WallaceIT has developed a Raspberry Pi / Allwinner A10 PIC Programmer using GPIO connector. “It currently supports dsPIC33F and PIC18FxxJ families, though other “code-programmed” families can easily be added. Feel free to use and comment it! Any feedback will be appreciated!” Via the contact form.
Category Archives: open source
Build a robotic air-hockey opponent out of RepRap parts
Jose Julio likes to tinker with robotics; his daughter likes air hockey. From these mutual interests, an Arduino and a handful of surplus parts from a RepRap 3D printer, Jose devised an air hockey game with a robotic opponent. “The project is based on standard RepRap 3D printer parts : NEMA17 stepper motors, drivers, Arduino […]
Ajax webapp for uploading Arduino sketches over network
Luca Dentella has developed a webapp providing another way to upload sketches to Arduino Yun. The project allows you to upload a new sketch using a protected web page, easily accessible also over the Internet. It’s based on Ajax and can be found on Luca’s website. Via the contact form.
DEFCON 21: Arduino based vehicle tuning device
In this presentation from DEFCON21, Albert Garcia Illera and Javier Vazquez Vidal discuss the development, Houston TX enclosed auto transport and operation of an Arduino based device for controlling automotive functions in 2010 and newer model vehicles that use the K-Line protocol (although we’re told it could easily be modified with newer protocols.) Additionally they […]
DCC/TAPR video: FreeDV, CODEC2 and “The HT of the Future”
In this presentation from the 2013 Digital Communications Conference, Bruce Perens K6BP discusses FreeDV, CODEC2 and “The HT of the Future”. Bruce is active in advancing interest in open-source digital voice to Amateur Radio on both HF and VHF/UHF. Here he also discusses D-STAR and Yaesu’s controversial new proprietary VHF/UHF digital amateur radio communications protocol.
OctoPROBER rev0 board update
Parker Dillmann posted an update on his OctoPROBER board an 8 channel K-type thermocouple temperature logger, we wrote about it previously: I was having an issue with the FT230X being active while the 3.3V rails being turned off. The FT230X would backfeed voltage down the TXRX lines into the propeller which would power the 3.3V rail to ~2.7V causing […]
RTL_FM_Python: An API and web interface for controlling RTL_FM
Here’s an interesting piece of open source code known as RTL_FM_Python for controlling the RTL-SDR dongle. “This is a Python library built upon the RTL-SDR project and allows you to use the RTL-SDR dongle to tune in arbitrary stations either with a simple web application running on a built-in server, or programmatically with Python or […]
project ECHORD – Riverwatch
Eduardo Pinto informs us that the Riverwatch crew has finished the first phase of their project ECHORD – Riverwatch and have posted a first version of their site. The project is developing a Marsupial Surface-Aerial Robotic Team for Riverine Environmental Monitoring. One of the main goals of our project is to make everything open source […]
LEWE: the biometric wristband
Boris Landoni from Open Electronics writes about a new open source project the LEWE, a wristband that reads biometric: The Lewe project aims to collect and use available technologies to make a low cost idea that is applicable to all sectors using sensors for data collection. This project goal is the development of a communication protocol, […]
DiyouPCB low-cost PCB printer for photoresist
Charlie and Victor from Diyouware write, About a year ago my brother and I engaged on a quixotic project to build from scratch a low-cost PCB printer for photoresist. Finally we did it using a Blue Ray optical pickup (PHR-803T) and his UV laser/electronics to sensitize Dry-film. The optical pickup is used through his own […]
OpenBCI EEG project
The OpenBCI project is an open source project with the goal of expanding the availability of hardware for maker experimentation with brain wave measurement. It was recently fully funded on Kickstarter. According to the developers, OpenBCI is a versatile and affordable 8-channel EEG signal capture platform built around Texas Instrument’s ADS1299 Analog Front End IC. […]
DCC/TAPR video: HackRF – A Low Cost SDR Platform
In this talk from the 2013 Digital Communications Conference (DCC) co-sponsored by the ARRL and TAPR, developer Michael Ossmann discussed the origins and development of the HackRF Jawbreaker SDR transceiver. This is Michael’s first talk at an amateur radio oriented conference.
A new open source 200MHz logic analyer
Here’s an interesting open source 200MHz logic analyzer project on Kickstarter, the DSLogic by DreamSourceLab: DSLogic consists of DSLogic-Core and extension modules. DSLogic-Core is a re-configurable circuit board based on FPGA technology with maximum 200MHz sampling rate and 64Mbit on-board memory. DSLogic-Core can work alone as a fully functional logic analyzer, along with various extension modules.DSLogic can also […]
OpenMV Update: 25FPS face detection, USB support and more
mux posted an update on his camera project OpenMV, an open-source tiny machine vision module using an STM32F4 ARM Cortex-M4 micro and an OV9650 sensor: USB Support- The camera now supports USB OTG full speed, I’ve also written a small userspace tool with libusb/SDL to interface with the camera and view the frame buffer, this makes it […]
Digital Speech Decoder 1.7.0-dev adds D-Star support
DSD is a popular software tool for decoding various unencrypted digital radio protocols about which we’ve previously posted. We noticed that there is now a release of DSD which purports to be capable of decoding the amateur radio digital protocol known as D-Star. This is in addition to P25, X2-TDMA, ProVoice and NXDN offered in […]
OctoPROBER, The 8-Channel temperature logger
Parker Dillmann of Longhorn Engineer is working on a 8 channel K-type thermocouple temperature logger, the OctoPROBER: This has been an idea I have been kicking around for awhile. The OctoPROBER is a 8 channel, K-type thermocouple temperature logger. It has a micro SD card slot for logging data remotely. The USB connection can send log data […]
Convert optical mouse into Arduino web cam
Franci has written this tutorial describing the process used to convert a mouse into an Arduino web cam. In addition to the Arduino, all you need are an Ethernet shield, an optical mouse with ADNS-5020 sensor and a 10K ohm resistor. “An optical mouse uses a small camera that records the surface to calculate movements […]
Spherebot reloaded: Customize your Xmas
Boris Landoni from Open Electronics has designed and built another Christmas project the Spherebot, an open-source robot to draw on spherical objects: Let’s create a plotter to decorate Christmas Tree balls with writing and drawings. This machine: a printer, or better to say a plotter, which will draw with a marker on spheres at will, derived from models […]
Saturn – Another attempt to make open source Spartan 6 FPGA board with DDR SDRAM
Tom of Numato Lab writes: We made a failed attempt to design and build a FPGA development board with DDR SDRAM last year. But this year we tried again and successfully built and tested a Spartan 6 FPGA board with DDR SDRAM. This board was built using KiCad and other open source tools. And best […]
Asterisk PBX on R-Pi
While you don’t hear quite as much as you did a few years ago about Asterisk, the free, open source framework for building communications applications, there’s still an active community developing and extending the code. The software essentially allows you to run your own VOIP Private Branch Exchange (PBX) on your home computer. The crew […]