I stopped at a gas station that I frequent today and one of the regular attendants greeted me (I live in Oregon, where they don’t trust us with gas). This time however, he studied me a little closer, looked my car over, and finally back at me to say… “I gotta ask, how… what do […]
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Rapid Development Continues
We received our order of the Pi Shield 1.1.0! We were very excited to start testing the new design since it included many updates. Aaron started with the power supply and quickly noticed a problem. After some troubleshooting, we found that the ground plane had been shorted with the 5 volt supply. We double checked […]
Pi Shield 1.0.0 – A Great Learning Experience…
The Boards Are Finally Here I received our boards on the 1st of July and they looked great! Here are the first looks…
Pi Shield 1.0.0 is almost ready to be made!
We’ve gone through a couple rounds of feedback from the manufacture and making some minor adjustments. We’ve also added a sweet new logo!
Pi Shield Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi โ PCB Layout
We have finished version 1.0.0 Rev 0 of our board and sent the Gerber files in for review by the manufacturer. If all goes well, we’ll have boards ordered by early next week!
Pi Shield for Raspberry Pi – Layout: First Try
This project went dormant for a while, but we are getting back into it and make good progress. Here is a screenshot of our first attempt routing the PCB using new tools. There are some areas to clean up, but considering how long this took us the first time we tried manually, Ki CAD’s auto-routing […]
Nine Stars Automatic Trash Can Lid Stuck… Fixed!
I purchased a Nine Stars DZT-50-9 Touchless Trash Can about 3 months ago. The automatic lid was working fine until this morning. The lid was opening very slowly, as though the batteries were dead. After replacing the batteries, the lid would no longer open. When I waved my hand across the sensor, the lights would […]
Mame UI Now Available
We have a new project! Mame UI. A very simple front-end for the MAME emulator. It loads the output from MAME and allows you to search through the games. Clone our project: git clone https://github.com/IdleEngineers/MameUI.git
Book Review: Linux Kernel Development
For the past few months this was my view as I sat down on my couch to enjoy a cup of coffee, some toast, and little bit of Linux. As I mentioned on a Google+ post it was “a balanced breakfast.” A while ago I dove head first into Linux by installing the Gentoo Linux […]
Mmmmm… Raspberry Pi (Shield)
The first prototype of our Pi Shield expansion and protection board for the Raspberry Pi embedded computer: