Sunday, August 23, 2015

Simple Imaging using the Papilio Duo FPGA Board

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This is a work in progress - have a look later for any updates Introduction Earlier this year I bought a Papilio Duo FPGA board from Gad...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Adventures in ARM Land Part 3 - What Next?

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A series of blog posts about working with 32 bit ARM microcontrollers See Part 1   "Surveying the Territory" and Part 2 "...

Adventures in ARM Land - Part 2 - Establishing Base Camp

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Introduction In part 1, I introduced a range of commercially available development boards which would allow the newcomer to get started wi...

Adventures in ARM Land - Part 1 - Surveying the Territory

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Introduction This post is the first of a series of three (or more), intended to introduce the newcomer to the world of 32bit ARM processor...
Sunday, August 09, 2015

Holiday Hacking - A Survivor's Guide

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I'd forgotten I was packing so many platforms..... The Hackers Survival Kit was an idea that simultaneously occurred to me and Les P...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

First steps coding and speed testing the STM32F746 Break Out Board

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It's a few days since I received my prototype STM32F745 Breakout boards and I have slowly been writing some basic firmware functions...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

How Ragworm helped me create a STM32F746 breakout board in under 2 weeks

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EagleCAD Layout Last time I described how ST Microelectronics had finally released their long awaited STM32F7xx series of ARM Cortex M...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

At last - The STM32F7xx a 216MHz ARM Cortex M7 core for the hobbyist

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ARM core microcontrollers have made significant advances over the last few years, and last week saw the commercial release of the STM32F746 ...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Using Piano Forte with the Espruino Javascript Interpreter

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Piano Forte - with ESP8266 WiFi and HM-11 Bluetooth Low Energy  In the last few weeks, a few things have come to light that make worki...
Friday, May 08, 2015

Interfacing a Chord Keypad to Papilio Duo FPGA Board

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Five keys plus thumb operated shift/control key This is a simple chord style keypad that I made up a few years ago.  It is loosely based...
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Saturday, May 02, 2015

Benchmarking Arduino - and his Chums.

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Background The standard Arduino based on the ATmega328 is an 8-bit device with a 16MHz clock frequency and 2K bytes of RAM. I have for s...