I made a 5V, 5W buck derivative that is smaller than the flybuck design but uses the same input/output filter design for low noise/ripple applications. The inductor core is a Magnetics MPP C055048A2. with 38 turns of 24 AWG. Peak efficiency with...
Requirements Easily found when misplacedBig enough to hold easily but not too big that it's cumbersomeShould have a battery compartment so that unskilled personnel can replace batteries without having to open up the housingRoom enough for the necessary...
MIKBUG (Smithbug) has the following case-sensitive commands. ; V VIEW MEMORY; E CHANGE MEMORY; M MOVE MEMORY; I FILL MEMORY; F FIND ; D DISASSEMBLE CODE; & S1 LOAD PROGRAMME; G GO TO PROGRAM; J JUMP TO TARGET PROGRAM ; T TRACE PROGRAM; K CONTINUE...
FlexSEA-Plan is an embedded computer used for high-level computing. It boasts a powerful processor and can run an operating system such as Linux. Developing code on this platform is similar to the regular (i.e. non-embedded) software development process....
I've redesigned the way screens/apps are handled and introduced a main menu. More importantly, I have managed to get the average current consumption down to 350-550uA (1.5mA previously)! Turns out a huge chunk of it - 800uA, was a bug in the TWI (I2C)...
Before I began the layout of the DDL4-CPU, I came up with an initial Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) for the design. It went through several revisions as I was designing the boards and refined the components. Here at the last minute as I am...
So, working with the BME680 has left several odd impressions.1) The gas sensorNo idea what it is measuring, but it does measure something. For example, a Sharpie, immediately picked up. It reads in Ohms. Range seems to be around 10k...
When I set about this project the first thing I wanted to work out was what LED I was going to use, as this would drive the requirements of everything else in the project, driver, lens, heatsinking, etc. Due to personal preference I decided that I wanted...
I sent out the Headband Sensor Package Version 0.89 PCB's to OSH Park, Got three purple PCB's back, and they look great! The top and bottom of the boards look pretty good. I could have flipped the resistor silkscreen (the R1, R2 and R3),...
I did another test with the rev1 prototype, this time only measuring voltage, and bringing it all the way to the maximum voltage of 60V. Again I am doing calibration and comparison to my Fluke 101 Multimeter. This has a problem as the Fluke 101 does...
Looking at the registers I noticed something. the first 24 bytes look like they have data and the last 6 bytes look like they have data. This looks like what a WII peripheral in encrypted mode would look like. The fixed 8 byte pattern repeating every...
On my TI-89, one of the battery contacts on the PCB was heavily corroded and it took a good deal of time and heat to reflow solder to make a new pad. I did this to the V200 as a preventative measure too, but I guess I heated up the nearby fuse to where...
Improving mocks I have decided to use Rust for mocking libcmfwk and libshmem_manager, as it is the language I am most comfortable with. By creating accurate mocks for these libraries, I aim to resolve the issue where camctld hangs while trying to send...
Had to dig into the FPGA code for the SD card. Using Neal Crook's documentation of Grant Searle's version (longer pedigree on the page). The status register values are: // SD_Status bit values from Neal Crook's documentation of Grant's SD card // b7...