Our Copper AVR32 Stick stock is expected to be ready to ship on February 26th! A bit later than we had hoped unfortunately. We are also transitioning to a full make-to-stock system, which should dramatically reduce the time to ship. Previously, we had been customizing each board based on your selections, which added in a 2-5 day delay from order processing to shipping.
Coming soon: new products!
We’ve run out of Coppers! You can backorder now, and we will ship within 1-2 weeks.
We are also planning on upgrading our production, allowing us much shorter order to ship times.
Happy New Year to everyone! We have been busy fulfilling all of your orders and questions, leaving little time to make posts on the blog. Thank you to everyone who has ordered, making the Copper our best selling product yet.
On the business front, we are announcing new international postal service pricing. You can now get your package delivered to anywhere* in the world for a low fixed price in 6 to 10 days via USPS Priority Mail International. The base price for this service starts at $16. Our old pricing was automatically computed, but often times would return wildly inaccurate prices and overcharge you, causing us to issue partial refunds for shipping. This new flat rate option should simplify everything.
(* You’re out of luck if you’re in a US Trade Embargo country – sorry)
The first revision Megavore boards are now available in the store!
There is one caveat to the board: the Arduino shield function does not work well as the pin spacing is incorrect. As such, we have labeled the board the “Non-Arduino” version. However, if you are looking for a general purpose XMega development board, pick one up today!
We are also critically low on male pin headers – more are coming but orders may become delayed.
We’ve just posted the Copper AVR32 stick/development board quick start guide, which is available at the download site: http://dl.stackfoundry.org/hardware/copper/
The Copper features an integrated USB bootloader which allows for reprogramming the device with nothing but the USB port. However, it can be a bit confusing to get everything set up correctly (install the trampoline in build rules, use the right linker commands, and get the drivers working), outside of AVR32 Studio or the included AVR32 Software Framework examples (which are a great way to get going by the way).
The most important document is the following PDF from Atmel: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc7745.pdf, which is meaty enough to require several read-troughs.
We have prepared the following tips to get running with the DFU:
A Wiki with more collaborative information is in the works, so stay tuned!
Copper on a breadboard
We have also posted a smattering of new products:
Thats it for now!
We’re busy making the needed changes to the Arduino standard libraries to correctly support the Megavore, and in turn the AVR XMega. Stay tuned for more details!
And good luck to LeafLabs on their STM32 based board!
As part of our open source hardware movement, we have released the schematics and Eagle files for both the Copper AVR32 stick and the Megavore XMEGA header board with Arduino-compatible pinout. The Magnetovore is not yet ready for release, but will be soon(tm). The information is available on the download server:
http://dl.stackfoundry.org/hardware/
As described in the Schematic and PDF, the license used is the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Stay tuned for some of our other projects (looking at the NXP1768 and the MSP430)!
Just a quick update for those of you following the blog: we have made the needed design changes to the Magnetovore PCB to fix the silly errors we made (including the classic TX and RX pins being swapped, how embarrassing). We are also finalizing the pricing for the production PCBs and setting up the last parts of the store (including credit card processing).
To add to the announcement, we are also introducing the Megavore, which is a Magnetovore sans the external SRAM/MRAM interface. All pins are broken out in convenient headers, with an option for Arduino-style female headers (the Sullins PPC series) or no headers (since they’re a pain to remove non-destructively). Pricing is significantly lower than the Magnetovore due to simplified construction and part cost.
Lastly, we’re introducing Copper, the AVR32-on-a-DIL module. Includes the AVR32UC3B1256 (256KB flash, 32KB SRAM), USB port, JTAG header (no need to use it, as the USB based device firmware upgrade can easily program the processor), voltage regulator and crystal. It fits in a DIL-32 0.6″ spaced formfactor, making it perfect for breadboard use. Coupled with the excellent AVR32 Studio, its a quick way to get off the ground with 32-bit microcontrollers.
We will also be adding some fun toys from our parts collection to the store, perfect for prototyping and project purposes.
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