What time is it? Well, about five to four by my clock, but more importantly it's #Hackster round-up time!
First, for those who've got a shiny new #Arduino UNO Q on their desks, a new Arduino App Lab which adds some nice quality-of-life features including easy project import and export.
Also, it apparently takes 10GB of temporary storage to update your Arduino UNO Q(!)
The Serial Wombat 8B ecosystem - cheap WCH RISC-V microcontrollers loaded with an open-source firmware and installed on boards that act as smart dev-board expanders over I2C - grows four boards larger now, as Jonathan Broadwell launches a new #crowdfunding campaign.
#Technology #News #Electronics #Microcontroller #OpenHardware #OpenSource #Hackster
And last but not least, a project from Max Reble which makes it possible to develop with the .NET framework on* the #Arduino UNO Q - adding support to the Arduino Router that lets the single-board computer side talk to the microcontroller side.
* Where "on" is expanded to mean "when tethered to a desktop running the full-fat .NET software development kit," anyway.
#Technology #News #DotNet #Software #Microcontroller #SingleBoardComputer #Hackster
Rather more welcome news from the world of #science next, as engineers develop a chip capable of turning waste heat into useful computation - which could mean more efficient computers.
Maybe. If it scales: they haven't proven it can be used for more than a single operation yet...
The Serial Wombat 8B ecosystem - cheap WCH RISC-V microcontrollers loaded with an open-source firmware and installed on boards that act as smart dev-board expanders over I2C - grows four boards larger now, as Jonathan Broadwell launches a new #crowdfunding campaign.
#Technology #News #Electronics #Microcontroller #OpenHardware #OpenSource #Hackster
Artistic Employee (m/f/d) Creative Technologist at Bauhaus-University Weimar / Weimar, Germany #Jobs
#Arduino #ESP32 #RaspberryPi #MicroPython #JavaScript #sensors #actuatorts #microcontroller #interactive #lasercut #cnc #3DPrinting
#Electronics / #Microcontroller question
I'm looking for an easy way to store some metadata (just a few bytes) with some electronic components.
The project involves #RaspberryPi computers operating a camera and lighting to attract and image night-flying insects.
The lighting includes two components: 1) a set of white high-power LEDs to provide illumination for the camera, and 2) a set of UV, white, green and blue high-power LEDs to attract the insects. I make up these components and attach them to the RPi with pluggable cables. See: https://amt.hobern.net/ to get the idea.
Based on power availability, portability and other considerations, the number and type of LEDs in each component may be different. The camera illumination may use 3 or 6 LEDs or substitute with a ring-light. The attractant may be 6 UV + 1 white + 1 green + 1 blue or 3 UV + 1 white + 1 green + 1 blue or just 3 UV. I want switching lighting components to be plug-and-play.
It's also important to record metadata on the configuration actually used for any session. Right now, it's the responsibility of the user to remember to update a configuration file if they change the lighting. This is error-prone.
I'd be interested in including something in each component that the RPi can read to determine the lights in use. Is there an easy and reasonably cost-effective way to do this? I can easily use cables with more pins. Is there a cheap solid-state component that I can include in each lighting unit and that I can simply flash with some short string or a few bytes and that I can read from the RPi side?
Or am I just wasting time on this thought exercise?
#Electronics / #Microcontroller question
I'm looking for an easy way to store some metadata (just a few bytes) with some electronic components.
The project involves #RaspberryPi computers operating a camera and lighting to attract and image night-flying insects.
The lighting includes two components: 1) a set of white high-power LEDs to provide illumination for the camera, and 2) a set of UV, white, green and blue high-power LEDs to attract the insects. I make up these components and attach them to the RPi with pluggable cables. See: https://amt.hobern.net/ to get the idea.
Based on power availability, portability and other considerations, the number and type of LEDs in each component may be different. The camera illumination may use 3 or 6 LEDs or substitute with a ring-light. The attractant may be 6 UV + 1 white + 1 green + 1 blue or 3 UV + 1 white + 1 green + 1 blue or just 3 UV. I want switching lighting components to be plug-and-play.
It's also important to record metadata on the configuration actually used for any session. Right now, it's the responsibility of the user to remember to update a configuration file if they change the lighting. This is error-prone.
I'd be interested in including something in each component that the RPi can read to determine the lights in use. Is there an easy and reasonably cost-effective way to do this? I can easily use cables with more pins. Is there a cheap solid-state component that I can include in each lighting unit and that I can simply flash with some short string or a few bytes and that I can read from the RPi side?
Or am I just wasting time on this thought exercise?
For the edge-AI crowd, Kneron's expanding its efforts with the KNEO Pi - a #RaspberryPi style (naturally) single-board computer powered by a quartet of Arm cores and its in-house neural coprocessor. Claims it can handle YOLOv5 at over 30 frames per second in a 2W power envelope, which is pretty good.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SingleBoardComputers #Technology #News #Hackster
Now, a little personal background for this next one so you can appreciate how boggled my mind is: my first personal computer had an eight-bit processor running at 3.5MHz. My first IBM compatible had an eight-bit chip running at a whopping 9.54MHz.
#STMicroelectronics has just announced an 800MHz *microcontroller*, the STM32V8 - its most powerful STM32 yet. And, yes, way faster than my old PCs' CPUs. Huh.
