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General discussion / Prefered USB connector?
Just my $0.02, but the mini is usually |slightly| more durable than the micro, certainly a consideration for products that often do not get a case that helps support the connector.
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Project logs / Free PCB Build - PICqueno32
I'll have to look at the old mbs that I have... I don't have SMD rework equipment, but I have a good history of getting by without it...
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Project logs / assembling code name Robert
Heh... I understand Alpha... Just not much point in fabbing 10 more boards with a known issue... Those i7s do put up some impressive numbers...
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Project logs / assembling code name Robert
That is gonna take a good long minute on a VM.  I assume we are talking about something roughly the size of a small openwrt image, etc... Takes about an hour to build on my Linux dev box, 2xOpteron 250s, 8 gig ram, etc... If the code can be placed in an svn repo, I could bang out a script that will svn up, build and post an image... I suppose we gotta get it working first;) but once it is working and we are trying to implement features, an autobuilder could be handy...  Have you been able to validate the layout enough yet? As soon as the layout is mostly frozen I'm gonna fab some additional boards and play along:)
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Project logs / Re: Free PCB Build - PICqueno32
Hmm... Might try to combine the best of both worlds and use the PICqueno32-DIP form factor and that USB bootloader... that looks very nice!
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Project logs / Re: Free PCB Build - PICqueno32
Future Changes:
I really like this little board, and I am looking forward to writing some code for it, but there are a few changes that I am going to implement in a future revision:

*Mini-USB-B is depreciated, will be replaced by Micro-USB-B.

*Personally I don't need Arduino shield compatability, so I likely will change headers to a standard spacing.  Might start tweaking from the DIP version that is in SVN.

*FT232 is an expensive chip, and is limiting.  If I can find my way through the maze that is obtaining a "mostly legal" USB VID/PID, I would love to replace the FT232 with the ATMEGA 8u2 or a similar PIC.  This would allow the device to enumerate as HID, or whatever someone wanted to write the code for.  Another thought is that there is a USB-enhanced version of the same PIC in the same package, although it would require a massive code effort to develop an open-source USB bootloader.
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Project logs / Free PCB Build - PICqueno32
Am I missing something, or is the 8Mhz crystral linked from the partslist in the HC-49 package, not actually in the HC-49 package?

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