With this project, we'll be creating hard- and software for enabling ethernet on an Atmel microcontroller. fd0 first built a prototype of it on lochraster and then made a fully-featured PCB afterwards, which will be sold as a construction set later on. Everyone with moderate soldering skills will be able to build this device. Only two SMD-devices are used (One is optional - And yes, that's a feature!).
At first we only had the design-target to create an ethernet-enabled microcontroller platform. But then we thought of all the great things that could be done with such a device and therefore added a lot of different interfaces and hardware. Today, the following features are either built-in or easily available:
Extensions:
Housing:
On the pictures you can see that only a few different parts are needed for ether-netting a microcontroller. The later prototypes show the various plugs for all kinds of nifty enhancements. Every unused port pin on the controller is available as a pin.
The etherrape firmware is in active development, please test the development version!
Up to now, the current stable version is 0.1, which can be found here:
The development version can be found at the git repository website. You can obtain the code in two different ways: Either click on "snapshot" on the top log line in the repository website, or use git to check out a local copy of the repository:
git clone git://git.lochraster.org/fd0/etherrape
This checkout can be updated with
git pull origin
In order to work with the etherrape firmware, you only need a few things:
Documentation can be found our wiki and support is available via the mailing list etherrape _AT_ lochraster.org listinfo and subscription here. If you're lucky you can try asking questions on IRC (#lochraster.org on irc.oftc.net).
For the construction sets (hardware v9), there are some more interesting documents:
We have given a few presentations about this project:
If you would like us to give a presentation, just write to contact AT_ lochraster _DOT org.
de-SOLUTION offers construction sets and more (Webshop here), prices:
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