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Product PRT-10746 | yesterday

In my case the adhesive didn’t really adhere. I tried using glue around the edges and it seems to hold.

I have a DIP regulator, and it was a problem to find a way to keep it cool.

News - SparkFun Gets a Subpoena | about 2 weeks ago

Thus SprakFun.

I do hope this means that 20 people aren’t going to have SWAT teams kicking down their doors at 2am and terrorizing their families. The upside of “all orders in the state over the month” would likely prevent that, but since there are only 20, are they going to bother doing any further investigation before kicking down doors?

Do you feel you have any responsibility to warn those who ordered from you that they might be getting no-knock at the door in the middle of the night and might want to get a lawyer and review their rights under the 4th amendment?

News - Fast and Malleable | about 3 weeks ago

The more OpenHardware, the more BatchPCB will be busy. Right now I’m integrating an AVR with the SkyTraq Venus GPS module, but some revision later will be all SMT with everything on one board and be available. BatchPCB should have an open hardware section. I plan to publish my designs there and maybe with the corresponding software on github.

It is like (GNU/)Linux. Great artists steal. When I need a hash or sort or something, I can grab and integrate 80% as well as learn. Openhardware I hope will become like the standard libraries programmers use.

Also “can’t be the best” depends on what you are aiming for. Some things will be less expensive, some things will have more features, some will have special purposes. You have the arduino, but I like the 3.3v pro and even the lilypad. Which is best? it depends on what you want to do.

And now that you publish the eagle files, I can now create a remix to break out the pins you decided not to – I really need more than one input capture, oh and I need to add that 32k SPI ram to the openlog when I get a chance :).

And your “product” isn’t hardware or breakout boards as such, it is innovation itself. The whole point is to add new and updated products all the time, improving them.

Product GPS-11058 | about 2 months ago

SURPRISE! – I should have looked more closely, but the pinout has changed.

I have the evk and have been in contact – I should try the SD card on the SPI

http://www.dl9sec.de/venus6/venus6.htm

Product DEV-11098 | about 3 months ago

Annoying, you didn’t breakout the second ICP (PC7).

I hope you do in the next rev even if it is like the extra ports on the “Pro”. Also a 3.3v friendly one would be nice.

Product GPS-11058 | about 3 months ago

http://www.dl9sec.de/venus6/venus6.htm

It would probably need a few more pins bonded out but you can add uSD card logging capabilities

Product GPS-11058 | about 3 months ago

I have the SDK and have been using their EVB and this chip is incredible. It is basically a Sparc. There are limitations – the modifiable firmware was (last I have) 10Hz only. You can use the SPI to log to an SD card. The second serial port isn’t really interrupt driven so there can be problems. But it is worth looking at.

This revision sounds great! I kept soldering a diode and having a Lithium cell hang off it – the supercap should be much better,

The supercap is to maintain the time and epheremis for a warm start.

It supports AGPS – same as the earlier one (my sample code should be in the fora). AGPS is in flash.

20Hz can overrun some mapping programs, but I’ve used it to log my motorcycle trips last year. 20Hz gives lots of detail, every few feet even on the freeway. Curves on the cloverleafs, not polygons. With a good antenna (I use Sparkfun’s with the EVB) it can lock on quickly and stays locked.

Product DEV-10998 | about 4 months ago

I think you mean will have no AFFECT instead of EFFECT in

“There are two minor errors on this board which shouldn’t effect your overall”.

I want one, or at least a 3.3v version. Two ICPs! I2C, USART (with SPI) – hey, maybe my revised hyperlog has a platform

News - New Product Friday - Pre-… | about 6 months ago

Hexnuts roasting on an open fire; Freeze spray finding problem boards…

So will you have an atmega with sd card interface for christmas, the open yule log, next week?

Product DEV-10744 | about 8 months ago

I’m downloading the schematic, but it appears you didn’t break out the extra ICP or other port pins. There are more there, not just the ones the arduino team chose. Look at the seeed studio version.