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:
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
Bluetooth Unleashed Design Challenge: The Challengers
Bluetooth Unleashed Design Challenge: About This Challenge
Links to other blogs for this project:
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