Cubieboard Baseboard arrived

A Baseboard is a developer board and, like the Cubieboard, is very extensible and can connect to a variety of devices including sensors. To simplify the connection to additional devices, it is common to have an additional printed circuit called daughterboard or baseboard. This board is a baseboard, because it acts as a base to…

BeagleBone Black with WiFi

Instruction to use WiFi device with BeagleBone Black. Step 1) Find out your current device and get a correct firmware. Example, I have Ralink5370. So, I’m going to ralink website and download linux firmware and put into /lib/firmware as picture below. Step 2) Create new ‘/var/lib/connman/wifi.config’ and use my example below. Please change SSID name…

mbed Application Board

The mbed boards are a series of ARM microcontroller development boards designed for rapid prototyping and this is breakout makes it easy to get up and running with your mbed LPC1768 module. The new application board has been designed to enable the maximum number of potential experiments and projects, with the minimum footprint. And this…

Rainbowduino Blok Clok

I saw this clock style from internet and their named it as Blok Clok. I would like to have one of it. So, I do a coding in Arduino with my Rainbowduino. It’s not bad :-) Equipment: – Rainbowduino. – 8×8 RGB Matrix. – DS1307 i2c clock module. – Some cable.

Pololu Zumo Robot kit

Welcome my black friday gift. This is my first time to purchase item on this day. This kit not contain Arduino UNO R3 board. But the Zumo shield itself is equipped with LSM303 (Compass + Acceleration), DRV8835 motor drive.  

Development Atmel AVR on MacOS X

One reason for me to install windows on my Macbook Air is do something with AVR. After long search on Internet. I found the solution to move this thing back to MacOS. Requirement: 1. CrossPack – A development environment for Atmel AVR (http://www.obdev.at/products/crosspack/index.html) With this CrossPack you can use command line to compile your code.…

Micro Maestro 6-Channel USB Servo Controller

The six-channel Micro Maestro raises the performance bar for serial servo controllers with features such as a native USB interface and internal scripting control.  Whether you want high-performance servo control (0.25μs resolution with built-in speed and acceleration control) or a general I/O controller (e.g. to interface with a sensor or ESC via your USB port),…

APM 2.5 – ArduPilot Mega 2.5

Unlucky that I’ve broke my APM2.0. I’m not care enough when put OSD module. It short circuit the main board. But my local dealer announce that they have new APM 2.5. The ArduPilot Mega 2.5 is a complete open source autopilot system. It allows the user to turn any fixed, rotary wing or multirotor vehicle…