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  • Date Created: 7 May 2018 3:46 AM Date Created
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Stirling Blue - Unboxing Hero - Blog 2

dougw
dougw
7 May 2018

This is just a quick update to introduce the hero board I will be using for the Stirling Blue project.

The PSoC6 is a dual core system on a chip with an ARM Cortex M4 (150 MHz) and and ARM Cortex M0 (100 MHz) in the same chip with 1MB of Flash, 288 KB of SRAM, 78 GPIO 7 programmable blocks, 56 digital blocks and Bluetooth Low Energy. I've never seen a 100MHz Cortex M0 with all these resources and of course the Cortex M4 takes the performance to a whole new level. PSoC Creator makes it really simple to use either core for any task and they can easily share resources.

Here is a short unboxing video that includes a preliminary program on the PSoC6, written to graphically introduce the Stirling Blue project:

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To create the Stirling Engine graphic, I used Irfanview to resize an image from the internet and edit it pixel by pixel to look reasonable on this resolution of display. It took quite a while, but it had to be edited because the original was unreadable at this resolution.

Then I used LCDAssistant to convert the image to a hex array for PSoC Creator to embed in the program. Note that if you use this program, you should start with a .bmp format.

 

Upcoming blogs:

Blog 3 will be about PCBs I am designing - these designs need to be completed early because I have been having a lot of difficulty getting reasonable delivery times on PCBs.

2 preliminary schematics are complete and 1 PCB design.

Blog 4 will be about how Stirling engines work

 

Related Links:

Bluetooth Unleashed Design Challenge

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Links to other blogs for this project:

Stirling Blue - Project Description - Blog 1

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  • genebren
    genebren over 7 years ago +2
    Doug, Nice update on your project. It will be interesting to follow your progress as you proceed with this project. Good Luck, Gene
  • genebren
    genebren over 7 years ago

    Doug,

    Nice update on your project.  It will be interesting to follow your progress as you proceed with this project.

    Good Luck,

    Gene

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