It’s been a while since the last update, but that’s not to say there hasn’t been plenty going on in the depths of the Spell Foundry workshop. Here’s a few snippets: Sleepy Pi Beta boards are now out in the wild, later than hoped largely as a result of the volume of documentation that needed […]
Workshop Update: Oct 4th, 2013 Read More »
The Fledgling I was recently doing some work for a UK arm of a large US defence company and I was introduced to a young 17 year old work experience student. A conversation ensued which went something like this: Me: “Are you interested in a career in engineering?” Him: “Oh yes, I really enjoy electronics.”
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It Lives! It’s been a bit longer than anticipated in the procurement and commissioning of the latest revision of the Sleepy Pi hardware. But it’s all been good and the Sleepy Pi is ready to take the next step. There was a lot of software that was required to be written and Raspberry Pi configurations
Workshop Update: August 12th, 2013 Read More »
Bats and moths have been engaged in aerial warfare for nearly 65 Myr. This arms race has produced a suite of counter-adaptations in moths, including bat-detecting ears. One set of defensive strategies involves the active production of sound; tiger moths’ ultrasonic replies to bat attack have been shown to startle bats, warn the predators of
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New Boards Coming! We’ve Just ordered the next revision (rev 1.0D) of the Sleepy Pi board which will hopefully be the board that is sent out to our Beta testers in a couple of weeks (barring any disasters). There have been a number of changes from the initial rev. 1.0C board. Apart from fixing the
Workshop Update: June 25th, 2013 Read More »
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Sleepy Pi family of boards and accessories for the Raspberry Pi. The first board in the family is the Sleepy Pi, which is essentially a Smart Power Management board for the Raspberry Pi that includes a low power Arduino that stays powered when the Raspberry Pi is
Once completed, the 64-core version of the Parallella computer would deliver over 90 GFLOPS of performance and would have the the horse power comparable to a theoretical 45 GHz CPU [64 CPU cores * 700MHz] on a board the size of a credit card while consuming only 5 Watts under typical work loads. For certain
Parallela – A Fantastic Platform for Machine Vision Read More »
…a robot fish that is able to swim and recognize tank edges and obstacles. We’ll find out how we can easily create it with common insulating material and a few servo motor controlled by Arduino. I love this project from Open Electronics. The movement is spookily realistic, I’ve just got to build one of these
Robofish: An Arduino Controlled Robotic Fish Read More »
When compiling a Bill Of Materials (BOM) for a project, you inevitably end up with a spreadsheet listing the parts and suppliers. Most PCB CAD packages can even output parts directly in CSV format which can be directly imported into a spreadsheet package such as Excel. Recently, I was playing around with a circuit in
Simple Farnell / Element14 Live Price & Stock Update in Excel BOM Read More »
Cypress Micro has announced the availability of production silicon for the first devices in their ground-breaking PSoC 4 family of ARM Cortex M0 chips. These are backed by the Pioneer development kit, which aside from packing some serious processing at a ridiculously low price, also features connector compatibility with a range of Arduino shields and
Cypress Launches the PSoC 4 Series Mixed Signal Micros Read More »
