mbed lab board coming soon - Samples up for grabs!
.After a busy year at mbed HQ, I've picked up again on an earlier plan to make a lab board for the mbed NXP LPC1768. Read more about the original concept the blog post entitled On the mbed Whiteboard
Meanwhile, this is the before and after...
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We're expecting this to retail at something around $50.
Write a driver, get one free!
The first samples are currently being manufactured so its time to have a little fun. We are offering 3 lab boards free in return for writing one of the 3 peripheral driver libraries required.
These are the 3 peripherals need a good cookbook page
- 128x32 Graphics LCD, Backlit, SPI Interface, Newhaven C12832
- 3 Axis Accelerometer, +/- 1.5g, I2C Interface, Freescale MMA7660
- Temperature sensor, NXP LM75B, I2C Interface
A good cookbook page includes (among other things) :
- Peripheral driver library (Documented with Doxygen, published under default MIT License)
- Hello world program (written by the user, published under default MIT licence)
An example of a good cookbook page is Nokia-LCD.
The other features of the board are :
- Socket for Xbee (Zigbee) or RN-XV (Wifi)
- 5 way navigation switch
- 2 x Potentiometers
- 2 x 3.5mm Audio jack (Analog In/Out)
- 2 x Servo motor headers
- RGB LED, PWM connected
- Speaker, PWM connected
- USB-B connector (keyboard, mouse, MIDI)
- USB-A connector (Flash drive, Bluetooth, GSM Modem(UK Only))
- RJ45 Ethernet connector
- 1.3mm DC Jack input (Powering USB-A and Servo headers)
So, if you are interested in getting one of the 3 first lab boards, email us at support@mbed.org. Tell us which part you want to write a library for, and send link(s) to examples of your work that's already published.
Good luck!
Chris
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I would definatly be interested :)
Cheers
Ceri