By Andrew Gregory. Posted
We’ve been spending a lot of time looking at Raspberry Pi Pico over the last few weeks, but you don’t need to be an established computer manufacturer to take an existing chip and a few components and combine them on a custom PCB... Bingo! You’ve got a development board.
It sounds simple, and in theory, it is, but in practice, it isn’t – there’s a huge amount about this to get right, which is why we say yay for the likes of SparkFun, Adafruit, et al., who make things for us.
Benjamin Shockley has created his own line of ARM Cortex boards that you can program in either Arduino or CircuitPython. More important than that, they show that when you’re not trying to maximise manufacturing efficiencies, you can make boards any shape you want.
xTool Screen Printer review
Make T-shirts with a laser cutter
TOPS - Traverser of planar surfaces
Aaed Musa tells us how they made their robotic pet
Video Game Module for Flipper Zero review
A module that’s not really for video games
TypeWryter
Apparently, it’s easier to write when you’re not constantly distracted by funny videos of baby animals
Moving Pixel Clock
Erich credits Leoni Etter, Jan Rohrer, and Livio Stadelmann for their help in building this bonkers device
HOMS microprocessor
If the chip shortage strikes again, maybe we’ll end up using something like this
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