After pulling apart a NDSL, I know a lot more! Tracing out the connections, a lot of the LCD pins have a designator silkscreened on, which is totally awesome. I spent a bit of time tracing as many as I could, and then I internetted what I had. That led me to this amazing page, which… Read More: Knowledge is Power »
I like acronyms. They make me look smrt. Designing a board to mate with the Raspberry Pi is pretty straightforward. It’s mostly just a pass-through board. We need a footprint, though. As far as I know, there are no available PCBs out there that people have used the (nonstandard) Nintendo DS connectors on, so no… Read More: NDSL LCD FFC Design (OR: Working with an unknown TFT… »
There’s a new tool on the block, you might have heard of it. They call it a Raspberry Pi, and it’s neither infinite, nor raspberry-flavoured (I checked). It’s a System on a Chip, or a tiny computer. A big part of its selling point was that it was $25. This kinda got shifted up to… Read More: Pie-faced »