Tutorials, advice, snippets of code, sketches, etc. Everything that actually teaches something with examples or code will hopefully end up in this category.
So in my first adventure with the STONE displays I wrote a simple Arduino library to communicate with them, and ported the firmware-side of the included example to my library to make sure it was working properly. However, writing that library was not the end goal. I wrote it to make it to get familiar […]
HMI?! HMI stands for Human Machine Interface, which is a fancy way of describing an element that enables the interaction between a human and a machine. In this case, we will be talking about HMI displays. In particular HMI displays manufactured by a company called STONE. What makes their screens different to regular touchscreens? Well, […]
One of the things I’ve been interested in for the last year or so, is developing for the Atari family of 8-bit computers. I haven’t done a lot yet, but I’ve been slowly getting software, docs, and hardware to start writing code with all the tools I could possibly need. I had already built a […]
You don’t see them around that much anymore, but a few years ago the ESP-01 modules took the world by storm as quick “serial to wifi” bridges for microcontroller projects. With a few serial commands you could quickly connect even the most basic microcontroller to the internet over Wifi!
I got the chance to play with an Intel Edison board a couple of months ago, and I just got my own board today, so I spent a bit of my afternoon settings things up, and playing with it. One thing I noticed, is that most tutorials and guides for the Edison were written for the version of the […]
Not long ago I purchased this neat and compact DC to DC Buck Boost converter that performs reasonably well. It has a maximum output of 38V, 6A and has more than enough flexibility and features to be a secondary power supply in my lab. I recently found a review of this product by Julian Ilett on his channel (which […]
For a few months now (and after successfully using a cheap USB analyzer with my Pocket C.H.I.P) I’ve wanted to make a sort of standalone Logic Analyzer / mini linux machine that I could have on my bench. I originally wanted to use one of my C.H.I.P boards, but I soon stumbled upon a bit of a difficulty: It’s […]
A recent discussion on the Pocket C.H.I.P forums made me dig up memories of my time with DJGPP (a wonderful DOS port of GCC), and its quite functional text-based IDE; RHIDE. I thought that it would be great to have RHIDE running on my Pocket CHIP for doing simple C/C++ development on the go, as […]