My end objective for this roadtest is to implement a binary neural network (BNN) for image classification on the PYNQ-Z2. I'll need to learn the board hardware and the development framework first. There are a lot of tutorial videos on You...
Before committing to my tests I thought I'd make sure I could make the motor turn. I wired up the motor and trio of boards. The screws were quite small so I had to use a jewellers driver. I connected up the power supply, set it to 9v with a 0.5A limi...
Post #4Part of a series for the Road Test here: IDT Wireless Flow Rate, Humidity&Temp Sensing Kit Feature Walk-throughThis post gives a walk-through of the features and more in-depth look at hardware of the demo kit. As noted in some ot...
Post #3Part of a series for the road test listed here:IDT Wireless Flow Rate, Humidity&Temp Sensing Kit Kit Initial reactions & power up Here is an overview video of what comes in the kit and my initial reactions on star...
Just received the PYNQ-Z2 Dev Kit for the roadtest. Thanks danzima for the quick shipment. The kit contained everything needed to start immediately.PYNQ-Z2 board12V, 2.5A Power supply with barrel jack and US and European plug adapters.Pre-...
PlanMy road test of the TMC5161-EVAL-KIT by Trinamic is two fold. Firstly to confirm that the setup can accurately and repeatedly step to the required position. Secondly to look at the setup under stall conditions. Accurate SteppingTo measure ac...
The eighth course module looks at a Cortex application processor the A9 to examine the features and programming for a processor that might be used in a mobile or smartphone design. Here are some of the processor highlights: Lab5...
Course module 10 is an introduction to Bluetooth with emphasis on the BLE protocol. BLE has the characteristics that make it ideal for use in IoT communication: BLE makes the tradeoff of shorter range to reduce power, but still has reasonab...
I road-tested the Harting MICA Complete IIoT Starter Kit.In this follow up blog, I'm connecting the Node-RED container of the Mica to AWS (Amazon Web Services).The goal if this blog is to exchange data with AWS via Node-RED flows. A follow up of the ...
When I RoadTested the Kitronik Klimate board recently and made a wireless weather station with it, I needed to display four values (temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and windspeed) plus some text, on a display. As you can see in the ph...
I roadtested the Harting MICA Complete IIoT Starter Kit.In this follow up, some experiments with the SD card: how to mount it in a container and how to share it on the network.The documentation for the SD card options is terse. What you can see here ...
Post #2 Part of a series for the Road Test here: IDT Wireless Flow Rate, Humidity&Temp Sensing Kit Kit Comparison (for the flow sensor at least) As I researched this kit, I became curious what else was out on the market. I had wanted to...
I am doing things a bit out of sequence - I'm going to complete course module 9 on smartphone programming before module 8 which deals with register level programming of a Cortex-A9 application processor. The reason that I'm doing that i...
Summary:As part of Road Testing the IDT Wireless flow rate, humidity, temperature sensor, I wanted to review what the kit comes with. This is geared to understand who the kit is geared at based on what it comes with and what options are available.The...
The seventh course module goes back to looking at low level programming to optimize processor efficiency. It takes a closer look at the ARM V7 ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and examines assembly level programming by looking at the Assembly File ...
The sixth course module examines using software libraries and application programming interfaces (APIs) to increase program development efficiency. Libraries also allow modular programming and improve hardware portability. This module loo...
The fifth course module examines the use of interrupts and the programming of the interrupt handler to improve program and power efficiency. The lab for this module shows how to change the program in Lab4 from using polling to using interrupts....
This is a progress report on my RoadTest for the NXP Sensorless Motor Control Eval Kit + Motor RoadTest for Element14. I had planned on doing a weekly report but this RoadTest isn’t as involved as I had thought.I took a foray into FOSS with this kit....
The fourth course module continues the examination of the Cortex-M4 architecture with a look at the memory mapping and processor instructions. The lab for this module deals with programming digital input and outputs using the GPIO pins. Th...
The third course module introduces the Arm Cortex-M4 Processor Architecture that is used for the STM32F401 processor on the development board included with the course. This course module also has the first lab and goes through installation of t...
The start of this roadtest has been delayed because Arm was in process of updating the course material. I received the 3 development boards used with the course about 2 months ago and have being anxiously waiting on the course access codes.&nbs...
I'm road testing the Infineon Gate Driver with Truly Differential Input. It's a half bridge driven by a PWM signal.The firmware that comes with this kit always drives the half-bridge to 50%.I've changed it, so that you can control the dut...
I'm road testing the Harting MICA Complete IIoT Starter Kit.In this post, I review the mechanism to restrict or grant access to character devices such as USB and serial ports.I'm showing the principle on a Linux Debian Stretch Container. The principl...
