New Open Source Hardware board ESP-PROG allow you to program any Espressif device and can be used as general purpose USB-Serial converter

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ESP-PROG is USB to Serial converter but beside the Serial TX and RX signals it also can power the target with +5V up to 0.5A or 3.3V up to 0.5A and have two additional signals which make programming automatic RESET (EN) and BOOT enable.

ESP-PROG-C includes all necessary cables for the ISP programming – 7 pcs jumper wires female to female and 6 pin ICSP cable.

ESP-PROG is based on CH340T IC and has drivers for Linux, Windows, MACOS, Android with up to 2 Mbps speed.

MOD-IO got beautiful DIN rack plastic enclosure from Giuseppe Mascolo

We noticed this Twitter post from Giuseppe Mascolo @linuxpeppe
He designed beautiful plastic enclosure for MOD-IO which could be attached to DIN reel:

the design files are uploaded to Thingiverse

Open Source Hardware Industrial Linux computers STMP1-OLinuXino-LIME2 prototypes are ready for testing

First prototypes of the Open Source Hardware Industrial grade operating at -45+85C Linux Single Board Computers STMP1-OLinuXino-LIME2 are assembled.

We build couple of boards with STM32MP153 and STM32MP157 for the first tests.

Now time to add Linux mainline support for it in OLIMAGE building and to add Ubuntu and Debian minimal and base images for it in http://images.olimex.com

Industrial grade -45+85C STMP1-SOM is almost completely routed and pin to pin compatible with A13-SOM

A13-SOM-256 and A13-SOM-512 are low cost Linux running System on Modules which are very popular but lack industrial grade operating temperature.

STM32MP1XXX series of SOC from ST is the first mass produced SOC which operates from -45 up to +125C by default, so we decided to design SOM module with STM32MP1XX SOC which to be pin to pin compatible with A13-SOM and offer same interfaces and signals so it could be drop in replacement for A13-SOM without need to re-design the complete product.

As you can see for STMP1-SOM we decided to put the SOC on opposite side of the connectors, this allow if necessary to add aluminum heatsink without interference with mainboard.

Also we add AXP209 PMU which allow lower power operating modes and LiPo battery backup and operation on battery only which is missing in the original A13-SOM.

STMP1-SOM will be offered with three SOC choices STM32MP151, STM32MP153 and STM32MP157.

The prices will start from EUR 15 for the non industrial grade memory which are similar to A13-SOM and EUR 18 for the industrial grade -45+85C memory version.

We expect first STMP1-SOMs to be available in July 2020.

Full mainline Linux support will be available at http://images.olimex.com/

New Open Source Hardware board released: BB-TB6612 Dual DC motor controller with PWM to drive small robot cars with 12V up to 1.2A motors

BB-TB6612 is dual channel DC motor controller board it is nice add on for the Robot chassis we have ROBOT-2WD-KIT , ROBOT-2WD-KIT2 , ROBOT-2WDL-KIT , ROBOT-3-WHEEL-KIT and can drive these gear motors: MG-6-120 , MG-6-48  and MG-6V-1:380

The digital logic can be from 2.7 up to 5.5V. The motor voltage can be from 2.5 up to 13.5V.

PWM, CW, CCW, brake-stop, stand-by modes are implemented.

 

New open source hardware board ESP32-S2-DevKit-Lipo breaks our internal record for ESP32 low power consumption

ESP32-S2 is new SOC from Espressif which has only WiFi connectivity but has much more GPIOs available than ESP32 and ESP8266, also it has USB native connection which opens lot of new possibility.

We already sell Espressif’s Saola-1R board which has ESP32-S2-WROVER module, but it’s not designed for battery operation and low power as uses general purposes LDOs and has no battery connection.

This is something we wanted to improve – we designed board with same module but add LiPo charger and now our ESP32-S2-DevKit-LiPo can operate on LiPo battery even when there is no external power supply, but on top of this we kept the same PCB dimensions and ESP32-S2-DevKit-Lipo is drop-in replacement for ESP32-S2-Saola-1R. We use same module with 2MB RAM and 4MB Flash so once you develop with Saola you can move to ESP32-S2-DevKit-Lipo and make your projects battery operated.

The new ESP32-S2-DevKit-Lipo uses ultra low power power supply circuit which makes current consumption during sleep only 6uA  (4uA of them are due to the battery measurement resistor divider) this is 10 times less than our other boards.

Prototypes are build now and we run production and will have these in stock by the beginnings of June.

PIC32-Pinguino Open Source hardware board is on the cover of Electronic music vinyl

We got note from friend that our PIC32-Pinguino is on the cover of Belgium artists Phillipi & Rodrigo – “Gueto De Gent” Vinyl album. The genre is Electronic/Disco. You can hear it here:

 

Maybe the authors are also Makers and like to make electronic projects?