Make your own Bar LED board
A couple of people have asked how they can make BAR LED boards like the ones we used for the blinken-lights demo We use them all the time - they're really useful when you need to monitor the state of a...
View ArticleI2C Pinouts
We've been asked to document the pin allocations that we use for the I2C connectors on our boards. Here they are: The Int line is used to signal an interrupt from those boards that can generate one,...
View ArticlePublic Hardware Design Files
Now that our boards are in production we have made their designs public, under the Creative Commons Share-Alike attribution license. The Eagle and Gerber files for our boards can be downloaded from Git...
View ArticleSPI pinout
Here's the pinout for our SPI connectors. The CS line is connected to CS 0 for the connector on the left and CS 1 for the connector on the right of the Interface Board, as seen from above. Int can be...
View ArticleAnalogue board assembly guide
A few people are currently using the beta 0.5+ plus version of our analogue board. The board is almost unchanged since version 0.2, so you can assemble it using the old guide. The position of the...
View ArticleThe Babelboard is coming
Do you pine for the plug-in peripherals on other platforms like the Grove System from seeed studio or the Gadgeteer? Are you finding it hard to choose between the great interface boards from companies...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi and Arduino linked via I2C
The Raspberry Pi and the Arduino are both amazing, and each has its particular strengths. There are lots of projects that use one or the other, but there's growing interest in solutions that combine...
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