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September 7, 2006

High powered microcontroller/FPGA board

by @ 6:40 pm. Filed under Electronics

The QWERK controller board
This QWERK board has pretty much everything a hobbiest developer could want.

A place called Charmed Labs has come-up with a very powerfull, fully featured controller board which would be suitable for any number of hobbiest projects from robots to ride vehicles.

The board has a somewhat unusual configuration with a nice ARM CPU, a couple FPGAs, a few high-current drivers, quite a handful of hobby servo outputs, ethernet, USB, and more. Even though the pricetag is $330, this would be a fantastic board to have around to do experimenting and prototyping, although it's certainly not the kind of thing you'll want to embed (waste) in tiny projects.

The QWERK features:

Thanks to Case on the Coolest-gadgets.com forum for finding this. The potential of this board is amazing -- I've rarely seen this kind of equipment on industrial controllers (which are also I/O heavy) and certainly not at this price.

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