Legacy Personal Blogs

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TI MSP432 EKG with EDU MKII

martinvalencia

Hello again!This time bring a very quick project, using the Educational Boosterpack MKII of Texas Instruments and the famous MSP432 microcontroller. Using the LCD SPI of EDU MKII to show the waveform of the cardiac signal which is previous...
- 15 Apr 2016
A Simple Circuit 3 The transistor.

supper_slash

We add a transistor to the circuit and show how we can shrink the size of the cap by adding the transistor to the circuit. I hope you like the next video in the series.More to come soon.
- 15 Apr 2016
2645 Project - Initial Coding Steps (2) - Snake

el14jw

Snake The simple snake game is a universally recognized game and one of the earliest games to ever come out on a mobile device. Nokia famously put snake on most of their mobile phones and so there's a certain irony to me coding snake to be p...
- 14 Apr 2016
Educational BoosterPack and Hercules LaunchPad: LCD Driver - Part 4: Everything Works

Jan Cumps

The Educational BoosterPack MK II, the Texas Instruments kit with loads of goodies. Who hasn't seen it?I have one. And I have plans with it. I want to turn it into the user interface for a safety features test bed for Hercules micro controllers.&...
- 13 Apr 2016
2645 Project - Initial Coding Steps (1)

el14jw

Introduciton In this blog post I will introduce some of the concepts I will be using to code the games I'm developing. Any readers should note that the actual code or specific algorithms mentioned in the next few blog posts will not be provi...
- 13 Apr 2016
Educational BoosterPack and Hercules LaunchPad: LCD Driver - Part 3: SPI Works

Jan Cumps

The Educational BoosterPack MK II, the Texas Instruments kit with loads of goodies. Who hasn't seen it?I have one. And I have plans with it. I want to turn it into the user interface for a safety features test bed for Hercules micro controllers.&...
- 12 Apr 2016
Educational BoosterPack and Hercules LaunchPad: LCD Driver - Part 2: Logic Analyzer and LCD Backlight

Jan Cumps

The Educational BoosterPack MK II, the Texas Instruments kit with loads of goodies. Who hasn't seen it?I have one. And I have plans with it. I want to turn it into the user interface for a safety features test bed for Hercules micro controllers.&...
- 11 Apr 2016
Please help in checking ir, pir sensors and gps and accordingly sending data via gsm module

e14 Contributor

hi i am working on a project theft intimation of vehicles using gsm and tracking it by gps.here i am getting stuck with the infinite loop used in gps as it is continuously sending the lattitude and longitude. i also have to check 4 ir sensors and a p...
- 11 Apr 2016
Embedded Systems -Project B - Hand-held Arcade Game

el14jpps

Welcome to Jefferson's Blog About me : https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeffersonpiaunsanchezfor more follow me on my page for more updates. https://www.facebook.com/MrJefferson105/Youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/MrJefferson10...
- 11 Apr 2016
Educational BoosterPack and Hercules LaunchPad: LCD Driver - Part 1

Jan Cumps

The Educational BoosterPack MK II, the Texas Instruments kit with loads of goodies. Who hasn't seen it?I have one. And I have plans with it. I want to turn it into the user interface for a safety features test bed for Hercules micro controllers.&...
- 10 Apr 2016
Liquid nano crystals as transitors

e14 Contributor

Check this out, did not see this posted anywhere, if so please ignore. ".....electrical components to be built into flexible or wearable applications in near future for........" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uop-ped040616.p...
- 7 Apr 2016
Refining the tool

jack.chaney56

Found something…I get tons of informational emails every day, and sometimes it is a chore to slog through all of it. Most of the time I give it a once over then store the email away in the archive and don’t give it another thought. But lately, I did ...
- 7 Apr 2016
Getting ready for Google Fiber...

blakerwilson

Just received my email from Google to tell me it is time to sign up for installation and I have to admit, I was pretty excited! My goal is to get rid of my expensive home phone and Internet services and simply pay Google for my Internet. I am going t...
- 1 Apr 2016
RE: The BBB (2GB) and MotorBridge Cape from Seeed!

silver2row

Hello, I just received my Seeed MotorBridge Cape for the BBG/BBB. It is all that humbug and more. I used some previously used software to make my servo turn but...dang! The servo did not turn like described in the instructions. I used GitHub.com...
- 31 Mar 2016
Part-1: Create a schematic from your idea – Out of the head, into the tool.

AshokRao

Ok, so you’ve got a marvellous idea for your next electronic project and you are in the process of bringing together the associated circuitry. You’ve hand-drawn your design on a paper and now you want to make it into a proper schematic file for more ...
- 30 Mar 2016
Microchip SD/MMC SPI conflict

eduardo.goncalves

Hi,I am trying to use the Microchip MDDFS library to write and read from a SD Card.At first I was just using the sd card in the SPI bus but then I inserted a RTC in the SPI bus with no problem. Everything worked perfectly. At this moment I am tr...
- 30 Mar 2016
Software design and implementation

nikollao

Software Design The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate the process of the software design and the code implementation of the project. To begin with, project design is the transformation of a conceptual idea – the game Treasure H...
- 28 Mar 2016
Participate in the,"Flex Your Mind with Kinetis FlexIO" Challenge on hackster and take away FRDM-K82F

e14 Contributor

Hackster.io in association with NXP semiconductor is giving away FRDM-K82FFRDM-K82F board to 1000 people here : https://www.hackster.io/challenges/KinetisFlexIO Just register and give your Idea to receive the board. I'll post a review here as so...
- 26 Mar 2016
A use for the useful tool.

jack.chaney56

Sensors and tablesIn the previous section I described the method used for table interpolation and how it can be used for equations of two variables to obtain quick results. The method presented is based on the use of a ratio for the index, where the ...
- 25 Mar 2016
A Poor man's Oscilloscope(Soundcard Oscilloscope)

e14 Contributor

I just came to know about this awesome software from a friend and I had to try it. Its called Soundcard Oscilloscope. You just install the software and your sound card is you new oscilloscope/ signal generator. I tried it on basic circuits and ...
- 25 Mar 2016
ELEC 2645 – EMBEDDED SYSTEMS PROJECT

nikollao

Introduction The purpose of the blog is to introduce the embedded systems project being developed, and demonstrate it’s aims and progress. To begin with, students were given the opportunity to to come up with their own idea about th...
- 25 Mar 2016
Concept of Universal All Condition Power Supply

e14 Contributor

The universal all condition power supply project is to standardize and reduce weight that soldiers in the field carry. this blog is to help share ideas and development of the project. the main aim is to reduce weight batteries may not weigh much...
- 24 Mar 2016
Need simple circut RFID reader

e14 Contributor

Hello my friendsi want help me to get a simple RFID reader And thank for all
- 22 Mar 2016
A useful tool

jack.chaney56

The Nano is all ready to do some work. First it needs to have some additional pieces added. A simple divider for sensor input, and content for the associated table the arrow is the input to the A/D pin. The larger circle is the sensor inp...
- 21 Mar 2016
Soldering wires to a QFN IC

rsc

THE CHALLENGEI received some samples of NXP NFC ics with I2C and was trying to figure out how to get one working quickly.Silly me chose to solder wires to it. The package is a XQFN8 1.9mm x 1.9mm, no lead, 0.5mm pitch After looking at seve...
- 18 Mar 2016