PiDrive – 314GB hard disk for the Raspberry Pi
Western Digital have launched the WD PiDrive, a hard disk specially designed for the Raspberry Pi with a storage space of 314 GB. The engineers have modified the magnetic recording system and electronics to suit the characteristics of the RPi, and reduced the current...
Continue ReadingESP8266 + I2S = Software-based 10-Base-T Ethernet Driver
cnlohr @ github.com wanted to have an Ethernet interface for ESP8266 so he build one. more details on hackaday. This is a relatively unreliable and coincidentally functional ESP8266 Ethernet driver. It only uses two pins on the ESP, the I2S pins, but does provide Ethernet. It does...
Continue ReadingWiGPSFi – ESP8266 + GPS module
euerdesign.de has connected the ESP8266 to an GPS and a SD-Card to scan networks – coded a MySQL-DB with some PHP parsers and dynamic maps – and get fascinated by all the 2,4 GHz radiation arround him. In this blogpost, you can only read about finding and printing out maps with...
Continue ReadingLoRaONE: the LoRa® IoT development board
LoRaONE is a new board to help you develop IoT applications fast and with ease. It's an Arduino compatible board packed with features and sensors, making it the ideal solution for makers and creators that can’t wait to make the Internet of Things a reality. It is easy to program,...
Continue ReadingTroubleshooting I2C for Arduino and nRF51822
bitknitting.wordpress.com documented his efforts to transmit data over the I2C interface and analyze traffic using a USB login analyzer. The goal of this post is to transmit data over the I2C interface. Confirmation that the data was transferred will be output of the SDA/SCL lines...
Continue ReadingSparkFun Electronics Eagle Libraries
Sparkfun has their own Eagle libraries available on github.com. This is a great resource for new board designs. They also have a guide on how to install the libraries and how to create custom footprints. This is the complete SparkFun Electronics default foot prints for Eagle 6.0+. We...
Continue ReadingMikron 1663RU1 – 16 Mibit SRAM Die-Shot
Here is a die-shot, this time it’s a 1663RU1 from Russia’s Mikron semiconductor manufacturer. At the time of its release this was Russia’s first 90nm chip (by comparison 14nm is now available). Mikron is currently the most advanced microelectronic fab in Russia, located in...
Continue ReadingFluke PM6608B Frequency Counter 10MHz OCXO Reference Upgrade Module
Fluke PM6608B Frequency Counter 10MHz OCXO Reference Upgrade Module -...
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