New toy in the mail
electronics, tech March 22nd, 2008
Yay! 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.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:15 am
That is really nifty! What are you going to build with it?
March 23rd, 2008 at 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.