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 the mail for two designs (Seeed’s free shipping generally takes 2-3 weeks to reach me).
The first design is an updated BasicUART. These are the kinds of boards everyone needs. Basically it keeps the Ardunio friendly pinout of Sparkfun’s FTDI Basic but adds the ability to set the supply and working voltages independently. Because the internal LDO on the FT232RL isn’t really designed to supply a lot of power it uses 5V as the default rail voltage and 3.3 V for signaling (which is compatible with 5V levels anyway). If you need a small amount of 3.3V power you can set it.
The second design is an I2S (yes S) DAC board based on WM8740. This is a long delayed board for doing openHiFi.
The first batch of MSPism boards are actually assembled and finished on my workbench. However I still haven’t had time to do a polished rewrite of the firmware for that board.
Following the MSPism firmware is completing the BluePanel Andorid application and releasing the source code.
I have a couple of designs cued up to submit for a new PCB order (after I verify the new BasicUART design the new PCB order will probably go out).
I also have been working on a Java program for managing part inventories and optimizing running costs. I will be releasing more details and opening the source when it gets to a complete enough level to be useable.
I have been made aware by a user that StellarisWare’s directory structure has changed making the make files in the examples I provide incompatible with the newest version. Therefore I will try to update the guides and examples this weekend.