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Ben Blinkenlights
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This is an umbrella project for various items related to using the 8:10
card slot of the Ben Nanonote. The "flagship" sub-project is no longer
the top-level LED board but the Universal Breakout Board, in ubb/
. The original blinkenlights, a board with a line of LEDs
cam/ Outline of the board; obsolete
ext/ UBB variant with ground between signals; obsolete
ioscript/ GPIO test pattern generator; experimental
libubb/ Helper functions for accessing UBB
lpc111x-isp/ In-system programmer for NXP LPC111x MCUs
nxuart/ Card with ATmega48 in UART configuration; incomplete
swuart-chat/ Software-implemented UART (on UBB)
ubb-jtag/ JTAG via UBB (example for Milkymist One)
ubb-usb/ Design for hypothetical UBB-based USB host
ubb-vga/ VGA output using UBB and minimal circuitry
ubbctl/ Set and query UBB signals from the command line
ubb/ The Universal Breakout Board (UBB)
Blinkenlights
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This project is a proof of concept implementation of Rikard Lindstrom's
idea of using the Ben's 8:10 card slot as a general extension interface
also for devices that don't speak MMC or SD/SDIO. The application is a
simple LED circuit, as suggested by David Samblas.
The 8:10 card slot gives access to six GPIOs, a 3.3 V supply that can
be switched on and off by software, and ground. We use a simple form of
multiplexing to drive ten LEDs with this interface.
Note that one should only light one LED at a time. If multiple LEDs are
lit, they will share the current though the common resistor, and will
thus be less bright than a single LED.