New from our forum – experimental NixOS image for TERES DIY OSHW Laptop

Recent post from our forum explains how to build experimental NixOS image for TERES-I  – Do It Yourself, Environmental friendly, modular Open Source Hardware ARM Laptop.

Programming with open source hardware educational board eduArdu and Scratch 3

New demo code which transforms eduArdu in Makey Makey and tutorial how to use with Scratch 3 is uploaded to GitHub.

Here is the result from above code:

New Open Source Hardware board adds SATA drive connectivity to any computer with USB host

USB-SATA is board which connects to any computer with USB host and bridge it to SATA Hard disk.

The read/write speed with USB2.0 host is approx 30MB/s.

USB-SATA has USB device connector, SATA connector and power connector, when used with SATA-CABLE-SET it can drive directly SATA-HDD-2.5-500GB

It’s very convenient when you have to move large files from one computer to another you can just plug big HDD with it and use it as “giant USB Flash storage” it works faster than the USB Flash disks and can have way larger capacity.

Lime2-SD add on board for second SD card on A20-OLinuXino-LIME2

Lime2-SD is small add on board which snaps on GPIO-1 connector and add second SD card to A20-OLinuxino-LIME2. It doesn’t interference with other parts on the board and do not increase the height.

Why we do this? Because this is an easy way to increase storage for Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK . What we are preparing to offer soon is upgraded version of the Home Server Kit with 256GB storage made with 2 “disks” x 128GB micro SD cards. For these who already have Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK they still can upgrade by ordering Lime2-SD .

Note that support in FreedomBox for Lime2-SD is not add, but you can try Lime2-SD with the current Armbian image for LIME2. To enable the Lime2-SD support you also have to add this dts overlay .

 

eduArdu OSHW educational board new demo and tutorial updated on GitHub

The eduArdu-BotKit demo is uploaded on GitHub. This code control the robot with sound.

New LED_Matrix_Light library is uploaded. It contains only Clear, SetPixel, GetPixel, ClearPixel, Line, DrawRectangle, UpdateMatrix functions and do not take lot of memory like the LED_Matrix library which contains text scrolling and fonts.

Two more demo for capacitive buttons are add. One make sound depend on capacitance, the other prints the value of the capacity measured.

Programming eduArdu with Arduino explains how to install Arduino and some basics of programming for beginners, like what are arrays, variables, etc. It may be used as practice of what is learned in C/C++ class in school.

OLinuXino Open Source Hardware Single Board Linux Computers are now officially OSHWA certified

OLinuXino Open Source Hardware Linux Computers now are officially OSHWA certified. The first: A13-OLinuXino, A10-OLinuXino-LIME, A20-OLinuXino-LIME, A20-OLinuXino-LIME2, A20-OLinuXino-MICRO has their assigned OSHWA certification numbers, the others are to follow as the process takes time.

Searching the OSHWA directory only Beagle Bone and OLinuXino are officially certified.

ESP32-POE-ISO passed RED,EMC, Helth and Safety tests necessary for issue of CE marking

We are proud to announce that ESP32-PoE-ISO board has passed successfully all necessary tests to bear CE marking:

• EN 62311:2008 RED Health
• EN 62479:2010 RED Health
• EN 301 489-1 V2.2.1 (2019-03) RED EMC
• EN 301 489-17 V3.2.0 (2017-03) RED EMC
• ETSI EN 300 328 V2.1.1 (2016-11) WIFI-2.4GHz band radio test
• EN 300 328 V2.1.1 (2016-11) BLE radio test
• IEC 62368-1:2014 Safety

ESP32-EVB, ESP32-GATEWAY, ESP32-DevKit-Lipo, ESP32-POE are also going to be tested.