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prototype 8

Project Overview

Abstract

With this project, we'll be creating hard- and software for enabling ethernet on an Atmel microcontroller. fd0 first built a prototype of it on lochraster and then made a fully-featured PCB afterwards, which will be sold as a construction set later on. Everyone with moderate soldering skills will be able to build this device. Only two SMD-devices are used (One is optional - And yes, that's a feature!).

Features

At first we only had the design-target to create an ethernet-enabled microcontroller platform. But then we thought of all the great things that could be done with such a device and therefore added a lot of different interfaces and hardware. Today, the following features are either built-in or easily available:

Extensions:

Housing:

Hardware

etherrape schematic

On the pictures you can see that only a few different parts are needed for ether-netting a microcontroller. The later prototypes show the various plugs for all kinds of nifty enhancements. Every unused port pin on the controller is available as a pin.

Software

The etherrape firmware is in active development, please test the development version!

Up to now, the current stable version is 0.1, which can be found here:

The development version can be found at the git repository website. You can obtain the code in two different ways: Either click on "snapshot" on the top log line in the repository website, or use git to check out a local copy of the repository:

git clone git://igit.ath.cx/fd0/etherrape

This checkout can be updated with:

git pull origin

Software Requirements

In order to work with the etherrape firmware, you only need a few things:

Documentation and Support

Documentation can be found our wiki and support is available via the mailing list etherrape _AT_ lochraster.org listinfo and subscription here. If you're lucky you can try asking questions on IRC (#lochraster.org on irc.oftc.net).

For the construction sets (hardware v9), there are some more interesting documents:

Presentations

We have given a few presentations about this project:

If you would like us to give a presentation, just write to contact AT_ lochraster _DOT org.

Pricelist

de-SOLUTION offers construction sets and more (Webshop here), prices:

Current Pictures

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Old Pictures

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