Author: Jan

DAB Radio Hat

I purchased the breakout board above from ebay earlier, but as I contact KeyStone Semiconductors I am told that these boards have custom programming and that they have no info about the firmware on this module, so be aware – don’t buy these on ebay. I would like to use one of these modules to…

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Connector Size

These 2.54 pitch spring terminals occupy more space than I hoped for, so I had to abandon current sensors on each DRV8313 to get room for them. The red areas are the spring connectors. The yellow is the MCU which I desperately need space around since I will be taking out close to every pin…

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HMI TFT Candidates

This first TFT cost ca 3.- USD and is 0.96″ with 80×160 pixels, 64K colors and what seems like a Half Duplex SPI. What I am looking for in displays are high quality displays with bare-bone adapters only adding connector, PSU and mounting screws. This is the smallest candidate and will be a bit challenging…

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HMI Solution

The HMI solution I find most attractive is stand-alone TFT solutions with UART as interface. I have used a few off-the-shelf displays earlier and the concept is great, but I want to evolve this a bit beyon just a stand-alone TFT – I want a complete, plug & play solution. These displays interface to embedded…

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Smart SPI Schemes

SPI is a very powerfully and fast serial port used between Master and one or more slaves, but I want to evolve the bus into a proper device to device bus. This is actually far more straight forward than I expected as both Raspberry PI and STM32F405 support Half-Duplex modes. RPI only support Half-Duplex Master,…

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Upgraded LoRa Options

I finished the LoRa + GPS w/E22-900M30S earlier today and decided to add in E22-900M22S footprint. The modules are almost identical except in size. The only difference is that 30S have pin 10 to 3.3V while 22S have this to ground, so it is straight forward to have both footprints on the PCB. The 3D…

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LoRa/GPS Hat Annotated

IPX Antenna for LoRa directly on the module. PCB Antenna for LoRa. Power leds + MCU Status. USB Connector for MCU. Separate Power connector. GPS Module. Can use NEO-6M, NEO-7M or NEO-8M. GPS Antenna. USB for GPS Module. UART TTL. SWD STM32F405RG. Powerfully ARM M4 capable of running MicroPython. Raspberry PI Connector. CAN Port. LoRa…

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