Here is your update for the PSoC 4, 100 Projects in 100 Days challenge over at the element14 site.  We're up to 8 projects and announced that next week's projects will focus on the Color LCD Shield.

1. Simple Blinking LED
2. CapSense Slider Example
3. PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit Annotation Library
4. USB-UART Utility
5. USB-I2C Utility
6. Danger Shield with Light Sensor Control
7. Danger Shield with 7-segment display
8. Danger Shield Buzzer of Doom
9. Next week will focus on the Color LCD Shield from SparkFun

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We have a new Component Library that was just added to the Cypress Developer Community Components page.  It contains 20 simple teaching Components and their associated datasheets.  These Components are a great way to brush up on simple engineering concepts like an 8-bit Serial-In/Parallel-Out Shift Register or a Pseudo Random Modulated Density Generator.  You can find them all within the zip file on the Blog post.

Find all the Community Components at www.cypress.com/communitycomponents.

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Cypress and element14 are joining together in a new community initiative around the $25 PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit.  We'll be developing 100 example projects and posting them on the element14 community site over the next 100 days.

The first project released yesterday was a Blinking LED. 

The second released this morning is a Capsense Slider Example.

You can find all the projects on the element14 site.  Our engineers are joining in the discussion to help answer questions as well as reading all the requested projects.  I'll give everyone a weekly update on new projects added to the site.  It's looking to be an exciting project with a lot of interesting examples.    

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The PSoC 4100 and PSoC 4200 families of the PSoC 4 architecture are now available.  These first two PSoC 4 product families are fully qualified and production silicon as well as kits are available.  Along with the new PSoC 4 families, PSoC Creator Service Pack 1 was released to support the PSoC 4.  In addition to 10 new PSoC 4 specific Components, two new Components, ILO Trim and I2C LCD, are now available to anyone using the PSoC 3, PSoC 4 or PSoC 5 architectures.  You've asked for a number of things - Low power, enhanced CapSense, wide operating voltage range, ARM Cortex-M0 architecture, low-cost Arduino compatible development kits, and low cost silicon.  The first PSoC 4 families deliver on these request.  If our first two famlies targeted at cost-sensitive applications aren't yet an ideal fit for your application, contact your Cypress representative to find out what to expect next.

Learn More about PSoC 4 at www.cypress.com/PSoC4.

Learn More about the PSoC 4 Pioneer Development Kit at www.cypress.com/cy8ckit-042.

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Powerfulboard now offers a development board supporting the PSoC 5LP with a number of open projects on Google Code.  This board compliments Powerfulboard's existing PSoC 3 development board.  Both boards are 40 pin DIP modules that combine the PSoC silicon with an FX2 based in-circuit programmer and debugger. The boards include two mini-USB connectors - one for the debugger and the other for the PSoC itself.

Powerfulboard, an operation of Ansync Inc., developed these low frill, small form factor systems for use in rapid prototyping or as a component in a modular design.  The boards are particularly adept at designs intended for USB based sensor or control interfaces.  They ship preprogrammed with sample firmware and additional example firmware, Microsoft Windows and Linux code is available at http://code.google.com/p/powerfulboard/

Learn more about these modules:

               PSOC3PIM1 at $28 (PSoC 3 - CY8C3866LTI-030)

               PSoC5PIM1 at $50 (PSoC 5LP - CY8C5868LTI-LP039)

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