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The open source movement, which I disrespectfully use as a term for the free software movement, has gone from a obscure group of nerds to the force powering smart-phones, the internet and large parts of our lifes. Taking away the … Continue reading →

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Theo Labs is working on the MSPism board. It is an MSP430-based board providing ISM radio. The radio portion is provided by, for instance, this board. The software for the board is currently under heavy development. The end goal is to create … Continue reading →

Microchip has released the PIC10F(LF)32X and PIC1XF(LF)150X MCUs, each feature new peripherals. Examples as Configurable Logic Cells (CLCs), Complementary Waveform Generators (CWGs) and Numerically Controlled Oscillators (NCOs). This makes it possible to implement functionality that was not possible before with … Continue reading →

ORSoC and the OpenRISC architecture has interested me for years. Basically, it is a soft CPU produced without targeting a specific FPGA architecture (as Nios and MicroBlaze does). It is a RISC design with support from gcc. From version 3.1, … Continue reading →

The Raspberry Pi project continues to make progress. A couple of days ago, the gerbers and finals layouts for the PCBs was released. Being credit card sized, the board looks rather crammed, but thanks to the central SoC, the biggest … Continue reading →

The BeagleBoard project is bringing a new board to the world. The low-cost BeagleBone board will provide Arm power to the embedded community. It boasts a 700MHz Cortex-A8, 256MB of RAM, Ethernet and USB, but also headers just like the … Continue reading →

In one month time, December 3rd, Elektroteknologsektionens Teletekniska Avdelning, ETA, of Chalmers University of Technology , my alma mater, will host their annual auction. Being based in western Sweden, this auktion is a must. Instruments, components, computers, etc – both in … Continue reading →

The Swarmanoid is a robot swarm, think of them as a group of ants. Instead of workers, queen and such, the robots are flyers, movers and grippers. In cooperation, they can bring you stuff! The video below won the Best Video … Continue reading →