Hi everyone, I'm new to the board and somewhat new to circuit design (I've debugged and fixed existing boards but never built anything myself), and I've decided to learn by diving in the deep end.
I was inspired by some of the cool stuff I've seen with hacking the im-me devices and Chronos watches, which are all cc111x based devices. So what I'm planning on doing is creating a proto board based on the CC111F32 chip. My end goal is to have a dev board with a working radio (antenna on chip) and all of the IO pins and usb broken out for easy access.
To make things more interesting, I'm going to try this without buying Ti's CC debugger tool. I'd rather not spend $50 on a tool I'm not sure I will use that often, so my plan is to build a programmer based on the GoodFET project instead.
I don't have much to show besides a very small parts list, but I hope to keep this updated as I progress.
So does anyone here have experience playing with this chip or even interfacing with it via GoodFET?
wish me luck
I was inspired by some of the cool stuff I've seen with hacking the im-me devices and Chronos watches, which are all cc111x based devices. So what I'm planning on doing is creating a proto board based on the CC111F32 chip. My end goal is to have a dev board with a working radio (antenna on chip) and all of the IO pins and usb broken out for easy access.
To make things more interesting, I'm going to try this without buying Ti's CC debugger tool. I'd rather not spend $50 on a tool I'm not sure I will use that often, so my plan is to build a programmer based on the GoodFET project instead.
I don't have much to show besides a very small parts list, but I hope to keep this updated as I progress.
So does anyone here have experience playing with this chip or even interfacing with it via GoodFET?
wish me luck