Tampa IoT Society – and the start of a new era

This morning before I started my client work, I took a few minutes to configure my highly customized Intel Galileo board and was able to successfully run Windows on a Very Small device.  I’ve order some really cool parts from SparkFun that I hope to integrate with the board over the weekend. 

Also – today I am announcing that I am formally rebranding the Tampa .NET Microframeworks Group as the Tampa IoT Society. Our next meeting August 19st  will be dedicated to going through how to get started and what you can do.  I’ll also be sharing and discussing our vision of what we will be looking at for the next 12 months.

-twb

AVR Unexpected Signature 0x000102

After spinning my wheels way to long and doing countless “bing” searches, I wound up empty on why when I attempt to program my AVR chip I was getting an Unexpected Signature of 0x000102.  This happened on an initial board I created, and didn’t know if it was a problem with the chip or something else.  Once it happened on a second board with the exact same invalid signature, I knew there had to be a common problem.

If you found this via a search, well you know what I’m talking about…if not, you probably don’t care.

I finally tracked this down to a short between the reset line on my processor (underneath a SMD device) and ground.  Cleaning up the board and life is good.

Hope this saves someone a little bit of time

-twb