One of the things I like most about Sparkfun is their “Ding and Dent” sales. You basically get a broken board for a couple of bucks. Sometimes you might even snatch a good old stock board or a working board with a blemish for that price. It’s luck of the draw, so you never know [...]
Being a fan of Arch Linux I decided to install Plugbox on a Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar that had been sitting in my closet for some months now. Plugbox is basically a port of Arch Linux for the ARM architecture. The Seagate Dockstar, on the other hand, is a Linux powered mini-computer with some impressive features [...]
In my last post I documented how I used the Bus Pirate to test my new AR1010 FM Radio Receiver. While, it was fairly simple to control the AR1010 with I2C commands from the Bus Pirate’s terminal, it’s a bit of a pain to enter those 18 initial values for the AR1010 registers. Luckily, we [...]
With a reciever that lets you tune to radio stations in the 76-100MHz range, power requirements of only 3.3V at 11mA, and an I2C control interface, the AR1010 FM radio module from Airoha is one cool chip. Intrigued by this little FM reciever, I picked up a Sparkfun AR1010 Breakout Board to give it a [...]