Posted on 8th Jan 2021
Many DIY's shy away from surface mount resistors and capacitors in boards they design. But I think once you do a couple of times, it is actually quicker to use 1206 components than bending leads for through hole parts and flipping the board over and soldering, then trimming the leads. So here I a...
Posted on 7th Jan 2021
Olzeke took the lockdown and holidays to complete a KiCAD project. He built a breakout board for the LPC54005 and LCD display.
Posted on 1st Jan 2021
Happy New Year. Kicked off the year with a new PCB design. This design is aimed at the ARMstamp and LPC1768mBed boards, as well as Arduino and PMod peripheral boards. Power input with 5V regulator, RJ45 Ethernet and USB for the mBed. Terminal strips on the other end and a large prototyping area,
Posted on 24th Dec 2020
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Coridium. Quiet here with Nanny Newsome shutting down the state. One of our Linux users reported an error in the Show Project menu, which also would affect the search of the whole project. Some tweaks to the BASICtools Tcl code and that has been fixed. The links here and below have been updated.
Posted on 21st Dec 2020
Been checking out various Linux's today, and being like a user. One issue is you must be running the ARMbasic compiler version 9.51 which compensates for some of the differences between the BASIC pre-processor on Windows and the gpp (generic preprocessor) in Linux
Posted on 11th Dec 2020
With the gpp pre-processor, and BASICtools debugged in Linux, it was a small step to support Apple Mac found here.