Month: October 2017

Friday Hack Chat: Jason Kridner of BeagleBoard.org

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This Friday: Jason Kridner of the BeagleBoard.org Foundation will joining Hackaday’s weekly Hack Chat to talk BeagleBone, PocketBeagle, the BeagleBoard.org community and more!

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Friday Hack Chat: The Incredible BeagleBoard

Topics for this Hack Chat will include the direction BeagleBoard is going, the communities involved with BeagleBoard, and how to get the most out of those precious programmable real-time units. As always, we’re taking questions from the community, submit them here.

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As an extra special bonus, this week we’re giving away some hardware. Digi-Key has offered up a few PocketBeagle boards. If you have an idea for a project, put it on the discussion sheet and we’ll pick the coolest project and send someone a PocketBeagle.

Friday Hack Chat: Jason Kridner of BeagleBoard.org

Get Hands-On at Hackaday Supercon

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Build something cool and pick up new skills from the workshops at the Hackaday Superconference. Last week we announced all of the talks you’ll find at Supercon, and starting today you can reserve your spot at one of the workshops. You must have a Superconference ticket in order to purchase a workshop ticket; buy one right now…

via Get Hands-On at Supercon: Workshop Tickets Now Available — Hackaday

Get Hands-On at Hackaday Supercon

Open Source Hardware Licensing

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Michael Weinberg of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) published this blog post for the 2017 Open Hardware Summit last week in Denver:

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Open Source Hardware Licensing

Open source hardware isn’t that easy. It is actually a mix of a bunch of different elements covered by a bunch of different types of IP.  That means that you are probably going to need to pick a few types of licenses for a few different parts of your hardware.

OSHWA is working on building a tool to make this easier to figure out, but in the meantime I wanted to throw up a quick post setting up a bit of a framework.  This framework is largely based on the work that Ryan Lawson and Adam Alperowicz did as students at the NYU Technology Law and Policy Clinic, although all errors are entirely mine.

The videos from ORConf 2017 are now online including this talk about hardware licensing:

Open Source Hardware Licensing

LAMEBOY is Handheld Gaming on the ESP8266

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We’ve had our eye on [davedarko’s] LAMEBOY project for a while now, a handheld setup in roughly the same form factor as the classic Nintendo Game Boy. It’s remarkable how approachable portable electronic design has become, and that’s really what makes this interesting. The design is beautiful, and the closer you look, the more respect…

via LAMEBOY is Handheld Gaming on the ESP8266 — Hackaday

LAMEBOY is Handheld Gaming on the ESP8266

DIY Microwave Transmitter

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From Pero on hackaday.io:

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Microwave Transmitter

30 – 6000 MHz synthesizer with power amplifier

https://hackaday.io/project/20350-microwave-transmitter
https://hackaday.io/project/20350-microwave-transmitter
https://hackaday.io/project/20350-microwave-transmitter
For a long time I wanted to crown my work in RFwith a self made synthesizer. I have picked Henrik Forsten’s home made VNA design with MAX2871 as a reference, modified the schematics and routed to my needs. I use Teensy 3.2 for all digital control.
 https://hackaday.io/project/20350-microwave-transmitter
 https://hackaday.io/project/20350-microwave-transmitter
GitHub repo:

PeraZver/Microwave-Transmitter

30 – 6000 MHz 10 dBm Transmitter based on MAX2871 synthesizer. Controlled by Teensy 3.2.

DIY Microwave Transmitter