SBuCa

SBuCa

Overview

SBuCa stands for Smart Business card and it's a card-sized, e-ink based, embedded platform.

Goals of the project

Its high-level goal is to provide a reference platform for e-ink based display applications and there's nothing better than a business card for that!

Other than that, these are the main goals:

• Completely open source
• Vertical: everything has to be done in house
• Easy to carry along (it's a business card)
• Energy efficient: it's powered by two CR-2032

Everything in SBuCa is open source, starting with its hardware design: schematics and layout are provided along with the whole KiCad project, including eventual custom footprints.

Cumae: SBuCa's proto-OS/firmware

As already pointed out, one of the non-functional goals of SBuCa, since its inception, was to come up with something vertical, meaning that everything had to be done from scratch, even its OS/firmware.

This goal has been achieved by Cumae, the proto-OS SBuCa is currently running.

Cumae, like everything else here, is totally open source and can be found on its own repository.

How does it look like?

Well, it's a business card and it looks like this:

BOM

WIP

Other revisions

This repository starts tracking from the LV (Line Verification) revision; previous revisions (B0, B1 aka "the wingboard") are not available just yet on this repository. If you really need them just shoot the author an email.

Author

The original author is Michelangelo De Simone, a system software engineer that is always open to thinker and hack around with the ultimate goal of learning stuff, breaking things: it's the family business. ;-)