Category Archives: Platforms

Sketches Over the Net

The people over at WickedDevice has been working on a new bootloader for the Nanode. The code can download and FLASH the device with new software over TFTP. This opens the possibilities for remote updates – meaning that you can … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi computer projects (started by David Braben of Elite fame) wants to bring back the joys of computers in the past, but to today’s audience. By providing an ultra-cheap computer to educational institutions, and all others interested, the idea … Continue reading

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PIC32 in Arduino Format

Digilent and Microchip have recently released two new boards targeting the Arduino community, the chipkit 32 UNO and MAX. The neat thing about these board is that they both are based on the microchip PIC32 delivering up to 4 times … Continue reading

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Xilinx Zynq-7000

In this article, we welcome our first guest writer. Tryggve Mathiesen, CTO at InformAsic writes about the challenges in the market and how Xilinx Zynq-7000 fits into the future of high-performance electronics. Embedded Designers are asking for more More than … Continue reading

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Netduino Introduction

The Netduino is a .net powered hardware platform. Basing it on .net makes the transition easier for those of you who are used to working in the .net domain. It relies on free (as in free beer) tools, but is … Continue reading

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Nanode – A Networking Arduino

The nanode, network appliance node, is an Arduino-line, network enabled development board. Just as Arduino, it is open source hardware. It has been developed at the London hackspace. The idea is to provide the maker / hacker society with a … Continue reading

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