Saturday, March 29, 2014

Further Wanderings in Low Power Land

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Introduction to Low Power On this Arduino Day 2014, I thought I would investigate very low power operation of the ATmega328P-PU. With lo...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Clarity of Vision

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A simple serial port graphing program helps debug high speed sensor data. This week, I have been debugging a high speed 24-bit ADC, connec...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Joining the Dots .......

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In the Beginning.. In the early 1960s, Digital Equipment Corp, were contracted to build a system to control and monitor certain processes ...

Quick Hack - Arduino with Bluetooth Low Energy

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This week, the nRF 8001 module arrived from Olimex. These are available for around $14 and take just over a week to ship from Bulgari...

More ARM Adventures

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Update 28/03/2014. An excellent online book "Discovering the STM32 Microcontroller" by Geoffrey Brown is now av...
Monday, March 10, 2014

ARMiGo - A breakout board for STM32F303 ARM Microcontrollers

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As integrated circuits get smaller, and more powerful, it becomes increasingly difficult for the hobbyist to utilise them easily. Solder...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Elements of Language

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Charles H. Moore is one of my all time computer heroes. He has to be up there amongst Kernighan, Ritchie and Thomson for his contribution to...
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Saturday, December 28, 2013

SIMPL on the STM32F4xx Discovery Board

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Back in the summer, I posted some musings about a very small programming language that I named SIMPL  - Serial Interpreted Micro Programming...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Discovering the STM32F407 - first steps into ARM territory

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Having tinkered with the Arduino and it's clones for a few years, the opportunity arose to move up to a much more powerful 32-bit ARM Co...
Sunday, June 02, 2013

Extensions to SIMPL

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In the last week I have been thinking about the user interfaces used on minicomputers of the 1960s, in particular the PDP-8, and wondering i...
Saturday, June 01, 2013

Extending SIMPL and flashing a few LEDs

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I have been experimenting with SIMPL, and have added a few new commands to give it greater functionality. I've wired Digital outputs 2...