Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams navigate the crowded streets of the hackersphere for the most interesting hardware projects seen in the past week. Forget flip-dot displays, you need to build yourself a sequin display that uses a robot finger and sequin-covered fabric to send a message. You can do a lot (and learn a lot) with a 1-bit computer called the WDR-1. It’s never been easier to turn a USB port into an embedded systems dev kit by using these FTDI and Bluepill tricks. And there’s a Soyuz hardware teardown you don’t want to miss.
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
Take a look at the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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Episode 053 Show Notes:
New This Week:
- Flashing Light Prize and Sprite’s entry video
- Hackaday Belgrade conference is May 9th
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Unique Clock Finally Unites Hackers And Sequins
- About H-bots: Hackaday’s Own Josh Vasquez breaks it down.
- What Everyone Else Did With Eight Bits, The Germans Did With Only One
- Hoverboard Grows Up, Becomes Magnetic Drill Press
- The Cult Of Really Low-Power Circuits: Scrounging, Sipping, And Seeing Power
- Soviet Soyuz Clock Teardown
- Slice Through Your Problems With A Shukran
- GitHub – jeanthom/DirtyJTAG: JTAG adapter firmware for STM32F1
- UrJTAG – Universal JTAG library, server and tools
- GitHub – zoobab/versaloon: JTAG Versaloon firmware for the STM32 Bluepill board
- GitHub – satoshinm/pill_serial: Triple USB-to-serial adapter firmware for flashing onto an STM32F103C8T6 “blue pill” minimum development board ⛺
- GitHub – ivpri/mecrisp_pillserial: Two/three USB-to-serial bridges with build in Forth for STM32F103
Quick Hacks:
- Mike’s Picks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
I was kinda shocked you hadn’t heard of the MC14500 before, as it’s hardly an unknown device.
Although this document is extremely old now (last update 2003!), the “Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present” FAQ is still worth a read:
http://www.cpushack.com/CPU/cpu.html
I picked this nickname back in 1994 when I needed login for mIRC:
http://www.zoobab.com/whois-zoobab
Dirtyjtag came from the frustration of not having versaloon firmware not working.
There is also another japanese firmware named armblaster, I finally got an STBee board from a friend in Japan, it needs to be adapted to the bluepill, and it supports OpenOCD as well:
https://github.com/zoobab/armblaster
What is also needed is to modify OpenOCD so use libgpiod since linux v4.8, right night it only supports the Rpi gpios.
Amazing how those old screen names stick with you ;-)