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 […]
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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 […]
REVIEW: Sure electronics WiFi web server module
We covered Sure’s WIFI web server module previously. This board has a MRF24WB0MB wireless module and a PIC24FJ256GB106 with USB (host and slave) capabilities. As a bonus the board also has a mini-sd connector for storing webpages. At a first glance the board looks very clean and well designed with a nice silkscreen. Cost was $59.90 […]
$49 FPGA development board
Field programmable gate arrays often separate the professionals from the hobbyists. Development tools are expensive, and the chips are usually in high pin-count BGA surface mount packages. Totti turned us on to a $49 Spartan-3A FPGA development kit from AVNET. It’s got a large Xilinx Spartan FPGA, two types of flash memory, and four capacitive […]