Desk of Ladyada – Floppsy bring-up & a FONA revival #DeskOfLadyada @Adafruit @DigiKey
This week we worked mostly on some internal tools to help us keep more products in stock, but we did get a moment to also do a little hardware!
First up we’re working on bringing up the Floppsy board, our RP2040 Floppy Drive reader/writer/emulator. We like to go piecemeal and get each individual piece tested nicely, updating the BSP as we go.
Next, we had to retire our FONA line because finally it was just too hard to get 2G boards working in the USA. So we’re looking at LTE CAT-M and NB-IoT modules. A friend-of-the-fruit recommended the SIM7080G, which is part of the SIMCOM family we’re familiar with – we’ve just started doing the basic component capture before we re-spin our FONA breakouts!
Also catch The Great Search – this week: Pre-Biased Transistors (blog post)
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