The chat functionality on Hackaday.io is quickly turning into the nexus of all things awesome. This Tuesday, February 28th, everyone’s favorite robotic dog is talking certifications. Everything from FCC to UL to OSH to CE and the other CE is on the table. If you want to build hardware, and especially if you want to…
From the Pluxx’s Magitech Golem Parts Emporium blog:
This is a breakout board for the Intersil ISL12022M real-time clock, with optional I²C pull-ups and a CR1225 backup battery. The circuit is based on the design recommended by Intersil, with a few tweaks. It’s the second board I’ve designed so far.
golemparts has shared the project on OSH Park:
Brian Solon designed this compact board to add an Adafruit 2.2″ TFT LCD display to the Raspberry Pi Zero:
The design files are available on GitHub:
pi-zero-tft-adapter
Elliot Williams writes on Hackaday:
[Max K] has been testing the battery life of his self-designed watch under real-world conditions. Six months later, the nominally 3 V, 160 mAh CR2025 cell is reading 2.85 V, so the end is near, but that’s quite a feat for a home-engineered smart watch
chmod775 designed this compact, standalone board to be programmed with a simple visual language:
Focus born with the purpose of making a prototype board that simplify every aspect of programming.
Spent the last hour writing down the main concept of the Visual Programming Language for the Focus! It’s just a simple sketch, but I wanted to share it with you the main reason why I’m building it.
From the Intelligent Toasters blog:
I’ve been working on, replacing the NAND raw flash with an eMMC chip on the CPC2.0 board.
I wrote about raw flash and the challenges of writing a flash translation later in part 16 of this series. After some research, I concluded that the eMMC interface looked exactly like the much more common SDCard interface, albeit that the interface can be run with an 8-bit width. SDCards are limited to 4 bits by the physical pin count. Taking a gamble I created a board to test this new eMMC chip. I created a fake SDCard!
This fake card allowed me to check very quickly if my assumptions were correct both at a hardware and a firmware level. I wanted to be sure that it was possible to interface the eMMC via 4 bits, rather than the full 8 bits and be sure the firmware instructions were the same between these two technologies.
Intelligent-Toasters has shared the board on OSH Park:
Clovis Fritzen designed this Arduino-compatible, vertically-mountable board that exclusively uses through-hole components:
I personally love the concept of electronic boards connected in “slots” (vertically attached to a horizontal board), like most industrial-grade PLC’s or even our desktop’s expansion cards (video, sound memory): it saves a lot of space and adds more functions to the system, all at once!
The PCB is for sale on Tindie:
Vertically mountable Arduino – PCB only
This is an Arduno-Nano compatible controller that can be vertically mounted to bredboards and boards
Dan Hienzsch a holiday project to build a little Snowbot with an adjustable speed larson scanner for an eye:
When I started thinking of this project, I wanted to make something that included a bit of the basics and something more advanced. It had to be battery powered, and most importantly, I wanted to make sure it went against the grain of everything needing a microcontroller. Thus Snowbot was born.
Photos from the Hackaday.io project:
RheingoldHeavy has shared the board on OSH Park:
Ted Yapo is designing a display for his LED Oscilloscope Mk. II and decided to automate the process:
I painstakingly drew the schematic for 512 LEDs in this display, then endured the drudgery of laying out the board. The whole process took about 45 seconds. Yes, I wrote a few Eagle User Language Programs (ULPs) (elapsed time after the scripts were written and debugged). The previous time I wrote one was last century to lay out a circular LED clock face. I figured it was about time I regained those skills.
The EAGLE ULPs are on GitHub:
Eagle scripts for LED matrix display generation
UPDATE: Check out the new version with pull-up resistors
I designed this simple breakout board in KiCad to make it easier to put a rotary encoder on a breadboard. The KiCad symbol and footprint for the SparkFun rotary encoder was created by mcous on GitHub. I used an updated version with corrected pin numbering.
Here are the rotary encoders that I’ve verified to fit:
The design files are available on GitHub:
pdp7/rotary-encoder-breakoutThe board is shared on OSH Park:
OSH Park 