Hello World, I just wanted to let you know that Rev 2 of both of my boards will be out very soon even though Rev 1 are about to be delivered and then tested. TI just came out with the BQ51050B Receiver and this allows us to have the Qi Receiver ...
Hello World, I have completed a sophisticated Highly Efficient Hot Qi Dog Cape. The boards are on their way! The Hot Qi Dog Cape is a Qi/Battery powered/Qi Charger for the BeagleBone! Presenting the Hot Qi Dog Cape..In Red, Green, Black and...
During these times, we’re now heavily dependent on battery powered devices for mobility reasons. However, the problem with batteries is that they are either needed to be replaced or to be recharged after their power has died out. And when it comes to...
Need for speedOK. All contestants received an email last week about having to finish their project by the 30th of November. That's getting very near! I had sent my board file to OSH park, and everything went nice and fine until I got the expected...
Wireless power enabled home. Imagine how easily is to charge your phone or other device without searching for charger, just leave your device on desk, table any other place with integrated power transmitter. No more lost chargers, just will not ...
beaglebone dayI got the beaglebone working successfully with my current rig.Since I need 5V to boot up the beaglebone I swapped out the Simple Switcher with an LMR62014XMFE/NOPBLMR62014XMFE/NOPB Step Up regulator.It came out of the box with a 11.8V o...
Hello World, I have completed a sophisticated Highly Efficient Qi Lime Pi ProtoShield. The boards are on their way! The Qi Lime Pi is a Qi/Battery powered and prototyping shield for the Raspberry Pi. Presenting the Qi Lime Pi..In Red, Green...
Hello World, I have a short post about what COMPACT has made! It was very impressive that he made the AA and AAA holders with the 3D printer. I wanted to share with you a cheap alternative for those of us that do not have access to a 3D printer....
Design ConsiderationsThis version of QI is designed to pump out 5 watts.To ensure that this maximum is not exceeded;the selected Li-Ion battery charger chosen supports current limiting.the output power supply's specification match Since a Li-Ion...
beaglebone gets a pair of Wireless Qiki UnderpantsI just received a beaglebone last night. Here is a quick video of it in process of being adapted for Wireless and battery operation.Rather than a cape, room has been made below the beaglebone for Wire...
Receiver DesignToday I've completed the design of my Qi Receiver -> 6cell NiMH charger. I'ts been quite a lot of work, and what has struck me both in this design and in my preliminary Qi power BeagleBone Cape is that power management / power routi...
Hello World, I wanted to explore one final design before I create my final PCB for the BeagleBone BeagleBone Qi Cape and Raspberry Pi - Qi Pi. I was very fascinated to see that out of all the designs we explored, the Powermat for some stran...
No So Boring!I've been plagued with really poor ISP performance over the past weeks so apologies for the very short report. There are some situations where my test clips are unable to connect to devices so I have printed my own plastic AA cells....
Ok, ok..... I just overdid myself. I became VERY enthousiastic when Shawn told about the BeagleBone BeagleBone Cape. I think these new Linux-based boards are very attractive to tinkering, understanding embedded processing and making internet-connecte...
Some Devices tested thus farHere's a rough video of some devices tested thus far;players.brightcove.net/.../index.html There's more to be tested including;Sonic ScrewDriverSony PS3 ControllerTV Game Game Gear/ Nintendo
Hello World, Last Week I made a Wireless Power Raspberry Pi. I also made that night a Battery Powered and Qi Charged Raspberry Pi. I would like to show my test setup to see if it would work. This is by no means a good way to do this but I wanted...
Hello World, I wanted to show you the design of the Energizer 2 Qi Position Pad. This is a very interesting design and I will be making a transmitter board similar to this with the TI and Wurth Components. Again, when designing a new t...
Hello World, I have built a 5x5x5 LED Cube From scratch and I wanted to show you how amazing a LED cube looks when powered from wireless power! It looks the same as plugged into the wall. Now, some people might think this is boring but I and mil...
Alternative Applications for QiI conducted a test of the Texas Instruments Transmitter Manager bq500210EVM-689bq500210EVM-689 and Receiver Evaluation Module bq51013AEVM-765bq51013AEVM-765 to check its viability of transmitting power through a Glass d...
Four Modes of power operation with Qi!I've been offline due to a my Cable Broadband provider having a rather lengthy system outage (2 days) and in that time I have noticed that Chad has beaten me to the mark publishing a Qi Powered Raspberry Pi.I was...
Hello World, I wanted to share with you the Qi Energizer 2 Position Transmitter Pad. This is used for any Qi Compatible devices! I wanted to test this Qi Technology and see how well the Qi Technology is adapted throught different designs.&n...
Hello World, I just wanted to clean up a little mess from the previous blog post. I was so excited, and still am, about the Qi Pi that I didn't have a chance to see how horrible it looked when I introduced it to the world! Here is a sm...
Hello World, I have effectively powered the Raspberry Pi by the means of Qi Technology. I would like to present the Pi Qi or the Qiπ (Not sure what I will call it yet...Qi Pi..Qiπ) I was sick and tired of all of the cables that had to go in...
Today I tested whether it was possible to charge a LEGO train from beneath the tracks. At least, I checked whether the receiver coil would be positioned correctly with reference to the transmitter coil. To see whether the power transfer was working I...
Fellow Engineers, I have to apologize, it took me a long time to get this post finally out, but I have been avidly following everything going on in the competition here. School going on is putting a slight damper on the competition, but I am det...
