PIC boards for hobbyists and DIYer
January 14, 2012 by sebastien.lelong

Batches underway !

After several month working of Bee improvements, new PCBs for Jaluino Bee v2.1 have been ordered from SeeedStudio. Several other PCBs have been ordered as well: some more Mini-Crumboard, and a new shield, Mini-ProtoGrove. I’ll post more about all of this when I get PCBs and build new Bees. In the mean time, you can have more details in forums and pre-order PCBs:

  •   •   •   •   •
November 26, 2011 by sebastien.lelong

Troubleshooting SD memory cards

This is a recurrent issue: “my SD card won’t work, I tried the sample, I triple check hardware, it just won’t work”. The main problem here it’s hard to get feedback and report it to jallib library’s author (namely Matt). Different issues were previously found:

  • some brands seem to work better than others. For instance, SanDisk is reported to work nice, whereas there seems to have troubles using Kingston’s.
  • some SD cards will require pull-up resistors, some won’t.
  • and SDHC, high capacity SD card, aren’t supported.
Read the rest of this entry »
  •   •   •   •   •