I am an electronics engineer, employed by a local company, designing very cool stuff. But on occasion I have an itch that has to be scratched, and the only way to scratch that itch is to design some little bit of electronics.<\/p>\n
This occasionally-updated blog will have information about these little designs. Right now, I don’t know whether the designs will be fully open source or what. I may decide to make the designs available as kits, or perhaps just make PCBs available for purchase. It all depends on the time I have available.<\/p>\n
What you might find interesting is that I do as much of the design work on Mac OS X, not Windows or Linux. (There are exceptions, which will be noted when I get to them.)<\/p>\n
For the physical designs (schematics and PCB layout), I have been successfully using the open-source Kicad<\/a>\u00a0suite. I have been building the tools from the main Kicad bazaar “product” branch<\/a>, but there are a couple of developers working on the creation of OS X binaries. I will post links to those binaries as they become available (which should be any day now).<\/p>\n For 8051 microcontroller design and development, I greatly prefer the Silicon Labs<\/a> devices. They are inexpensive, they can be programmed in-circuit with a $39 dongle, and they work as advertised. SiLabs also offers excellent support, and they provide free software tools. Their Eclipse-based\u00a0Simplicity Studio<\/a> runs on OS X, Linux and Windows and it’s pretty good.<\/p>\n That’s all for now. More to come …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am an electronics engineer, employed by a local company, designing very cool stuff. But on occasion I have an itch that has to be scratched, and the only way to scratch that itch is to design some little bit of electronics. This occasionally-updated blog will have information about these little designs. Right now, I … Continue reading Hello world!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latke.net\/asp_digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}