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February 09 2010

frickelsuppe

Controlling things using a watch

I've bought a TI eZ430-Chronos 868MHz watch. The watch is MSP430 based, which is a very low-power µC - ideal for embedded battery applications. The hi-lights on the board (that's at least my opinion) are the accelerometer and the RF-Transceiver. The whole kit is shipped including a programming/debugging interface and a RF-Transceiver for the USB port.

I've been working on a remote control application which uses the RF-Transceiver module (USB) to control a music player. It works nearly perfect. The second step was: Make a LUFA- (Lightweight USB for AVRs)-based USB host mode controller for the RF-Transceiver in order to allow stand-alone applications without using a computer. I've already announced this project on TI's Wiki page, so stay tuned.

Tags: introduction
frickelsuppe

New project: Sidrosis

I'd like to introduce a new project - The Sidrosis.

Sidrosis is a MOS6581 (also known as SID) based MIDI synthesizer.
The base-board is small enough to fit on circa 3.9 x 3.9" (10 x 10cm).
The project is inspired by the MidiBox project, which is actually using a PIC microcontroller instead of an AVR 8-Bit microcontroller.
The goal is building a synthesizer with a unique sound, open source firmware and full schematics available on-line.

Tags: introduction

January 18 2010

frickelsuppe

About frickel

Frickel is the electronics group of Toppoint e.V. and ChaosKueste.
We develop free, open-source hard- and software.

Typically we meet every Friday at 7 PM CEST in the Toppoint e.V.

Our Address:
Toppoint e.V.
Eckernfoerder Str. 20
24-103 Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein
Germany

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