It’s taken just over a month for all the parts to arrive but I can now confirm that I have a number of kits available for purchase and immediate shipment.
You can find them in the store at https://m1dst-co-uk.stacktemp.com/shop/thunderbolt-monitor-kit/
Wow – My entire stock of Thunderbolt Monitor kits have sold out. There has been great demand for it. I have just started buying more stock so there might be a small delay if you order within the next 2-3 weeks.
I’m pleased so many of you have been happy with your kit.
I have created a builders gallery to show what fellow builders have done with my Thunderbolt Monitor.
I have finally got a store set up within my blog and added the first product to it.
My Thunderbolt Monitor is now available for purchase. Click here to see the specs.
Source code, schematics and instructions are available from github. https://github.com/m1dst/Trimble-Thunderbolt-Monitor
I’ve decided the best way to manage this project to to supply everything you need to create your own solution (pcb etc) or provide a kit of bits for you to build yourself. That way I always know you at least have the right bits. It’s just not worth the effort providing just the PCB at this point. I’ll post a high resolution photo so you will know how to place the bits.
I will also be able to supply fully built versions for a small surcharge to cover my time. All you need to decide is if you wish to have the LEDs and buttons populated as you might wish to use panel mounted buttons and LEDs.
I’ll post again when all the bits have arrived, I’ve properly costed it and have a working example.
Stay tuned.
It’s been a little while since I posted last but it doesn’t mean I’ve not been actively working on the project. I have drawn out the schematic and PCB using Eagle and will be releasing the files to github (https://github.com/m1dst/Trimble-Thunderbolt-Monitor) with the first version of the source code.
I must stress that these have yet to be checked thoroughly so if you fancy double checking it for me I would appreciate. I plan to get a run of PCBs made in the coming days.
To test the robustness of the monitor I have left it running for a period of 7 days. I am pleased to report that the unit is still working and there have been no crashes or freezes. Need to push in the next piece of code which will allow custom commands to be sent to the Thunderbolt.
This post is to introduce my new open source Trimble Thunderbolt Monitor v1.0. It is based on the Netduino hardware platform. It displays the status of the Thunderbolt on a 4×20 LCD screen. It is purely the first iteration of the code and I have a number of extra features to add in point releases.
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks developed back in 1985.
NTP provides Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) including scheduled leap second adjustments. No information about time zones or daylight saving time is transmitted; this information is outside its scope and must be obtained separately.
It is usually able to maintain time to within tens of milliseconds over the public Internet and can achieve 1 millisecond accuracy on local area networks under ideal conditions.
The current reference implementation is version 4 (NTPv4), which is a proposed standard as documented in RFC 5905. It succeeds version 3, specified in RFC 1305.
Last week I purchased the updated Netduino Plus 2 from Secret Labs. This version has a network port on it which I have been playing with. It’s given me the nudge I needed to continue with the Trimble Monitor. I have been testing out code to act as a web server and I am currently looking at the spec for NTP (RFC1305). Read more