New toy in the mail

March 22nd, 2008

rabbitcore 4400WYay! A development kit for the rabbitcore microprocessor board showed up today! Usb connection to interactive debugger and editor. Tcp wifi stack. All out-of-the-box with a prototyping board. The thing is the size of a credit card (1.84” × 2.85” × 0.50”) and runs on 3.3v. Amazing what people out there in the world are accomplishing.

2 Responses to “New toy in the mail”

Jamie Thingelstad

March 22nd, 2008 - 6:15 am

That is really nifty! What are you going to build with it?

Louis

March 23rd, 2008 - 1:35 am

Can’t really say what it’s for just yet… But it involves remote process control. :)

These little things are really powerful though. Today (from more sample code) I had it running a handful of little web apps.

I have to say… Having a bare circuit board in one hand and an ipod in the other - using safari to turn LEDs on and off via lan web - really speaks to the primal geek in me.

Has me a little nervous though - this little bugger’s just a hair over a hundred bucks. I’ve worked with microcontrollers before and haven’t smoked anything yet, but those were ten or twenty dollars tops.

Next up: gotta get some ADS7828 eight channel 12 bit a/d converter chips. The 4400W board (wifi enabled) doesn’t have the adc capabilities which the other models have if you can believe it.

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