Hello. On 01.08.2016 20:10, Don Zickus wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 12:02:29AM +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >> Hello. >> >> On 28.07.2016 19:40, Don Zickus wrote: >>> Hi Alexander, >>> >>> I was wondering what boards/chips folks like yourself use to develop/test >>> the 802.15.4 work? I noticed the website http://wpan.cakelab.org/ mentions >>> a bunch of boards. Some of those pointers don't work and the ones that do, >>> show standalone boards that need to be wired up to a SPI bus. >>> >>> I assume the SPI bus is easily found on a rPI-like board. Is it difficult to >>> hook one of them up to an x86 desktop? >> >> You might be able to do this with some USB dongle exposing some GPIOs to >> to the kernel but I never used anything like that. Most of my >> transceivers are connected to Pi's. So it goes down to embedded. >> >> I'm in the lucky position though to have two ATUSB dongles which are >> simple USB dongles and get connected to your x86 systems with ease. >> They work out of the box in mainline since 4.1 and the firmware is open >> source as well. The problem right now is that it is now longer being sold. > > This sounds like a simple way to get started... That is the idea. Breaking down some of the barriers. Still not as easy as BT or WiFi but at least a good step forward to use it on a normal development machine. >> >> We are working on changing this though. See my mail from a few minutes >> ago to this list about interest for a new ATUSB production batch. >> Right now we would estimate them being on sale again sometime in October >> (the smaller fabs we are using for SMT is on holiday and we also need to >> prepare things in our spare time). >> >> If this is to far away, fair enough. If it does not really matter to you >> and you would have an interest to use them please let me know so I can >> better estimate the needed number of devices for the batch. > > I don't see an archives for this mailing list, so I can't see your previous > email. How much would this cost? I might be up for buying 5 or so. One archive is on spinics.net. Here is a link to my mail about this topic: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wpan/msg04084.html As you can see we are estimating how big the production batch needs to be. The price point would be 50 EUR with a little hope to cut it down a bit. We can't make promises on the later one though. I will keep the list informed. regards Stefan Schmidt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
