Apollo3Blue is now available in Europe via the webshop of Fujitsu Electronics Europe GmbH: http://shop.feeu.com The best way to start with Apollo3Blue is to use the evaluation board http://www.feeu.com/shopAMA3BEVB For later on prototypes Apollo3Blue is available in BGA (AMA3B1KK-KBR) http://www.feeu.com/shopAMA3B1KK-KBR or as CSP (AMA3B1KK-KCR) http://www.feeu.com/shopAMA3B1KK-KCR Datasheets and latest software is available at the Ambiq Micro … [Read more…]
Looking back to the magic N-track train I was searching for something bigger but using the same firmware with advanced features. I decided to keep the ClickBeetle standard to add more boards offering to possibility to build a flexible HMI. The base board called HmiBeetle is capable to add up to 5 ClickBeetle boards … [Read more…]
Happy Valentine’s Day with some help of http://www.feeu.com/clickbeetle using BlueBeetleI with Ambiq Micro Apollo1 MCU, PowerBeetleI and a custom LED matrix LED board with pink LEDs.
Do you remembering my magic H0 train moving with no cables on the tracks? See my old blog entry… I did it again, but now with use of an ultra small evaluation platform called ClickBeetle so I could minimize the result from H0 into a n-track sized wagon. … [Read more…]
First schematics of ClickBeetles BlueBeetleI, PowerBeetleI and SensorBeetleI are online at http://feeu.com/clickbeetle At the website there is also some first software example available.
The Mobile Station 60652 is a very old MFX and MM station from Märklin available for around 20-40€ at eBay. Normally this is not the intended use case, but I had the idea to disable the internal micro controller by holding it in reset and drive the whole station by srcpd via a Raspberry PI. … [Read more…]
You are right, Maerklin 4316 is not a central but a normal waggon. But with a RaspberryPI running srcpd and Rocrail this waggon can be easily turned into a DCC central. We need a circuit creating a differential protocol from the serial stream of the RaspberryPI Zero W, so for that I had used DigiSpark Mini … [Read more…]
ClickBeetle celebrates Christmas with the ChristmasBeetle baseboard for example using BlueBeetle I. See the schematics: Schematic_ChristmasBeetle_v10 And a 3D PDF of the PCB: 3D_ChristmasBeetle See the video: See more about ClickBeetle here
Starting with ULP MCUs like Ambiq Micros Apollo1 or Apollo2 available via shop.feeu.com is very easy, but designing ULP applications can be a nightmare without good tools measuring the power consumption. For Ambiq Micro Apollo Series MCUs Fujitsu Electronics Europe GmbH realized different possibilities to measure ultra low power consumption. On the one hand FEEU … [Read more…]
Working on first iOS applications for ClickBeetle. Stay tuned and subscribe for the FEEU newsletter! More at: www.feeu.com/clickbeetle