Wow. I am still speechless about the generosity of e14 and their sponsors. The couriers were busy delivering shipments to my front door. And after some impatient unpacking, the contents presented themselves like this:
I was blessed with 2 RPI400's (one from the Ask e14 contest and one from the Top Tech Voices S2 E2 podcast) and an UltraScale+ FPGA SCU35 Eval Kit from the webinar. They are sitting on my workbench next to a batch of USB-PD sink boards going into stock at my little shop of electronics soon.
One of the RPi 400 is going to work with me. We are trying to push as much data as possible through the 40pin HAT connector SPI interface. And the RPi400 is the perfect test platform, compact and powerful. I will report results once available, but likely cannot share the design because of IP and such. The 2nd one will become my test thing for everything Linux at home. For the FPGA I have some ideas already, just think z_n+1 = z_n^2 + c. I just need to find some (actually a lot) of time. As I suggested for a new episode in the TTV podcast: "Time Management and Motivational Project Kick-off".
Cheers to the whole e14 team, you are great.
- W.
