Not my finest post, but there it is: I wish I could get my hands on a CodeBug or two.
Sagar
Hi Sagar,
strange question It seems there are a lot in stock (394 in this moment).
Instead me too want one and I have done a mistake so I can't buy From Spain there is a limit of 50 Euro min for buying. Just yesterday I have ordered two Raspi PI and another stuff... I was SURE I was forgetting something and it was. I forgot to order a codebug ! Result I can't buy it until the next big order.
Enrico
I bought one because it's just pocket money and I wanted to see which Microchip PIC it uses and if you actually got access to a schematic if you bought one (you don't unless things have changed since the weekend). This is weird (to put it kindly) since on the Kickstarter campaign they promised it would be open hardware. If I ever get round to it (it's not a priority) I'll trace out the circuit and work out how to gaol break the PIC. It has some test points that look as if they might give access to a PIC debug port - if so you could use usual Microchip tools to write some proper code.
I can't help thinking how much better the whole thing would be if they had used an ARM Cortex based micro with a decent amount of RAM (it has 2k) - it might have cost a tiny bit more but would have been so much more useful.
MK
It's funny you saying that, I just made a post to their Facebook page asking for the schematics and source code for just that very reason.
The debug port you mention does remind me of a Pickit port.
I'll be very interested to hear how they respond.
MK
I checked now the Kickstarter page but seems that any reference to the open source / hardware has disappeared. There is instead a short list of what is the PIC microcontroller used and the device characteristics. Seems no more.
Enrico
The reference is still there on this page - scroll down a long way to just under the Union flag.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/922345933/codebug/description
MK
Quite a few projects over the years have suffered from vanishing schematics/source code : (
A few off the top of my head are a so-called open source spectrometer, and a network analyzer.
Same with OpenPi, the "free design files" are not where they state them to be.
Slightly unrelated (since they don't state that schematics/source will be supplied) is fpga4fun.com who
sell effectively dev-boards/educational boards as closed source. It makes them useless in my
opinion.
It really bugs me !
I don't mind at all if people make and sell proprietary stuff but I get mad about when they pretend that the motive is charitable or educational and apply a little "opensourcewash" to oil the wheels. The educational value of the RPi, Codebug, PiFace etc is massively reduced by the code and hardware secrecy.
MK