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A lot of product ideas don't work out. Sometimes they're infeasible. If not, you build it and find out it sucks. If not, you build more and your customers say they suck. (Or so few say that it doesn't...
View ArticleEasier Connections
One of the real pains when using the StickIt! boards is trying to figure out how they connect to the FPGA pins. For example, you have to trace each I/O pin of an LEDDigits board through a particular...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi + XuLA
The StickIt! Board has been around since 2011, pretty much unchanged. Today that stops.
View ArticleStickIt!-Grove Board is Released!
Got a lot of Grove modules you want to use? Then the Stickit!-Grove will let you connect four of them to a StickIt! Board or a solderless breadboard.
View ArticleGiving Back to KiCad
I switched over to KiCad a while ago, mainly because paying fees for Eagle upgrades that didn't have much "up" in them seemed pretty stupid. In exchange for providing a free tool, the KiCad...
View ArticleRandom Number Generators and Hardware Sorters
Just a short post to alert you to some things I've done that are FPGA-related but don't appear on this site.
View ArticleESP8266: Re-Reflash Dance!
Over a year ago, I posted about how I reflashed an ESP-01 module with new firmware. That post has been very popular and I got the idea in my head that I was some sort of expert on doing this. But when...
View ArticleColossus-al!
Every now and then, one of my customers comes back with something they've been working on. In this case, it's Ben North showing some work he did modeling the Colossus code-breaking machine built at...
View ArticleWalk In, Walk Out
I wrote a blog post several years ago about my first KiCad design: an eight-channel analog-to-digital StickIt! board. While testing it, I discovered the signals in the analog channels could leak into...
View ArticleAre You In An Abusive Relationship With Your Schematic Editor?
Having hung out on forum.kicad.info for over a year, I'm quite aware of the problems engineers have with their CAD tools. In particular, I hear a lot of moaning and groaning about schematic editors....
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