Long time no post! Now that’s out of the way… As ever, I’m always on the search for cheap electronics and this board is nearly mind blowing given both the price and form factor you can get it in. Enter the Gnarly Grey UPDuino v2.0 based on a Lattice iCE40UP5K FPGA featuring: 120Kbits of BRAM […]
So as my favourite form of exam (or general) procrastination, I’ve been designing a new smartwatch! This one is based on the new STM32 range and will include a TSSOP (http://goo.gl/TAUKS8) microcontroller instead of a pesky QFP (http://goo.gl/ccKwXR), they’re not particularly different other than the TSSOP package doesn’t have pins on all 4 sides. I’ve […]
Wahoo! Today, to my utmost surprise, all the way from the eastern lands of Asia, my PCB’s arrived! Its been somewhat fast from PCB order to arrival (around 2 weeks, the standard time for an ITEAD order). I’m really happy though the silkscreen quality on the motherboard PCB’s seems to have deteriorated a bit. Regardless, […]
Me and my partner in design crime Richard have been quite heavily designing the Quadruped these past few days. After speaking to my tutor at university about funding, he brought up that I should mention the project in an LCF (Learning Committee Forum). Regardless, he said I should hopefully be able to get funding as […]
A couple of days back, a student in one of the years above me posted in our ShockSoc facebook group about an event that Thales (https://www.thalesgroup.com/) were running at my university. It involved a few tasks using an Arduino which I feel suited me greatly as I first learnt to program using an Arduino. After […]
Last year, I came across the Maple Mini microcontroller (http://goo.gl/G5579s) which is an ARM based arduino equivalent that came before the arduino due. It really helped me jump into the world of arm controllers and I think that its a really great little board! Unfortunately, they stopped support for windows quite a while back and […]
Yesterday, one of my lecturers was kind enough to give me an Intel Galileo Arduino styled board to test out and have a bit of a play with. I managed to get some of the standard Arduino functions working, analog read, PWM and GPIO toggling. At the moment, I’m not actually particularly impressed, using standard […]
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