PICkit 3 clone review
Sure Electronics starred carrying PICKIT 3 programmer/debugger clones. Chr bought one and wrote a in-depth review of this product. Rather annoyingly it didn’t work right out of the box, and the support staff was slow to respond. After hunting down an incorrect resistor value causing voltage reading problems Chr was able to repair the programmer. […]
Vinciduino: an open hardware Arduino Leonardo clone
alb calls our attention to the Vinciduino open hardware project. “Vinciduino is a free open platform developed by members of the Spanish arduino forum. The board has been developed to be compatible with Arduino boards and has the same form factor of the Arduino Pro from Sparkfun. The main difference is that it supports the […]
TI eZdsp USB stick dev kit
Joe Britvch writes: Check these out. Nice DSP kit for a good price $55 sale (normal $99). The TI C5535 eZdsp USB Stick Development Kit. On sale until 12-31-11. I just got mine, but I have to put it under the Christmas tree for a week. …or… I could put the empty box there instead! […]
JuKu’s new Altium NanoBoard FPGA dev-board
JuKu got his hands on an Altium NanoBoard 3000. It’s a FPGA development board that goes with Altium Designer software. You get a choice of Xilinx, Altera, and Lattice FPGAs. One down side is that the license provided for the software expires in a year. This will be the basis of several projects I have […]
openHiFi open source digital music player update
Brian is hard at work designing an open source HiFi stereo digital music player. A Cortex M3 decodes various audio formats and sends them to a digital to analog converter audio IC via an I2S interface. This is all implemented on his Procyon development board. In this video he tests his firmware using a custom […]
Leonard Pirate, an Arduino Leonardo and Bus Pirate clone
Yoshi designed a Arduino Leonardo clone called the Leonard Pirate. It uses an ATmega32U4 with hardware USB peripheral. 6 analog and 18 digital pins broken out to headers. The board is designed with 2 choices of USB connectors. Use a USB A-type male connector that plugs directly into the USB port, or a mini-B female […]