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Free Friday: BasicUART
This week’s free item is a fully assembled BasicUART. We would give away the PCB but we made all of them into functional devices! The current design is due for revision as well and we never bothered...
View ArticleNext Version of BasicUART: FT232RL?
We would love to hear any thoughts on FT232RL vs MCP2000. We selected MCP2200 for revision 1 because it was less expensive and available in a less fine pitch package (less rework). However if you build...
View ArticleMaker Faire Preview
For those of you who can’t make the Maker Faire or just want to know what we will have here is a video of our main demo: The Demo is based on Alpha quality MSPism boards as the slave nodes, Cygni as...
View ArticleA general update
Things are not as idle as they may seem. I know most of the posts recently have been about Free Fridays, but there are some things cooking. Here is a brief summary of what is in the pipe. Boards are in...
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Free Friday: Untested edition
As noted yesterday PCBs were in the mail, today they arrived. So this week we are giving away the new (and not yet tested) design of BasicUART. This design is based on FT232RL. I will have time to put...
View ArticlePCB builds
Among the PCBs I got back was a version of BasicUART V2 that uses FT232RL in place of MCP2200. The previous version of this design had a problem with a zone not connecting to a GND pin, which caused it...
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