Community news 2010-12-01

• Qi Hardware was assigned IEEE OUI 10-E2-D5 for use in Ethernet MAC addresses and elsewhere.
• Qi Hardware USB IDs added to linux-usb.org [1]
• Elphel and Qi Hardware got a page on Wikipedia.
• Xiangfu got xburst-tools (USB booting and flashing XBurst devices) and fped (parametric footprint editor for KiCad) into Debian/unstable. [2]

NanoNote pocket computer

• Werner Almesberger started to work on a 802.15.4 microSD RF board around Atmel AT86RF230, for use with the Ben and other devices. The goal is to make it work out of the box as a 6LoWPAN device. PCB antenna is being developed 'in-house' at Werner's apartment. Stay tuned. [3]

802.15.4 RF board

antenna performance

• Kristian Paul convinced the Universidad del Valle located in Buga, Colombia to support the development of his free GPS stack with access to a 150 MHz scope.

SiGe 4162 front-end GPS RF IC

Milkymist One interactive VJ station

• roh made a wooden case for Milkymist One at the Raumfahrtagentur Hackerspace in Berlin. The process was QCad to DXF to RABBIT 40B laser cutter. [4] (scroll down)

Milkymist One wood case

Xué digital camera

• The Xué project has chosen the MT9M033C12STC Aptina CMOS censor, and Sharism made a firm order of 30 pieces of that sensor. Now we only need to review everything properly [5], and spend more time on the KiCad process: KiCad to PCB, KiCad to components shopping list (boom), KiCad to SMT.
• Andrés Calderón has issued a call for reviewers. [6]