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.
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REVIEW: Olimex PICkit3 programmer clone
A few weeks ago we wrote about a PICkit3 clone from Olimex available on eBay for $30. Compared to the original it is considerably smaller and at first glace it looks sturdier as well. We like that Olimex decided to use the large type-B connector which seems more reliable then the original mini-B. The ICSP […]
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 […]
Instek GW GFG-8016G signal generator review
Sqkybeaver bought an Instek GW GFG-8016G signal generator for his birthday. It’s capable of creating sine, square, and triangle signals from 0.2 Hz -2 MHz. There’s also a 6 digit counter available with a bandwidth of up to 10 MHz. As soon as it was in his possession Sqkybeaver opened it up an posted some […]
nedoCPU-32 PIC32 breakout build and review
Schazamp received a nedoCPU-32 32bit PIC breakout board from Shaos. He built stuffed it and got a simple “blink LED” firmware to run on it quickly. This is a nice board, and I’m looking forward to messing around with it. It might be a good starting point for trying to adapt the chip-kit Arduino bootloader […]
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. […]
Chip Quik SMD desoldering tool review
Joe Desbonnet writes: I stumbled across a product called “Chip Quik” for removing SMD chips from boards with nothing more than a soldering iron. I got the kit from Farnell and wrote this short review. Via the contact form.
Clarke CRT 40 rotary tool kit review
DrF has a couple tool reviews: Clarke CRT 40 rotary tool kit, a glue gun, and a screwdriver set Via the tips line.
Revisit: 8bits
last week we asked, what microcontroller architecture do you use most? Many of our projects use 8 bit pic18 series micros, clearly a workhorse of our projects. But with only 16 votes total, our poll is probably not representative of the larger community. We have recently seen a audio spectrum analyzer using a pic18f4550. What […]
Week in (p)review: October 17, 2010
Here’s some highlights from the past two weeks, in case you missed them: A USB Infrared Toy as a USB->serial bridge for an RFID reader Design a Dangerous Prototypes t-shirt for fame and prizes Bus Blaster power up test passes Logic Sniffer 101 introduction and overview Bus Pirate hardware v4 first firmware Three USB LCD […]
Week in (p)review: October 3, 2010
Here’s some highlights from the past two weeks, in case you missed them: Bus Pirate firmware v5.8 USB IR Toy firmware v08 Logic Sniffer firmware v2.1 and updated OLS loader app Jawi released Logic Sniffer client v0.8.5 Web platform v1.1 is shipping now Bus Pirate LCD adapters are starting to arrive PCBs for the USB […]
Week in (p)review: September 26, 2010
Here’s some highlights from the past two weeks, in case you missed them: The Bus Pirate LCD adapter v2 design was published, the hardware is available for immediate delivery A new USB Infrared Toy 101 quick-start tutorial A tutorial on using SubVersionN (SVN) to grab our latest code The Bus Blaster and mini-blaster PCBs arrived […]
Experience with the Bus Pirate
Dom shares his impressions of the Bus Pirate as a prototyping and test tool: OK I don’t say it often but the Bus Pirate is a superb piece of kit. The vast bulk of my work is design work with a wide range of IC’s and embedded devices, for this I spend a large amount […]
Bus Pirate review
Design News posted an introduction to the Bus Pirate with a short review: Thumbs up I think Bus Pirate is an interesting project and a very useful tool to have available at the price. I think a great addition to this project would be a GUI front end that would allow you to point/click to […]