PiZeroWallet#

A pseudo-airgapped offline hardware wallet for cryptocurrency

Introduction#

For various reasons, I have been experimenting with the Bitcoin and Etherium currencies. While I do not have a vast fortune, I still wanted to generate and store my …

Stratux is a project to provide ADS-B data to ‘electronic flight bag’ apps. It can receive “next gen” transponder information, as well as weather and advisories from ground stations. A GPS module provides location, and gyros, accelerometers, …

This video was made to to help @indigi_newton with troubleshooting his wifi card build. Even though the video is from the perspective of helping a single person troubleshoot a card, it is still a nice overview with a demonstration of it working in a …

You can find the files for this project in GitHub: https://github.com/jake-b/Newton-Internal-WiFi

Since the MP2x00 did not come with an internal modem (and one was never sold), each MessagePad came installed with a little plastic cover that fills the space where the RJ-11 jack would be.

I got the revised boards and finally found some time to assemble a board.  This board adds a logic inverter to fix the flow control, and removes some extra traces for an alternate reset circuit.

To assemble the board, I had a stencil made and used it …

Thermal#

Early designs used a linear regulator to supply 3.3v from the Newton’s battery voltage.  It became pretty obvious that a linear regulator would get too hot, and so I changed it for a switching regulator.

I wanted to do a real world test.  The …

It is ugly, but it works:

I soldered leads to a 1-gate logic inverter.  This wasn’t easy because the part is so small.  Then connect it to 3.3v, GND, and the RTS line coming out of the WiReach.  Then I cut the RTS trace on the bottom of the board.  I …

I’m going to call this one a success.

There is an error in the hardware flow control circuit, but that’s due to an error in the N2 Platform documentation.  I’ll take responsibility because I should have more thoroughly prototyped (which I thought I had, …