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DIY budget Bus Pirate case

August 27, 2010 in Bus Pirate, DIY, cases by Ian | No comments

Inbilla made a budget case to protect the Bus Pirate.

Features:
- Fully enclosed fitted Bus Pirate case – your bus pirate is safe in your kit now!
- Plastic coated for high quality and general wear and tear
- LED status viewing window protecting the LED’s but still allowing you to see them
- Customisable outside surfaces for application of decals of usage information

Check out even more user created Bus Pirate cases.

Get a Bus Pirate v3b for $30, including worldwide shipping at Seeed Studio. Adafruit also has the Bus Pirate and probe cables in stock and ready to ship. Each Bus Pirate sold supports further development.

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Dummy loads and heat sinks

August 9, 2010 in DIY by Ian | 1 comment

We really enjoyed Dave’s video about a junk box constant current load. It can be used to test a number of things like battery capacity, heat sink characteristics.

Via Hackaday.

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Commodore 64 sound emulation with PIC32MX

June 28, 2010 in DIY, dev boards by Ian | 1 comment

A few days ago we asked about open source projects you’ve tailored to suit your own needs. Markus writes:

I don’t know if it counts, but my story is this: There is this PIC32MX open hardware board named CUI32 for which I managed to get some SID (Commodore 64 sound chip) emulation code to compile and run. The problem is, that the PIC32 used has “only” 32 kB RAM whereas the unmodified emulation code uses more than 64 kB RAM. To get it working for all SID tunes, I changed the design to use a PIC32 which has 128 kB RAM, and also made some improvements to the pin headers, USB connector placement on the top side, etc [4]. I am currently trying to get all the parts to build this improved version.

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DIY USB IR Toy clone

June 26, 2010 in DIY, Infrared toy, infrared by Ian | No comments

Here’s a DIY, potrable version of the USB IR Toy. It runs the same firmware and bootloader as the IR Toy, but has a few changes:

  • smaller than the original USB IR Toy
  • full integration in a tiny case
  • four IR LEDs for increased range
  • it can be powered with a 9V battery, making it independent of the computer

It’s always great to see a new take on a design. If you’ve ever updated an open source project for your own needs, we want to know.

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