NEWS

Site Update Planned

4 Jan 2010

I've started planning some site updates to hopefully get things rolling here again. We've made a good start by updating the site's coding. Stay tuned! And, as always, suggestions are welcome.

FreeIO Updates

28 Jul 2008

Despite the lack of news updates lately, things are still slowly moving forward. I went through the site recently doing minor updates. I created a memorial page about Marty. I'm still looking for ideas about what the site should become and how we can best help the free hardware movement. I'm still looking for volunteers who'd like to work on free hardware projects. While I'm not much of an electronics engineer, I think I can improve the website itself and find new ways to use it to promote free hardware. As always, suggestions are welcome.

Diehl Martin RIP

27 Oct 2007

For those who weren't aware, Marty passed away today. He made his last entry in his cancer blog on 25 Oct. Monica updated the blog on the 27th, saying "Diehl Martin passed away this morning at about 5:00, very quickly, in his beloved Monica's arms." I'll continue to keep the FreeIO.org website online.

Toast is Toast

29 Mar 2007

It's been a while since the last update, so I thought I'd better let people know that we haven't forgotten about freeio.org. Ed Paradis and I played with the Toast prototype boards for some time but finally concluded it was best to leave the Toast project in its deprecated state. We ran into some minor memory issues that Marty suggested could be due to a hardware bug. We also decided that the limited availability of the parts used in the design just make it impractical to continue working with. We're contemplating what the next step should be. The idea of designing an inexpensive free microcontroller is still appealing. Suggestions are welcome.

Whither the Toast?

6 September 2006

Marty sent me a couple of boxes filled with FreeIO prototypes, documentation, and other goodies. As part of the process of evaluating which projects to focus on in the future, I've been looking at which project pages seem to get the most hits. Right now the Donut and Toast boards seem to be the most popular. Because of the interest in the Toast board, I've decided to take a look resurrecting the project from its deprecated status. I've passed one of the prototype boards along with a BDM cable and some other tools to Ed Paradis of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group. If we can verify that the prototype board boots linux, we'll try to provide a kernel image and cross tool chain (and move the project back to active status). So far, Ed has been able to power up the board and communicate with it using the BDM cable. We're currently trying to verify that we can read and write to the Flash memory. If anyone out there has any prior experience with a Toast board, either Marty's prototype boards or one that you fabricated yourself, I'd love to hear from you. Meanwhile, you can keep up with Marty's status by following the almost daily updates in his cancer blog.

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Site Update Planned

FreeIO Updates

Diehl Martin RIP

Toast is Toast

Whither the Toast?

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