Legacy Personal Blogs

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This blog contains the legacy personal blog posts of our members, other than our Top Members whose content has been migrated into individual blogs in this area. Our new platform does not have personal blogs so this is how we have preserved the personal blog posts of our members from the Jive platform. No new posts will be permitted in this blog. Instead, if you wish to create blog content, please post it in the blog in the most appropriate topic area.

The Linker

elecia

The Linker is the Element 14 blog that covers guests from the our weekly embedded.fm podcasts.The Linker discusses embedded software and hardware engineering, education, and entrepreneurship. The goal is to dive deeper into the tangential topics brou...
- 24 Mar 2015
RTOSs and Brownies

chriswhite

Posted by Elecia White. On episode 93 of the Embedded.fm show, we were joined by Joel Sherrill, the lead on the Real Time Executive Multiprocessor System (RTEMS) project. RTEMS is a real-time operating system. To be more specific, it ...
- 24 Mar 2015
K64F MBED Part 2 Weather Station

colin_meikle@mentor.com

IntroductionThis simple example will implement a simple weather application. This will show several features of the the K64F board and will show how you can use the MBED libraries to quickly put together a working application. I'll walk through t...
- 23 Mar 2015
The internal debate... Arduino or RPi...

couchie

I've been learning (playing according to my wife!) with the Arduino and having fun doing a project, then adding my own two cents worth to it just to say I did something I had in my head and it worked. Ok, so maybe I was playing a little... The ...
- 23 Mar 2015
I was a Mentor at an Intro to Arduino class this weekend. Fun, Fun, Fun.

Capper
- 23 Mar 2015
3.0/3.2 TFT Shield Play - Power supply display.

4ringfan

Last week I began playing with individual LEDs, played with shift registers, and wrote a program to display 867-5309 from Tommy Tutone's song "Jenny". A buddy of mine was joking with me and said, "You should have it display the lyrics from a so...
- 23 Mar 2015
The begining....

couchie

So at 47 years young, a soon-to-be retired police officer/electronic crimes investigator, combat war veteran, commercial pilot/flight instructor, and long time network administrator/troubleshooter I decide I want more... I found my way to Elemen...
- 22 Mar 2015
Dartmouth Time-Sharing System Simulator

SGarciaV

In 2007 the “Friends of DTSS” last updated a project they initiated years ago to build a DTSS Emulator to revive the 1964 version of the Dartmouth College Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. Their emulator closely mimicked the DTSS’ behavior and implement...
- 20 Mar 2015
Erlang -- Who's interested/involved in using Erlang on BB or rP?

jpsthecelt

John Singer, here. IBM engineer and Wizard-at-large. Done lots of embedded programming throughout my career; become 'enamored' of Erlang, recently. Anyone using this with BB or rP? How about IoT w/Bluemix? All best,jps
- 20 Mar 2015
The Varieties of Electronic Engineers

bluescreen

Electronic Engineer Electrical Engineer Double E Eazy E
- 20 Mar 2015
UK Eclipse - Measuring the Sun's Impact

JenCooke

I'm pretty sure that wherever you are in the world you will have heard that there has been a solar eclipse in the UK this morning. I am based in Yorkshire about half way up the country so we didn't see a total solar eclipse and it was p...
- 20 Mar 2015
Make a Logic Analyzer from your Dev Kit Part 2: Papilio FPGA

Jan Cumps

The Papilio FPGA board is an excellent FPGA development board. It's got a Xilinx Spartan chip.And you can use it as a quite capable logic analyzer.That's no surprise. The developer of the Papilio, Jack Gasset from Gadget Factory, was also involved in...
- 19 Mar 2015
Using MIAC to Keep Us Safe

benmatrix

Here at Matrix we are very proud of the fact that we manufacture many of our products right here in our own factory. I’ve been working here for about eight years, and in that time, our manufacturing capability has grown from just me hand solder...
- 19 Mar 2015
TI Hercules LaunchPad Type 1: Inductance Meter

martinvalencia

Above is the LM311 operating as oscillator whose frequency depends on the capacitance and inductance of the resonant circuit. Without any element to measure the circuit will oscillate at approximately 555,800 Hz and the capacity or inductance pl...
- 18 Mar 2015
TI Hercules LaunchPad Type 1: Heart Emulator

martinvalencia

Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) modules, which produce basically digital waveforms, can be used as cheap Digital-to-Analog (D/A) converters only a few external components.A wide variety of microcontroller applications exist that need analog output but d...
- 18 Mar 2015
RaspBerry PI B Cluster

e14 Contributor

www.youtube.com/watch Something Nice
- 18 Mar 2015
Make Anything

chriswhite

The Linker is a blog from Christopher White and Elecia White, hosts and creators of the weekly embedded.fm podcast. The Linker discusses embedded software and hardware engineering, education, and entrepreneurship. The goal is to dive deeper into the ...
- 17 Mar 2015
TI Hercules LaunchPad Tipo 2: Electromyography Signal DSP part 3

martinvalencia

TI Hercules LaunchPad Tipo 2: Electromyography Signal DSP part 2 Improvements myoelectric sensor circuit is performed. improvements: - No Bandstop filter 60Hz / 50Hz is used- The bandpass filter is 300Hz to 3KHz- Filtering is entirely ...
- 17 Mar 2015
ICL8038 waveform generator

martinvalencia

The ICL8038 waveform generator is a monolithic integrated circuit capable of producing high accuracy sine, square, triangular, sawtooth and pulse waveforms with a minimum of external components. The frequency (or repetition rate) can be selected exte...
- 17 Mar 2015
Would like to compile a basic absolute beginners info pack for Raspberry Pi.

volly

I Would like to compile a basic absolute beginners info pack for Raspberry Pi which will include very basic starter projects that would keep grade 5 - High School pupils captivated and doing so, get them to learn beginners programming to develop and ...
- 17 Mar 2015
New days here

e14 Contributor

Today is a first time been here, to read other members' post to get rich of knowledge first. will be post more my testing result and the implementation report coming up! excited to be here!!
- 16 Mar 2015
Pi Day

redkcir

Well RPi day has come and gone. I was able to attend a Raspberry Pi BakeOff near here with some of my students from last year. I should have brought my BrickPi bot because I think I could have won it! I met a lot of great folks and hopefully m...
- 16 Mar 2015
Creating the 6 DoF Platform – Part3

benmatrix

In this final blog article we will be discussing the finer details of finishing the 6DoF Platform, alongside a conversion to a PIC based microcontroller. Completing the Platform;With all the parts created for the actual 6DoF platform we needed t...
- 16 Mar 2015
Archi capelli per il vostro Flower Girl

e14 Contributor

Mia figlia, Emily (4 anni), è stato solo di recente in un matrimonio per mio fratello. Era una ragazza di fiore. Era così felice ed entusiasta di avere una parte nella grande giorno di suo zio, ed è stato molto difficile mantenere il suo relativament...
- 16 Mar 2015
Dreaming

e14 Contributor

Sitting at work surfing Element 14, dreaming of getting my Pi2 this next week. Going to start build a mock up of a 3 jointed arm. Going to start with some 1/4 lexan to make some arm parts and attach them to nema 17 steppers so I can play with the PI ...
- 16 Mar 2015