1. Flying Stone Tiny 01G Test Plan

    We need to specify a test plan to manufacture a board. In order to encourage designing and manufacturing by yourselves, we show our test plan for Flying Stone Tiny 01G here.

    This makes the reproducibility better, I suppose.

    Since our point is the users' computing freedom, we specifically use a …

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  2. Installing Debian Stretch

    Another (somewhat not new) notebook PC of mine

    I got Acer C720 Chromebook this year (2017).

    Since it is a good opportunity, I install Debian Stretch (now "testing") to this machine. It took a half of day (including replacing SDD and BIOS, preparation of USB memory for installation, as well …

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  3. Flying Stone Tiny 01 revision G

    Five years passed from the initial design of FST-01. Now, I have another revision "G", where "G" may stand for "Good" or "Green".

    Update is required for two reasons:

    • The LDO regulator became discon.
    • KiCAD has been changed. Especially, the file format has been changed.

    Components of FST-01

    • STM32F103TB
    • USB …
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  4. Happy Hacking Day 2016 in Japan

    August 8th is Happy Hacking Day in Japan, because "Happy Hacking" sounds like 8 8.

    This year, I explain some ideas behind FSM-55 and show the demonstration of "bricoleur" of mine.

    FSM-55 and its applications

    The board is FSM-55 (Flying Stone Mini Go! Go!), which I designed in 2014: http …

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