Many moons ago, Jonathan had someone (Chris Grill) designing programming boards for the TMS570 since the one we use was obsolete. That never went anywhere. I recently saw a bunch for sale and bought them up and now have 10-ish additional boards. In addition, Carl Wick designed a nice little 3D printed case for them.

Right now, Zach, Rich, Bob Strickland, and I have at least one board and Rich and I have a couple prototype cases.

My question is: Is someone other than Golf-TEE folks and Pacsat really planning to use the TMS570 and could benefit from the programming boards? If not immediately, I can hold onto them, but I don't want anyone to waste time trying to build or buy them again now that we have plenty.

73,

Burns Fisher, WB1FJ

AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software

PS: To be clear, there are at least three ways to load a program into a TMS570: One is via a LaunchPad evaluation board, which has something similar to the programming board built in. Another is a TI XDS110 programming device (a $200 piece of hardware that may or may not be available). And third using this board that I am talking about, a $20 board called a SensorTag board. (And Heimir has also written a boot loader to load via a serial port, but it must be loaded using one of the above methods in order to be used).