Archive for July, 2010

How Does the Best Buy Movie Mode Work In Despicable me? Updated.

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Most of you must have watched the hilarious animation “Despicable Me” and been amused by the millions of minions in the movie. Best Buy released an application which automatically starts deciphering what the minions are jabbering about during the end credits.

During the opening credits, you are requested to download the Best Buy Movie Mode application and choose the movie theater nearest to you. Once downloaded, you select “Enter Movie Mode” just before the movie starts. The phone then dims out, goes into silent mode through the length of the movie and then wakes up during the end credits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ-qhvJl8u8

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Creating an Open Source Toolchain for ARM Microcontrollers

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

In the process of jumping onto the ARM bandwagon, I found a neat tutorial by [J]im Lynch, who has written a highly comprehensive tutorial on how to combine various opensource tools to create an ARM toolchain. He also details what goes on behind each tool right from the hardware level to the software layer. This is a highly recommended read for those interested in using the open source tools for their project including Eclipse, OpenOCD and Yagarto tools. He also gives detailed examples with screen shots on how to setup the following JTAGs – Wiggler, ARM-USB-OCD, JTAGKey, SAM-ICE.

Posted in Microcontrollers, Tutorials | 1 Comment »

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