Friday Guess What is This Quiz :)

Guess what New Product Idea we are working on now?

You can post here or retweet/share/boost on Twitter/Facebook/Mastodon/Diaspora and in Monday we will let Random.org to decide who will win one of our new ESP32-POE-ISO board!

Have a nice weekend!

 

UPDATE: After including all participants from Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Mastodon Random.org says the lucky winner is @bradfa@society.oftrolls.com

Quiz: Guess what is this?

Quiz: Guess what is this?

You can Tweet, Facebook share, Comment here or boost on Mastodon with your guess.

In Friday we will disclosure and send our Notebook to random participant.

 

UPDATE: 22-03-2019

We got a 319 responses on Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon and WordPress. Random.org selected Twitter @neycho as winner!

As many has found this is new product of Allwinner – 1GB LPDDR3 memory which can be clocked up to 667Mhz (equal to 1333Mhz DDR).

For these of you who downloaded the datasheet of this part number and it looks familiar do not wonder anymore. This actually is Micron LPDDR3 memory so the datasheet looks exactly as Micron datasheet just with Allwinner logo on it. Allwinner has bought Micron memory factory in Taiwan and this way become memory vendor too. We got these memories and will try them in our new boards.

Friday Free Board Quiz – the prize is AM3352-SOM-IND. What does PCB pagameter Tg means? How it affects the PCB assembly process?

AM3352-SOM-IND is industrial grade TI Sitara Cortex-A8 module running at 1Ghz.

After our summer vacation industrial grade AM3352-SOM-IND module with 4Gb SLC NAND Flash and AM3359-SOM-IND modules with and without SLC NAND Flash will be in stock.

You have chance to win this board!

To participate in the Quiz is enough to re-tweet the Twitter Quiz announcement message.

To double your chances  answer the quiz question.

You have time to re-tweet and/or answer until August 1st.

In Monday we will post the correct answer and ask random.org to generate random number in range then announce the winner and ship the board by post/airmail when we are back from our vacation on August 15th.

Good Luck!

Friday Free Board Quiz – prize is A20-CAN: What programming language can you use to automate tasks within Kicad?

A20-CAN is Open Source Hardware CAN driver board, which you can connect to A20-OLinuXino-MICRO, A20-OLinuXino-LIME and A20-OLinuXino-LIME2.

You have chance to win this board!

To participate in the Quiz is enough to re-tweet the Twitter Quiz announcement message.

To double your chances  answer the quiz question.

You have time to re-tweet and/or answer until Monday 25th of July.

In Monday we will post the correct answer and ask random.org to generate random number in range then announce the winner and ship the board by post/airmail.

Good Luck!

Friday Free Board Quiz – the prize is OLIMEXINO-32U4 – How many routing modes are supported by the interactive router in pcbnew?

 

OLIMEXINO-32U4 is OSHW improved version of Arduino Leonardo. It has ULTRA LOW power regulators, Lipo battery charger and can work from single Lipo battery, 5 and 3.3V operation, shield connectors both with original Arduino messy layout and correct layout next to them 🙂

You have chance to win this board!

To participate in the Quiz is enough to re-tweet the Twitter Quiz announcement message.

To double your chances  answer the quiz question.

You have time to re-tweet and/or answer until Monday 18th of July.

In Monday we will post the correct answer and ask random.org to generate random number in range then announce the winner and ship the board by post/airmail.

Good Luck!

Quiz Answer- smallest unit in KiCAD

Smallest unit in KiCAD is 1 nm. This is (1/1 000 000)-th of millimeter.

Quite precise for PCB design!

For comparison the popular Eagle CAD base unit is 1 um which is 1000 times bigger, so KiCAD uses 1000 times more precise metrics than Eagle.

Actually lot of the modern chips today are made on 28-40 nm technology.

So maybe KiCAD designers when deciding to use 1 nm as smallest unit were thinking too expand KiCAD as ASIC mask generation tool in future?

…who knows 🙂

Random.org say our winner is @trebadur please send us your address to info@olimex.com to send your prize

Friday Free Board Quiz – the prize is ICE40HX1K-EVB Question: How preciese is KiCAD and what is the smallest unit in pcbnew?

iCE40HX1K-EVB is Open Source Hardware FPGA board made with KiCAD which is now at assembly line and will be for sale next week on our web. This board can be programmed with the first Free and Open Source FPGA toolchain – ICESTORM.

iCE40HX1K-EVB is designed with KiCAD and we continue our series of questions regarding this amazing tool.

You have chance to be among the first to have iCE40HZ1K-EVB!

To participate in the Quiz is enough to re-tweet the Twitter Quiz announcement message.

To double your chances  answer the quiz question.

You have time to re-tweet and/or answer until Monday 27th of June.

In Monday we will post the correct answer and ask random.org to generate random number in range then announce the winner and ship the board by post/airmail.

Good Luck!

KiCAD knowledge base – Quiz Answer: KiCAD can have up to 32 copper layers

KiCAD can have up to 32 copper layers, quite plenty to finish even very demanding PCBs + 14 technical layers like masks, silk prints, components adhesives, solder paste, edge milling etc. + 4 auxilary layers for drawings and comments.

Thanks for all who participated the quiz. Random.org says our winner is @PetrMoses . Congratulations! Waiting to email us at info@olimex.com your address to send your prize.

 

Friday Free Board Quiz prize is A20-OLinuXino-LIME, Question: How many copper layers you can have in PCB design with KiCAD?

A20-OLinuXino-LIME is Open Source Hardware low cost Linux single board computer with native Ethernet, LiPo battery charger, native SATA and HDMI.

What makes different this board from other similar is that ALL board peripherals keep running from single LiPo battery in case of power loss. i.e. if you have SATA drive connected and USB dongles plug they will keep operating until battery discharge.

Recently we made upgrade to A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 which have Gigabit Ethernet and 1GB RAM and added industrial temperature -40+85C eMMC Flash 4GB which can operate in both MLC and SLC modeto A20-OLinuXino-LIME2-eMMC . Now we are one step away to offer completely industrial grade LIME2 as we successfully tested KSZ9031 Gigabit Ethernet PHY interface from Microchip which performs up to 700MB up and down link and Microchip is offering it in industrial grade too, so it’s matter of time to have completely industrial version of LIME2 operating -40+85C.

 

You can win A20-OLinuXino-LIME!

To participate in the Quiz is enough to re-tweet the Twitter Quiz announcement message.

To double your chances  answer the quiz question.

You have time to re-tweet and/or answer until Monday 20th of June.

In Monday we will post the correct answer and ask random.org to generate random number in range then announce the winner and ship the board by post/airmail.

Good Luck!

Friday Free Board Quiz – the prize is BOX-LIME-BLACK – Show us your desktop challenge!

BOX-LIME-BLACK is awesome metal box for LIME.

You can win this metal box! To participate in the Quiz is enough to re-tweet the Twitter Quiz announcement message.

To double your chances  we challenge you to post on twitter picture of your desktop.

People say that what’s on your desktop that is in your head.

To set example – here is my desktop, as you can see in my head is completely chaos:

I do wonder what is in the people head if their desktop is empty and clean 🙂

You have time to re-tweet and to show us your desk until Monday 18th of April.

In Monday we will ask random.org to generate random number in range then announce the winner and ship the board by post/airmail.

Good Luck!