Archive for the ‘Microcontrollers’ Category
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.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 |
TI just launched a cheap and easy to use development tool based on the MSP430 low power microcontroller. The Launchpad includes a development board, 2 programmable MSP430 micrcontrollers and a mini USB cable.
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010 |
The Explorer 16 is Microchip’s controller development boards for evaluating its 16 and 32-bit microcontrollers. While searching the web for reviews about the baord and its feasability, I came across [P]hillip Burgess’ website detailing some cool hacks that can be done on the board and also save you money.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |
The Surveyor SRV-1 robots( the Philips LPC2378 version) have the ability to be programmed remotely via Maxstream Zigbee radios. The usual way to program the Surveyor SRV-1 is via the lpc21isp utility by issuing the command: lpc21isp.exe -hex srv1.hex com1 115200 14746 . To program the robot wirelessly, follow the steps: 1. Download the flash [...]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |
Ever needed to measure temperature and display it? This project details measuring temperature using a temperature sensor ,an ADC and a Microcontroller PIC16f84a with schematics,codes and illustrations. You can also get the following kit, although not based on the pic, which would make your life easier for your future projects. This project was done fairly [...]
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