On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:26 +0900, John Doty wrote: > On Jan 25, 2011, at 12:49 AM, David C. Kerber wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestions, DJ. Unfortunately, there's really no > room for a pc where I have the microscope set up, and most laptops > don't even have parallel ports any more. Plus running a full-blown pc > just to drive a microscope seems like rather a waste of electricity. > > At Noqsi, we're starting to do jobs like this with an Armadeus board > (http://www.armadeus.com/). Tiny Linux system with an attached FPGA > for custom interfaces. Free/open software, firmware, and hardware. You > could use the Linux USB infrastructure. How much does the Armadeus board cost? We use this, which is (in spirit at least), similar: http://balloonboard.org/ (But the designs are open ;)) Prices depend on whether you want an FPGA (Â300) or CPLD (Â200) variant, and are available from http://iendian.com I had a meeting with their design team today, talking about open EDA tools and Open Hardware. Some of these guys are scary serious.. anyone else know someone with a pick+place robot in their garage? http://sites.google.com/site/balloonboards/people Might give you an idea of the people involved. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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