First, let’s congratulate George.  He has graduated from Purdue University as of this morning, so he is now qualified to go forth to solve the world’s engineering problems.  Congrats, George!

With the end of the school year comes moving to new places, and as such, the 8-bit Web server has come out of storage.  What’s different than last time is that it now has the LED array hooked up and playing the messages that Internet users send to it.  To give it a try (and send stuff to the LED array), simply visit http://benlaskowski.is-a-geek.net:8000/.

As I will have a little more free time this summer, I intend to get the 32-bit VoIP board up and running.  I have so far made it send dummy ARP packets over the network correctly.  Complete implementations of TCP/IP and the like are a long way off, but hopefully everything will come together this summer.

Edit:  VoIP32 now supports ARP and ICMP.  Yes, these are small steps, but it shows that different buffers work properly and that I actually can correctly compute checksums in software.  In preliminary testing, the board can echo 1kB of ping data in one millisecond.  Not too shabby…

Tuorial Number 2 was posted today, covering Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) operating theory and the differences between hardware and software implementations.  Check it out here!

We’ve been hard at work here at NBitWonder the last few days implementing some updates to the site, and work will undoubtedly continue throughout the course of the week. While this work goes on, you may consider checking out the new ‘Resources’ tab, which links to all sorts of interesting sites to help quench your thirst for electronics and making things in general.

Sadly, we live in a society that sometimes seems to be run by lawyers.  To that end, the N Bit Wonder team decided it would be a good idea to issue a formal disclaimer.  Please click on the “legal” link above, or just click here.

Hello folks,

George here, letting everyone know that there will be some site changes taking place over the next couple weeks as we transition to a more convenient blogging software and build our website. Stay tuned for lots of exciting updates!

Also, please join me in welcoming Sam Mussmann to the NBitWonder team. Sam is a programming mastermind who will be helping us build our site for the foreseeable future.