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General discussion / Re: ITead Studio issues?
Thanks for the info arup. As Murphy would have it, my boards shipped today! Thats what I get for whining on a forum I guess.

So yeah, that makes 9-10 days from order. That's higher than their quoted 4-6 days, but that's ok at this price. :)
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General discussion / Re: ITead Studio issues?
And yes, I have been emailing ITead every couple of days and the only information I'm getting back is to "please wait, they will ship soon." :|
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General discussion / Re: ITead Studio issues?
I didn't think it would be taboo to talk about ITead here, mainly because Itead and Seeed offer similar PCB services...I figured that someone from this community probably had used ITead before. I'm not asking Ian or DP directly, just asking any independent people if they know anything.

Also, as far as I know, ITead and Seeed use the same factory for production...please correct me if I'm wrong.
I figured if there was a factory issue, someone here might know more info.

I don't know how you say ITead and Seeed are overpriced? I'm not ordering parts, I'm ordering PCBs. Can't get those from Digikey.
I did order my parts from Digikey and they are sitting waiting to be placed on some fresh PCBs! :)

I could have used Seeed for the boards, but I wanted black soldermask, which Seeed doesn't offer. If Seed started offering black soldermask, I would switch to them immediately!
I could use Dorkbot PDX for boards, but I don't like the purple soldermask.

I'm still considering sending my files over to Seeed, but like I said, if its a factory issue, then I will still be facing unknown delays.
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General discussion / ITead Studio issues?
Hey all,

I placed and order and sent my files over April 6th, it was submitted to the factory April 7th and they have not shipped it yet. Just wondering if this usually happens or if anyone else has run into a similar issue? Is there a holiday going on?

Everything else I've read usually has them shipping the boards within a week. :(
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Project development, ideas, and suggestions / Apple Magsafe hacking
Hi all,

I've got a busted macbook pro that i'm going to salvage the magsafe connector off of. I'd like to re-use the connector for a different project.


Pins 1 and 5: GND
Pins 2 and 4: V+
Pin 3: Charge Control

There is a bi-color (red/green) LED on the connector end that indicates charge status (red Charging/green Full), I'm guessing this is a signal that comes from some battery managment IC on the motherboard. I haven't done any inspection on the motherboard yet - I'm hoping someone here might know what kind of signal needs to be fed into that pin to regulate charge control.

Thanks

EDIT -
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The tiny center pin is a Charge Control pin that assists with changing the LED color, and also assists with switching the adapter off. No power will be outputted from any of the other ports until contact is made with the center Charge Control pin. This pin is also used to transfer additional Information like the powertype and serialnumber of the powersupply.

Interesting...OK, so which battery managment IC can do data over a single wire? Maxim...TI? *goes to look*
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Transmit success with Microsoft XBOX 360 remote config?
OOooof, sorry for the delayed response. Haven't checked this forum lately.

I would share my config, but it has been blasted away. What I do remember though, is that when I recorded my config, it was missing data. Crap, this is such a useless post. :p

My config was the most similar to this one: http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/microsoft/Xbox360

Can you try recording it yourself and comparing the data? I will try to get another working config for you shortly.
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: "No such file or directory" message
werd, i grabbed the software myself. the IR Toy shows up in /dev as

cu.usbmodem00000001

for me. but when i run the App, go to Preferences panel and put "/dev/cu.usbmodem0000001", it says no file or directory.

i thought i would be able to help but it looks like i'm coming up short here. :|
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Transmit success with Microsoft XBOX 360 remote config?
I looked into it a bit and i think LIRC should support the toggle bit stuff. It checks for a toggle bit when recording the remote configuration file.

I decided to give it another go and recorded a fresh remote config file and it seems to work totally OK now...not sure wtf.

im thinking its something with the config file generation..or something. who knows. :D

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