Cheaper than Teensy

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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by Helder » Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:08 pm

I've had the first revision for a few days now but haven't had time to test it out, but here it is in real life and no mockup. Plan on testing within the next couple days and of course I ordered the wrong Micro USB connectors which is why it's blank.

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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by username 123 » Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:59 pm

Man, I would love to test this thing out. It's beautiful.

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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by tronicgr » Thu Jun 23, 2016 8:20 pm

Helder wrote:I've had the first revision for a few days now but haven't had time to test it out, but here it is in real life and no mockup. Plan on testing within the next couple days and of course I ordered the wrong Micro USB connectors which is why it's blank.

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Can I have one of the spare PCB's if it's possible, to test it? I have all parts needed.

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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by tronicgr » Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:14 pm

Hi all,

I'll be working on a cheap solution for programming this board via the raspberry itself in command line using avrdude and hooking up a few wires from the raspberry zero to the ISP port of the board.

This way, there is no need to buy additional ISP programmer to load the bootloader. It will be writing the bootloader, program section and fuses in one shot.

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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by Merlin04 » Sat Jun 25, 2016 5:15 pm

Helder wrote:So like I mentioned above that version is already obsolete and I have a new one all done up, I won't be ordering it anytime soon till the one before it arrives and gets tested out. So the new version has a built in USB Hub with 4 connections (1 is already wired to the atmega) with 3 available to wire to whatever you want. Don't ask for prices as I've not looked at the overall cost of parts yet, also there will be another test phase for this version so some lucky testers will get one before everyone else when I decide to send out for testing.
Helder, can you post the schematics for the board?
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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by Helder » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:29 pm

Merlin04 wrote:
Helder wrote:So like I mentioned above that version is already obsolete and I have a new one all done up, I won't be ordering it anytime soon till the one before it arrives and gets tested out. So the new version has a built in USB Hub with 4 connections (1 is already wired to the atmega) with 3 available to wire to whatever you want. Don't ask for prices as I've not looked at the overall cost of parts yet, also there will be another test phase for this version so some lucky testers will get one before everyone else when I decide to send out for testing.
Helder, can you post the schematics for the board?
It's a pam8403 circuit and arduiono pro micro circuit (freely available online) integrated into the controller pcb which is also opensource. Look for these schematics and you can build one too.
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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by Merlin04 » Sun Jun 26, 2016 8:14 pm

Helder wrote:
Merlin04 wrote:
Helder wrote:So like I mentioned above that version is already obsolete and I have a new one all done up, I won't be ordering it anytime soon till the one before it arrives and gets tested out. So the new version has a built in USB Hub with 4 connections (1 is already wired to the atmega) with 3 available to wire to whatever you want. Don't ask for prices as I've not looked at the overall cost of parts yet, also there will be another test phase for this version so some lucky testers will get one before everyone else when I decide to send out for testing.
Helder, can you post the schematics for the board?
It's a pam8403 circuit and arduiono pro micro circuit (freely available online) integrated into the controller pcb which is also opensource. Look for these schematics and you can build one too.
I was specifically looking for the USB hub part. I couldn't find an example online for the FE1.1s chip and the documentation for it was a bit confusing for me.
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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by Helder » Sun Jun 26, 2016 8:50 pm

That was a tougher find but I got it from someone who tested and posted the schematic. I'll post it later when I'm home.
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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by Helder » Mon Jun 27, 2016 12:50 pm

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Re: Cheaper than Teensy

Post by Merlin04 » Mon Jun 27, 2016 1:24 pm

Helder wrote:Here is the schematic:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/9b5wr ... SB_Hub.pdf
Thanks!
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