Desk of Ladyada – BQ25185 pt 2, DVI HSTX, LPS28, and CP2105 #DeskOfLadyada
OK, this week, we did get a couple of designs worked on. First up, last week we chatted about bq25185, this week we designed two boards – an everyday lipo charger and a variant of that 3.3V buck output design from last week. Then, we finally got our corrected HSTX to DVI converter boards for our RP2350 Feather and tested them successfully, so PCBs have been booked.
Then, poking around some old PCBs, we noticed that we had an LPS28 we featured on EYE ON NPI breakout we never finished because the chip price was 300% inflated.
Finally, we have a project where we need to communicate with two UART devices at once; looking for dual-UART USB chips, we found the CP2105 at a good price!
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