Tag Archives: prototyping

Sailing the I2Cs with the Bus Pirate

A presentation on exploring I2C hardware with the Bus Pirate. Continue reading

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Debugging Lattice FPGAs for the Impatient

Programming a Lattice XP2 FPGA using my Mac (or using Linux) is easy once you know the tricks. Continue reading

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First Audio!

I’m working on a low-cost audio synthesis platform — kinda like an Arduino, but with much higher audio capabilities. And tonight, I got my first synthesized audio out of it! Here it is, generating two sine waves (tuned at A440 … Continue reading

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Fear The Bus Pirate, For It Is Awesome

I got my Bus Pirate today, just in time to talk to my project’s audio codec via I2C. It is no exaggeration to say the Bus Pirate saved me a metric crap-ton of time. In about ten minutes, I had … Continue reading

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PCB stencils on the cheap (kinda)

How to apply circuit board solder paste if the only fancy tool you have is a low-power laser cutter — using Avery adhesive mailing labels! Continue reading

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Don’t Trust Solder Flux

Clean the solder flux from your circuit board prototypes, or suffer the bitter consequences! Continue reading

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