Now we couldn't very well let 500 hackers mess around with a bunch of open wires, so we needed to make a little enclosure for our control system. The simplest way to do this was to grab an off the shelf project enclosure from Radioshack.→InsertImageWe...
rev3 board, rerouted and moved components around to try to be closer to final design and clean up noise, split ground planes.Changed SPI's to use the hardware SPIs of the Cortex, they were all Software SPI before, adding all the names to the pins on...
It's wildfire season, but Fedex managed to get our boards from Malaysia to us in good time, unfortunately there was a cock up in the ordering department and they shipped to the billing address, we'd left there about 15 minutes before they showed up with...
After delays, e-test errors, shipping problems, wild fires and 6 revisions. These completely untested hopefully 4 layer PCBs have arrived. I'm probably just being paranoid but they sure look like 2 layer.Also Arrow decided that I didn't want overnight...
Uploaded video number 4 to Youtube, showing both SPI Multiplexing with a TI Bus Switch, and also implementing Asychronous SRAM (128K x 16). Next up, power supply!
Made some updates to the design over the weekend to add LEDs, a nice dipswitch, make the silkscreen cleaner, clean up the pad arrays a bit and a lot more in the way of little cosmetic PCB tweaks. Overall some very important tweaks but in the grand...
The first pass of this board was built with the Due in mind (3V3) and other development boards that I had sitting around, almost all of which *other* than Arduino were 3.3V. In planning the evolution of this however, it quickly made...
Whew! Last round of mods were huge because as you come to find out quickly, anytime you add a level translator to a board - much less two & much less 10 channels each - you end up having to reroute most of the PCB layout. And as though that wasn't enough,...
Sooo.... I've been entertaining some new projects due to some recent test cases and I've determined it would be just as easy to update this beast of a project. Current update list:Change the LED type to the WS2812 that we love to use so...
With the influx of great projects on this site, we're going to step back once in a while to show off whats new, and highlight some of the neat stuff going on around the site. For this installment we start off with the Sci-Fi Contest, move on to some...
The Hackaday Prize is heating up! When we set up the prize, we expected to see some incredible entries, and you guys haven’t let us down. Projects like SatNOGS, which aims to create a global network of satellite ground stations, or OpenMV, a low-cost...
HackerspacesDid you know that Hackaday.io has a hackerspace index? That’s right, you can enter your local hackerspace’s info, pictures, videos, and social media links. Members and crew can link their hackaday.io profiles and drop comments about their...
This week’s Hacklet is all about Hackaday.io projects which use MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface for the uninitiated. MIDI was designed from the ground up as an open communications standard for musical instruments. Nearly every major instrument...
We preempt this week’s Hacklet to bring you an important announcement.Hackaday.io got some major upgrades this week. Have you checked out The Feed lately? The Feed has been tweaked, tuned, and optimized, to show you activity on your projects, and from...
This week on The Hacklet we're featuring some of the best keyboard hacks from Hackaday.io!Hackers are really into their keyboards. Everyone has a favorite, and those favorites vary wildly. Mechanical, soft touch, ergonomic, QWERTY, DVORAK, chorded, you...