The 1bitsy and Black Magic Probe are now available in our store:
Open-Source Miniature Breadboard Friendly ARM Cortex-M4F Dev Board with 1MB Flash, 196kB RAM, 168MHz, floating point and more.
Plug and Play JTAG/SWD USB programmer and debugger with a built in GDB server and TTL level UART to USB adapter.
Radomir Dopieralski has created handheld game console programmable with (Micro/Circuit)Python:
A small game console directly programmable in Python. I always wanted to make this, and after my work on #PewPew FeatherWing I finally decided that I’m ready.
The first version may be a bit of a stretch — I tried to make it as small as possible, fitting in the 5x5cm limit of PCB manufacturers, so that it will be cheap to make the PCBs. Using the cheap ST7735 TFT display, and a cheap ATSAMD21E chip. I also tried to put all the components on one side of the board, but failed with that — the power and reset switch had to go on the back, as well as the buzzer.
Assembly instructions on Mike Rankin’s blog:
Design files and source are available on GitHub:
This Sensor Board is yet another variation of another one on my site. It is not for sale with no real purpose in mind but the design files to make your own are here. The project was created as design challenge. My full time job is pcb design work and as a hobby I enjoy experimenting with new design ideas.
This was one of the more challenging designs I’ve worked on in a while. A few times I’d given up on routing it. Evan using four routing layers I found it tough. The idea was to hide the bezel of the display behind the board but have sensor components on that same board. It would look something like a little tiny television with all the components around the edges.
This latest revision has fixed a few issues I found on previous versions but the design idea can possibly help others in some way. Full credit goes to Adafruit for publishing the Feather M0 design files along with the bootloader. I used the Feather design to create the schematic for my board.
AlienWhoop flight controller for Tiny Whoop, Blade Inductrix, Eachine, BetaFPV, and other micro brushed quadcopter frames. Fully complete and hand assembled in the USA. Best in class flight controller running BetaFlight 3.2 release candidate (upgradable)–no surface mount soldering required.
Kris Winer designed this is a small 4-layer PCB for remote logging of absolute position and orientation:
STM32L433-based board with CAM M8Q concurrent GNSS, EM7180 + MPU9250 + MS5637 for absolute orientation, and an ESP8285 for wifi connectivity.
The absolute orientation engine uses the MPU9250 accel/gyro/magnetometer IMU sensor plus the MS5637 barometer as slaves to an EM7180 motion co-processor that sends quaternions and drift-stabilized altitude to the host via I2C.
PeskyProducts has shared the board on OSH Park:
From Kris Winer on Hackaday.io:
Small, connected device for smelling and hearing in any environment.
This is a 20 mm x 20 mm four-layer pcb tile full of interesting sensors (ICS43434 I2S Digital Microphone, MPU6500 acclerometer/gyro, BME280 pressure/temperature/humidity, and CCS811 air quality) with a Rigado BMD-350 UART BLE bridge for sending data to a smart phone all managed by a STM32L432 host MCU.
The STM32L432 is programmed using the Arduino IDE via the USB connector and serial data can be displayed on the serial monitor to verify performance and proper function, etc. But it is intended to be powered by a small 150 mAH LiPo battery for wireless sensing applications. The STM32L4 is a very low power MCU and with proper sensor and radio management it is possible to get the average power usage down to the ~100uA level, meaning a 150 mAH LiPo battery can run the device for two months on a charge.
A library for it is available on GitHub:
A collection of sketches to run the STM32L432-based (20 mm x 20 mm) sensor tile with an MPU6500 accel/gyro, ICS43434 I2S digital microphone, BME280 temperature/pressure/humidity sensor, and CCS811 air quality sensor. The sensor tile has an on-board MAX1555 LiPo battery charger, an on/off switch, and a Rigado BMD-350 nRF52 BLE module.
1Bitsy 1UP is a retro inspired handheld game console, the design is based on the 1Bitsy STM32F415RGT6 ARM Cortex-M4F 168MHz 192kb RAM and 1MB Flash micro controller. 2.8″ TFT with capacitive touch, SDCard Reader and a few other components.
The display used is a TFT LCD with I2C CapTouch and ILI9341 driver. (should be compatible with the display sold by Adafruit on their breakouts as well as the buydisplay.com 2.8″ tft with CapTouch sensor)
The most basic design consists of:
- 1Bitsy STM32F415RGT6 (168MHz, 192kb RAM, 1MB Flash)
- 240×320 2.8″ TFT with capacitive touch and PWM backlight control
- D-Pad, ABXY, Start, Select buttons
- DAC audio out to headphones. (speakers optional)
- SDCard connected over SDIO interface
The hardware design files and firmware source code are available on GitHub:
1bitsy/1bitsy-1upBlecky’s latest project on Hackaday.io is an EEPROM/Flash emulator with a fun name:
This repository contains configurations for all the currently supported EEPROM and Flash chips for the EEEmu SPI:
EEEmu/Supported-Devices
Paul Stoffregen posted an update in his Teensy Audio Library on Hackaday.io:
Some projects need a lot of audio I/O. Maybe you’re doing positional audio sound effects (using the 8-tap delay effect) where ordinary stereo or even 5 channel “surround” isn’t enough? Maybe you’re making the ultimate Eurorack synthesizer module? Or you just want a lot of signals, because you can!
Here’s a board for the Cirrus Logic CS42448 chip, which provides 6 inputs and 8 outputs. All are high quality audio, and all work simultaneously.
PaulStoffregen has shared the board on OSH Park:
Shared project from Teensy creator Paul Stoffregen on OSH Park:
A known good reference board for testing the MKL04 chip when building a DIY Teensy 3.6. Refer to this table for the differences between Teensy 3.6 and other models. The soldering friendly LQFP package (at least more friendly than BGA) is used on this board.
1 MK66FX1M0VLQ18
1 IC_MKL04Z32_TQFP32
1 USB A Connector
1 USB Mini B Connector
1 Micro SD Socket
1 MCP1825S Voltage Regulator
1 TPD3S014 USB Power Switch
1 Crystal, 16 MHz
1 Crystal, 32.768 kHz
3 Diode, Schottky, B120
1 Capacitor, 100uF, 6.3V
4 Capacitor, 4.7uF
10 Capacitor, 0.1uF
1 Resistor, 100K
2 Resistor, 470
2 Resistor, 220
2 Resistor, 33
1 Pushbutton
2 Test Point, Black
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