several PCBs custom made by the usual suspects from Shenzhen
resistors, pin-strip header, capacitors...
Project a):
A small breakout board, SMD and DIP (not shown), for a very affordable LED driver (MBI5168), that can easily be used with the 'shiftPWM' library. It's a bit late for Halloween, but might come in handy for other quick and dirty illumination jobs. Up to 100mA per channel is possible if you keep an eye on chip temperature.
Project b):
Add-on wing for the openbench logic sniffer by dangerousprototypes. As well known floating inputs pick up all sorts of noise, either from neighbouring channels or from thin air. This little board makes it very easy to select pull-up or pull-down resistors and choose from three pull-up voltages (2.5V, 3.3V and 5.0V). It is split into two banks, so you can work with common 5V signals and low(er) voltage ones at the same time. The individual resistors shown in the photos will be replaced with resistor networks once I've zeroed in on the correct values.
The eZ430-Chronos is a highly integrated, wireless development system based for the CC430 in a sports watch. It may be used as a reference platform for watch systems, a personal display for personal area networks, or as a wireless sensor node for remote data collection.
5 watt output 40 meter CW (morse code) ham radio transmitter board kit to mate up with my recent receiver kit. In parallel I'm working on a DDS module under a standalone arudino chip for frequency control of this project.
Attended "ARM Techcon" at the Santa Clara Convention center. (http://www.eetimes.com/armconference Free exhibits pass + vendor classes (I went to NXP sessions on their new M4+M0 chip, and their USB-in-rom library) + 1 free seminar (in my case "A Close Up View of the ARM Cortex-M Processor Family – Under the Hood Architecture..."; to get a better idea of the differences between CM0, CM3, and CM4 chips.) Scored an LPCExpresso Board for an M0 USB chip (LPC11U14) and an STM32F4-Discovery board. (so many chips, so little ... focus.) Found the panels and the exhibit floor conversations generally interesting and helpful. Missed the "Rasberry PI" booth; when I was there they were filming This Report preventing me from poking at it...
Also purchased from eBay 50 "Yellow LEDs pre-wired with resistors for 6V", with the idea that I'll be able to just plug them into Arduinos (and etc :-)) without having to dig up protoboards or resistors or whatever. I've got plenty of LEDs and resistors and protoboards and solder, but I guess I'm getting lazy in my old age. (I recently implemented digitalWriteFast() for chipKit, and found the idea of testing 44 to 85 outputs really daunting...)
westfw:
Attended "ARM Techcon" at the Santa Clara Convention center. .... Scored an LPCExpresso Board for an M0 USB chip (LPC11U14) and an STM32F4-Discovery board.
Cool, lots of great freebies.
The STM32F4-Discovery board is building up a lot of interest. Missed on free web give away with being on a different continent
I have all the lead I need, in the form of ammunition. For when ever the government thinks they want to take my gold and silver from me.
I thought the gold was all taken, taken to Fort Knox by order of one US president some 70ish years ago. I don't know if there's still gold in the fort or not
Intel i5 2500k processor
Asus P8P67 Deluxe motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaws 2x4Gb DDR3 1866 SDRAM
Crucial M4 256gb SATA 3 SSD
Corsair H80 Liquid CPU Cooler
This will replace my old Core 2 Duo hardware and finally unblock my dual Radeon HD 6850 video cards running 3 23" displays in Eyefinity 5760x1080 resolution. Hardware arrived yesterday. Looking forward to installing this weekend.
I have all the lead I need, in the form of ammunition. For when ever the government thinks they want to take my gold and silver from me.
I thought the gold was all taken, taken to Fort Knox by order of one US president some 70ish years ago. I don't know if there's still gold in the fort or not
Some PISO shift registers and wires terminated with JST connectors.
I'm finally gonna get all the buttons wired up on my synth, so I can actually start programming the interface. The software is going to be kind of modular, allowing for customizing modes of MIDI input (e.g. 4-note polyphony on one MIDI channel, or each voice on a different channel, or monophonic on one channel, but arpeggiating through all the current notes, or two voices in unison with different waveforms/transposition or combinations of these options) and varying modes of controlling parameters of the voices (e.g. linking settings for multiple voices, like if you wanted it to act like a polyphonic synth, or following a saved set of parameters, or following directly what knobs input)