iCEBreaker, The Open Source Development Board for FPGAs

December 19, 2018December 18, 2018 fustinicrowd supply, FPGA, hackaday, ICE40Leave a comment

From Brian Benchoff on the Hackaday blog:

iCEBreaker, The Open Source Development Board for FPGAs

The Hackaday Superconference is over, which is a shame, but one of the great things about our conference is the people who manage to trek out to Pasadena every year to show us all the cool stuff they’re working on. One of those people was [Piotr Esden-Tempski], founder of 1 Bit Squared, and he brought some goodies that would soon be launched on a few crowdfunding platforms. The coolest of these was the iCEBreaker, an FPGA development kit that makes it easy to learn FPGAs with an Open Source toolchain.

The hardware for the iCEBreaker includes the iCE40UP5K fpga with 5280 logic cells,, 120 kbit of dual-port RAM, 1 Mbit of single-port RAM, and a PLL, two SPIs and two I2Cs. Because the most interesting FPGA applications include sending bits out over pins really, really fast, there’s also 16 Megabytes of SPI Flash that allows you to stream video to a LED matrix. There are enough logic cells here to synthesize a CPU, too, and already the iCEBreaker can handle the PicoRV32, and some of the RISC-V cores. Extensibility is through PMOD connectors, and yes, there’s also an HDMI output for your vintage computing projects.

Teardown 2018 session videos

August 3, 2018July 25, 2018 fustiniconference, crowd supply, portland, teardownLeave a comment

Teardown: Portland 2018 session videos

Between the talks, workshops, presentations, demos, and installations at Teardown 2018, there was a lot of intense information to absorb at once. Luckily, we were able to record some of the speakers doing their thing so attendees could reflect back and those who weren’t able to come physically are still able to participate. Videos are embedded in the sessions page. Here are shortcuts to each video:

Kicad: Designing With Complex Shapes

July 9, 2018July 10, 2018 fustiniandrew sowa, artwork, crowd supply, design, EDA, kicad, PCB Art, portland, teardownLeave a comment

KiCad presentation by Andrew Sowa at Teardown 2018:

Kicad: Designing With Complex Shapes

While most PCBs can be simple rectangles, sometimes the design requires more complex geometry. EDA tools don’t always make this simple, so we will go over a few KiCad tips to make it easier. In this talk you will learn how to import unique board shapes from Fusion 360, create arbitrary fill zones using images, and embed high-frequency RF filters. We will use multiple software packages to enhance KiCad’s performance beyond its obvious use.

Teardown hardware hacking con starts today in Portland

May 11, 2018May 11, 2018 fustinibunnie, conference, crowd supply, FPGA, hardware hacking, hebocon, oregon, portland, reverse engineering, robots, workshopLeave a comment

Teardown hardware hacking con starts today in Portland! Follow @oshpark on Twitter for updates and look for our Drew Fustini in purple. Check out the sessions page to see all the exciting people that will be presenting and running workshops!

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Recent Updates

Bring Your Electronic Waste to Teardown!

Hebocon Robot Sumo Call for Participation

Nadya Peek, OSH Park, Early Bird Passes, and CFP Extension

Andrew “bunnie” Huang to keynote Teardown

Just the Facts


Who?	Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, students, teachers…
What?	A three-day line up of talks, workshops, demos, installations, and puzzles
When?	Friday – Sunday, May 11 – 13, 2018
Where?	Beautiful Portland, Oregon on the campus of the Pacific Northwest College of Art
Why?	Shipping great hardware to you is rewarding, but we miss seeing you in person
How?	With lots of help from our friends, including our partner, Make+Think+Code @ PNCA

Schedule

Teardown runs from the afternoon of Friday, May 11, 2018 through the night of Sunday, May 13, 2018. We encourage all participants to attend the entire time – plan to arrive Friday around noon and leave Monday morning. Below is the preliminary schedule.

Friday, May 11, 2018

Registration opens at 11:30 AM.

Time	Title	Presenter	Type	Room
12:30-10PM	Attendee Led Event	You	Event	Hammer Board Room
12:30-2:30PM	Klaxberger Gearheads E-recycling	Shawn Price	Workshop	Atrium
12:30-2:30PM	Modular Hardware for 3D Printing (part 1)	Jesse Jenkins	Talk	MTC Shop
12:30-2:30PM	Transfer Secret Messages Through Light with OpticSpy and Tomu	Joe Grand and Sean Cross	Workshop	MTC Classroom
2:30-3PM	Welcome and Kickoff	Josh Lifton	Talk	Mediatheque
3-4PM	Do-it-Yourself Artificial Intelligence	Alasdair Allan	Talk	Mediatheque
4-6PM	Breadboard to PCB	Monica Houston	Workshop	Room 511
4-6PM	Hacking with RISC-V	Drew Barbier and Meadhbh Hamrick	Workshop	Room 514
4-4:30PM	Santa Cruz to Seattle with 2.5 Tons of Electron Microscope: A How To	Adam McCombs	Talk	Room 510
4:30-5PM	PLM: Hardware’s Source Control Management	Jake Janovetz	Talk	Room 510
5-6PM	Beginner Circuit Board Design with KiCad	Ken Olsen	Talk	Room 510
6-7PM	Dinner (on your own)		Event
7-8PM	Hebocon Robot Sumo	Adrian Choy	Event	Mediatheque
8-10PM	Construction DJ Set	Nadya Peek	Event	Mediatheque

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Time	Title	Presenter	Type	Room
8:30-9AM	Breakfast (provided)		Event	Atrium
9-10AM	Open Source Space: what’s happening, including OreSat, Oregon’s first CubeSat	Andrew Greenberg	Talk	Mediatheque
10-noon	Rapid Prototyping and Linux Kernel Development with the PocketBeagle® Platform	Robert Nelson	Workshop	MTC Classroom
10-11AM	Applications of the Software Defined Radio	Danny Webster	Talk	Room 511
10-11AM	Proto-pasta Filament: How Hardware Access Fuels Material Innovation	Alexander Dick	Talk	Room 514
11-11:30AM	Embedded Hardware Development with Rust	Jacob Creedon	Talk	Room 511
11-11:30AM	Hexabitz: Modularity from Nature to Electronics	Asaad Kaadan	Talk	Room 514
11:30-noon	Bits to Atoms, the Making of ‘Be Still, My Low Poly Heart’	Ben Purdy	Talk	Room 511
11:30-noon	Open Pitch Sessions	Josh Lifton	Event	Room 514
12-1PM	Lunch (provided)		Event	Atrium
1-2PM	Bunnie’s Keynote	Andrew “bunnie” Huang	Talk	Mediatheque
2-10PM	Attendee Led Event	You	Event	Room 513
2-4PM	WTFPGA (part 1)	Joe FitzPatrick	Workshop	MTC Classroom
2-2:30PM	Creating Conference Badges	Jay Margalus	Talk	Room 511
2-2:30PM	Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Open Source Electronics	Andrew Greenberg	Talk	Room 514
2:30-3PM	Futel: A Technology So Advanced We Leave It Out On The Street All Night	Karl Anderson	Talk	Room 511
2:30-3PM	Transforming New Product Development with Open Hardware	Stephano Cetola	Talk	Room 514
3-3:30PM	DFM with your CM: How to save time and money	Andy LaFrazia	Talk	Room 511
3-3:30PM	Signet: An Implementation Walkthrough, Hacking Possibilities, and Future Development	Neils Nesse	Talk	Room 514
3:30-4PM	Hacking Appliances and Prototyping Next-Generation Technology with Netduino and Xamarin	Bryan Costanich	Talk	Room 511
3:30-4PM	Making Open Source Schematics Not Suck	Andrew Greenberg	Talk	Room 514
4-4:15PM	Snacks (provided)		Event	Atrium
4:15-6:15PM	WTFPGA (part 2)	Joe FitzPatrick	Workshop	MTC Classroom
4:15-5:15PM	Programming for the Eye: Understanding Graphics and Light	Zach Archer	Talk	Room 511
4:15-5:15PM	Quick Enclosure Design with Fusion 360	Kevin Schneider	Talk	Room 514
5:15-6:15PM	Eating Rabbits: A Guide to Using Python to Conquer FPGA Video Systems	Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell	Talk	Room 511
5:15 – 6:15	KiCad: Designing With Complex Shapes	Andrew Sowa	Talk	Room 514
6:15 – 7:15	Dinner (on your own)		Event
7:15-10PM	Roof with a View		Event	Autodesk – 221 SE Ankeny St
9-10PM	Glow Up Your LEGO with Open Source Electronics	Rachel Hellenga	Workshop	Autodesk – 221 SE Ankeny St

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Time	Title	Presenter	Type	Room
8:30-9AM	Breakfast (provided)		Event	Atrium
9AM-10PM	Attendee Led Event	You	Event	Hammer Board Room
9-9:30AM	How to Think About Security for Your Hardware Project	Joe FitzPatrick	Talk	Mediatheque
9:30-10AM	Dr. Frankendrive or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Recover Data	Nik Lyons	Talk	Mediatheque
10-11AM	PCB Portrait Workshop	Andrew Sowa	Workshop	MTC Classroom
10-10:30AM	Firmware: Hardware’s Sneaky Passenger	Chau Doan	Talk	Room 510
10-10:30AM	Searching for the Light: Using OpticSpy to Receive Optical Transmissions	Joe Grand	Talk	Room 511
10:30-11AM	How to Build a BOM: Sourcing and Open Source	Nadya Peek	Talk	Room 510
10:30-11AM	How to Make Your Own Designs Hackable	Greg Peek	Talk	Room 511
11-noon	More Than Music with MIDI, Tiny Computers, and JavaScript	George Mandis	Talk	Room 510
11-11:30AM	Learning Electronics and Software: The Cheesy Way	Alvaro Prieto	Talk	Room 511
11:30-noon	Hacking Health: Open Source Hardware and Medical Devices	Ashwin K Whitchurch	Talk	Room 511
12-1PM	Lunch (provided)		Event	Atrium
1-3PM	A Definitive Guide to Building Production Hardware in EAGLE	Matt Berggren	Workshop	MTC Classroom
1-3PM	MicroPython on the ESP8266	Thomas Hudson	Workshop	Room 513
1-3PM	Signet Development Workshop	Neils Nesse	Workshop	Room 514
2:30-3PM	Design and Reverse Engineering: Playing on Both Sides of the Field	Jeremy Hong	Talk	Room 511
3-4PM	State of the Crowd	Josh Lifton	Talk	Mediatheque
4-4:15PM	Snacks (provided)		Event	Atrium
4:15-6:15PM	More Than Music with MIDI, Tiny Computers, and JavaScript (Workshop)	George Mandis	Workshop	Room 514
4:15-6:15PM	HeartyPatch Workshop	Ashwin K Whitchurch	Workshop	MTC Classroom
4:15-6:15PM	Modular Hardware for 3D Printing (part 2)	Jesse Jenkins	Workshop	MTC Shop
4:15-6:15PM	Open Pitch Session/Lightning Talks	Josh Lifton	Event	Mediatheque
6:15-7:15PM	Dinner (on your own)		Event
7:15-10:00PM	Closing Party		Event	TBA

Ongoing Demos and Installations

Title	Presenter	Room
Monolith Synth with LED Visualization	Paul Stoffregen	Atrium
The Little Purple Painting with the Little OLED Screen	Daniel Block	Atrium
Just Intonation Keyboard	Jim Snow	Atrium
Mustache Mayhem	Joe Grand	Atrium
Futel Public Telephone	Karl Anderson	Atrium
You’re Awesome	Kat Miller	Atrium
Be Still, My Low Poly Heart	Ben Purdy	Atrium

Teardown hardware con in Portland next week

May 4, 2018May 4, 2018 fustinicrowd supply, portland, teardownLeave a comment

Teardown is new hardware con happening in Portland on May 11th – 13th:

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Teardown is an event put on by Crowd Supply in association with Make+Think+Code @ PNCA. You can think of Teardown as live-action Crowd Supply, but with fewer cardboard boxes and packing peanuts. We’ll be bringing together hardware aficionados from around the world to celebrate, inspect, create, and, of course, tear down hardware. There will be long-time Crowd Supply creators and backers, as well as people we’re meeting for the first time. There will be hardware, art, food, drink, puzzles, workshops, tutorials, talks, music, field trips, and friends. Most of all, there will be ideas and projects to explore and inspire. We hope you’ll be there too!

Teardown: a new hardware conference by CrowdSupply

April 2, 2018April 3, 2018 fustiniconference, crowd supply, education, pdx, portland, workshopLeave a comment

CrowdSupply is organizing a new hardware con named Teardown in Portland on the weekend of May 11th – 13th:

Teardown 2018

A party for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware

Teardown is an event put on by Crowd Supply in association with Make+Think+Code @ PNCA. You can think of Teardown as live-action Crowd Supply, but with fewer cardboard boxes and packing peanuts. We’ll be bringing together hardware aficionados from around the world to celebrate, inspect, create, and, of course, tear down hardware.

There will be long-time Crowd Supply creators and backers, as well as people we’re meeting for the first time. There will be hardware, art, food, drink, puzzles, workshops, tutorials, talks, music, field trips, and friends. Most of all, there will be ideas and projects to explore and inspire. We hope you’ll be there too!

Latest update: Andrew “bunnie” Huang to keynote Teardown

Please considering submitting a proposal like a talk, workshop, demo or installation:

Teardown 2018: Call for proposals

BeagleWire: fully open ICE40 FPGA BeagleBone cape

March 3, 2018February 28, 2018 fustiniBeagleBone, beaglewire, Cape, crowd supply, FPGA, ICE40, Lattice, yosysLeave a comment

BeagleWire by Michael Welling is a fully open ICE40 FPGA BeagleBone cape:

BeagleWire: fully open ICE40 FPGA BeagleBone cape

BeagleWire is a completely open source FPGA development board. Unlike most other FPGA dev boards, the BeagleWire’s hardware, software, and FPGA toolchain are completely open source. The BeagleWire is a Beaglebone compatible cape leveraging the Lattice iCE40HX FPGA.

BeagleWire can be easily expanded by adding additional external modules for example, modules for high speed data acquisition, software defined radio, and advanced control applications. Using well-known connectors like Pmod and Grove makes it possible to connect various interesting external modules widely available in stores. Owing to this, prototyping new imaginative digital designs is easier.

A Smaller, Cheaper RISC V Board

September 19, 2017September 18, 2017 fustinicrowd supply, Crowdfunding, GroupGets, microcontroller, risc-v, sifiveLeave a comment

Early this year, the world of electronics saw something amazing. The RISC-V, the first Open Source microcontroller was implemented in silicon, and we got an Arduino-derived dev board in the form of the HiFive 1. The HiFive 1 is just a bit shy of mindblowing; it’s a very fast microcontroller that’s right up there with…

via A Smaller, Cheaper RISC V Board — Hackaday

Pidgeon 1 Sub-GHz Radio

April 2, 2017March 31, 2017 fustinicrowd supply, Crowdfunding, radio, RF, wirelessLeave a comment

Pidgeon 1 on Crowd Supply is a sub-GHz radio with 500 mW transmission power, RS485 networking interface and a STM32F0 microcontroller:

Crowd Supply: Pidgeon 1

No more restrictions from high level software! Access the lowest level of digital radio transmission with this programmable sub-GHz wireless module.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/samuel-zak/pidgeon-1

Hardware Specifications:

Radio – CC1120 + CC1190
Controller – STM32F051K6
FTDI USB interface – FT234XD-R
RS485 interface – LTC2850IDD
Buck converter – RT8010GQW
SMA connector for antenna

OnChip Open-V Arduino Compatibility

February 17, 2017February 13, 2017 fustiniarduino, crowd supply, Crowdfunding, microcontroller, onchip, OnchipUIS, Open-V, risc-vLeave a comment

OnChip has posted a Crowd Supply update on their plans for Arduino compatibility:

Open-V Arduino Compatibility

Arduino compatibility can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people, so we’ll try to be as concrete and specific as possible. For the Open-V, Arduino development tools, and interoperating on a hardware level with existing Arduino shields.

We’ve updated our live, web-streamed demos to include an Arduino mode in addition to the assembler and C modes we already have. You might also notice the relatively new Blockly modes and a refined layout of the demo page. Go write some code and see the results live streamed!