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by hamster
Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:12 am
Forum: FreeEMS Hardware Dev
Topic: Letting go of the "MegaSquirt mindset" (hardware)
Replies: 35
Views: 52349

Re: Letting go of the "MegaSquirt mindset" (hardware)

Obviously I am late to the party, but here are my thoughts on this: SMD as much as possible. TO-92 parts that need to be heatsinked should be standing up so they can be bolted to the enclosure. I've got a toaster oven and have 'hand soldered' dozens of full SMD boards with my stopwatch 'reflow curve...
by hamster
Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:35 am
Forum: FreeEMS General
Topic: Status, help offered?
Replies: 21
Views: 21861

Re: Status, help offered?

Alright, devel board and jimstim thingy ordered. I actually have the basic stim board, as well as a mostly assembled v3.57 MS board and MS-II CPU now..

Now just to get the build environment setup and re-learn some HC12, wheee.
by hamster
Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:15 am
Forum: FreeEMS General
Topic: Status, help offered?
Replies: 21
Views: 21861

Re: Status, help offered?

Well, if you own the box, what you probably need to do is set the 'my orgin' to be a domain instead of the default, ie, if you ran postfix to deliver mail, you'd want to set the line in /etc/postfix/main.cf to say 'myorgin = diyefi.org' and/or 'myhostname = server.diyefi.org'. Basically, your script...
by hamster
Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:24 am
Forum: FreeEMS General
Topic: Status, help offered?
Replies: 21
Views: 21861

Re: Status, help offered?

SLC, Utah. I currently use the gEDA suite for all my professional schematics/boards, and publish my stuff using a subversion repo that is tied to a Trac interface for the wiki portion, but I'll play with the git stuff and see how it goes. I'll go ahead and order a dev board and see what I can get go...
by hamster
Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:14 am
Forum: FreeEMS General
Topic: Status, help offered?
Replies: 21
Views: 21861

Status, help offered?

Howdy, I'm about to get started on putting FI on my motorcycle now that the drag racing season is almost done. As such, I have until March of next year or so to get it done or get pretty close to it. I was going to go with MegaSquirt, but... I need to build my own board to fit and be water tight for...