[Blackpool] Fwd: Announce: FIGnition RevE! - You will like this :-)

[Les Pounder]

Hi everyone

Julian has been busy improving his Fignition 8bit computer that you build
yourself, if anyone is interested, Google fignition and and take a look at
this great project.

These little gems were a massive hit at Hack to the Future.

Thanks
Les

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Julian Skidmore <theoriginalsnial at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:49 PM
Subject: Fwd: Announce: FIGnition RevE! - You will like this :-)
To: Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com>


Hi Les,

If you've seen the FIGnition Google group yesterday, you'll have seen that,
I've been improving the FIGnition circuit over the past couple of weeks and
now it's ready with the following, new features:


   - Arduino-Compatible Headers (except that the second set of headers are
   both spaced 0.2" from the first making them Stripboard compatible too).
   - Audio-Mod built-in :-)
   - 0.2mm screw holes on 3 corners so you can attach FIGnition properly to
   some kind of base!
   - A proper ground plane; partial 3v6 plane and wider 5v tracks for
*much*better signal integrity!
   - Shorter connections between Flash, SRAM and U1.
   - Same board area (slightly wider, but slightly shorter).

And Yet FIGnition RevE is still as easy to make - I've stuck to the same
building rules as before with connections always at least 0.1" apart and
easy (better) access to ICs for when you need to lever them out!

One more thing... You might not be aware of this, but the audio mod works
for Audio IN as well as audio out, this means we'll be able to provide not
only audio bootloading, but loading and saving of entire Forth programs to
and from RAM or Flash - an amazing improvement! I've tested it on a
rudimentary audio bootloader, to prove it can work and a proper bootloader
is coming soon!

Take a look at the new FIGnition: because of the extra components there's a
new price: £19.77 + postage

-cheers from julz



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