[LinuxBIOS] 5 Euro flash hardware

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Mon Mar 12 19:26:33 CET 2007


On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:10:43PM -0400, Richard Smith wrote:
> Ward Vandewege wrote:
> 
> > Suggestions on how to build/where to find such a voltage regulator? The
> > manual isn't very helpful in that respect - at least as far as I can make
> > out. Would adding a resistor to the +5V line be sufficient?
> 
> Digikey or mouser will have lots of 3 pin linear regulators in various 
> voltages.  A resistor would be tricky to make work since the drop will 
> depend on the current draw for that line.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

> Is a schematic of the programmer available?

Yes, right here:

  http://www.loet.de/images/ideflasherSchematic.gif

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator




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