fireside chat with krtkl
Meet the creators of snickerdoodle and get their answers and responses to questions and comments from snickerdoodlers around the world!
Q&A (timestamp):
I don't have any knowledge about electronic manufacturing but considering the price of snickerdoodle, the baseboards seem kind of expensive. Can you explain? (0:00 - 2:50)
I was curious if it was possible to just cut a square hole in the middle of the baseboards for the heat sink; should make both the headers up and down options compatible with it. (3:50 - 11:00)
Intros (11:50 - 13:00)
What happened to gryphon (autopilot), whiteRhino (industrial SBC), and shieldBuddy (Arduino shield adaptor)? (13:05 - 16:50)
Is the 7010 snickerdoodle + 1GB upgrade + 5GH Wi-Fi upgrade gone for good? (17:34 - 21:25)
Are you planning to post any tutorials or demos? (21:45 - 26:00)
So what do you make of the split between the sales counts of the snickerdoodle vs. snickerdoodle black editions? (26:12 - 34:15)
I don't know much about BLE. Is it always operated in paired mode? Or if I have a handful of devices in a small space, can they all send/receive packets to one another or broadcast? (34:25 - 36:05)
Do any of the baseboards require FPGA IP to function? If so, will you be providing that? (36:35 - 37:55)
For someone to take designs from your GitHub and alter/clone/modify them, which PCB toolchain makes sense to use? (38:12 - 40:15)
Do you have any recommendations for FPGA learning resources? (40:55 - 47:12)
Here are the links to the books/learning resources referenced...
Art of Electronics (excellent book for general electronics and circuit design)
www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521809266/
Zynq Book (free PDF also available at www.zynqbook.com)
www.amazon.com/Zynq-Book-Processing-Cortex-A9-Programmable/dp/099297870X
And if you're looking to dive deeper into the FPGA side of things, here are a few books on VHDL, Verilog, etc:
www.amazon.com/FPGA-Prototyping-VHDL-Examples-Spartan-3/dp/0470185317/
www.amazon.com/FPGA-Prototyping-Verilog-Examples-Spartan-3/dp/0470185325/
www.amazon.com/Designers-Guide-Edition-Systems-Silicon/dp/0120887851/
www.amazon.com/RTL-Hardware-Design-Using-VHDL/dp/0471720925/
Some other Xilinx FPGA boards come with node/device-locked version of Vivado Design Edition...Vivado is board aware; can snickerdoodle/black become part of that collection to make it easier to start a project? (47:30 - 51:35)
Can network packets (received via wired connection with piSmasher/giggleBits or over wireless) be intercepted and manipulated by the FPGA before they reach the ARM cores in order to implement something like a hardware firewall or router? (52:48 - 57:50)
Anyone interested in the autopilot project, please email us at: [email protected] (58:00 - 59:00)
What is your dream application for snickerdoodle? (59:15 - 1:03:05)
