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Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics
- anonymousiam 6y agoLooks like a new and improved JTAGulator (https://github.com/grandideastudio/jtagulator/blob/master/JTAGulator.spin https://github.com/grandideastudio/jtagulator/blob/master/JT...) I want one!
- sambeau 6y agoFirst a Haskell compiler and now this. My hometown is doing OK.
- dboreham 6y agoAlso the train to Edinburgh <ducks>..
- 3stripe 6y agoGlasgow is smiles better, everyone knows it
- BitterAmethyst 6y agoIt has nothing to do with Glasgow the city other than being named after it.
- ZirconiumX 6y agoI asked whitequark about the name; it's named Glasgow because it's where the headquarters of FTDI are based, and the initial prototypes were intended to be an open-source serial adapter gateware before feature creep set in.
- mjlee 6y agoAnd a coma scale! Which is a better town association than the Bristol stool scale.
- sambeau 6y agoIf we're doing scales I'd have started with Kelvin :)
- antihero 6y agoWould highly recommend coding on Buckfast!
- jnwatson 6y agoI hadn’t heard of nMigen before. It is great to hear of new stuff in the HDL language space.
- krasin 6y agonMigen is pretty cool and capable. I can only recommend these Youtube series, where nMigen is used to build a full 6800 CPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ZCTuekjGA&list=PLEeZWGE3PwbbjxV7_XnPSR7ouLR2zjktw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ZCTuekjGA&list=PLEeZWGE3Pw...
- msandford 6y agoThis seems super cool! I participated in a USB sniffer kickstarter some years ago called the open vizsla which had problems and was eventually mostly delivered. This project seems like that on steroids. Kind of like a fancy digital scope without the scope but with all the cool protocol decoding.
- RealityVoid 6y agoMy understanding Open Viszla kind of died when Bushing died. I think he was the brain behind it. But some people involved in Open Viszla were involved here as well. Marcan was involved in the hw side form what I know.
- nl 6y agoThe title on HN at this time is "Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics". Is this suppose to be Swiss Army Knife? Or is there some kind of thing where they wanted to call it Glasgow and so then had to invent a new corruption on the Swiss army knife analogy to make it Scottish?
- Igelau 6y agoI'm picturing the tiny knife they keep in their socks when they're wearing their kilts.
- d0ugal 6y agoThat’s the Sgian-dubh. If you wondered what it was called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh
- arethuza 6y agoTraditionally used for handling the heaters in Scottish army ration packs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ry4QBQejFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ry4QBQejFU
- 082349872349872 6y agoWenger and Victorinox have a sweet racket on army knives. The one the army buys for each recruit doesn't have a corkscrew, so they know they'll always sell a second one (bought with private funds) which does. The corkscrew is important because, being the army, Kirsch is of course streng verboten: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/archivperlen/video/fondue-in-der-schweizer-armee-1960?id=554bd582-3daa-48ed-992f-c1c658aa44b1 https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/archivperlen/video/fondue-in-der-... Edit: Caucasians had been doing "ballet for little boys" years before John Woo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-df9ujMa54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-df9ujMa54
- 082349872349872 6y agoIn the days before silverware was part of a table place setting, "alternation" of males and females at a meal wasn't just polite, but ensured no one was too far away from a knife.
- RealityVoid 6y agoFor the moment you have to build it yourself if you want one. I know that Esden on 1Bitsquared is working on productivizing it, but it's still a work in progress. I actually bought all the stuff I need to build one, but I just didn't get the time to assemble it. And I'm a bit scared of the BGA package that is used o the Lattice FPGA.
- detaro 6y agoAnd if you want to know when you can buy it, you can sign up for notifications here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/glasgow https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/glasgow (sidenote for those not familiar with crowdsupply: it is a crowdfunding platform, but specialized in electronics hardware and a lot stricter in vetting projects than Kickstarter)
- sleavey 6y agoHow much were the parts?
- RealityVoid 6y agoI bought a batch of other stuff besides it, but the BOM goes @60 EUR for a board, I think, but my memory might be playing tricks on me. And the PCB's I ordered off JLCPCB for @25-30 EUR for 10 pieces. Also, the Lattice iCE40 FPGA's you _have_ to get off of Digikey, since they're the only ones that stock them and sell them in reasonably low numbers.
- roland35 6y agoI have a very basic version of something like this called a Bus Pirate, based off of a PIC. Unfortunately the Bus Pirate is more or less a dead project. I also have a Saleae logic analyzer which is a fantastic tool, but only reads data. The Glasgow is a huge upgrade to the Bus Pirate! Most of the time I don't really need too much capability when experimenting with a new sensor or peripheral but I am sure the Glasgow will come in handy in development.