@Cyao0The raspberry pi zero destroyer - the icepi zero
I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero!
In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly:
"FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE."
You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain!
So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2
USB B ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple LEDs.
This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more. I'm very proud the result of multiple weeks of work!
(All the sources are at github.com/cheyao/icepi-zero under an open source license :D)
Big kudos to #C07F3EA2L8G| for sponsoring this
@RaygenSylvieRupe0we done got the thingamajig thingamajigging. gotta get this fully programmed into ergogen and then finish it up in kicad, but its looking good.
@MinglangDu3i followed highway's macropad tutorial for a bit till I reached the "Routing the PCB" part. most of today was math, but i managed to squeeze this in.
@Zia0Never actually uploaded my OnBoard hacker card jam
@ScooterY0Wired up BL in KiCad for 2.4GHZ for a flight computer in progress!
@arav0I made a PCB for the first time :D I've always wanted to make one before but it's always felt really scary and complicated to me but yesterday I decided to give it a try and do something for solder to learn how to make one and for something I'm hoping to do later this month.
It's a pretty simple circuit that basically lights up an led when you press the button. It doesn't do much but I'm really proud that I was actually able to make something and that it theoretically works.
Need to decide what I'm going to actually make for solder though
@Lukas-U08AT086H8E0Ok so today ive worked way too much on this Mod PCB for the xbox 360 controller that makes it USB-C inspired by this but mine is going to be open source and better but i think i got it! its done! i'm going to buy a few with money from #C07F3EA2L8G|
@Irtaza0After digging through Sprig’s schematics, figuring out the right CircuitPython libraries, and spending countless hours debugging errors in Thonny’s serial shell, I finally got my <https://github.com/Irtaza2009/Hackamon|Hackamon code> (submission to #C0809PN4TPE|
@Blu0Pixeldust PCB in progress! It's my first time working on a project other than Swirl
in a while and is quite exciting! So far a lot of what I have added is very similar to my HackPad and I want to expand my horizons, am planning on adding a temp sensor, and maybe try an oled, light sensor, ultrasonic distance, soil etc as I have never used sensors before and want to see what i can do! Im first going to see if I can figure out the temp sensor though as it is quite confusing
@Lukas-U08AT086H8E0From today on i will be posting more scrapbook posts!
## today:
• Learned how to make really cool art with PCB's its really cool
• Made more of my Badge card fo #C08L288G22Y| yep im already working on it even tough it hasent yet started
if you are curios how to do this cool things on a pcb here is a link
@laith1Think my PCB is getting close to being done !!
@laith1Lazy day + was busy with Eid al fitr, but I did do some tweaks with the PCB. Ran the DRC and i got 0 errors or violations which is neat. Just need to keep tweaking until it makes sense. Also forgot to add a diode for the charging module 😭 😭 😭 have a feeling thats important...
@laith1MOORE editing my PCB! Kinda confused myself with the vias, turns out you dont need them when your PCB is only two copper layers and you got through hole pads. Fun!
@laith1Today I started workin on the PCB of one my projects. Honestly, I'm at least 90% sure I'm doing this wrong, but the fun thing about learning is making dumb mistakes and trying again.
Im pretty new to PCB design, let me know how I did. This is a little nerdy (im super into physics rn) but im pretty close to finishing the design of an Alpha particle spectrometer PCB perhaps to send up in Apex! Currently I need a way to store oscilloscope information I dont know how to get (If i send it up, please let me know if you know how to make this thing store acutal info cuz i have no idea) but right now it should be suitable for home experiments if you have an oscilloscope. Inspired by an old CERN OHL design, it uses a subsequent charge preamplifier and high-pass signal filter (all those resistors and capacitors) to get a good reading of the power spectrum from the photodiode on that signal hole.
@pbhak0day 8 of #C045S4393CY|
polished pcb, made routing cleaner, fixed all drc errors
the PCB is now fully complete!
time to stop procrastinating on the case
Day 11/15 of #C045S4393CY|
• updated my pr!
• started learning in making reversible PCB's while streaming in #C07F3EA2L8G|
@pbhak0day 7 of #C045S4393CY|!
done with pcb routing, will start work on case cad tomorrow!!
this took way too long, if they don't extend deadline i might be cooked
@HridyaAgrawal0Day 9 #C045S4393CY|
got PCB of my hackboard done
And for juice quite a lot of website stuff, but got syncing of most waves survived, gonna add other stats like zombies killed etc. error with updating is a few weird sql row security problems which il fix tmrw
@Rmardia0Day 4 of #C045S4393CY|. Today I worked on the PCB for a personal project of a hexapod. I made it foe cafe, but I will not get the PCB, before Monday, so tomorrow I will work a little bit on a physical prototype.
@Boa_n0day 5 of #C045S4393CY| today I speed ran a hack pad keyboard PCB. created a sprig game and worked on the BOM for my printer.
@Boa_n0Day 4 of #C045S4393CY| I worked on my printer adding a few features. I almost think I finished the printer head. I also worked on adding a pcb for an oled and buttons or smt
@Rmardia0Day 3 of #C045S4393CY|.
Today I "speedran" my hackpad for 5 and a half hours straight. I finished the schematic and the PCB, bur I did not have the courage to run the DRC today, so I will do that tomorrow. (Help, I am so tired)
didnt have time to work on the 3d printer but did a 5 hour cafe speedrun for my keyboard pcb
@pbhak0day 4 of #C045S4393CY|
got some work done on the schematic. fixed some errors in the matrix wiring and assigned footprints for key types.
next on the list is figuring out stabs, then i can get to work on the actual pcb!
@Rmardia0Today I worked a little bit more on the PCB. I got to the batteries, where I am going to use 18650 Li-ion cells, and I will integrate a battery charger into the circuit. I also started with the footprints and only have to do the terminals now. I also worked a little on the theroritical side on how I was going to make it. I realized that I will probably not get the PCB before cafe is over so from tommorw I will also work on a temporary solution for my hexapod.
Day 3/15 of #C045S4393CY|!
this was supposed to be yesterday but scrappy was offline
Just another boring day on working on my Hackboard case! + Rerouted some parts on my PCB
• Put my Pico in a better position but it was a pain in the ass because the new KiCAD updated is so buggy at least for me like it keeps freezing and crashing. And because the project was made in a older version things where not really compatible but i got it done with no DRC errors!
• I made adjustments to the top acrylic part because in the old version the USB-C would not fit.
• Added screw holes to the case.
• Rendered some really awesome pics of my keyboard.
@Micha0Day 2 of #C045S4393CY|! I did this 2 days ago but forgot to post it - I added a command to OnBoard Live to check how many hours you've streamed!
@EmperorNumerius0Day 3 of #C045S4393CY| did some work on the forge pcb got only 2 rpoutes done bc i had homework and was struggleing mentallly lol
@Codelife0Day 3 of #C045S4393CY| Ideally, I planned to be done with the case, but we guess not cause I spent about an hour in the cafe flipping my pcb neopixel to the backside
@KittyCat0Day 3 of #C045S4393CY|! I didn’t make too much progress, but there was a whole lot of struggle trying to find the footprints for the leds and resistors that I wanted. Lot of searching online trying to find the right part happened today. Once I finally found and assigned the footprints I needed, I tried to import them all into the pcb, but when I did, all I could see was the ratsnest of connections that needed to be made, but I couldn’t see any of the components. I’ll be figuring that out tomorrow.
@Lukas-U08AT086H8E0day 1/15 of #C045S4393CY|!
Today i worked on my Hackboard (its the full keyboard on Hackpad)
• Resized PCB because i decided to make a different style case.
• Searched components for my keyboard: Stabilizers, switches, keycaps
• started to make the new case design. Which will be a acrylic sandwich style.
@EmperorNumerius0Day 1/15 for #C045S4393CY|
Worked on the Routing for the Forge PCB, reduced it from 45 Unrouted routes to 24 Unrouted Routes
@anne0i completed my hackpad v2 pcb + schematic :3 im not suuuper satisfied with the routing and wish kicad had an auto-router like easyeda but i guess i did learn a bunch of new things in the process (working with pcbs without making a 1:1 copy of a tutorial & actually understanding matrixes and mech keyboard operations)
github repo: cryptpad macropad
original update on 12/17/24 :D
@jumpsushi0Crappy Mtracker pcb thing
added all station names, minor silkscreen improvements for readability and clarity
surprisingly it doesn't look too bad
@Hash-AK0Learning KICAD to build a hardware project! I just finished the tutorial from Kicad's official website :
@dave91230Finally completed my PCB for #C083CCAAHM1|, it took like quite some time and even both KiCad and kicad-wakatime crashed multiple times at the same time, ~@/lux please don't murder me~. Just imported the PCB to Fusion and it's time to design the casing for it :)
