Friday, February 26, 2016

The Great MSP430 Bootloader Swindle

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Bootloading Blues. The MSP430 is a great little micro, and with some proper marketing, it could easily have provided an alternative to th...
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Building WiNode 5 - Part 3

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Some five years have passed since the original WiNode design, and WiNode 5 - consider it to be the Anniversary Edition, has tried to ...

Building WiNode 5 - Part 2

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Pin Mapping WiNode 5 is the successor to earlier WiNodes that were based on the 28 pin DIL ATmega328.   The ATmega1284 offers significan...

Building WiNode 5 - Part 1

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Bare Board, 2 layer, 50mm x 50mm Two weeks ago, you may remember I finished the pcb layout for a new microcontroller board - WiNode 5...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Experimenting With New Devices - Part 2

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The '5969 Launch Pad  - an ideal experimenting platform for FRAM In this post I look at ways in which to get the most performance o...

Experimenting with New Devices - Part 1

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If you were to summarise the developments in microcontrollers over the last few years, you might suggest the movement to 32-bit, mainly thro...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Fignition Revisited

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The original WiNode 4.0 plus Evita video board  Recently I have been thinking again about simple 8-bit computer systems.  By simple, I...
Sunday, February 07, 2016

A Universal Microcontroller & FPGA Breakout Board mounted on WiNode 5

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Last November, I devised a new compact pcb footprint on a 50 x 50mm board, and I have started to create a number of boards based on thi...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

WiNode 5 Update

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Two weeks ago, I posted about an update to the WiNode, well here's that long awaited update - now that I have finished the pcb layout a...