Hardware

Complete redesign and new address in progress... (ASkr, 8/2009)

Hey, where is all the old stuff?

Due to a complete redesign, as of 6-X/2009, I had to remove most of it.
Just a few, randomly selected projects, so far...
ASkr 6/2009 - 11/2011

chipKIT-Max32-Shield Just a bare shield for Digilents chipKIT-Max32.
MetalEars Headphone amplifier #19, with the right, brutal punch towards the low end. A real metal edition ;)
nMeas(1/f) A modular kit of hard- and software for noise measurements. We'll start off with the "1/f noise edition".
UniTHAmp It was time for a new, universal lab-fun-amp.
Standard design - incredible diversity...
xPIClog A simple, but quite versatile and highly configurable 8 channel SD-card data logger. Powered by a PIC18 and SourceBoost.
MicroPropUnit MicroPropUnit, just a tiny, standard component Propeller board.
LTCsourcerer LTCsourcerer, the Little Tiny Current source for automated uA measurements.
GrabschKamView GrabschKamView(Debugger); An analog black and white camera (PAL) capture and variable display helper.
ExcoLight Color The exceptionally complicated (and colored) light. A four channel, bus capable LED buck regulator. Color version.
ExcoLight Basic The exceptionally complicated light. A bus capable LED buck regulator. Basic version.
IThreeC Another updated variant of a galvanic isolation for an I2C bus. Also known as a "Inter-Integrated-Isolated Circuit" (I3C ;-)
Promp3ller Oh no! Yet another VS1011e based MP3 and WAV player... Yes, may be. But this one has a Propeller ;) (and soon an ethernet, a Zigbee, a remote control with display and, and, and...) Guess why these pages are called "unfinished" 8)
FX2LPMini Just a Cypress USB CY7C68013A MCU (aka "FX2LP") mini breakout board. Reconstruction of the 2005 V1.0 design.
MiniFTDI
(a bad week)
Just a quickie. FTDI USB<->CMOS-RS232 converter with Propeller reset. Nothing special, except for all the other stuff that happened...
MiniMess A tiny, serial, bus-compatible and cascadable measurement interface featuring a 10-bit A/D (autoranging) and an additional D/A converter. Targeted for operation by pocket calculators (HP-48/50) or old Sharp pocket computers.
H-Bridges Some H-bridges for DC, stepping and servo motors (and more).
photo frame "hacks" DFPs, digital photo frames, provide a cheap LCD/TFT source for your own hardware. Batteries included ;-)
STM32Mini A minimal, ready to run ARM Cortex-M3 STM32 board.
JTAG Scanner
(UniPort)
An update of an older circuit: An universal port interface. Can be used as an universal, bidirectional (bus) interface. Modularized version, up to 48 pins. Also useful for digging deeper into others people hardware ;-)
LPC0k9PROG
(NXT2NXP)
A Lego NXT based programming tool for LPC900 ICP.
pbLua featured!
Encoder A Minimal, cheap and reliable quadrature encoder.
LiPoPlu Lithium Polymere Plus. A step up regulator to power DLG/SAL-type model-planes from a single lipo cell. Futaba 2.4GHz does not like voltages below 3.6V...
(Fast) Current Sink A quick and dirty but still precise current sink up to 6A (150W limit) that operates down to ~0.5V, so it is suitable for discharging NiMH/NiCd cells, too.
ServoBus 2 wire powered servo bus. This brings the "drivers" to where they belong: The servos themselves. Minimizes cabling complexity.
I2C Servo A minimal, 6 channel, I2C controlled servo controller.
AUAA2 Akki's Universal Analog Adaptor V2. Connect your PS2 analog controller to your PC. Full featured, and even more...
Wii IR sensor How to interface the Wii IR sensor (I2C).
MonoAmp A little, single supply powered audio power amplifier.
StepBlaster A tiny 20A stepper motor driver stage (if cabled right ;)
FoTim (PhoTim) A simple, 2ch, digital light timer built for darkroom photo development.
PICprom A minimal parallel port PIC programmer.
TransAmp A case study on DC offset mechanisms for a transimpedance headphone amplifier.