Bus Pirate week, day 5 – measure a capacitor and parts unboxing

This week is dedicated to Bus Pirate development. Today we hacked the Bus Pirate to do crude capacitor measurement. You could use any microcontroller to do this, but one nice thing about the PIC24FJ is that it has a 32bit timer to measure large value capacitors. In the video: How to measure capacitors with the […]

Home Camp: Ciseco energy and control wireless serial links

Ciseco energy and control demonstrated several different wireless serial links based on a CC1110 433MHz radio + 8051 processor chip from TI. The modules can be used for serial communication with an Arduino (or any board), and are capable of over-air remote updates using the standard Arduino bootloader. The project is not yet open source, […]