Common Ground Electronics

@cgnd
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Hi đź‘‹, we make nifty electronics!

@cdwilson (+ friends)

Websitehttps://cgnd.dev
Bloghttps://cgnd.dev/posts/
GitHubhttps://github.com/cgnd/
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I'll be speaking at @crowdsupply
#Teardown2025 in just over a week!

I'll walk through how to automatically generate a #KiCad database library based on part data stored in Aligni #PLM software.

Slide deck PDF in the link below if you want to take a sneak peek:

https://cgnd.dev/posts/teardown-2025-talk-are-we-plm-yet/

Teardown 2025 Talk: Are we PLM yet?

Teardown 2025 Talk: Are we PLM yet? A beginners introduction to product lifecycle management for KiCad.

cgnd.dev
Seeed Studio XIAO RA4M1 Board Now Supported in Zephyr RTOS

Support for the Seeed Studio XIAO RA4M1 board has just been merged into Zephyr RTOS by ZMK lead developer Pete Johanson.

Hackster.io

If you've wanted to try #ZephyrRTOS but weren't sure where to start, I wrote up a quick start tutorial that can help you get started on the $5 #raspberrypi Pico 2 board--no other hardware or debuggers required!

https://www.hackster.io/cdwilson/zephyr-rtos-on-raspberry-pi-pico-2-part-1-cf39f0

Zephyr RTOS on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 - Part 1

Zero to (Greek) Hero: A quick start guide for running Zephyr RTOS v4.1 on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board. By Chris Wilson.

Hackster.io

A hands-on first look at the Thingy:91 X cellular IoT prototyping platform from Nordic Semiconductor.

https://www.hackster.io/news/first-steps-with-the-nordic-thingy-91-x-84d082996304

First Steps with the Nordic Thingy:91 X

A hands-on first look at the Thingy:91 X cellular IoT prototyping platform from Nordic Semiconductor.

Hackster.io

Learn how to use the shell utility "direnv" to automatically activate #ZephyrRTOS build environments when working in West workspaces.

https://www.hackster.io/cdwilson/automatically-activate-zephyr-build-environments-with-direnv-65af9c

Automatically activate Zephyr build environments with direnv

Learn how to use the shell utility "direnv" to automatically activate Zephyr build environments when working in West workspaces. By Chris Wilson.

Hackster.io

Short follow-up to yesterday's post showing how to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64)

https://cgnd.dev/posts/intel-quartus-prime-lite-edition-via-parallels-mac-apple-silicon-arm64/

#fpga

How to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64)

Learn how to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64).

cgnd.dev

I recently got a Terasic DE0-CV #fpga dev board super cheap on eBay, but how to run the Quartus tools on my Mac... 🤔

Remote Desktop to the rescue! 🛟

https://cgnd.dev/posts/intel-quartus-prime-lite-edition-via-remote-desktop/

How to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Remote Desktop

Learn how to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Remote Desktop

cgnd.dev

Got the PCBs in for the đź§Ľ #SAO last night lol

This one started out with me trying to stick a SAO connector into an actual block of soap…turns out it's REAL hard to get things to stick to soap. So it became a PCB instead.

https://hackaday.io/project/198497-saop if you want to follow along.

#hackaday #supercon

SAOP

THE SAOP LOVES YOU

Finally got this PCB assembled and tested with a #mikroe Click board that has a BME280 sensor. The backlit logo experiment turned out pretty neat looking!

I don't actually have a real conference badge (yet), so I put together a quick “SAO host" breakout board for the #raspberrypi #pico boards.

#hackaday #supercon #SAO

@gvy_dvpont found a use for https://nationalparktypeface.com/ after you posted about it (wanted a “sign” looking title on the top of the back side of the board) #hackaday #supercon #SAO
National Park Typeface

Cargo