Electronic stuff

On Microcontrollers, electronics you will find some good beginner tutorials

BigPic

This is a Project stub that will be filled with information as the Project idea grows and work on this project starts.

A friend asked me if I could make him a picture frame but not a common one... he wants a big one with a big LCD > 17" and less energy consumption (not just a laptop conversion).

Idea

I talked with someone from TI at the LinuxTag about it and he did think that the beagle board could be a possibility for doing this.


Service manuals

PCB mit Toner Transfer Methode

PCB Brenner5 beim abkratzen1. Circuit mit einem Laser Drucker auf eine glatte oberfläche drucken (z.b. Seiten aus einem Informatikheft auf Hochglanzpapier oder Katalogseiten)
2. Epoxy Platte mit Kupferbeschichtung aufs Bügelbrett legen und mit einem Stofftuch zudecken
3. Bügeleisen auf stellung Wolle schalten und die Platine etwa 2 minuten aufheizen

Scrounging a Sharp GX30

Better title would be "tear down of a Sharp GX30"...
Just the images at the moment...

Sharp GX30 front Sharp GX30 open Sharp GX30 back

MSP430

to be written...

Picture of how the ez430 usb stick can be used ;-)

Linux related

It worked out of the box but just 2 times... Mostly it didn't find the driver but 2 times when I was in the train (both times i was travelling the same route in the same direction) it magically worked out of the box but i couldn't repeat this effect...

To get it working you you have to do following steps with Ubuntu 8.10