{"id":219,"date":"2010-05-06T20:05:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2010-05-06T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T03:05:06","slug":"cricut-cartridge-dissection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/cricut-cartridge-dissection\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricut Cartridge Dissection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed a Cricut cartridge for a quick tear-down.\u00a0 Here's the \"front\" (the side that faces away from the cutter) of a \"Cricut Sampler\" cartridge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cricut-Sampler-Board-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-220\" title=\"Cricut-Sampler-Board-(front)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cricut-Sampler-Board-front-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cricut-Sampler-Board-front-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cricut-Sampler-Board-front.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here's the back:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cricut-Sampler-Board-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-221\" title=\"Cricut-Sampler-Board-(back)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cricut-Sampler-Board-back-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cricut-Sampler-Board-back-226x300.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cricut-Sampler-Board-back.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The markings don't show up in the picture, but the big chip on the PCB is an <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atmel.com\/dyn\/products\/product_card.asp?part_id=2010\" target=\"_blank\">ATmega16<\/a><\/noindex> and it's paired with a <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atmel.com\/dyn\/products\/product_card.asp?part_id=3806\" target=\"_blank\">4MBit serial flash part<\/a><\/noindex>.\u00a0 The 6 pin .1\" header seems to be wired for in circuit serial programming.\u00a0 Here's a pin out:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Header Pin<\/th>\n<th>ATmega16 Pin<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2 - MISO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>5 - VCC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>3 - SCK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>1 - MOSI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>4 - RST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>6 - GND<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>From the markings on the PCB, I would imagine that most cartridge hardware is identical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed a Cricut cartridge for a quick tear-down.\u00a0 Here's the \"front\" (the side that faces away from the cutter) of a \"Cricut Sampler\" cartridge: And here's the back: The markings don't show up in the picture, but the big chip on the PCB is an ATmega16 and it's paired with a 4MBit serial flash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}