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The Texas Instruments MSP430 Launchpad is pretty popular in hacks, likely due to its low price. TI has recently released a new C2000 Launchpad device that offers more power and peripherals for $17. This board uses the C2000 Piccolo processor, which is meant for DSP applications. Also included is an unrestricted version of the Code Composer Studio IDE and the controlSUITE software package. You … [Read more...]
Hey, it's the 43rd anniversary of men first walking on the moon. Here's some stuff we found to celebrate that. Fun trivia: for Apollo 11, [Neil] and [Buzz] didn't go more than 200 feet from the LEM. This is so incredibly sad Remember Heathkit? A lot of cool kit-based electronics came from them. They're out of business, but you can get all the Heathkit swag you can imagine from the repo … [Read more...]
Sometimes, an Arduino just doesn't have enough horsepower. Whether you're gathering loads of sensor data and sending it over the web via Ethernet, or just trying to build a home-brew video game, it's very easy to run into the limitations of the Arduino platform. [Rik] and his fellow classmates may have a solution to this problem with their SimpleCortex development board. The SimpleCortex began … [Read more...]
A few months back, [Phil] was looking to get into PIC development, but he couldn’t seem to find a simple development board for the PIC16F883 microcontroller he wanted to use. Since no retail offering had exactly what he was looking for, he decided to put together a dev board of his own. He spent a couple hours in Eagle, putting together a simple board layout. [Phil] then busted out the iron … [Read more...]
[jethomson] sent in a build he's been working on that turns an inexpensive AVR programmer into a development board. The build is based on the very affordable USBasp programmer that's based on an ATmega8. With hundreds of these boards available from China for less than a Hamilton, we're wondering how soon it will be before we see these boards end up in other projects. After fiddling with the AVR … [Read more...]
[BarsMonster] just challenged our conceptions of ARM development with his single-sided development board that's loaded with an STM32F100 (PDF warning) ARM microcontroller. The board is remarkably simple - just a regulator, resistor and a few caps are necessary to get a $1 ARM μC up and running. … [Read more...]
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