Picks and Pans

Digikey and Freescale have created an interesting contest around a new HC12
chip. The chip is interesting as it's an SOC with ethernet, an HC12 16 bit
cpu, ram and flash. It also has SPI and I2C ports.

The contest is interesting in that you submit a proposal. The best 10 proposals are picked and given an eval board. They have 2 months to make their project work. At then end one winner is picked.

The prize is a 4-wheeler, which I don't get at all, but at least it comes with a trailer ("hello ebay!").

Here is the contest page.

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This is not very exiting, but people have been asking me about it. I have a small collection of MPC 8xx (850, 823e, 860) HDLC drivers. Most present a network interface but one I hacked allows userland access to the HDLC frames and modloadable 'filters' in the kernel which can do basic protocol work.

Here's the tar file

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Apparently every four years young hackers in Europe get together and make
a sort of tent city. It's called "whathehack"

It looks like fun, at least if you like laptops and beer :-)

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