Re:load Pro, an Open Source Active Load
Open source test equipment has to be one of the best gifts open source hardware has given back to the community. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of [Nick's] Re:Load Pro over on...
View ArticleVideo: Getting Your Feet Wet with Programmable System On Chip
Ever since I received my PSOC 4 Pioneer kit from Cypress I have wanted to play with this little mixed-signal Programmable System-on-Chip (PSOC) developer board. I love developer boards, providing...
View ArticleBuild an AM Radio Transmitter from a CPLD
[Alex Lao] has been playing around with the CPLD-like parts of a PSoC. Which is to say, he’s been implementing simple logic functions “in hardware” in software. And after getting started with the chip...
View ArticleReading the Unreadable SROM: Inside the PSoC4
Wow. [Dmitry Grinberg] just broke into the SROM on Cypress’ PSoC 4 chips. The supervisory read-only memory (SROM) in question is a region of proprietary code that runs when the chip starts up, and in...
View ArticleHackaday Prize Entry: Fighting Dehydration One Sip at a Time
Humans don’t survive long without water, and most people walk around in a chronic state of mild dehydration even if they have access to plenty of drinking water. It’s hard to stay properly hydrated,...
View ArticleGet You an E-Textiles Sensor That Can Do Both
[Admar] is a software developer who was introduced to e-textiles in 2011. The bug firmly took hold, and these days he gives e-textile workshops at Eindhoven University of Technology. Here, students...
View ArticleNew Contest Puts PSoC Boards in the Hands of 50 Entries
Today marks the beginning of the PSoC IoT design contest. Show us your idea for an interesting Internet-connected thing and we’ll send you a dev kit to actually build it. With the help of Cypress,...
View ArticleHacker Turns Thermal Clacker Into USB Keyboard
Back before there were laptops and subsequently, netbooks, there were these adorable thermal typewriter/word processors that are lovingly referred to by their fans as baby wedges or wedgies. These...
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