New pictures from the manufacturing process of the tinyK20 boards. Now all parts to be populated have been arrived at the manufacturing, so populating the boards can start soon:
tinyK20 PCB Bottom
tinyK20 Production Boards Ready for Parts
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Category Archives: Boards
tinyK20 Board in Manufacturing
The manufacturing of 200 tinyK20 board is progress, and I’m sharing pictures of it :-).
Rendering from CAD Tool, top side:
Top side with gold plating and mask
Playing Tetris with a FRDM-KL43Z Board
How about to use the Freescale FRDM-KL43Z board (see “Unboxing the Freescale FRDM-KL43Z Board“) to play a Tetris game?
Kinetis Drone: Graupner ESC S3055 Failure
While developing my driver for the Electronic Speed Controllers (ESC’s) for my quadrocopter (see “Kinetis Drone: Driving the Electronic Speed Controllers“), I noticed a some strange smell, followed by a failure of one motor ESC 😦
Quadrocopter ESCs
Zumo Robots at Maker Faire in Rome (16. – 18. Oct. 2015)
I won’t be able to attend the Maker Faire in Rome (16. – 18. Oct. 2015). But five of the Sumo bots students from the previous semesters have built and programmed will be there.
Sumo Robots
Kinetis Drone: Sensor Fusion Toolbox
Flying a quadrocopter without some sensor and microcontroller intelligence will be a challenge. Definitely I will need some intelligent sensor data to help me out :-). Luckily, there is a Freescale ‘Sensor Fusion Toolbox’ and Library which gives me a nice start and visibility into the sensors I plan to use:
Sensor Fusion Data
Added Micro SD Card Socket to FRDM-K22F
Probably for cost reasons, the Freescale FRDM-K22F does not come with the micro SD card socket populated on the the board:
Freescale FRDM-K22F Board with no SD card socket
With a little soldering skills it is possible to populate the socket so the board can be used with a file system on it :-):
Using SD card with FRDM-K22F Board
SWD Debugging the FRDM-KL43Z
It is possible to use the Freescale FRDM-KL43Z to debug another board (see “Using the Freescale Freedom (FRDM-KL43Z) to Debug other Boards“). The FRDM-KL43Z has an on-board debug probe integrated, the OpenSDA. But it is easily possible to debug the board directly with a SWD debug probe like the P&E Universal Multilink or the Segger J-Link.
Debugging the FRDM-KL43Z with SWD
Kinetis Drone: Driving the Electronic Speed Controllers
In “Kinetis Drone: Frame Construction with Graupner Race Copter Alpha 250 Q” I have assembled the frame for my Kinetis Drone. In this post I’m going to drive the ESC’s (Electronic Speed Controllers) with the Freescale FRDM-K22F board:
Graupner S3055 ESC (Source: Graupner)
Learning from Failure: QFN Package Corner Problem
Every day, there is something new to learn. And having problems is always a good learning opportunity :-). Yesterday we were able to find a strange problem with our tinyK20 prototypes, just before we were about to send the design for manufacturing.
Kinetis K20 on tinyK20 Board
MCU on Eclipse 