I've come into some free time so I'm moving ahead with a couple of projects I've been trying to get going for a looong time.
First is the MSP430 board I've been thinking about for a long time. I'm currently finishing up the schematic and layout (PCBExpress) so that I have a baseline setup to work from. I've put on a 2MB serial flash, accelerometer, gyro, current sense, switches, LEDs, and an energy harvesting circuit based on Linear Technologies LTC3108. I'm designing it to fit into a small project box I'm scavenging from audio crossovers I bought from The Electronic Goldmine. Ideally this will be able to run forever with the energy harvesting and serve as a long term data logger.
Second is the negative voltage generator circuit to fix the defunct display on our NordicTrack treadmill.
Other things I'm currently thinking about and trying to work in to the schedule include FPGA based test equipment, wireless for the data loggers (I'm leaning towards the ANT bluetooth protocol currently), getting some imaging stuff going, tinkering with the android SDK, learning Python for the PC interface for a lot of these things, and playing with the MSP430 Value line kits $4.30 a piece!!!! and the 2013 parts I got a year or so ago.
I'll see if I can't be a little more consistent with posting updates from here on out :)
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