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Month: August 2017

2017-08-15

So it works. My IO board that has been in development for 7+ months works. The hardware works. Sure there are some warts that need to be addressed in revision C, but it works. It is functional. The firmware works. The CLI-style human interface works and the binary machine interface works. Sure there are some warts, but it works. The Linux portions, the multi-threaded, multi-process, bi-directional serial stack, and misc works. The human interface component Read more…


2017-08-05

Revision B of the board PCB came in and has been assembled. All of the issues from revision A have been addressed. Did find a couple of issues in this revision though. I added microprocessor sanity checking circuitry and IC. It does not work at all. On the PIC24 it keeps rebooting the chip on the dsPIC30 it prevents the ICD3 from connecting to it. I will be ripping it out in rev C and Read more…