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Messages - Thorontir

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General discussion / Re: More ITead Mystery PCBs
Hey guys!

 I have recently made a board with ITead, and received 2 open source boards. One of them seams clear to me, but the other one I only have a general idea.

Here are the boards:
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Second board
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I will post info about my own board as soon as I assemble one and test it. By the way, it's a test board for cheap nokia displays (I wanted to try since I readed viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3486 ) and also a FTDI chip connected to  a PIC18. Can be used just to bring display pins to a header, with the pic as "standalone" and with the usb (routed from FTDI to the PIC, but with pins availabe for use without the PIC... I don't know if I am being clear enough).

As I said, I will post info, but here are pictures of it too...

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Project development, ideas, and suggestions / Re: Idea for FPGA trainer "deluxe"
[quote author="bearmos"]I think you'll certainly find some takers if you follow this through - the bora platform is really promising because of the support that's being promised with it (akin to Arduino's plethora of ready-made libs/shields).  Unfortunately, this level of supporting code/docs is also what takes up the most amount of time.[/quote]

I think that is the key. I've never used CPLD's or FPGA's (In fact, almost always use 8bit microcontrollers, and few times PIC32), but thought about buying a Bora board because of the info promised (So you have not only the hard but the "lessons" needed to start using these).

If the FPGA board had that kind of added value, I will be in for sure.
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Bus Pirate Support / Re: BusPirate 4v2 - Sick of Beige
I am going to buy the parts at Farnell (For this and for some other projects, it's going to be a big list...), does anyone has done a cart list for farnell with the BOM of BPv4?
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Web platform / Re: Microchip's SMTPDemo ??
That's the one I was talking: It worked, at least in previous versions.

You just need to be sure the function is called in your main function. And trigger the email sending, with a button in the demo (I changed that to a variable when I was trying it in order to send a mail every XX seconds). Anyway, you just need to be sure that the function is called in your main loop, and that the conditions for sending the mail are present. It works out of the box (Or at least, as I said, used to work...)

You can paste the code in the message, using the "code" tags:
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[code]code that you want to show[/code]
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Web platform / Re: Microchip's SMTPDemo ??
If I remember correctly, at least in Europe you had to purchase (At a ridiculous price, since it is something that was intended to be free) SSL libraries. Something to do with importing some kinds of cryptographic tecnology.

The demo was very simple (I made it work some years ago, with a PIC18). Just take another look at config (Server, username, password...)

And I think that in TCPCongig.h you need to add a global flag for SSL (Not just SSL for SMTP, I mean "general SSL client libraries").

Sorry for not being more specific, as I said, made it work a lot of time ago, and discarded it... So I remeber very few.

Hope it helps.
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Project logs / Re: HAKKO (907ESD) and SOLOMON (SL-10/30) soldering iron dri
Must be some problem on them: tried the DP version gerbers and again same error, but with the eagle file there was no problem.

Seems that I would have to start with eagle... I used Proteus when I was in University, and later in work some crappy 15 year old software, but recently I was triying to get used to KiCAD, but seems that eagle is the most widely used program with this companies...
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Project logs / Re: HAKKO (907ESD) and SOLOMON (SL-10/30) soldering iron dri
[quote author="arhi"]you got gerbers for mine mixed smd and trough hole version? (I think you better use the DP's trough hole version, it is routed nicer :D )

On mine gerbers ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/arhimed-sid/files/ ) all layers have board outline, look at them with gerbv, I just checked it and the outline is there (on every layer)[/quote]

If I have understood it correctly, seems that oshpark expects board outline to be in a separate file. That seems to be the problem.

I will look at DP version, but seemed to me that the firmware was not the same, and was not ready (My fault, readed when I should have been sleeping for hours...)

Thanks again!
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Project logs / Re: HAKKO (907ESD) and SOLOMON (SL-10/30) soldering iron dri
Another question, sorry for the inconvenience ;)

I downloaded gerbers from Sourceforge, but oshpark complains about the files. I changed the names to fit the "rules" at that site, but seems that board outline is missing... Anyone has gerbers for that site? If not, where are the proteus files? I do not seem that, just pdfs and the gerbers that do not work with oshpark...

 Thanks again guys!
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Project logs / Re: HAKKO (907ESD) and SOLOMON (SL-10/30) soldering iron dri
[quote author="pjkim"]N.B., there are two different types of five pin DIN connectors. One with the pins spread out over 180 deg and another spread out over 240 deg. You need the 240 deg one. Another thing to watch out for is that the threaded shroud on the male connector can interfere with the body of the female connector. Just pry off the threaded shroud-- the DIN5 connector fits rather securely and will stay connected unless you pull it out.[/quote]

Thank you very much pjkim! Unfortunately for you, I have more questions ;)

Will look carefully when I order the connectors. That said, Is there a BOM for the board and/or for the elements that are "out of the board" (buttons/encoder, DIN connector, that kind of things).

And for the PCB, the CAD/CAM files in sourceforge are correct? I was thinking to send it to http://oshpark.com/ since people seem to talk very well about them...
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Project logs / Re: HAKKO (907ESD) and SOLOMON (SL-10/30) soldering iron dri
I have just bought this soldering iron: http://www.ebay.com/itm/936-Soldering-S ... 2a1f90a9c4 (wich is the correct one for this SID, isn't it?)

Connector on the soldering iron seems to be DIN type, but there is no connector of this kind in the board, I suppose you just pick one for the case and wire that to the board, but I do not see any BOM where the connector is listed. Can anyone enlighten me?

There is more info than at sourceforge, or that is the last revision?

Thanks in advance!
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Bus Pirate Support / Re: BusPirate 4v2 - Sick of Beige
Schazamp, I have no trouble paying $5 for board. Still a big favour for me. Cutting all those boards, well, it's a hell of work, at least for me. I did something similar, cutting the boards with a Dremel, and being way less boards and I ended... well, I have no idea of how to say it in english, but it is not pretty ;) So, as I said, have no trouble with it, just put the price you think it's ok.

 I understand if other folks think different, but as I said, that seems reasonable for me.

 (Also I was unaware of the comments in the blog until now. Going now)

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