So today finally the big package from Farnell arrived. So here is the big unboxing:
Everything neatly packed together - as usual the packaging was excellent (and the box is huge!).
The encapsulation resin, together with the safety data sheet. The second resin package is still missing, I hope it will follow soon. (Btw: note the manufacturing and expiration dates...)
Next we have a nice stack of boxes from Analog Devices:
Time to open them up all (from top to bottom):
The temperature sensor board is really tine, the connectors are much bigger than the small board hiding underneat.
Next is the first accelerometer breakout. This one has the header populated
But the one for the ADXL375 (which I intend to use) not, which fits my goal of a small form factor. The ADXL362 board looks the same, so I skipped on a picture.
This is the ADXL375Z-M evaluation module. To the left the sensor module, to the right the MCU module that connects to the PC. The black part on the sensor module holds this tiny piece:
that is the accelerometer itself. Nice, but really tiny. I need to see if I can find the schematics to see whether it can hold the ADXL345 too (right now there is nothing to be found).
The sensor module for the ADXL362 looks a little bit different:
but in the end its the same (and the chips comes in the same packaging with the mysterious gel in it). Next is the AD8232 board:
Looks a little bit too large to be incorporated in a wearable device. And it doesn't come with sensors. Which is a pity since such electrodes are not something the average electronics engineer has at home...
Last but not least the ADUCM350 eval system - thats a quite collection of boards... There is not CD in the box, and the Analog Devices web page is silent about a user guide...
(But it seems one can find at least the software on the page for the ADUMC350, and there is some documentation in the package)
Fully assembled it looks quite funny. I will see whether the JLink-OB (on the left) can be used with OpenOCD as generic debugger, that would be great.
Last but not least, the TBS1202B-EDU scope:
Again it comes with a UK power cable 
Nothing that can't be corrected. I already wrote a review of the TBS1052B-EDU scope on my personal blog, but I will look at the differences. The 1202B comes with 200MHz probes as expected, I will test how that (together with the higher bandwidth) affects performance.
The scope came with firmware version 2.52, but I found out that in January Tektronix released a new version (3.25) so I upgrade both scopes. Main difference is that the menu system should be faster now.
Next steps
I will be on a one-week vacation starting Saturday, so there won't be any more progress until I come back (and no blog updates). But at least I got by Bluetooth connection working yesterday, so that part is progressing nicely.
When I'm back next step will probably to get the accelerometer running with the PSoC4. I will see whether I can use the bigger breakout board with my BusPirate, because the other one should go on the module board so I don't want to connect headers to it.
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